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Updated: June 12, 2025
Moreover, Hallock's hacienda was a bachelor establishment and in Limasito there were girls; girls with blue eyes and black hair and incredibly white skin, who looked a man straight in the eyes and made him feel as if maybe he'd found a friend. That blue adobe house on the southern end of the square began to loom large in the architecture of Limasito.
At this, the most inauspicious moment possible, his eye fell upon the calendar memorandum, "See Hallock about B/L.," and his finger was on the chief clerk's bell-push before he remembered that it was late, and that there had been no light in Hallock's room when he had come down the corridor to his own door.
Gridley was the man who helped Flemister last night at Silver Switch with Hallock trying again to stop him, and Judson trying to keep tab on Hallock, and getting him mixed up with Gridley at every turn, even to mistaking Gridley's voice and his shadow on the window-curtain for Hallock's.
Lidgerwood sat perfectly still. It was quite evident that the woman did not see him. But his thoughts were busy. Though it was by little more than chance, he knew that Hallock's Christian name was Rankin, and instantly he recalled all that McCloskey had told him about the chief clerk's marital troubles. Was this poor painted wreck the woman who was, or who had been, Hallock's wife?
When it came to the filling in of Hallock's name, Schleisinger stopped, open-mouthed. "Donnerwetter!" he gasped, "you don'd mean dot, Mr. Litchervood; you don'd neffer mean dot?" "I am sorry to say that I do; sorrier than you or any one else can possibly be." "Bud bud " "I know what you would say," interrupted Lidgerwood hastily.
Brewster promised, and the superintendent went upstairs to his office. A glance into Hallock's room in passing showed him the chief clerk's box-like desk untenanted, and he wondered if Judson would find his man somewhere in the town. He hoped so. It would be better for all concerned if the arrest could be made without too many witnesses.
From the beginning of hostilities he seemed to have made a pact with himself not to let it be known by any act or word of his that he was aware of the suddenly precipitated conflict. The routine duties of a chief clerk's desk are never light; Hallock's became so exacting that he rarely left his office, or the pen-like contrivance in which he entrenched himself and did his work.
"Not since the middle of the afternoon," was the prompt reply. "And Judson has not yet reported?" "No." "Well this is for you, Benson Mac already knows it: Judson is out looking for Hallock. He has a warrant for Hallock's arrest." Benson's eyes narrowed. "Then you have found the ringleader at last, have you?" he asked. "I am sorry to say that there doesn't seem to be any doubt of Hallock's guilt.
But the back looked like Hallock's; I'm afraid it was Hallock's." "But why should he weaken at the last moment and try to stop the train?" queried Dawson. "You forget that it was the special, and not the passenger, that was to be wrecked." "Sure," said the draftsman.
Then he saw that in abbreviating he had unconsciously used the familiar sign, "B/L," the common abbreviation of "bill of lading." At another time he would have turned Hallock's very natural mistake into an easy introduction to a rather delicate subject. But now he was angry. "Sit down," he rapped out. "That isn't 'bill of lading'; it's 'building and loan."
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