7b| A FOOL Idf FOR LOVE \ By FRANCIS LYNDE J Author of"The Grafters." Etc. L (Copyright, laos, by J. r. LlpplncoitCoJ CHAPTER Vl.—Continued. "Not such a bad day, considering the newness of us and the bridge at the head of the gulch," he said, half to himself. And then more pointedly to the foreman: "Bridgebuilders to the front at the first crack of dawn, Mike. Why wasn't this break filled in the grading?" "Sure, sorr, 'tis a dhrain It is," said the Irishman; "from the placer up s>eyant," he added, pointing to a washed-out excoriation on the steep upper slope of the mountain. 'Major Evarts did be tellin' us we'd have the lawyers afther us hot-fut again if we Uidn't be la via' ut open the full tridth." "Mmph," said Adams, looking the ground over with a critical eye. "us nt bad bit. It wouldn't take much to fcring that whole slide down on us if St wasn't frozen solid. Who owns the placer?" "Two fellies over in Carbonate. The company did be thryin' to buy the ■claiip, but the sharps wouldn't sell— bein' put up to hold ut by thim C. & G. R. divils. It's more throuble we'll he havln' here, I'm thinking." While they lingered a shrill whistle ■echoing among the cliffs of the upper gorge like an eldritch laugh announced the coming of a train from the direc tion of Carbonate. Adams looked at •'his watch. "I'd like to know what that is," he mused. "It's two hours too soon for the accommodation. By Jove!" The exclamation directed itself at a one-car train which came thundering down the canyon to pull in on the siding beyond the Rosemary. The car ■was a passenger coach, well lighted, •and from his post on the embankment Adams could see armed men tilling the windows. Michael Branagan saw them, too, and the fighting Celt in -fiim rose to the occasion. " 'Tis Donnybrook Fair we've co"~ie •to this time, Misther Adams. Shall I call up the b'ys wid their guns?" "Not yet. Let's wait and see what Jbappens." What happened was a peaceful sortie. Two men, each with a kit of «ome kind borne in a sack, dropped from the car, crossed the creek and struggled up the hill through the un bridged gap. Adams waited until they were fairly or. the right of way, then .he called down to them. "Halt, there! you two. This is cor poration property." ""Not much it ain't! retorted one of the trespassers, gruffly. "It's the *lrain-way fropi our placer up yonder." "What are you going to do up there :at this time of night?" "None o' your blame business!" was She explosive counter-shot. "Perhaps it isn't," said Adams, mild ly. "Just the same, I'm thirsting to know. Call it vulgar curiosity if you like." "'All right, you can know, and be urnssed to you. We're goin' to work our claim. Got anything to say pgainst it?" "Oh, no," rejoined Adams; and when the twain had disappeared in the up per darkness he went down the grade with Branagan and took his place on the man-loaded flats for the run to the construction camp, thinking more of the lately arrived car with its com plement of armed men than of the (two miners who had calmly announced (their intention of working a placer claim on a high mountain, without water, and in the dead of winter! By which it will be seen that Mr. Morton !P. Adams, C. E. Inst Tech. Boston, !had something yet to learn in the (matter of practical field work. By the time Ah Foo h>ul served him Jhls solitary supper in ihe dinkey he ihad quite forgotten the incident of the mysterious placer miners. Worse .than that, it had never occurred to %lm to connect their movements with the Rajah's plan of campaign. On the •other hand, he was thinking altogeth er of the carload o. armed men, and •trying to devise some means of finding out how they were to be employed in furthering the Rajah's designs. The means suggested themselves «fter supper, and he went alone over ito Argentine to spend a half-hour in 'the bar of the dance hall listening to *the gossip of the place. When he had Beamed what he wanted to know, he (forthfared to meet Winton at the in coming train. "We are in for it now," he said, •when they had crossed the creek to *he dinkey and the Chlnan:an was 'bringing Winton's belated supper. "The Rajah has imported a carload fit armed mercenaries, and he is going <ta tlean us all out to-morrow; arrest everybody from the gang foreman up." Winton's eyebrows lifted. "So? that is a pretty large contract. Has he m*sn enough to do it?" "Not so many men. But they are «worn-in deputies with the sheriff of (Ute county in command —a posse, in fact. So he has the law on his side." "Which is more than hp had when 4ie set a thug on me this afternoon at •Carbonate," said Winton, sourly; and (bo told Adams about the misunder standing in the lobby of the Bucking ham. The technologian whistled under his fersath. "By Jove! that's pretty rough. Do yon suppose the Rajah dictated any such Lucretia Borgia thing as that?" "I did think so at first, but I guess it was only the misguided zeal of some understrapper. Of course, word has gone out all along the C. & G. R. line that we are to be delayed by every possible expedient." But now Adams had also taken time to think, and he shook his head. "For common humanity's sake I wish I could agree with you, - Jack. But I can't. Mr. Darrali dictated that move in his own proper person." "How do you know that?" Adams' answer took the form of a leading question. "You had a mes sage from me this afternoon?" "I did." "What did you think of it?" "I thought you might have left out the first part of it; also that you might have made the latter half a good bit more explicit if you had put your mind to it." A slow smile spread itself over the technologlan's Impassive face, and he lighted another cigarette. "Every man