The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 109: what you’re looking at

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100 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. Acton nods his head. “What you say is good sound sense, my boy, and I don’t see any better plan ahead than to follow out one laid down on the lines suggested by your thought.” This is praise indeed from the colonel, who is generally very chary about such things; but we have fought side by side in the heat of the day, and borne the burdens of life together for years, so we understand one another pretty thoroughly. I sit down to write out a short and fitting article, giving a graphic account of the scene on board the famous Vestibule Limited, just before it reaches Chicago. When this is done, 1 hand it to Acton who suggests one or two slight changes, which are soon made. I end the account with the laconic remark: ' “The young man was taken to a hospital, and, it is reported, died soon after arriving.” | Such an account as this must certainly please Andrews. No doubt the Jew doctor has. told him all about his meeting a reporter at the hospital, and magnified the importance of the interview that took place between the head surgeon and myself; so the schemers will be looking for the issue of the afternoon paper containing the account. Taking the article with him Acton posts over to the publication office of the News, and knowing the man as Ido, I have no doubt but that he will suc- ~ ceed in getting it inserted. Then he has another _ task before him in visiting the offices of the Times, Tribune, and Inter-Ocean. Whether he will also be successful in these places is of course a problem; but Ido not fear. Colonel Acton is a wonderful man, and has a knack of accomplishing about all --comicbooks.com — bP esa + oe =