Chapter 12
Adam wasn’t alone in noticing one more thing as the days dragged on after J.W. Gartin’s murder. Captain Akers must have kept his mouth shut about what happened in the locomotive that night, but he never did hide, trade, or sell the dead man’s watch.
Soon as he finished breaking that poor widow girl’s heart, that Captain started carrying that timepiece right out in the open. He kept it on the chain stretched across his belly like he had some kind of right to it, and he never bothered to glance around to see who was looking before he checked the time.
The man’s own pride brought him down in the end, like such things often do.
Everyone knew Captain Akers didn’t own a railman’s watch like that. He never had enough time in the job to earn one, certainly not a fine long-working ma
