6 ■—:———_— t |b| A FOOL ta* < FOR LOVE I i By FRANCIS LYNDE I , J Author of"The Grafters." Etc. L (Coprriicbt, IDOS, br J. J*.LlpplnoottCo.t ' CHAPTER Vlll.—Continued. , But Mr. Darrah cfiatted on, affably 1 *on-committal, and after a time Win ioti began to upbraid himself for sus- ' greeting the ulterior motive. By no word or hint did the vice president ' refer to the struggle pendent between the two companies or to the warlike 1 fncident of the morning. And when 1 fte finally rose to excuse himself on a : better-writing plea, his leave-taking ' was that of the genial host reluctant ' io part company with his guest. 1 "I've enjoyed your conve'sation, seh; enjoyed it right much. Most Sappy to have had the pleasure of 1 four company, Misteh Winton. May I aope you will faveh us often while 1 we are neighbors?" Winton rose, made the proper ac knowledgments, and would have 1 rrossed the compartment to make his 1 idleux to Mrs. Carteret. But at that 1 moment Virginia, taking advantage of 1 Adams' handshaking with the Rajah, came between. "You re not going yet, are you, Mr. : IVinton? Don't hurry. If you are .lying to smoke a pipe, as Mr. Adams says you are, we can go out on the platform. It isn't too cold, is it?" Not the words themselves, but ner manner of saying them, warmed him 1 •»o suddenly that an Arctic winter's aight would not have been prohib itory. "It Is clear and frosty, a beautiful night," he hastened to say. "May I ftelp you with your coat?" She suffered him, but in the height :if the heart-warming glow gave him x cold douche in a word to Bessie. "Won't you come, too, Bessie, dear?" -sbe asked; and Winton set the whole (battery of his will at work to fend jff the threatened calamity. Happily, it averted itself. Miss Bes *sie was quite comfortable as she was and begged to oe excused. Mrs. Car steret in her capacity of chaperon looked askance at Virginia, was met by a glance of the resolute brown eyes which she had come to obey without fully understanding, and contented herself a monitory: "Don't stay out too long, Virginia. It is dreadful ly cold." So presently Winton had his heart's ■desire, which teas to be alone with Virginia; alone, we say, though the privacy of the square railed platform was that of the ear' only. For the gathering-room of the Rosemary, with its lights ano eyes, gave directly upon the rear plolform through the two full-length windows and the glass door. Now In whatsoever aspect the moun tain skylaud presents itself—and its aspects am numberless —that of a starlit whiter night, when the heaven lights burn clear in a black dome for •which the mighty peaks themselves •are the visible supports," is not the least impressive. So, for a little time, awe challenging awe in these two had mu<rh in common, tongue and lip were silent, and when they spoke It.was of the immensities. "Does your profession often open such wide doors to you, Mr. Winton?" It gave him an exquisite thrill to (know that her mood marched so even ly with his own. ' "Outside of the office work, which 1 have always evaded when I could, •the doors are all pretty wide. One year I was on the Mexican boundary 'Purvey—you can picture those silent nights in the desert. Another time 1 was with the Ceodetic on the coast; ®in»;n that winter the booming of the vsnrf lias been the constant undertone for me in all music." , "Ah, yes, in music. You must love music if you can associate it with this." 1"I do, Indeed. I would build it the grandest of the temples, though I should be only a mute lay-worshiper in it myself." She smiled. "That temple must al ways have two high priests, one who prophesies and one who interprets. I -can't play without a sympathetic lis tener." ;■ "I wish you might play for me Jsometime. You would have to be very exacting if you could find fault with *ny appreciation." "Would I? But we are riding away on my hobby after we had fairly mounted yours." He laughed. "Mine is only a heavy tart-horse, not fit for riding," he said. ) "You shouldn't say that. It is a man's work —yours." And he made •rtisre there was a note of regret Iu her voice when she added; "No woman van ever share it with you, or help you in it." "I should be sorry to believe that," he rejoined, quickly. "The best part <of any man's work may be shared by the woman who wills—and dares." She save him a flitting glance of .'lntelligence. "How chance whips us r.tbout froift post to pillar. Two even ting;} ago i was foolish enough to wel), you know what I did. And now we have changed places and you are telling me what a woman may do —if whe dare." But lie would not admit the prem ises. "If the one were foolish, so is tho other. Hut I can't allow that to aland, I shall always bo the better for what you said