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Bud looked back into the rooate and caught the boy by the shoulder "What's the

matter, my lad?"

He shook and questioned, but froet only

one word, "O'Neill," and stepping to the hall door Glover called out

"O'Neill!"

It has been said that Glover's voice would carry in a mountain storht the very last

rafter in the Wickiup gables rang with his cry He called only once,

for O'Neill ca stairs three steps at a time

"Look to your train sheet, Garry," said Glover, peremptorily "This

boy is scared to death There's trouble somewhere"

He supported the operator to a chair, and O'Neill ran to the inner

room The moment his eye covered the order book he sahat had

happened "Extra 81 is against a passenger special," exclai the key "There's the order--Extra 81 froe to meet Nue, and nothing against Extra 81 If I can't catch the freight

at Red Desert we're in for it--wake up Morris Blood, quick, he's in

there asleep"

Blood, working late in his office, had rolled hie in Callahan's old room, and unfortunately Morris Blood was

the soundest sleeper on the division Glover called hi position, talked

hurriedly to him--he knehat resource and power lay under the thick