CJ 1 ... ... .. ■, >1 A FOOL \d FOR. LOVE By FRANCIS LYNDE Author of"The Grafters," Etc. (Copyright, 1906, by J. P. IJpplncott Co.) CHAPTER lll.—Continued. "Why, my dear Virginia—the idea! flfou don't know in the least what you •re talking about. I have been read ing in the papers about these rlght-of jvay troubles, and they are perfectly terrible. One report said they were »rinlng the laboring men, and another ■aid the militia might have to be called ®ut" "Well, what of it?" said Virginia, jrith all the hardihood of youth and •nknowledge. "It's something like a burning building; one doesn't want to be hard-hearted and rejoice over other j>eople's misfortunes; but then, if it tias to burn, one would like to be there to see." Miss Bessie put a stray lock of the Gaxen hair up under its proper comb. "I'm sure I prefer California ana the orange groves and peace," she asserted. ♦Don't you, Cousin Billy?" What Mr. Calvert would have replied Is no matter for this history, since at this precise moment the rajah came In, "coruscating," as Virginia put it, from his late encounter with the su perintendent's chief clerk. "Give them the word togo, Jastrow, and let'a get out of heah," he com manded. And when the secretary had Vanished the Rajah made his explana tions to ail and sundry. "I've been obliged in a manneh to change ouh itinerary. Anotheh company is trying to fault us up in Qua'tz Creek canyon, and I am in a meashuh compelled to be oa the ground. We shall be delayed only a few days, I hope; at the worst only until the first snowstorm comes; and, in the meantime, Callfo'nla won't run away." Virginia linked arms with Bessie the flaxen-haired when the wheels began to turn. "We are off," she said. "Let's go out on the platform and see the last of Denver." It was while they were clinging to the hand-rail and looking back upon the jumble of railway activities out of which they had just emerged that the Rosemary, gaining headway, overtook another moving train running smooth ly on a track parallel to that upon which the private car was speeding. It was the narrow-gauge mountain con nection of the Utah line, and Winton and Adams were on the rear platform of the last car. So It chanced that the jlour of them were presently waving !their adieux across the wind-blown in terspace. In the midst of It, or rather •at the moment when the Rosemary, gathering speed as the lighter of the two trains, forged ahead, the Rajah came out to light his cigar. He took in the little tableau of the tear platforms at a glance, and when the slower train was left behind asked a question of Virginia. "Ah —wasn't one of those two the young gentleman who called on you yestehday afternoon, my deah?" Virginia admitted It "Could you faveh me with his tame?" "He Is Mr. Morton P. Adams, of Bos ton." t "Ah-h; and his friend —the young gentleman who laid his hand to ouh Klow and put the engine on the track ist night?" "He Is Mr. Winton—a— an artist, I jfcelieve; at least, that is what I gath ered from what Mr. Adams said of jklm." | Mr. Somerville Darrah laughed, a Wlovr litle iaugh deep in his throat. "Bless your innocent soul —he a pic lehuh-painteh? Not in a thousand yeahs, my deah Virginia. He is a rail road man, and a right good one at that. iFaveh me with the name again; Win teh, did you say?" i "No; Winton—Mr. John Winton." "D-d-devil!" gritted the Rajah, smit ing the hand-rail with his clenched fist. "Hah! I beg your pahdon, my deahs — a meah slip of the tongue." And then, to the full as savagely, "By heaven, 1 (hope that train will fly the track and ditch him before ever he comes within ordering distance of the work in Qua'tz Creek canyon!" "Why, Uncle Somerville—how vin dictive!" cried Virginia. "Who is he, and what has he done?" "He is Misteh John Winton, as you Informed me just now; one of the brainiest constructing engineers in this entiah country, and the hardest man in this or any otheh country to down in a right-of-way fight—that's who he is. And it's not what he's done, my deah it's what he is going to do. If I caa't get him killed up out of ouh way,—" but here Mr. Darrah saw the growing terror in two pairs of eyes, and realizing that he was committing himself before an unsympathetic au dience. beat a hasty retreat to his stronghold at the other end of the Rosemary. "Well!" said the flaxen-haired Bes sie, catcheing her breath. But Vir ginia laughed. "I'm glad I'm not Mr. W T inton," she said. CHAPTER IV. Morning In the highest highlands of the Rockies, a morning clear, cold aad tense, with a bell-like quality in the Srosty air to make the cracking of a snow-laden fir bough resound like a pistol shot. For Denver