"I must see if help is needed below,"
lie said, glancing down at the clogged
roadway, and as he faded from her
view Gladys, even amid her distrac
tion, recognised him as a newcomer
to the town whom she had noticed
passing the house during the previous
week Then a veil &tole over her
mind and she sank back senseless.
Thus she was iound five minutes later,
when her mother and sister attracted
by the crash of the v\ iei k, came hurry
ing to the scene.
A'* to (ho young manho was Hec
tor rrornsonhe who coming from
tov.-ii also bv the short cut route, had
dashed up the incline barely in time
to
a\o himself and Gladys, had gone
belew to find that none of the trim
crew had been hurt. Three freight
cars were a mass of splinters ami
t'w steil iion. Their contents had
poured out across the tracks. He
gave the herterogeneous mass a cal
culating look. Then lie loitered about
the spot whither the usual thiong of
sight &eers was attracted.
Two hours later, as the wrecking
crew an.ved, Morrison was still in
evidence When the debris of the
broken cars had been removed to the
wrecker trailers, and the scattered
and damaged freight packages had
been tossed into a heap where there
was surplus space where the cut wid
ened. Morrison got after what he had
been waiting forthe arrival of the
local claim agent.
"There isn't much salvage in that
tieap yonder,' observed Morrison. "I
noticed a crate oft rockery smashed
to bUs and those miscellaneous
bundles are crushed flat."
"It's a pretty bad mix up," asserted
the claim agent.
"I'll take a Tisk on twenty-five dol-
lars," announced Morrison quietly.
