THE NIGHT OPERATOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD AUTHOR OF "THE WIRE DEVILS," "THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE," ETC. THE COPP, CLARK CO., LIMITED TORONTO COPYRIGHT, 1919. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO CHARLES AGNEW MACLEAN BY FRANK L. PACKARD THE NIGHT OPERATOR THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE THE WIRE DEVILS THE SIN THAT WAS HIS THE BELOVED TRAITOR GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THE MIRACLE MAN FOREWORD Summed up short, the Hill Division is a vicious piece of track; also, it is a classic in its profound contempt for the stereotyped equations and formulae of engineering. And it is that way for the very simple reason that it could not be any other way. The mountains objected, and objected strenuously, to the process of manhandling. They were there first, the mountains, that was all, and their surrender was a bitter matter. So, from Big Cloud, the divisional point, at the eastern fringe of the Rockies, to where the foothills of the Sierras on the western side merge with the more