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And then the Bobbsey twins started off on another part of their trip to the great West. They did not have long to wait for the train in the Lumberville station, and, as they got aboard and began their travels once more, they could see Harvey Hallock waving to them from his wagon.
Harvey Hallock, the good-natured driver of the wagon, went with them, and foreman Bill Dayton told him to be especially careful not to let Flossie and Freddie stray away. "I guess he thinks I'll get lost," said Freddie, when the little "fireman" heard this order given to the driver. "Do you often get lost?" asked Harvey Hallock. "Oh, lots of times!" exclaimed Freddie.
On a certain bright February morning Ben Hallock puffed up the Calle Rivera and across the plaza of Limasito as fast as his battered jitney could carry him and rushed into Baggott's hotel with an anticipatory gleam in his heavy eyes. "Hey, Jim! I got your message and I come a-hummin'!" he announced. "What is it? Vigilance Committee?" "Sort of!"
Judson backed away and stared again, muttering to himself. If he had not traced Hallock almost to the door of Flemister's quarters, there might have been room for the thin edge of the doubt wedge.
One o' the shop 'prentices? Or maybe it's Rank Hallock? Say, what's he doin' monkeyin' round the back shop so much lately? I'm goin' to stay round here till I get a chance to lick that scrub." Broadbent snorted his derision of all mere enginemen. "You rail-pounders'd better get next to Rankin Hallock," he warned.
Hallock has been making an inventory of material on hand for the past week or more, and now that I think of it, I remember having seen your wire and the telephone sets included in his last sheet of telegraph supplies." "There it goes again," said the trainmaster sourly. "Every time I get a half-hitch on that fellow, something turns up to make it slip.
Vice-President Ford is in Copah, and the new superintendent is with him." Hallock leaned forward in his chair. "Who is the new man?" he asked. "Nobody seems to know him by name. But he is a friend of Ford's all right. That is how he gets the job." Hallock took a plug of black tobacco from his pocket, and cut a small sliver from it for a chew.
Green cardboard cones protecting his shirt-sleeves, and a shade of the same material visoring the sunken eyes, were the only clerkly suggestions about him. Since he merely stood up and ran his fingers through his thick black hair, with no more than an abstracted "Good-afternoon" for speech, Lidgerwood was left to guess at his identity. "You are Mr. Hallock?"
But there were disturbing thoughts, many and varied, to keep him awake, chief among them those which hung upon the dramatic midnight episode with the demented woman for its central figure. Through what dreadful Valley of Humiliation had she come to reach the abysmal depths in which the one cry of her soul was a cry for vengeance? Who was the unnamed man whom Hallock had promised to kill?
Lidgerwood, after rubbing it into Hallock the way I did, when he was doing his level best to help us out. But it's partly his own fault. He wanted to play a lone hand, and he was scheming to get them both into the same frying-pan Gridley and Flemister." Lidgerwood nodded. "He had a pretty bitter grudge against Flemister." "The worst a man could have," said McCloskey soberly.
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