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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of It Might Have Happened Otherwise, by
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-Title: It Might Have Happened Otherwise
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED
-OTHERWISE ***
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-IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED OTHERWISE
-
-By Hugh Pendexter
-
-Author of “The Chelsea Vase,” “The Crimson Track,” etc.
-
-
-The growth of the thing in his mind had been gradual. When it had
-obtruded upon his consciousness at first he had drawn back in mingled
-fear and anger. By degrees, however, he tolerated the thought, only
-always at a distance, and concluded by allowing it to make a
-rendezvous of his idle meditations, receiving it much as one might
-welcome an unwholesome but highly fascinating acquaintance. All the
-time he knew its real name was Theft.
-
-For three years Parsly had served as station agent and telegraph-operator
-at the Junction. Each day he had observed the transient bustling by the
-long platform, the spectacle never varying. Long vestibuled trains
-halted impatiently, and always the same curious or apathetic faces
-peered out at him from the Pullmans.
-
-It was the branch line, tapping the lumber country, that contributed
-humanism, consisting of a nodding acquaintance with timber operators
-and forlorn commercial travelers. The first were always in a hurry to
-make the big city connection; the latter lingered in his company for
-the sake of gaining an audience while they cursed the country.
-
-The last because the Junction was not the liveliest place in the
-world to put in an hour or two of waiting. Situated where the
-engineering problem had been the simplest, it was surrounded by
-blueberry plains, dotted at intervals with scrub pine. As the
-locomotives annually set the pines afire, the immediate foreground
-continuously presented a dead, charred appearance. Far-off, the
-objective point of the Pullmans, loomed the cool silhouettes of
-mountains, guardians of inland lakes and famous fishing.
-
-More than once Parsly compared himself with Robinson Crusoe in his
-isolation; only he had no man Friday to enliven his dull routine. He
-saw much of the passing world but was never of it. Thus, at the end
-of three years, the hurrying by of the heavy trains aroused a species
-of resentment. Everyone was at liberty to take flight but him. Then
-again, fifty dollars a month for his combined duties was hardly a
-compensating solace.
-
-It was the matter of salary that caused the idea to germinate while
-he was sullenly working the semaphore one day. He had just received
-from the night branch some four hundred dollars express money which
-he must deliver to the agent on the morning city-passenger. Having
-just received his monthly wages he could not help but contrast its
-meager total with the bulking roll in his hip-pocket.
-
-If he had four hundred dollars, all his own, he would throw up the
-job and use it in one delicious round of travel. By the time it was
-exhausted he could obtain another position in a pleasing environment.
-In logical sequence he decided he might as well allow his imagination
-a wider range and play at taking a vacation with the largest sum ever
-entrusted to his care for a single night. He remembered this to be an
-even thousand dollars, sent down by a big operator in payment for
-horses in the lumber camps.
-
-A thousand dollars offered his fancy vastly more possibilities to
-work with. The four hundred became insignificant. As his duties
-permitted him much time for reflection, he carried the thought back
-to his dingy office and entertained it by consulting maps in the
-railroad folders. In this fashion he took a hurried excursion across
-the continent and spied out the land. Then he became critical and
-weighed and balanced different localities.
-
-The Southwest, free from cold, gray Autumnal rains, howling snows and
-Spring inundations, finally appealed to him as being ideal. Of
-course, there might be two thousand dollars entrusted to him any
-night, especially now that it was Autumn and the lumbermen were
-stocking up for the Winter campaign.
-
-It was at that precise point that his cheek reddened and he felt a
-touch of alarm as he angrily told himself such imagining was immoral,
-for it was based on the suggestion that he steal the money. He
-condemned the suggestion wrathfully as he walked a quarter of a mile
-to the lonely home where he boarded, and yet he was more downcast
-than ever over his colorless place in life.
