6 P A FOOL u FOR LOVE By FRANCIS LYNDE Author of "The Orafters," Etc. L (Copyright, 1..05, by J. p. LlppincottCo.) CHAPTER V—Continued. Those who knew her best said it was a warning to be heeded in Miss Virginia Carteret when her eyes were downcast and her voice sank to its «uiiest cadence. "Why, certainly; how simple!" she said, taking her cousin's arm again; and the secretary went into set the wires at work in Winton's affair. Now Miss Carteret was a woman in every fiber of her, but among her gifts she might have counted some that were, to say the least, super-feminine. One of these was a measure of discre tion which would have been fairly creditable in a past master of diplo macy. So, while the sympathetic part of her was crying out for a chance to talk Winton's threatened danger over with eome one, she lent herself outwardly to the Reverend x>illy's mood —which was one of scenic enthusiasm; this without prejudice to a growing deter mination to intervene in behalf of fair play for Winton if she could find a :way. But the way obstinately refused to discover itself. The simple thing to do would be to appeal to her uncle s sense of justice. It was not like him to fight with ignoble weapons, she thought, and a tactful word in season might make him recall the order to the superintendent. But she could not make the appeal without betraying Jastrow. She knew well enough that the secretary had no right to show her the telegrams; knew also that Mr. Somerville Darrah's first word would be a demand to know how she had learned the company's business secrets. Regarding Jastrow as little as a high bred young woman to whom sentiment is as the breath of life can regard a man who is quite devoid of it, she was still far enough from the thought of effacing him. * To this expedient there was an un hopeful alternative: namely, the send ing, by the Reverend Billy, or, in the last resort, by herself, of a warning message to Winton. But there were obstacles seemingly insuperablj. She had not the faintest notion of how such a warning should be addressed; and again, the operator at Argentine was a Colorado & Grand River em ploye, doubtless loyal to his salt, in which case the warning message would never get beyond his waste basket. "Getting too chilly for you out here? —want togo in?" asked the Reverend Billy, when the scenic enthusiasm be gan to outwear itself. "No; but I am tired of the ser.try-go part of it—ten steps and a turn," she confessed. "Can't we walk on the track a little way?'' "We can trot down and have a look at their construction camp, if you like," he suggested, and thitherward they went. It was Virginia who first marked the boxed-up tent standing on the slope. "What do you suppose that little house-tent is for?" she asked. "I don't know," said Calvert. Then he saw the wires and ventured a guess which hit the mark. "I didn't suppose they would have a telegraph office," she commented, with hope rising again. "Oh, yes; they'd have to have a wire; one of their own. Under the circumstances they could hardly use ours." "No," she rejoined, absently. She •was scanning thj group of steel han dlers in the hope that a young man In a billy-cock fiat and with a cigar ette between his lips would shortly reveal himself. She found him after a time and turned quickly to her cousin. "There is Mr. Adams down there by the engine. Do you think he would come over and speak to us if he knew we were here?" The Reverend Billy's smile was of honest admiration. "How could you doubt it? Walt here a minute and I'll call him for you." He was gone before she could reply •—across the ice bridge spanning one of the pools, and up the rough, frozen embankment of the new line. There were armed guards here, too, as well as at the front, and one of them halted him at the picket line. But Adams saw and recognized him, and present ly the two were crossing to where Vir ginia stood waiting. ' Eheu! what a little world we live In, Miss Virginia! Who would have thought of meeting you here?" said the technologian, taking her hand at the precise elevation prescribed by good form—Boston good form. "The shock is mutual," she laughed. "I must say that you and Mr. Winton have chosen a highly unconventional •environment for your sketching field." "I'm down," he admitted, cheerfully; "please don't trample on me. But really, it wasn't all fib. Jack does do things with a pencil—other things be sides maps and working profiles, I mean. Won't you eome over and let ittj do the honors of the studio?" with a grandiloquent arm-sweep meant to Include the construction camp in gen eral and the "dinkey" caboose in par ticular. It was the invitation she would have angled for, but she was too wise to assent too readily. "Oh, no; I think we mustn't. I'm afraid Mr. Winton might not like it." "Not like it? If you'll come he'll never forgive himself for not being here to 'shoot up' the camp for you in person. He is away, you know; gone to Carbonate for the day." "Ought we togo, Cousin Billy?" she asked, shifting, not the decision, but the responsibility for it, to broader shoulders. "Why not, if you care to?" said the athlete, to whom right-of-way fights were mere matters of business in no wise conflicting with the social ameli orations. Virginia hesitated. There was a thing to be said to Mr. Adams, and that without delay; but how could she say it with her cousin standing by to make an impossible trio out of any attempted duet confidential? A will ingness to see that Winton had fair play need not carry with it an open desertion to the enemy. She must not forget to be loyal to her salt; and, besides, Mr. Somerville Darrah's right eous indignation was not lightly to be ignored. 