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The Midnight Passenger

CHAPTER X
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And if the force finds out nothing in two weeks the game is mine! If the boy is arrested, I'll get in with the woman and carriage clue.

I can wait!" While Jack Witherspoon and Doctor Atwater conferred at the Hoffman, there was a private meeting at Robert Wade's mansion, which brought together all the suspended officials.
Robert Wade, with indignation against Ferris' brutal treatment, announced the policy of a united resistance, a joint appeal to Hugh Worthington, and the demand of an Investigation Committee of Directors.

"We will wait for Mr.Worthington's vindication," said Wade, in an unanswerable tone.
"Then you will wait until eternity," sadly said Walter Edson.
"Here is the ten o'clock edition of the Evening Telegram.

Mr.Hugh Worthington, the well-known capitalist, died at Pasco, Washington, this morning, from injuries received in a railroad accident." When the hubbub had subsided, the voice of Wade was heard.

"Gentlemen, we must act in a passive defence until the Worthington Estate sends in a man to control the situation.


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