-
-On returning to the station to close up for the night, which meant a
-weary wait for the up-passenger to pull in, he returned to the
-suggestion abruptly and recklessly. It was the sight of the porters
-making up the berths, the comradeship in the smoking compartment,
-that plunged him into full revolt; only now he proceeded on the
-theory the money was legitimately his.
-
-“Well, I guess I’ve earned it. What if I should take it, providing I
-could get away with it? How would I spend it?”
-
-This surrender eased him much. Of course he wouldn’t take it, not a
-penny; but it’s impossible to picture a career of spending until the
-imagination has logically furnished the requisite possession. Now he
-had mentally satisfied his imagination as to possession, although the
-technique was illegal. Fortunately there is no law punishing a man
-for inwardly discussing the possible assets of a crime.
-
-Of course, Parsly merely intended to pursue his day-dreams unhampered
-by any irritating self-criticism. He had systematically arranged his
-data and could spend a million a day, should he choose. That was
-where he erred. His imagination became a hard taskmaster, very
-exacting. Once he accepted the suggestion that the money was to come
-to him through theft, his methodical mind insisted on reviewing the
-possibilities of detection before permitting him to enjoy the fruits.
-
-“Wouldn’t you be caught and arrested before you could make a
-beginning?” was the cautious query he was forced to put to himself.
-
-Such nagging is very annoying, and to satisfy his mysterious Pyrrhonist
-and continue with his Spanish architecture, he set himself about
-planning how the trick could be done without his being detected.
-
-This was a hopeless morass at first, and very unpleasant; for instead
-of picturing innocent expenditures he found himself sweating and
-struggling with the problem of how he could keep the money once he
-secured it. The more he labored the more nimble became his other self
-in raising pertinent objections, exploding seemingly sound theories
-and ridiculing his most astute hypotheses.
-
-To merely appropriate the money and disappear was quickly shown to be
-the height of idiocy. That spelled a life of slinking and fear, the
-flying from phantoms. It took some thought to clear the foreground of
-discarded theories and plans and approach the realm of finesse; but at
-last he seemed to be building on a firmer foundation.
-
-Probably the frequent raids by yeggmen on rural post-offices and
-isolated railroad stations stimulated this office of his imagination.
-For in reading the paper, presented him gratis each evening by the
-newsboy on the up-passenger, he noted the yeggmen always securely
-tied whoever stood between them and loot, cut the tell-tale wires and
-escaped.
-
-Then came the great idea; and slapping the paper he glanced
-apprehensively around the small office, and whispered:
-
-“If I faked a holdup the yeggs would get the credit and I’d get the
-dough. It would be a cinch, if a man wanted to play crooked.”
-
-Stay! Was it so easy? The various precautions necessary for
-counterfeiting a robbery, each simple in itself, quickly loomed into
-mountains. Then he derided on just how the furniture should be broken
-and overturned to approximate realism; just when the wires should be
-cut; whether the station door should be left open or closed, and the
-condition of his clothing and pockets. As there was no safe in the
-office the agent carried the moneys upon his person. At first he
-imagined his pockets turned inside out, then repudiated the thought
-as being too clumsy.
-
-But what about the tying-up portion of the programme? Could a man tie
-himself so as to convince his rescuers that his predicament was
-genuine? Of course, there was a chance, rather a good one, too, of
-his landlord, foreman of the section crew, coming to his aid and
-cutting the cords without making any particular observations. Still,
-only perfection of detail would satisfy his exacting critic.
-
-Now, Parsly, if slow of thought at times, was dogged in his
-persistence once he grappled with a problem. He now gave his spare
-time to studying ropes and knots.
-
-The newspapers had charged up the various robberies to Fresno Red and
-his gang, and had dwelt at length on the method used in each case in
-tying up watchman or agent. Invariably one end of the rope was made
-fast about the feet and ankles of the captive, then parsed up and
-around the waist, the hands being caught and tied behind the back;
-the loose end finally being made fast about the captive’s neck in a
-slip-noose.
