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He has complicated things so that I don't dare move, even against Flemister, until I know more. We are not at the ultimate bottom of this thing yet." "We're far enough to put the handcuffs onto Mr. Pennington Flemister any time you say," asserted Judson.
Remind me of it some time, and I'll tell you. But we were speaking of Flemister. You say the Wire-Silver has turned out pretty well?" "Very well indeed, I believe. Flemister seems to have money to burn." "He always has, his own or somebody else's. It makes little difference to him. The way he got the Wire-Silver would have made Black-Beard the pirate turn green with envy.
Remembering that the trap had been set, not for the passenger train, but for the special, the superintendent dismissed the charge against Flemister. Thus far he had done little to incur the mine-owner's enmity at least, nothing to call for cold-blooded murder in reprisal. Yet the man was acting very curiously. Much of the time he scarcely appeared to hear what Miss Brewster was saying to him.
Perhaps it's only fair to say that it was a losing venture from the first for those of us who put the loaning capital into it. As you probably know, the money in these mutual benefit companies is made on lapses, but when the lapses come all in a bunch " "I am not particularly interested in the general subject, Mr. Flemister," Lidgerwood cut in.
That will let you out, and me, too." Hallock stood up and leaned over the desk end. His saturnine face was a mask of cold rage, but his eyes were burning. "If I thought you knew what you're saying," he began in the grating voice, "but you don't you can't know!" Then, with a sudden break in the fierce tone: "Don't send me to Flemister for my clearance don't do it, Mr. Lidgerwood.
He'll have to go when the fight with the men gets hot enough; but he might hold on too long for our comfort." "Well?" said Flemister again, this time more impatiently, Judson thought. "He queered your lay-out by carefully omitting to come on the passenger, and now you propose to fall back upon Rufford's method. I don't approve."
"Hallock is over here every day or two; I have seen him three or four times since that day when he and Flemister were walking down the new spur together and turned back at sight of me," said Benson. "Of course, I don't know what other business Hallock may have over here, but one thing I do know, he has been across the river, digging into the inner consciousness of my old prospector.
If the money was used legitimately, you, or some of your fellow-officers in the company, should be able to show it. If the others left you to hold the bag, it is due to yourself, to the men who were held up, and to me, that you set yourself straight. Go to Flemister he was your president, wasn't he? and get him to make a statement that I can show to the grievance committee.
Flemister, and a man whom Judson has identified as Hallock, were the two who ditched 204 at Silver Switch last night. The charge in Judson's warrant reads,'train-wrecking and murder." The trainmaster smote the desk with his fist. "I'll add one more strand to the rope Hallock's rope," he gritted ferociously.
That there had been connivance on the part of some one in authority in the railroad service, was also a fact safely assumable; and each added thread of evidence seemed more and more to entangle the chief clerk. But behind the mystery of the robberies, Lidgerwood began to get glimpses of a deeper mystery involving Flemister and Hallock.
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