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McCloskey, who had served under Hallock for a number of months before the change in management, confessed that he knew the gloomy chief clerk only as a man in authority, and exceedingly hard to please.
"And that same 'big boss' is sitting up yonder in Cat Biggs's back room, right now, givin' his orders and tellin' 'em what to do," was Judson's crowning guess, and since Hallock had not been visible since the early afternoon, for the three men sitting under the superintendent's desk lamp, Judson's inference stood as a fact assured.
At my request the author, Elsie Brown, contributed it to this volume. A Shady Plot So I sat down to write a ghost story. Jenkins was responsible. "Hallock," he had said to me, "give us another on the supernatural this time. Something to give 'em the horrors; that's what the public wants, and your ghosts are live propositions."
"Well, you'll find me at 28 Hallock Street generally. If I'm not in, you can find out there where I've gone to." "I'll remember it. In the meantime don't speak of this meeting to any one." "Mum's the word," rejoined Sammy Simpson. I went on my way deep in thought. I considered it a stroke of luck that I had fallen in with Chris Holtzmann's former clerk.
"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.
"I know," confessed the trainmaster. "It doesn't look reasonable." "It isn't reasonable," Lidgerwood went on, arguing Hallock's case as if it were his own. "Bradford was 202's conductor; he'd know if Hallock failed to get off at Navajo. Gridley was a passenger on the same train, and he would have known. The agent at Navajo would be a third witness.
"As I understand it, the complaint of the survivors is based upon the fact that they think they ought to have had a cash dividend forthcoming on the closing up of the association's affairs," Flemister went on; and Lidgerwood again said, "Yes." "As Hallock has probably told you, I had the misfortune to be the president of the company.
"That is all I shall ask of him," said the new superintendent. "Anything else?" looking at his watch. "Yes, there is one other thing. I spoke of Hallock, the man you will find holding down the head-quarters office at Angels.
That the man whose shadow was projected upon the window-shade was Rankin Hallock, he could not doubt. The bearded chin, the puffy lips, the prominent nose were all faithfully outlined in the exaggerated shadowgraph. But the hat was worn at an unfamiliar angle, and there was something in the erect, bulking figure that was still more unfamiliar.
But there are men here in Angels who hint that Hallock killed the woman and sunk her body in the Timanyoni." "Heavens!" exclaimed Lidgerwood, under his breath. "I can't believe that, Mac." "I don't know as I do, but I can tell you a thing that I do know, Mr. Lidgerwood: Hallock is a devil out of hell when it comes to paying a grudge.
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