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Two days afterward Hallock showed up again, and the old fellow ran him off with a gun." Just then the bridge-foreman came up to say that the timbers were in place, and Benson swung off to give Lidgerwood's engineer instructions to run carefully. As the service-car platform came along, Lidgerwood leaned over the railing for a final word with Benson.
Yet intuition, or whatever masculine thing it is that stands for intuition, prompted Lidgerwood to say: "I don't know as I ought to leave. I've just come out from Angels, you know." But the president was not to be denied. "Climb up here and quit trying to find excuses.
Since Gridley was on the ground, Lidgerwood and McCloskey stood aside and let the master-mechanic organize the attack. Though the problem of track-clearing, on level ground and with a convenient siding at hand for the sorting and shifting, was a simple one, there was still a chance for an exhibition of time-saving and speed, and Gridley gave it.
Lidgerwood answered in person, crossing to the railing to hear Judson's latest report, which was given in hoarse whispers. Miss Brewster could distinguish no word of it, but she heard Lidgerwood's reply. "Tell Benson and Dawson, and say that the engine I ordered had better be sent up at once."
Red Butte Western opinion was somewhat divided as to which horn of the trilemma the victim of Rufford's displeasure would choose, all admitting that, for the moment, the choice lay with the superintendent. Would Lidgerwood fight, or run, or sit still and be slain?
Lidgerwood's answer was to reach up and flood the platform with a sudden glow of artificial radiance. The chorus of protest was immediate and reproachful. "Oh, Mr. Lidgerwood! don't spoil the perfect moonlight that way!" cried Miss Doty, and the others echoed the beseeching. "You'll get used to it in a minute," asserted Lidgerwood, in good-natured sarcasm.
I wasn't satisfied with the way it shaped up, and I did a little investigating on my own hook." "Pass him up," said Benson briefly, "and let's go over this lay-out for to-night again. I shall be out of touch down in the yards, and I want to get it straight in my head." Lidgerwood went carefully over the details again, and again cautioned Benson about the Nadia and its party.
He gave the president a long song and dance about the tough trail and the poor accommodations for a pleasure-party up at the mine, and the upshot of it was that Mr. Brewster went out to the mine with him alone, leaving the party in the Nadia here." Lidgerwood said "Damn!" and let it go at that for the moment. The thing was done, and it could not be undone.
Lidgerwood stood at the break in the track for some minutes after the retreating relief-train had disappeared around the steep shoulder of the great hill; was still standing there when Bradford, having once more side-tracked the service-car on the abandoned mine spur, came down to ask for orders.
"So far as our station records show, Flemister has had no material, save coal, shipped in over either the eastern or the western spur for several months." "Then you believe that he took your bridge-timbers and sawed them up into lumber?" "I do as firmly as I believe that the sun will rise to-morrow. And that isn't all of it, Lidgerwood. He is the man who has your switch-engine.
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