-
-It was done very quickly, each victim had averred, and so hampered a
-man that the more he struggled the more he endangered his life by
-self-strangulation. It was a method worthy of the redoubtable Fresno
-Red, and one Parsly now attacked to satisfy his insistence on correct
-detail.
-
-                *       *       *       *       *
-
-That night he surreptitiously carried a piece of new rope home. He
-had already discovered that new rope would not slip like old,
-smoothly worn rope. In the secrecy of his small chamber he essayed
-the simple task of tying his own feet. His heart beat rapidly as he
-pulled the knot tight; then he laughed vacuously and told himself it
-was all a game. It ended where it began, merely a pastime. He did not
-attempt to duplicate the yeggmen’s knots further that night.
-
-He would not concede that he stood in fear of the trooping
-suggestions now besetting him and eagerly offering aid. Yet he fought
-hard to put the thoughts from his mind during the morning hours and
-felt extremely virtuous as he handed the down agent the customary
-parcel of money.
-
-That night he relaxed and deftly tied his feet, passed the line about
-his waist and clumsily wound it around his wrists. He remained awake
-more than an hour trying to solve the rest of the problem--how to
-fasten the rope about his wrists so it would be impossible to free
-himself and then secure the end about his neck. He decided it
-couldn’t be done, and fell asleep.
-
-Toward morning, when but half awake, he heard a voice advise--
-
-“Tie the rope first about the neck.”
-
-He popped up to a sitting posture and stared wildly about the dark
-chamber. He knew it was a suggestion from his inner self, yet so
-distinctly did he hear the words it seemed as if they must have been
-voiced aloud. Throughout the early morning he brooded over the
-suggestion. At first he could not discern any sense in it.
-Subconsciously, however, he had often noticed the lumberman’s trick
-of using a dove-hitch--two half-hitches--and gradually the
-recollection thrust itself above the threshold of consciousness. He
-believed he had succeeded.
-
-He must make the rope fast about his neck while standing, then secure
-it about his ankles with practically no slack, continuing the loose
-end to his waist and tying it, taking care to have it pass outside
-the rope running from neck to heels. Then by throwing back his head
-and heels he would obtain enough slack to make the two double loops,
-or half-hitches, through which he could work his wrists.
-
-The last operation, he realized, would demand great care, as he must
-thrust his hands in from opposite directions until wrist overlapped
-wrist. If it would work he would dismiss the matter and resume the
-pleasing visions of spending the money.
-
-The morning’s paper contained a glaring account of a daring yegg
-robbery at the Centerville station. The agent had been trussed up and
-some fifteen hundred dollars taken.
-
-“Those guys certainly got the nerve,” commented the newsboy as the
-agent was reading the item. “Didn’t even gag Roberts. Just corded him
-up like a bale of hay, copped his roll and beat it. Roberts is so
-scared he’s working his notice.”
-
-That afternoon Parsly was curious to examine all baggage fastened
-with ropes. Several parcels of sample dowels, sent by express from
-the up-country mill, held his attention the closest. They were tied
-with new rope and the dove-hitch held tightly, even when he worked an
-end loose. Just before he closed up for supper the branch train
-brought in a hundred-odd dollars, but the agent confidentially
-assured:
-
-“Tomorrer’ll be a record breaker. Two parties I know of are going to
-send down a thousand per. Together with the other money you’ll have
-close to three thousand bones to nurse over night. The danged company
-ought to put a safe in your office.”
-
-Off duty for the night, he hastened to his room where the supreme
-test awaited him. If he succeeded there was nothing to prevent a man
-from robbing himself and leaving no clues. When from the open door he
-could catch the sound of his landlord’s heavy, regular breathing, he
-removed his shoes, seated himself on the edge of the bed, and began
-experimenting with the cord.
-
-He fastened the noose about his neck and stood up and noted where the
-rope in a direct line touched the floor. Then seating himself he tied
-it tightly about his ankles and brought the loose end up to and
-around his waist. There was scarcely any slack when he straightened
-out his legs. At first he feared he had drawn the cord too tight and,
-anxiously turning on his face, threw back his head and heels.