and the dwell ers on the eastern plain the sun 1b an hour high; but the hamlet mining ramp of Argentine, with its dovecote railway station and two-pronged sid ing, still lies in the steel blue depths of the canyon shadow. In a scanty widening of the main canyon a few hundred yards below the station a graders' camp of rude slab shelters is turning out its horde of wild-looking Italians; and on a crooked spur track fronting the shan ties blue wood smoke is curling lazily upward from the kitchen car of a con struction train. All night long the Kosemary, drawn by the speediest of mountain-climbing locomotives, had stormed onward and upward from the valley of the Grand, through black defiles and around the shrugged shoulders of the mighty peaks to find a resting-place in the white-robed dawn on the siding at Ar gentine. The lightest of sleepers, Vir ginia had awakened when the special was passing through Carbonate; and drawing the berth curtain she had lain for hours watching the solemn proces sion of cliffs and peaks wheeling in stalely and orderly array against the ky background of sky. Now, in the .«teel-blue dawn, she was—or thought she was—the first member of the par ty to dress and steal out upon the railed platform to look abroad upon the wondrous scene in the canyon. But her reverie, trance-like in is wordless enthusiasm, was presently broken by a voice behind her—the voice, namely, of Mr. Arthur Jastrow. "What a howling wilderness, to be sure, isn't it?" said the secretary, twirling his eye-glasses by the cord and looking, as he felt, interminably bored. "No, indeed; anything but that," she retorted, warmly. "It is grander than anything I ever imagined. I wish there were a piano in the car. It makes me fairly ache to set it In some form of expression, and music is the only form I know." "I'm glad it it doesn't bore you," he r -1 tf" READING THE WARRANT. rejoined, willing to agree with her for the sake of prolonging the interview. "But to me it is nothing more than a dreary wilderness, as I say; a barren, rock-ribbed gulch affording an indif ferent right-of-way for two railroads." "For one," she corrected, in a quick upflash of loyalty for her kin. The secretary shifted his gaze from the mountains to the maiden and smiled. She was exceedingly good to look upon—high-bred, queenly and Just now with the fine fire of enthu siasm to quicken her pulses and to send the rare flush to neck and cheek. Jastrow, the cold-eyed, the business automaton set togo off with a click at Mr. Somerville Darrah's touch, had ambitions not automatic. Some day he meant to put the world of business under foot as a conqueror, standing triumphant on the apex of that pyra mid of success which the Mr. Somer ville Darrahs were so successfully up rearing. When that day should come, there would need to be an establish ment, a menage, a queen for the king dom of success. Slimming her up for the hundredth time since the begin ning of the westward flight, he thought Miss Carteret would fill the require ments passing well. But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment, agreeing with her again without reference to his private con victions. "For one, I should have said," he amended. "We mean to have It that way, though an unprejudiced onlooker might be foolish enough to say that there is a pretty good present pros pect of two." But Miss Carteret was in a contra dictory inood. Moreover, she was a woman, and the way to a woman's confidence does not lie through the neutral country of easy compliance. "If you won't take the other side, I will," she said. "There will be two." Jastrow acquiesced a second time. "I shouldn't wonder. Our compet itor's road seems to be only a ques tion of time—a very short time, judg ing from the number of men turning out in the track gang down yonder." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i, 1906. Virginia leaned over tlie railing to look past the car and the dovecote sta tion, shading her eyes to shut out th* snow-blink from the sun-fired peaks. "Why, they are soldiers!" she ex claimed. "At least, some of them have guns on their shoulders. And see— they are forming In line!" The secretary adjusted his eye glasses. "By Jove! you are right; they have armed the track force. The new chief of construction doesn't mean to take any chances of being shaken loose bT force. Here they come." The end of track of the new line was diagonally across the creek from the Rosemary's berth and a short pistol shot farther down stream. But to advance it to a point opposite the private car, and to gain the altitude of the high embankment directly across from the station, the new