: The Wire Devils by Packard Frank L Frank Lucius - Detective and mystery stories; Railroad stories; Canadian fiction 20th century

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THE WIRE DEVILS

I--THE SECRET CODE

II--THE TEN-DOLLAR COUNTERFEIT NOTE

IV--AT BALD CREEK STATION

V--IN WHICH A CASH BOX DISAPPEARS

VI--SOME OF THE LITTLE SPIDERS

X--THE THIRD PARTY

XX--"CONFIDENTIAL" CORRESPONDENCE

THE WIRE DEVILS

I--THE SECRET CODE

TWO switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For the rest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled close against the single-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boast a night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jagged points sticking up into the night and standing out in relief against the skyline, the Rockies reared their peaks. And the spell of the brooding mountains seemed to lie over all the desolate, butte-broken surrounding country--for all was utter silence.

And then there came a sound, low at first, like a strange muttering from somewhere to the westward.

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