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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.
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"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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