Publisher's Synopsis
The Short Line War is a story that maps out a railroad war in which politics form a considerable part. Jim Weeks is the central figure in the fight. He was a man 'without much instinct or imagination; he took everything seriously and literally, he could not understand a whim'--therefore a very foolish little woman came into his life only to leave it desolate. And when we meet him here after the years have rounded him, and when he stands 'before the world a man of solid achievement, calm, successful, satisfied, ' we are quite prepared for the kind and tender things he does for the son of the woman he once loved
