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North, whom he has made my superior. Mr. North tells him that I am to blame." "But it must be a very dreadful condition of things, if what Mr. Frisbie said is all true." "Frisbie spoke of only one little incident. Trouble like this we're having to-day is constantly arising. No money-making graft is too petty or too immoral for the MacMorroghs to connive at.
You see, he was afraid to trust matters to Penfield, who would most certainly have stopped short of the desperate measures Eckstein and the MacMorroghs finally took. It was decided at a council in which Penfield was present, that Ford's elimination must go through. If you didn't quarrel with him and drop him, he was to be murdered." Mr.
One of the many tricks of the MacMorroghs was to keep barely within the contract limits on clearance widths, and once the Nadia, sagging mountainward on the roughly leveled track at the wrong moment, touched one of the out-hanging rocks in passing.
It ignored the stalled freight train, and Ford's rapid clickings spelled out an order. Frisbie was to drop everything else, and constitute himself the president's avant-courrier to the end-of-track camp, which, at the moment, happened to be the MacMorroghs' headquarters at the mouth of Horse Creek.
It was the assistant's turn to frown, but the brow-wrinkling was of puzzlement. "There's something a bit curious about that you don't mind our talking shop like a pair of floor-walkers, do you, Miss Adair? You know we expected the MacMorroghs would kick on the change of route and the loss of the big rock-cut in the canyon. There wasn't a word of protest.
"The MacMorroghs have based their bid on the present survey: they will not want to let that piece of rock work drop out of sight." "They'll have to, if you say so. And you can afford to be pretty liberal with them on the substituted twelve miles." "I'll have to think about it over night," was Ford's final answer.
But he elected to stay in the cab, and he was still there, hanging from the open window on Jackson's side, when the one-car special woke the echoes with its whistle, clattered in over the switches at Horse Creek, and came to a stand opposite the MacMorroghs' commissary.
As against this, safety and economy won the day; and when Frisbie came in the talk was merely of ways and means. "Fix up the change with the MacMorroghs the best way you can," was Ford's concluding instruction to his lieutenant. "They will kick, of course; merely to be kicking at anything I suggest. But you can bring them to terms, I guess." "By my lonesome?" said Frisbie.
It has come to a point where I shall have to fight the MacMorroghs to some sort of a finish, and well, to put it very baldly, I don't want to have to fight the MacMorroghs and the president in the same round." "Why should Uncle Sidney take the part of these men, if they are bad men, Mr. Ford?" "Because he has always distrusted my judgment, and because he is loyal to Mr.
When he finished, the president was shaking as if from a chill. Yet one thread of the strong strand of loyalty still held. "It was horrible fiendish!" he shuddered. "But it was the MacMorroghs' fight. It does not necessarily incriminate North." "It does," said Adair, in the same even tone. "I told you that we left a few men at the wrecked camp to warn the incoming material trains.
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