CHAPTER XIX.
SHERIFF GREASE DROPS DAVE Tom's prediction came swiftly true in a score of ways.
The gloom department of the W.C.

& A.immediately busied itself with the public.
The "gloom department" is a comparatively new institution in some kinds of high finance circles.

Its mission is to throw gloom over the undertakings of a rival concern.

At the same time, through such matter as it can manage to have printed in some sorts of newspapers the gloom department seeks to turn the public against its business rivals.
That same day news was flashed all over the country that a party of railway engineers, led by a mad deputy sheriff had wantonly fired on a party of travelers who had had the misfortune to get upon the building railway's right of way.
In many parts of Colorado a genuine indignation was aroused against the S.B.

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