"I see the point, Reade.

After the scoundrels have done their worst against us, they can disperse, vanishing among the hills, and the W.C.

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people will simply deny that they were behind the attack, and will call upon us to prove it." "Not only that, sir," continued the cub chief engineer, "but I doubt if any of the officials of the W.C.

& A.have any real knowledge that such a move is contemplated.

This trick proceeds from the fertile mind of some clever, well-paid scoundrel who is employed in the opposition railroad's gloom department.