to me the other evening;." "I don't know why you should; you didn't need It in the least," she pro tested. "If I had known then what I know now, I should have said some thing quite different." "Say it now, if you wish." "May I? But I have no right. Be sides, it would souud like the basest of recantations." "Would it? Nevertheless, I should like to hear it." She nerved herself for the plunge— her uncle's plunge—doubting more than ever. "Your part in the building of this other railroad is purely a business af fair, is it not?" "My personal interest? Quite so; a mere matter of dollars and cents, you may say." She went on, entirely missing the irony in his reply. "You did not know the difficulties before you came here?" "Only in a general way. I knew there was opposition, and—well, I'm not just a novice in this sort of thing, and if I may be allowed to boast a little, I knew my appointment was owing to Mr. Callowell's belief in my ability to carry it through." "You are not smoking," she said. "Haven't you your pipe?" She was finding it desperately hard togo on. "If you don't mind," he returned; but when he had pipe and tobacco in hand she plunged again. "You say your interest in this other railroad —your personal interest —is only that of—of an employe. If you should have another offer, from some other company—" He smiled. "Put yourself in my place, Miss Virginia. What would you do?" She tried to think it out, and in the process the doubt grew and over whelmed her. "I —I don't know," she faltered. "If, as you say, it is only a question of so much money to be earned—" HE OPENED THE DOOR FOR HER. He started as if she struck him with a whip. "That is not your argument; it is Mr. Darrah's." Then his voice took a deeper tone that thrilled her till she wanted to cry out. "Don't say you want me to give up; please don't say that. I think I have been putting you on a pedestal these last two days. Miss Carteret. You know well enough what is involved —honor, integrity, good faith, everything a man values, or should value. I was only jesting when I spoke of the day-pay; that is nothing. I can't believe you would ask such a sacrifice of me —of any man." The brown eyes met his fairly, and it was not Mr. Somerville Darrah's confederate who said: "Indeed, I do not ask it, Mr. Winton. I see' now how impossible it would be for you to —" she stopped short, and leaving the sentence in the air, began again. "But it is only fair that you should have your warning, and I'm going to give it to you. My uncle will leavs no stone unturned to defeat you." He was still looking into her eyes, and so had courage to say what came uppermost. "I don't care. I shall fight him as hard as I can, but I shall always be his debtor for this evening. Do you understand?" She brolce the eye-hold and turned away quickly. "You must not come again," she said. "Biit I shall—as often as I may. And as to the railway tussle, Mr. Darrah may take it out of me as he pleases from sunrise to sunset, if ho will only invite me here to dinner now and then." In a flash her mood changed and she laughed lightly. "Who would think if of you, Mr. Winton! Of all men I should have said you were the last to care so ! much for the social diversions. Shall we go in?" | "If we must; but not until I have j thanked you for your timely bint of | yesterday morning. It saved me no I end of trouble," "The telegram? Mr. Adacua aent CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 1906. that. Anil bMlde3, it was meant to bq a scolding." "I have no doubt Adams sent thfl wire, but he didn't write it. Or, if he did, he also wrote our invitation to dinner. They are in the same hand, you know." She laughed again. "I think it ia quite time we were going in." she averred, and he opened the door for her. If Mr. John Winton, O. E. t stood in need of a moral tonic, as Adams had so delicately intimated to Miss Bessie Carteret, it was administered in quantity sufficient before he slept on the night of dinner-givings. For a clear-eyed Technologian, fre« from all heart-trammelings and able to grasp the unsentimental fact, the enemy's new plan of campaign wrote itself quite legibly. With his pick and choice among the time-killing ex pedients the Rajah could scarcely have found one more to his purpose than the private car Rosemary, in cluding in its passenger list a Mis# Virginia Carteret. There would be more dinners and social diversions; other procrastinations like this of neglecting to look after the consign ment of steel —which, by the by, waa not yet to be seen or even definitely heard from; and in the end, defeat. All of which Adams, substituting friendly frankness for the disciplinary traditions of the service, set forth in good Bostonian English