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rb all the dope I could as I went along on the new job, I knew I would be needed e

rved in the car, and they kept the business talk going like a house afire while they were eating, the hurry being that Mr

the totals into anything, of course, in such a gallop, but these were enough to give him his hand-holds. At two o'clock a boy came down from the headquarters w

ve an absolutely free hand, not only in the management and the operating, but also in dictating the policy of the

in, which was the first intimation I had had that he

or take the consequences-and the consequences were going to cost them money. Dunton got down when he had to, and he pulled the others into line. You are to set yo

e abruptly, as he always does when h

the West that the P. S. L. is officered by a lot of dummies

f your 'free hand.' Have yo

rsuade him to store his autos and lay up his yacht and sell off his polo ponies-I'll try it, anyhow. Then there is Charlie Hornack, who is the best all-around traffic man this side of the Missou

we touched upon last night. I don't know the ins and outs of it, but people here will tell you that a sort of holding corporation, called Red Tower Consolidated, has a strangle grip on this entire region. Its

so, I have heard that the railroad stands in

take the Alexa in tow for the eastward run,

Red Tower, and Henckel, its vice-president. They say either of them would commit murder for a ten-dollar bill, and they stand in with Pete Clanahan, the city boss, and his gang of political thugs. That's all,

aps we both felt a little bit lonesome, just for a second or two. At least, I know I did. But when the special had become a bl

r Short Line, Jimmie, and your salary begins to-day," he said, bris