-
-With a thrill of elation he found the slack would enable him, by an
-effort, to form the hitch. After a moment’s fumbling he succeeded,
-and even wriggled his hands through the loops until the tips of the
-fingers rested on the upper forearm. It wearied him, and with a sigh
-of physical relief he extended his legs.
-
-In an instant his tongue felt too large for his mouth, and with a
-gasp of horror he decided he was choking to death. He did not lose
-his nerve as he remembered the remedy, and he drew back his legs. But
-although this gave a bit of slack to the rope he could not induce the
-hitch to loosen. From the satisfaction of having proven his theory he
-quickly glided into the fear that he had calculated too nicely.
-
-Had the rope been old and smooth, or had his hands been imprisoned
-palm to palm, finger tip to fingertip, he might have secured a
-leverage and by working them apart have succeeded in wrenching one
-free. But the new rope refused to give, and for a minute he lay
-quiet, panting for breath, and taking great care to bring no strain
-on his neck.
-
-Down-stairs the old clock was ponderously ticking off the seconds; and
-he remained a prisoner. His heart chilled as he feared he must summon
-the foreman to come to his rescue. But how could he explain his
-peculiar plight? What suspicions might not his predicament arouse?
-
-This dread quickly gave way before one more chance. The noose seemed
-to be tightening about his neck, and he remembered the foreman was a
-heavy sleeper. His wife occupied a room with her small children at
-the other end of the house. He doubted his ability to call help; if
-he did not he might slowly strangle to death.
-
-Already the cold sweat was trickling into his eyes and it required a
-mighty effort of the will to restrain himself from thrashing about.
-He knew, however, that the moment he lost control of his nerves and
-moved incautiously his wind would be shut off. Gritting his teeth he
-drew his heels far back like an acrobat. He was lying face down with
-the bedclothes half smothering him. Then he gently picked at the rope
-with his finger tips. Useless. The cords held his wrists like bands
-of iron.
-
-Finally he managed to work the cord between the fingers of his left
-hand and exert a pressure upward, hoping to loosen the hitch. His
-essay was barren of results for some moments, and it was not until he
-was about to collapse that he felt his right hand moving more freely.
-With an inarticulate cry of triumph he wrenched his wrist smartly,
-and instantly felt the cord renew its grip like a sentient thing. It
-was like a cat playing with a mouse.
-
-Breathing in dry sobs he slowly sought to recover the lost ground and
-persevered until he again was pushing upward on the cord. For the
-second time he felt the right hand move a bit; this time he worked it
-back and forth most gently and at last managed to pull it free. Even
-then it required some minutes to remove the rope from his throat.
-
-“---- the thing!” he choked, sinking back exhausted. “It nearly got
-me!”
-
-That night he dreamed of the money brought in by the branch train;
-only there were cars and cars loaded with it, and it was all in gold,
-and men were removing it with huge scoops, just as they shovel out
-yellow corn.
-
-By morning he had regained his normal tone and even felt inclined to
-laugh at himself. After all, had he not done what he set out to
-accomplish--to prove a man could effectually make himself a prisoner?
-Had he been engaged in a _bona fide_ robbery he would not have
-attempted to free himself. His success in escaping detection would be
-his utter inability to do so. In that case, of course, he would
-expect to endure the torture till help reached him.
-
-What odds if a man suffered a few hours of physical agony, if it
-resulted in supplying him with several thousand dollars? He now
-clearly appreciated that had his experiment been less successful he
-would have been grievously disappointed; the problem would have
-remained an obstacle to his imagination, and his dangerous, although
-alluring, fancies needs must be postponed. On the whole he felt
-rather proud of his achievement.
-
-All day the great idea kept pounding through his head. He had it in
-his power to obtain more than two thousand, possibly three thousand,
-dollars without being suspected. His temples throbbed and ached as
-the thought assailed him. Once or twice during the afternoon he was
-called to the baggage-room to check a trunk. Each time his gaze
-involuntarily sought the coil of new rope hanging behind the door.