for the benefit and behoof of his chief, and was an swered according to his deeerts with scoffings and deridings. "I wasn't born yesterday, Morty, and I'm not so desperately asinine as you seem to think," was the besotted one's summing up. "I know the Rajah doesn't split hairs in a busi ness fight, but he is hardly unscrupu lous enough to use Miss Carteret a3 a cat's-paw." But Adams would not be scoffed aside. "You're off in your estimate of Mr. Darrah, Jack, 'way off. I know the tradition—that a southern gentleman is all chivalry when it comes to a matter touching his womankind, and I don't controvert it as a general proposition. But the Rajah has benn a fighting western railroad magnate so long that his accent is about tl'e only southern asset he has retained. If I'm any good at guessing, he wUI stick at nothing to gain his end." Winton admitted the impeachment without prejudice to his own point cl view. "Perhaps you are right. But fore warned is forearmed. And Miss Vir ginia is not going to lend herself to any such nefarious scheme." "Not consciously, perhaps; but you don't know her yet. If she saw n good chance to take the conceit out ol you, she'd improve it —without think ing overmuch of the possible confe quence3 to the Utah company." "Pshaw!" said Winton. "That la another of your literary inferences. I've met her only twice, yet I von. ture to say I know her better thin you do. If she cared anything for fat —which she doesn't —" "Oh, goto sleep!" said Adams, wbo was not minded to argue further with 1 man besotted; and so the mutt si went by default for the time. It was very deftly done, and cvon \dams, the clear-eyed, could not helj admiring the Rajah's skillful finesse. Of formal dinner-givings there mig'it easily have been an end, since tlis I construction camp had nothing to offer in return. But the formalities were studiously ignored, and the two young men were put upon a footing of intimacy and encouraged to coiai and go as they pleased. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Tributes to the Departed. Corn and bread are still offered Df I the pious Basques of the Pyrenees ic j the dear departed on their death an | niversary. A traveler in Spain d«> ! scribes how, at San Sebastian, he nss j often seen some poor fisherman 5 daughter praying in a church for « 1 dead relative "amid baskets full «-i I fruit, loaves of bread and corn, e.a< ; kneeling upon the tomb of her Mr | ceatora." NEW SYSTEM Of Spelling Is Given Dose of Knockout Drops. BY CONGRESSMEN. The President Agreed to Cease Ef- ! forts in Its Behalf If the House Voted Against Its Use. Washington, D. C. Simplified spelling received a final quietus in the house Thursday. The subject has been under discussion in the house and in committee ever since the con vening of this session of congress, but it was brought to a sudden termina tion by the unanimous adoption of a resolution favoring a return to the old standard of orthography, just before the house adjourned Thursday. President Roosevelt will withdraw his simplified spelling order to the public printer and hereafter all docu ments from the executive depart ments will again be printed in the old fashioned style. Representative Landis, of the joint committee on spelling, had a confer ence Thursday with the president, when the president said he did not wish to have spelling overshadow matters of great importance and ex pressed a willingness to revoke his order for the new spelling in case the house of representatives should goon record as opposed to the system. THEY DIED TOGETHER. An ex-Priest and a Woman are Found I Dead, Having Been Asphyxiated by Gas. New York.—Rev. C. S. Qulnn, formerly pastor of St. Agnes church at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., and a young woman thought to be Miss B. Kiley, also of Atlantic High lands, were found dead in a room in a boarding house here Thursday. The room was tilled with gas which had escaped from a partially open jet. The couple had been there since Wednes day. In one of the satchels taken to the room by the man and woman the coro ner found some pieces of silverware. One of the spoons bore the name "O'Farrell." Atlantic Highlands, N. J.