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Updated: June 29, 2025
As I have said, the power-plant was running while I was up there to-day. The power is a steam engine, and if you'd stand off and listen to it you'd swear it was a locomotive pulling a light train up an easy grade. Of course, I'm only guessing at that, but I think you will agree with me that the burden of proof lies upon Flemister." Lidgerwood was nodding slowly. "Yes, on Flemister and some others.
Are you still trying to believe that it isn't Hallock?" "I am still trying to be fair and just. McCloskey says that the two used to be friends Hallock and Flemister. I don't believe they are now. Hallock didn't want to go to Flemister about that building-and-loan business, and I couldn't make out whether he was afraid, or whether it was just a plain case of dislike."
You know part of it, and part of it you don't know. He'd hang himself in a minute if he could get my neck in the same noose." The master-mechanic threw the whittled match away, as if the argument were closed. "That is where you are lame, Flemister: you don't know your man. Put it up to Hallock barehanded: if he comes in, all right; if not, you'll put him where he'll wear stripes.
Gridley opened the door and turned upon the threshold. "I might borrow the word from you and say that Flemister's business and mine are none of yours. But I won't do that. I'll merely say that Flemister may need a little Red Butte Western nursing in the Ute Valley irrigation scheme he is promoting, and I want you to see that he gets it.
McCloskey was on his feet again and fumbling behind him for the door-knob. "I'm all in," he grimaced. "When it comes to figuring with Gridley and Flemister and Hallock all in the same breath, I'm done." Lidgerwood made a memorandum on his desk calendar to take the building and loan matter up with Hallock the following day.
"I can't help feeling indirectly responsible for this, Mr. Lidgerwood," he began, with something like a return of his habitual self-possession. "If I hadn't asked you to come over here to-night " Lidgerwood interrupted sharply: "What possible difference would that have made, Mr. Flemister?"
Moreover, he had lied. Lidgerwood recalled his glib explanation at the meeting beside the displaced rail. Flemister claimed to have had the news of the disaster by 'phone: where had he been when the 'phone message found him? Not at his mine, Lidgerwood decided, since he could not have walked from the Wire-Silver to the wreck in an hour.
With Benson's discoveries for a starting-point, the man Flemister was kept under surveillance, and it soon became evident to the three investigators that the owner of the Wire-Silver mine had been profiting liberally at the expense of the railroad company in many ways.
Again I am going to ask you if it is worth while to throw me overboard." Lidgerwood was still angry enough to resent this advance into the field of the personalities. "You've had my last word, Hallock, and all this talk about consequences that you don't explain is beside the mark. Get me that statement from Flemister, and do it soon.
There was some domestic tragedy involved, too, in which Flemister played the devil with the other man's family; but I don't know any of the details." "Yet you say Flemister is a born gentleman, as well as a born buccaneer?" "Well, yes; he behaves himself well enough in decent company.
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