line turned short out of the main canyon at the mouth of the Intersecting gorge, de scribing a long, U-shaped curve around the head of the lateral ravine and doubling back upon itself to reenter the canyon proper at the higher ele vation. The curve which was the beginning of this U-shaped loop was the morn ing's scene of action, and the Utah track layers, 200 strong, moved to the front in orderly array, with armed guards as flankers for the hand-car load of rails which the men were push- j ing up the grade. Jastrow darted into the car, and a moment later his place on the observa tion platform was taken by a wrath- \ ful industry colonel fresh from his : dressing-room—so fresh, indeed, that he was coatless, hatless, and collarless, and with the dripping bath sponge clutched like a missile to hurl at the impudent invaders on the opposite side of the canyon. "Hah! wouldn't wait until a man could get into his clothesl" he rasped, apostraphizing the Utah's new chief of construction. "Jastrow! Faveh me instantly, seh! Hustle up to the camp there and turn out the constable, town marshal, or whatever be is. Tell him I have a writ for him to servo. HUB, seh!" The secretary appeared and disap peared like a marionette when tho string has been jerked by a vigorous hand, and Virginia smiled—this with out prejudice to a very acute appre ciation of the grave possibilities which were preparing themselves. But hav ing her share of the militant quality which made her uncle what he is, she stood her ground. "Aren't you afraid you will take cold. Uncle Somerville?" she asked, archly; and the Rajah came suddenly to a sense of his incompleteness and went into finish his ablutions against th'o opening of the battle actual. At first Virginia thought she would follow him. When Mercury Jastrow should return with the officer of the law there would be trouble of some sort, and the woman in her shrank from the witnessing of it. But at the same instant the blood of the fighting Carterets asserted itself and she re solved to stay. "I wonder what uncle hopes to bo able to do?" she mused. "Will a little town constable with a bit of signed paper from some justice of the peace be mighty enough to stop all that fu rious activity over there? It's more than incredible." From that she fell to watching the activity and the orderly purpose of it A length of steel, with men clustering like bees upon it, would slide from it* place on the hand-car to fall with a frosty clang on the cross ties. In stantly the hammermen would pounce upon it. One would fall upon hands and knees to "sight" it into place; two others would slide the squeaking track gauge along its inner edge; a quar tette, working like the component parts of a faultless mechanism, would tap the fixing spikes into the wood; and then at a signal a dozen of the heavy pointed hammers swung aloft and a rhythmic volley of resounding bloVvs clamped the rail into perma nence on its wooden bed. (TO BE CONTJUNUEJOJ THE PERISCOPE. Description of the Eye of the Sub marine. The submarine, as a practical mech anism of war, would be unusable with out some means by which its com mander may see what is going on around and above it. This is fur nished at present by the periscope, Which A. Sauvalre Jourdan, a retired Submarine with Periscope. officer of the French navy, writing in La Nature, and translated for Literary Digest, calls with some justification, "the eye of the submarine." Writes Mr. Jourdan: "In principle, the periscope is com posed of a tube of small diameter placed vertically on the upper part of the submarine. Its lower end pen etrates into the boat, while its up per end rises above the water by a few inches. "It works by one of the simplest op tical devices —the use of mirrors. A mirror in the upper end of the tube, inclined to 45 degrees to the horizon tal, receives the images of objects on the water and sends them vertically downward to a second parallel mirror at the lower end of the tube, within the submarine. ... "Though every maritime nation has adopted for Its submarines an instru ment based on this theory, some, as in our own case, have an excellent one, while others have been retarded in the utilization of submarines by the in sufficiency and ineffectiveness of their optical devices. . . . "Without betraying military se crets, we may give a few details re garding the installation of the peri scope on French submarines, which will make their working a little clearer. "In the first place, the mirrors, epoken of above, are replaced by prisms. The arc of the horizon cov ered by the upper prism is about 90 degrees. The periscope has two tubes, a short one, fixed