—Father | C. S. Quinn, who in company I with a woman was found dead in a I New York boarding house, was form erly assistant pastor of St. Agnes' Roman Catholic church in this place. He was dismissed from his charge about three weeks ago by Bishop Mc- Frul, of Trenton. As soon as he was notified of his dismissal the priest left here and did not return. The house keeper at the rectory left town about a week ago. Father Quinn came here June. His former place of resi dence is not known. , There had been much scandal here concerning Father Quinn and the name of the housekeeper was involv ; ed. Scandals of a financial nature also were in circulation concerning ! the priest. A CLEVER PLEA. Attorneys for Alleged Rebaters Claim that the Elkins Law Is Repealed by the Hepburn S.tatute. Minneapolis, Minn. —Arguments on 1 the demurrers interposed by the | railways and grain firms charged by , indictment with giving and receiving ' rebates were begun Thursday before Judges William Lochren and Page j Morris, of the United States circuit 1 court. Counsel for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and the Great Northern railways and for the Ames- Brooks and the McCaull-Dinsmore ele vator companies and the Duluth Mill ing Co. contended that the Hepburn bill had repealed the provisions of the J Elkins act under which the indict ments had been found and that the I peculiar phraseology of the new law was a complete bar to the present ac j tion, even though the offenses had been committed as alleged. Wreck Is Fatal to Three. Mentor, O.—ln a collision near | here Thursday night, between a west bound passenger train 011 the Nickel j Plate railroad and a freight two men were killed and another fatally in- I Jured. Ten passengers were injured. I none fatally. The dead: Edward Millert, Conneaut, engineer of freight j train; Arthur J. Foos, brakeman on 1 passenger train. The fireman on the | freight engine was fatally hurt. Congress. Washington.—ln the senate on the | 13th Senator Dubois, of Idaho, made ■ ! a speech against the continuance of I Reed Snioot as senator from Utah. The house spent the day in consider ation of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. Emperor William Dissolves Reichstag. Berlin. Emperor William dis tolved the reichstag on Thursday and ordered new elections in conse quence of the government's defeat on the bill authorizing an adequate num ber of *roops to ei.d the insurrection in German Southwest Africa. More Pay for Railway Empioyes. Scranton, Pa. Superintendent Clark, of the Delaware, Lack awanna & Western railroad, has an nounced a 10 per cent, increase in the wages of ail employes in the transpor tation department of the company. | Balcom & Lloyd. | ftj WE have the best stocked jf general store in the county B P and if yon are looking for re- [l |j liable goods at reasonable | fij prices, we are ready to serve ui j|i yon with the best to be found. J pi Our reputation for trust- tt| § worthy goods and fair dealing -j; ,p is too well known to sell any P J but high grade goods. k| | Our stock of Queensware and ■*; Chinaware is selected with jB % great care and we have soma P of the most handsome dishes jgj ever shown in this section, ic H both in imported and domestic J 3 p makes. We invite you to visit j| | us and look our goods over. | === _ === j | Balcom & Lloyd, j LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET IJ THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT S n LaBAR SI § N M n _JZIZIZZZIII M i| We carry in stock r— —" - » H j Eag the largest line of Car- -, , N pets, Linoleums and %d £2 Mattings of all kinds . /jl II ever brought to this town. Also a big line «FIS of samples. |M| ; I A very large line ot - FOR THE f£S*§ Lace Curtains that cau- - £5 " COMFORTABLE LOWING »« II fti Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library 11 Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- M M kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. (F-( £3 est to the best. Furnished with bevel French M plats or leaded glass doors. 14 N Dining Chairs, I ,on "LI O» M | || Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, tfc: M High Chairs. Sole Agent for Cameron County. A large and elegant I line of Tufted and H Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. ** £* N 1 S3O Bedroom Suits, tf OP S4O Sideboard, quar- CDfl fed solid oak at tered cak » S2B Bedroom Suits, Ol |32 Sideboard, quar- COC ffj s>s solid oak at <s£] tered oak Jt£Q "5 $2.1 Bed room Suits, ffOfl $22 Sideboard, quar- <TJC N solid oak at «pZU I tered oak, 4)10 H A large line of Dressers from | Chiffoniers of all kinds and M $8 up. all prices. U >1 i j The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, (kg II the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRILGE.' All drop- Eg ?2 heads and warranted. £2 A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in 5f 2 sets and by the piece. As I keep a full line of everything that goes to S3 make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enum- fetf M erate them all. Please call and see for yourself that lam telling M H A you the truth, and if you don t buy, there is no harm M K done, as it is no trouble to show goods. « GEO. J .LaBAR. »
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