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I'll get Thorlakson to send one of his men " She interrupted him with a gesture of impatience. "The question is, Mr. Kendrick, what's happened to Jimmy Stiles?" "Yes, and what's happened to make Wade send McCorquodale up here? What's this important work he's talking about?" "If Jimmy Stiles has disappeared, it hasn't been of his own free will. I'm sure of that, Mr. Kendrick, positive!"
How does it strike you, Miss Lawson? Is the ankle bothering you at all?" The girl was quite sure of herself. The ankle was all right and she could handle the canoe. When she got to the section shanty she would have Thorlakson get out the handcar and run her down to the nearest telegraph operator and that was all there was to it.
They were bearing down upon the switch lights opposite Thorlakson. But Macdonald was in a hurry and too anxious to take advantage of the grade to stop for water there. The few scattered lights flicked by and they were off again into the blackness ahead. On the time-card No. 7 was a "blind" water tank farther on up the line, the loneliest tank on the division.
The remaining stage of the journey should not present much difficulty, once she had persuaded Thorlakson of the urgency of her mission. The place was in darkness and she tapped loudly on the window-pane of Mrs. Thorlakson's bedroom. After a little while she heard the woman stir and call out. Cristy shouted in to her and with many strange Icelandic expressions of astonishment Mrs.
He pointed to where a yellow dot shone steadily, close to the track. But the girl did not reply. She swayed a moment, then went limp in his arms. Magnus Thorlakson was in the habit of routing out his men early. The Roadmaster had made no mistake when he handed the stolid Icelander the responsibility for nine miles of the Company's line in the middle of one of the loneliest divisions.
One of those methodical individuals who are born every now and then with the gift of interpreting railway schedules would have had no great difficulty in locating "Thorlakson" in the main-line timetable of the Canadian Lake Shores Railway. It takes the form of a little dagger-mark which, pursued into the fine print of the "Explanatory," yields the information that "Thorlakson" is a flag-station.
It looks as if he were getting ready to pull out and had found Stiles in his way. Jimmy knows too much." "Well, speculating about things won't get us a hundred yards from Thorlakson Siding," said Kendrick philosophically. "What's needed is a train." "There's no telling what may be going on back there while we sit here, twiddling our thumbs." She got up and walked to and fro restlessly.
As Kendrick finished speaking they both turned to watch Cranston approaching slowly, supporting Podmore. The secretary's condition had improved greatly under Phil's ministrations and the food which Mrs. Thorlakson had prepared for him. But it was apparent that he was still suffering from shock and beneath the bandage about his head the black and blue evidence of the contusion was visible.
The situation suddenly had become so ludicrous that he had experienced great difficulty in maintaining the proper solemnity. The opportunity of getting to Thorlakson where he could report his discoveries to Miss Lawson was the thing he most desired. But he had failed to reckon the possibility that he would be unable to escape.
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