the engineer of
Blackwings at first, but later they came to an understanding. He then
gave the young runner some fatherly advice, and started to leave when he
was arrested.

Although he told his story in a straightforward honest way, it was, upon
the face of it, so inconsistent that even the loafers, changing feet
again, pitied the prisoner and many of them actually left the room
before the judge could pronounce sentence. Moran was held, of course,
and sent to jail without bail. He had hosts of friends, but somehow they
all appeared to be busy that evening and only a few called to see him.

One man, not of the Brotherhood, said to himself that night as he went
to his comfortable bed: "I will not forsake the company, neither will I
forsake Dan Moran until he has been proven guilty."

CHAPTER THIRTEENTH

While Dan Moran was being examined in Judge Meyer's ill-smelling court
in Chicago a coroner's jury was sitting on the body of the dead engineer
at Galesburg. Hundreds of people had been at the station and witnessed
the arrival of the express train that came in with a dead engine, with
snow on her headlight, and a dead engineer hanging out of the window.
Hundreds of people could testify that this had happened, but none of
them knew what had caused the death of the engine-driver. Medical
experts who were called in to view the body could find no marks of
violence upon it and, in order to get out of a close place without
embarrassment, agreed that the engineer had died of heart failure. This
information, having been absorbed by the jury, they gave in a verdict to
that effect. If the doctors had said, "He died for want of breath," the
verdict would no doubt have agreed perfectly with what the doctors
said.

After the train had arrived and the coroner was called and had taken the
dead man from the engine, Barney Guerin had wandered into a small hotel
near the station and engaged a room for the night. Being the only person
on the engine at the time of the engineer's death, Guerin was very
naturally attracting the attention of the railway officials, and calling
about him, unconsciously, all the amateur detectives and newspaper
reporters in the place. Fortunately for him, he was arrested, upon a
warrant sworn out by the station agent, and lodged in jail before the
reporters got at him. Here he was visited by a local lawyer, for the
company, and instructed to say nothing whatever about the death of
Cowels.

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