“What?”
The conductor was amazed.
“That’s right,” nodded Frank.
“Well, the jig is up with him. The old man won’t have a crazy engineer running things.”
“What did you wire?”
“That Hicks was knocked out, and somebody must take the train through.”
“You did not give particulars?”
“Couldn’t.”
“Then, as yet, but ourselves and the train hands know there was a fight between us.”
“And the dispatcher here.”