has nis limitations," he said. "I did the best I could under the existing circumstances. But you will understand: the Rajah knew very well what he was -about —otherwise there would have been no telegram." Winton sent the Chinaman out for another cup of tea before he said: "Did Miss Carteret come here alone?" "Oh, no; Calvert came with her." "What brought them here?" Adams spread his hands. "What makes any woman do pre cisely the most unexpected thing? You'll have togo back of me—say to Confucius or beyond—to find that out." Winton was silent for a moment, balancing his spoon on the tip of his finger. Finally he said: "I hope you did what you could to make it pleas ant for her —not that there was much to be in such a God-forsaken chaos as a construction camp." "I did. And I didn't hear her com plain of the chaos. She seemed as in terested as a school girl—particularly in your sketches." Winton flushed under the bronze. _____ "IT S JUST ABOUT AS I EXPECTED." "I suppose I don't seed to ask which one." Adams' grin was a measure of his complacence. He was coming off easier than he had anticipated. "Well, hardly." "She took it away with her?" "Took it, or tore it up, I forget which.' Winton's look was that of a man distressed. "Tell me, Morty, was she very an gry?" The technologian took the last hint of laughter out of his eyes before he said solemnly: "You'll never know how thankful I was that you were 20 miles away." Winton's cup was full, and he turned the talk abruptly to the industrial do ings and accomplishments of the day. Adams made a verbal report which led him by successive steps up to the twilight hour when he had stood with Branagan on the brink of the placer drain, but, strangely enough, there wa3 no stirring of memory to recall the in cident of the upward climbing miners. When Winton rose he said some thing about mounting a night guard on the engine, which was kept under steam at all hours; and shortly after wards he left the dinkey ostensibly to do it, declining Adams' offer of company. But once out-of-doors l.e climbed straight to the operator's tent on the snow-covered slope. Carter had turned in, but he sat up in his bunk at the noise of the intrusion, blinking sleepily at the flare of Win ton's match. "That you, Mr. Winton? Want to send something?" he asked. "No; 50 to sleep. I'll write a wire and leave H for you to send in the morning." He sat down at the packing-case in strument table and wrote out a brief report of the day's progress in track laying for the general manager's rec ord. But when Carter's regular breath ing told him he was alone he pushed the pa<l iuside, took down the sending book and seai.-.iied until he had found the original coj.;- of the which had reached him at the moment CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1906. of cataclysms In the lobby of the Buckingham. "Um, he said, and his heart grew warm within him. "It's just about as I expected; Morty didn't have any thing whatever to do with it—except to sign and send it as she commanded him to." And the penciled sheet was folded carefully and 11 led in perma nence in the inner breast pocket of his brown duck shooting coat. The moon was rising behind the eastern mountain when he extin guished the candle and went out. ue low lay the chaotic construction camp buried in silence and in darkness save for the lighted windows of the dinkey. He was not quite ready togo back to Adams, and after making a round of the camp and bidding the engine watchman keep a sharp lookout against a possible night surprise, he set out to walk over the newly laid track of the day. Another half-hour had elapsed, and a waning moon was clearing the top most crags of Pacific Peak when he came out on the high embankment op posite the Rosemary. The station with its two one-car trains, and the shacks of the little mining camp beyond, lay shimmering ghost-like In the new-born light of the moon. The engine of the sheriff's car was humming softly with a note like the distant swarming of bees, and from the dance hall in Argentine the snort of trombone and the tinkling clang of a cracked piano floated out upon the frosty night air. Winton turned togo back The windows of the Rosemary were all dark, and there was nothing to stay for. So he thought, at all events; but it he had not been musing abstracted ly upon things widely separated from his present surroundings, he might have remarked two tiny stars of lan tern light high on the placer ground above the embankment; or, failing the sight, he might have heard the dull, measured slumph of a churn-drill burrowing deep in the frozen earth of the slope. As it was, a pair of brown eyes blinded him, and the tones of a voice sweeter than the songs of Oberon's sea maid i'illed his ears. Whereioro he neither saw nor heard; and taking the short cut across the mouth of the lateral gulch back to camp, he boarded the dinkey and went to bad without disturbing Adams. The morning of the day to come broke clear and still, with the stars paling one by one at the pointing fin ger of the dawn, and the frost-rime lying thick and white like a snowfall of erect and glittering needles on iron and steel and wood. Obedient to orders, the bridge build ers were getting out their hand car at the construction camp, the wheels shrilling merrily on the frosted rails, and the men stamping and swinging their arms to start the sluggish night blood. Suddenly, like the opening gun of a battle, the dull rumble of a mighty explosion trembled upon the still air, followed instantly by a sound of a passing avalanche. Winton was out and running up the track before the camp was fairly aroused. What he saw when he gained the hither