-
-It was well known to students of crime that yeggmen pick up their
-tools on the premises of the place robbed, traveling unhampered by
-the burglar’s usual outfit. How natural that they should appropriate
-a piece of this very cord to bind him with! That would necessitate
-the shattering of the lock, but the door was old and weak and a
-well-delivered kick would smash it loose. He had no appetite for
-supper and heard but little of the foreman’s gossip.
-
-“I was saying I’d like to play you a game of crib tonight if you
-feel in trim,” repeated the foreman.
-
-“Crib? Oh, of course. Sure, Danny. I’ll play crib. I’ll be home right
-after the up-train pulls out. I’ll be home in good season,” eagerly
-promised Parsly, suddenly realizing the foreman might get impatient
-waiting, might take alarm at his boarder failure to reach home, and
-go in search of him. That would eliminate long, slow hours of torture
-on the office floor.
-
-“Yes, I’ll be home right after the nine-o’clock goes up,” he said. “I
-won’t keep you waiting.”
-
-While returning through the woods it suddenly came home to him that
-he had planned to steal the money. For a moment he felt strongly
-moved and made a feeble pretense of denying the accusation. Then with
-a drawn face he muttered:
-
-“---- it! Why sidestep? It’s been in my nut for days. I’ll never get
-another chance like this--so much dough and the yeggs near.”
-
-He sought to distract his mind by bitterly assailing the railroad and
-express companies and assuring himself the thought would never have
-occurred to him had he been paid something beyond a starvation wage
-for a fourteen-hour day. It really wasn’t robbery. Laws were made by
-men. It was reprisal. When it came to the ethics of it--only Parsly
-didn’t know what the word meant--he’d earned the money, at least a
-part of it.
-
-The night connived at his purpose, blowing up cold and desolate and
-on the verge of a storm. By the time the branch pulled in, the
-platform was streaming rivulets from the heavy downpour, and the
-express agent made the office on the run.
-
-“Here’s the stuff!” he yelped, tossing a package on the table.
-“Nothing to hold us and we’re going right back. So long.” Parsly
-breathed more freely. Sometimes a mixup over freight, or a hot-box,
-kept the train, with the men careless of the passing minutes, as they
-had no schedule to make on the return run to Waverly, the first
-station, where they would hold the siding for the night.
-
-Outside, the rain was falling with a thunderous clamor, smearing the
-window panes till it was impossible to make out the switch-lights
-directly in front of the station. Parsly rose, his eyes glittering.
-The money must be concealed safely till the morrow.
-
-He had never read Poe’s story of the purloined letter, yet instinct
-urged a simple hiding-place. He decided on the greasy canvas coat,
-hung back of the door. He wore it only when cleaning the
-switch-lamps. The package fitted nicely into one capacious pocket.
-No one would ever find it there. Now to arrange the stage settings,
-the overturned furniture, the open door--
-
-The door opened. Four men were crowding in through the miniature
-waterfall released from the loaded eaves. Parsly eyed them as one
-entranced, his gaze frozen with horror. It was no physical fear he
-dreaded, but for the moment it seemed as if his evil purpose had
-escaped him and now stood crystallized into tangible shapes, each a
-unit of wickedness.
-
-“Nail the mutt!” sharply ordered the leader, a man with a heavy shock of
-red hair.
-
-One of the men twisted Parsly’s arm behind him and thrust an iron wrist
-under his chin. Two others stood near, one holding a revolver, the other
-caressing a “life-preserver.” The leader was glancing about the office.
-
-All this occurred in a single motion, yet it seemed to cover ages to
-the stupefied agent. It was the red-headed man’s prowling gaze that
-brought Parsly to his senses. They were yeggmen--Fresno Red and his
-gang. They were after the money and the leader was seeking the safe.