13ut the upshot of the hesitant pause was a decision to brave the conse quences—all of them; so she took Calvert's arm for the slippery crossing of the ice bridge. Once on his own domain, Adams did the honors of the camp as thorough ly and conscientiously as if the hour held no care heavier than the enter tainment of Miss Virginia Carteret. "Oh, how comfortable!" she ex claimed, when he had shown her all the space-saving contrivances of the field office. "And this is where you and Mr. Winton work?" "It is where we eat and sleep," cor rected Adams. "And speaking of eat ing: it is hopelessly the wrong end of the day—or it would be in Boston— but our Chinaman won't know the dif ference. Let me have him make juu a dish of tea," and the order was given before she could protest. "CAN YOU SEND ALL THAT?" "While we are waiting on Ah Foo I'll show you some of Jack's sketches," he went on, finding a portfolio and opening it upon the drawing board. "Are you quite sure Mr. Winton won't mind?" she asked. "Mind? He'd give a month's pay to be here to show them himself. He is peacock vain of his one small accom plishment, Winton is—bores me to death with it sometimes." "Really?" was the mocking rejoin der, and they began to look at the sketches. They were heads, most of them, im pressionistic studies in pencil or pastel, with now and then a pen-and-ink bear ing evidence of more painstaking after-work. They were made on bits of map paper, the backs of old letters, and not a few on leaves torn from an engineer's note book. "They don't count for much in an artistic way," said Adams, with the brutal frankness of a friendly critic, "but they will serve to show you that I wasn't all kinds of an embroiderer when I was telling you about Winton's proclivities the other day." "I shouldn't apologize for that, if I were you," she retorted. 'lt is well past apoiogy, don't you think?" And then: "What is this one?" They had come to the last of the sketches, which was a rude map. It was penciled on the leaf of a memo randum, and Adams recognized it as the outline Winton had made and used in explaining the right-of-way entan glement. "It is a map," he said, "one that Jack drew day before yesterday when he was trying to make me understand the situation up here. I wonder why he kept it? Is there anything on the other side?" She turned the leaf, and they both went speechless for the moment. The reverse of the scrimp of cross-ruled pa per held a very fair likeness of a face which Virginia's mirror had oftcnest portrayed; a sketch setting forth in a few vigorous strokes of the pencil the impressionist's ideal of the "god dess fresh from tne bath." "By Jove." exclaimed Adams, when CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1906. ho could find the word for his sur prise. Then he tried to turn it off lightly. "There is a good bit more of the artist in Jack than I have been giving him credit for. Don't you know, he must have got the notion for that between two hall-seconds—when you recognized me on the platform at Kan sas City. It's wonderful!" "So very wonderful that I think I shall keep it," she rejoined, not with out a touch of austerity. Then she added: "Mr. Winton will probably never miss it. If he does, you will have to explain the best way you can." And Adams could only say "By Jove!" again, and busy himself with pouring the tea which Ah Foo had brought in. In the nature of things the tea l drinking in the stuffy "dinkey" draw ing-room was not prolonged. Time was flying. Virginia's errand of mercy was not yet accomplished, and Aunt i Martha in her capacity of anxious chaperon was not to be forgotten, j Also, Miss Carteret had a feeling that under his well-bred exterior Mr. Mor ! ton P. Adams was chafing like any I barbarian industry captain at this un | warrantable intrusion and Interrupt tion. So presently they all forthfared into the sun-bright, snow-blinding out-of door world, and Virginia gathered up 1 her courage and took her dilemma by the horns. "I believe I have seen everything I now except that tent-place up there," i she asserted, groping purposefully for her opening. Adams calred up another smile of acquiescence. "That is our telegraph office. Would you care to see it?" Tho I ♦.efihnologian was of those who shirk j all i>r shirk nothing. "I don't know why I should care to, but I do," she rejrfied, with charming and childlike willfulness; so the three of them trudged up the slippery path to the operator's den on the slope. Not to evade his hospitable duty in 3ny part, Adams explained the use and j need of a "front" wire, and Miss Car teret was properly interested. I "llow convenient!" she commented. "And you can come up here and talk to anybody you like —just as if it were a telephone?" "To anyone in the company s serv ice," amended Adams. "It is not a commercial wire." "Then let us send a message to Mr. Winton," she suggested, playing the part of the capricious ingenue to the very upcast of a pair of mischievous eyes. "I'll write it and you may sign it." Adams stretched his complaisence the necessary additional inch and gave her a pencil and a pad of blanks. She wrote rapidly: "Miss Carteret has boon here admiring your drawings. She took one of them away with her, and I couldn't stop her without being rude. You shouldn't have done it without asking her permission. Sho