in the hull . . . and a movable one which slides in it. The latter is pushed up above the surface, or withdrawn below it, at will. "The tube is moved up and down by a screw, a counterweight, or even by a little electric motor, as in our latest models. The upper prism is fixed in the movable tube, the lower one in the stationary tube. Certain imaginary pictures that have recently been published show the images . . . thrown on a horizontal table under the eyes of the commanding officer. This is an error. The observer places his eye at a single or double eye- IMPROVED POTATO KNIFE. At One Operation the Potato Is Cut Into Eight Pieces. It has been surmised that invent ors had reached the limit in the im- New Potato Kni'e. provement of household ipventions, but this does not s.oem to be the case. Inventors still arc on the lookout for some device that will prove a house hold necessity, as they realize it will command a ready market. As an example, an lowa man has patented a kuife for cu ting potatoes that does eight times the work of the ordinary knife. Instead of requiring* eight cuts to divide the potato into pieces it is all done at one operation. The illustration plainly show« the construction of the knife, no descrip tion being necessary. Six small blades and one center blade, attached to a handle, are all that is required. One stab at a potato divides it into eight pieces. In hotels, restaurants, etc., where thousands of potatoes are cut up each day, this knife would save considerable labor and time. New Pen Metal. An American patent has been grranted for making peqs of tantalum or its alloys. 1 piece, through which be sees the ocean and objects upon it exactly as his comrade does with his field glass on the deck of a battleship. "When it is necessary to examins the horizon in another than the for ward direction . . . the observer grasps two handles on the movable tube and turns it in the desired di rection. . . . The quality of the vision is pronounced excellent by the com manding officers of all our submarines. The images are sharp and clear, and may be compared with those of a good field glass." In case of rough water, the author goes onto say, the drops easily run from the inclined surface of the up per prism, and the latter may be cleared at any time by pulling it un- der water, and then pushing it up quickly. He goes on: "Thus the periscope is the eye of the submarine, without which it would be absolutely unusable. But this in dispensable organ i*» also the sole means by which the presence of the submarine is revealed. The tube, small though it be, leaves a wake be hind it, which is apt to attract the at tention of those who are watching for the attack. "This is an evil without a remedy, but its gravity need not be exag gerated. What can be done by a ship that discerns this slight object at short distance? To destroy it by gun fire would be difficult in so brief a i | LJ 1 Design of Periscope: 1, 1, Mirrors; 2-2, Tube; 3, Surface of Sea; 4, Ship on Horizon; 5, Its Image in Interior of Submarine. j time, and the destruction of the per | iscope would leave the submarine un harmed. . . . "Besides this, nothing is easier than to have a second periscope for use in : case the first is destroyed; and this has actually been done in our latest I submarines. "We may imagine the nervous strain ' of the officers and crews of a war ! ship who fear an attack of submarines, i All floating objects, the slightest debris, bottles, fishermen's buoys, will . be suspected of being periscopes, and | a hail of projectiles will be directed ! ->n the most inoffensive objects, while the real enemy may pass unnoticed. . . . Probably the submarines will en courage these mistakes by scattering about them all sorts of floating ob jects, in the midst of which their periscopes will have a good chance of escaping notice." A LAMP OF SCIENCE. Important Use Discovered for the Mercury Vapoc Lamp. An important use has been found for the Cooper Hewitt mercury vapor lamp in scientific investigation. In optical experiments in the laboratory it is often important to liavo at com mand a monochromatic light. For merly the mercury arc light was em ployed for this purpose, but after be ing used for a short time, the effi ciency of this source of light seriously falls off. It has been found, however, says Youth's Companion, that the Cooper Hewitt lamp gives the same monochromatic light, with very fine rays, so that it is admirably suited for the study of interference phe nomena, and it possesses the great advantage of being steady arid trust worthy in its output. 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