-
-The man who had seized the agent was deciding he had never in all of
-his strong-arm jobs encountered so thoroughly frightened a victim as
-now, when Parsly’s chin hugged in and his strong teeth bit deeply
-into his captor’s wrist, causing him to scream with pain. At the same
-instant, the agent’s long leg kicked out, overturning the table and
-the one lamp.
-
-The room was plunged in darkness and the man with the revolver
-discharged his weapon, evoking a shriek of mortal agony, but not from
-the agent. Fresno Red called loudly for a light while he attempted to
-strike a match. Parsly had the advantage; he knew one of the robbers
-was dead or seriously wounded, and while every man was his enemy in
-the darkness, the yeggmen feared to injure a pal.
-
-“Block the door and window!” roared Fresno Red.
-
-During this brief leeway Parsly’s groping hands found, the office
-stool and he swung it around his head in a deadly circle. By the
-sickening crunch he knew at least one of the enemy was off the active
-list. Then a match flared up for a second and the leader’s revolver
-exploded, the agent experiencing a stinging sensation in the side.
-
-For an instant Parsly felt strangely numb; then the stool rose like a
-flail and the man with the “life-preserver” sank to the floor.
-
-Somehow the agent now felt a riotous elation. Fear was a very distant
-emotion. His veins were filled with molten lead instead of blood. He
-breathed hate rather than the smoky air. It was a monstrous thing
-that these murderers should seek to rob his employers.
-
-With a wild howl of rage he plunged into the remaining two men,
-lucking and smashing like a maniac with the fragment of the stool.
-Out through the door they poured, another of the gang falling with
-a fractured skull. Then Parsly discovered he was alone.
-
-He stood stupidly for a few moments, weaving back and forth. He
-aroused himself as his dull ears caught a familiar sound. A hand-car
-was being pumped down the grade. His mind cleared to supernormal
-lucidity. He saw his advantage. He had been brutally attacked and
-seriously wounded. The one man escaping would be charged with having
-stolen the money; they wrested it from him in the struggle. He had
-fought hard; he’d earned it. And yet, should he pull the lever close
-by his right hand, he could throw open the switch down the line and
-send Fresno Red crashing into the empty coal-cars on the siding.
-
-“You’ll never get a better chance! It simply can’t be known and--”
-
-“No!” he yelled, springing to the lever and pulling it back
-with his last ounce of strength.
-
-“No, ---- you! No!”
-
-Within the next minute he heard a dull crash and knew the yegg leader
-had collided with the coal-cars. Then he concluded the wet platform
-would be an ideal place for a red-hot body to rest on.
-
-                *       *       *       *       *
-
-“For the love of Mike! Parsly down and out! One man groaning and
-another dead in the office, one stiff out here! Good Heavens!”
-exclaimed the horrified foreman as he held up the lantern. He had
-come because Parsly had failed to keep his promise as to the game of
-cribbage.
-
-As he read the full story in the four prostrate forms he collected
-his wits and dragged Parsly into the office, meanwhile begging him to
-“Wake up,” and “Get back his nerve.”
-
-“What’s the row?” feebly asked Parsly. Then he remembered.
-
-“I’ve been shot. Find the instrument and see if the wires are O. K.
-Hold me up where I can reach it. I must send in the alarm. The leader
-is down on the siding somewhere. I shunted him off into the
-empties.”
-
-“The desperate devils was going to make sure,” panted the foreman as
-he hunted for the instrument. “They fetched two coils of rope.”
-
-The papers made a great hero of Parsly. Fresno Red, who was found
-with a broken shoulder, gave him a brave record for being game. The
-railroad sent a superintendent to tell him he was in line for
-promotion and the express company guardedly considered presenting him
-with a reward.
-
-“I don’t want any money,” growled Parsly as the agent sat by his bed
-in the little house.
-
-“Cut that out. I did nothing but what’s in the day’s work. But I’d
-like the Centerville job. Roberts, they say, is going to quit. That
-pays a hundred a month.”
-
-He was appointed two days later. Only now he hates the sight of
-coiled rope and looks upon express money as so much junk.
-
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