says—" "Oh, dear! I am making it awfully long. Does it cost so much a word?" "No," said Adama, not without an effort. He was beginning to be dis tinctly disappointeu in Miss Virginia, and was wondering in the inner depths 01 him what piece A girlish frivohcy he was expected to sign and send to his chief. Meanwhile she went on writing: "—I am to tell you not to get Into any Oesh trouble—not to let anyone elso get you into trouble; by which 1 infer she means that some attempt will be made to keep you from returning on the evening train." "There, can you send all that?" she asked, sweetly, giving the pad to the technologian. Adams read the first part of the let ter-length telegram with inward groan ings, but the generous purpose of it struck him like a whip blow when he came to the thinly veiled warning. Also it shamed him for his unworthy judgment of Virginia. "I thank you very ueartily, Miss Carteret," he said, humbly. "It shall be sent word for word." Then, for tae Reverend William's benefit: "Winton deserves all sorts of a snubbing for taking liberties with your portrait. I'll see that ho gets mors of it when ha comes back." (TO BE CONTINUED..! LEARNING WAR ART MANY ALIENS AT AMERICAN MIL ITARY SCHOOLS. Is Uncle Sam Training Soldiers for Nations With Which He May Some Day Be at War? While It is true that foreigners are admitted to West Point military acad emy as students only on application through official sources and by au thority of congress, it is true that a number of foreign countries have been invited by our government, to desig nate officers of infantry, cavalry and artillery to take the courses of in struction at the service schools at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, and these invitations have been accepted by Mexico and by several Central and South American states. In each instance of foreign cadets undergoing instruction at West Point and foreign officers receiving instruc tion at the infantry and cavalry school, Fort Leavenworth, and at the Ting Chia Chen, Chinese Cadet at West Point. cavalry and field artillery school, Fort Riley, this government pays none of the expenses. Otherwise the cadets and officers are on the same footing as our own. At the United States military acad emy at West Point there are four for eign cadets, A. R. Calvo, Costa Rico; Frutos Thomas Plaza, Ecuador; Ting Chia Chen and Ying Hsing Wen, China. Cadet Calvo is a member of the present second (junior) class, while the other young gentlemen are In the fourth (freshman) class, and it is interesting to know that the Chi nese are the first cadets ever received at West Point from that country. Lieut. Brugere, of the French army, son of the late generalissimo, it at pres ent at Fort Leavenworth, but the gov ernment of Mexico has been granted permission to send two infantry offi cers to the infantry and cavalry school and four officers of the cavalry and artillery to the school of application for cavalry and field artillery at Fort Riley. The two infantry officers are Lieut. Jor<a Landa, Fifteenth battal ion, and Lieut. Louis Manter, Twen tieth battalion. The others are Lieut. Felipe Neri, of the Eighth cavalry; Sub-Lieut. Alfonso Itainos, Fourteenth cavalry, and Lieuts. Rodol Casillas and Arturo Certucha, of the artillery. It is a singular fact that the United States naval academy at Anna|olis has graduated more Japanese than any other foreign cadets. Until the death, already mentioned, of Kinjiro Matsukata, there were two Japanese cadets there; the survivor is Cadet Asahi Kitagaki. The law providing for the admission of Japanese cadets was passed in 18C8, and it has been in effect repealed by the clause of the naval bill which provides that foreign cadets can be appointed only by act of congress hereafter. At the Culver summer naval school, on Lake Maxinkunkee, in Indiana, there are five foreign cadets, sent there and being educated at the ex pense of their respective go: arnments. They are Jesus Castro Ansedondo, Evanisto Madero and Paul T.ladero, of Mexico; Engel C. Hidalgo, of Ecuador, and Tinsan Tsang, of China, and the latter during the winter takes a spe cial course at the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, in 1 oston. International comity is the principal reason for the opening of our doors to the cadets and officers of other countries. The system is not peculiar to the United States, for all nations grant the same courtesy. At the great French school at St. Cyr and Sarmur many foreign officers take courses. At Sandhurst, the British military col lege, there are always foreign stu dents, especially Chinese and Japan ese. The biographieo of the men who led the Japanese armies to victory over the Russians show that most of them received a part of their training in foreign schools. The sending of fore'gn officers to our schools is merely a matter of in ternational courtesy, and we are mere ly returning, in the case of France, a compliment that has at various times \ieen paid to us by that country. In the case of the South American coun tries we are simply extending to them what other countries extend to them. Rulers of nations and their minis ters feel that this intercourse with foreigners is good for their own offi cers and cadets and that such courte sies tend in the long run toward amity and, consequently, toward peace. FROM GIRLHOOD TO WOMANHOOD! Mothers Should Watch the Development of Their Daughters— 1 Interesting Experiences of Misses Borman and Mills. 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