side of the lateral gulch was a 'sight to make a strong man weep. A huge landslide, starting from the frozen placer ground high up on the western promontory, had swept every vestige of track and em bantwiient into the deep bed of the creek at a point precisely opposite Mr. Somerville Darrah's private car. CHAPTER VII. An rarly riser by choice, and mad« an earlier this morning by a vague anxiety which had turned the night into a half-waking vign for her, Vir ginia was up and dressed when the sullen shock of the explosion set the windows jarring in the Rosemary. Wondering what dreadful thing had happened, she hurried out upon tho observation platform and so cams to look upon the ruin wrought by the landslide, while the dust-like smoke o2 the dynamite still hung in tho air. "Rather unlucky for our friends the enemy," said a colorless voice behind her; and she had an uncomfortable feeling that Jastrow had befcn lying in wait for her, seconded instantly by the conviction that he had done the same thing the previous morning. CTO BK CONTJLXIIEDJ PORTOJIICO Extends Cordial Greeting to the President. LANDtD AT PONCE. He Goes to San Juan in an Automo obile —Was Showered with Flowers by Children. Ponce, Porto Rico. President I Roosevelt arrived here Wednes day morning front Colon on board the battleship Louisiana. He was visited on board the vessel by Gov. Winthrop, wlio extended a welcome to the island. The president came ashore and was greeted at the pier by Mayor Oppen heimer, of Ponce, and a delegation of prominent officials and citizens. The town, which was profusely decorated in the president's honor, was crowded with people from the surrounding country eager to greet Mr. Roosevelt. In spite of the early hour the land ing place was crowded with an ex pectant throng, many of whom had been in their places all night, to wit ness the incoming of the Louisiana. As the president stepped ashore the crowd cheered him, crying: "Viva El Presidente." When the greetings were over the president, accompanied by Gov. Win throp, was driven to the city hall. Mrs. Winthrop and Mrs. Roosevelt follow ing. The president was kept busy ac knowledging cheers all along the two mile line of march from tlw landing place to the principal plaza of the town. At the entrance to the plaza a huge arch had been erected, from little girls threw flowers to President and Mrs. Roosevelt as they passed. Ponce was in gala attire, the Ameri can colors being interspersed with Spanish flags. At the city hall an address of wel come was read to the president. He delivered his reply from the balcony of the building, addressing the largest crowd that had ever assembled in Ponce. The presidential party left Ponce at 10:30 for the run to San Juan over the famous military road. Eleven automo biles conveyed the party. Stops of three minutes each were made at Juana Diaz, Coamo and Aibo nito. At each place the president waa welcomed by the mayor and spoke briefly. Arriving at the original entrance tc the city of San Juan, where formerly stood the old city hall and gate, a huge arch had been erected by the city and here Mayor Todd and the city officials extended their welcome to the presl dent. He responded in a brief speech and was then escorted by the Porto Rican provisional regiment to the governor's palace. The city was elaborately dec orated, every American flag available being used to the best advantage. The president in all his speeches dwelt on the affection he held for the people of Porto Rico and assured them that he would use every effort to se cure citieznship for them—that his ef forts would be unceasing to help them along the path of true self-govern ment. MR. HILL CUTS A MELON. Great Northern Railway Stockholders Are Given a Stock Dividend as a Result of an Ore Land Deal. New York.—Details of the long looked for dividend to Great Northern Railway Co.stockholders, re sulting from the leasing of its ore lands to the United States Steel Cor poration were disclosed Wednesday in a circular issued at the G.eat North ern offices. For every share of Great Northern stock, holders will receive a share of stock of the Lake Superior Co., lim ited, an unincorporated company, in whose nama the ore lands have been held. The Lake Superior Co., however, is to transfer the ore properties to the Messrs. Louis W., James N. and Wal ter J. Hill, sons of J. J. Hill, who will act as trustees of the stock for the shareholders of the Great Northern Co. "The beneficial interest" will con sist of 1,500,000 shares, which equals the amount of Great Northern shares. Thus the distribution will be on a share for share basis. The net profits derived from the ore properties will be distributed at least once annually by the trustees. Some idea of the value of the dividend which Great Northern stockholders will re ceive may be had from the fact that the United States Steel Corporation is to pay the beneficiary 85 cents per ton for all ore mined in the first year, beginning 1907, with an increase of 3 4-10 cents per ton a year for an in definite period. The ore lands are be lieved to contain not less than 500,000,- 000 tons of iron. Bank Teller Arrested—s3l,6oo Shy. Cincinnati, O. —B. Cavan, receiv ing teller of the First national bank, was arrested last night by Uni ted States Marshal Lewis. It is alleged that he is short $.'51,600 in his ac counts. He is said to have admitted his guilt. —, Dozens Poisoned at a Wedding Feast. Springfield, Mass.—One man is dead here and 60 persons ara dangerously ill as the result of sup posed ptomaine poisoning at the wed ding of Miss Anna Slavin and Samuel B. Brooslin, a shoe dealer. 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