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FOR. LOVE |
By FRANCIS LYNDE
J Author of "Tha Grafters," Etc, II
(Copyright, 1J0&, br J. P Irpplncolt Co)
t CHAPTER IX.—Continued.
But in the days that followed, days
In which the sun rose and set in
cloudless' winter splendor and the
heavy snows still held aloof, Adams'
prediction wrought itself out into
sober fact. After the single appeal to
force, Mr. Darrah seemed to have
given up the fight. None the less, the
departure of the Rosemary was de
layed, and its hospitable door was al
ways open to the Utah chief of con
struction and his assistant.
Winton took his welcome broadly,
as what lover would not; and within
a week was spending most of his
evenings in the Rosemary—this at a
time when every waking moment of
the day and niglrt was deeply mort
gaged to the chance of success. For
now that, the Rajah had withdrawn
his opposition, nature and tbe per
versity of inanimate things had taken
a hand, and for a fortnight the work
of track-laying paused fairly within
sight of the station at Argentine.
First it was a carload of steel ac
cidentally derailed and dumped into
Quartz creek at precisely the worst
possible point in the lower canyon, a
jagged, rock-ribbed, cliff-bound gorge
where each separate piece of metal
had to be hoisted out singly by a der
rick erected for the purpose—a process
which effectually blocked the track
for three entire days. Next it wa3 an
other landslide (unhelped by dyna
mite, this) just above the station, a
trawling cataract of loose, sliding
Bhale which, painstakingly dug out
and dammed with plaak bulkhead dur
ing the day, would pour down and
bury bulkhead, buttresses, and the
very right of way in the night.
In his right mind —the mind of an
ambitious young captain of industry
who sees defeat with dishonor staring
him in the face —Winton would have
fought all the more desperately for
these hindrances. But, unfortunate
ly, he was no longer an industry cap
tain with an eye single to success,
lie was become that anomaly despised
of the working world —a man in love.
"It's no use shutting our eyes to
the fact. Jack," said Adams one even
ing when his chief was making rrady
for his regular descent upon the Rose
mary. "We shall have to put night
shifts at work on that shale-slide if
we hope ever to get past it with the
rails."
"Hang the shale!" was the impa
tient rejoinder. "I'm no galley slave."
Adams' slow smile came and went
in cynical ripplings.
"It is pretty difficult to say precise
ly what you are just now. But I can
prophesy what you are going to be
if you don't wake up and come alive."
Having no reply to this, Adams
went back to the matter of night
f:ifts.
"If you will authorize it, I'll put a
night gang on and boss it myself.
What do you say?"
"I say you are no end of a good
fellow, Morty. And that's the plain
fact. I'll do as much for you some
iime."
"I'll he smashed if you will —you'll
never get the chance. When I let a
pretty girl make a fool of me—"
But the door of the dinkey slammed
behind the outgoing one, and the
prophet of evil was left to organize
his night assault on the shale-slide,
and to command it as best he could.
So, as we say, the days of stubborn
toil with the enthusiasm taken out,
slipped away unfruitful. Of the en
tire Utah force Adams alone held him
self tip to the mark, and being only
second in command, he was unable to
keep the bad example of the chief
from working like a leaven of inert
ness among the men. Branagan
voiced the situation in rich brogue
one evening when Adams had ex
hausted his limited vocabulary of
abuse on the force for its apathy.
" 'Tis no use, ava, Misther Adams. If
you was the boss himself 'twould be
you as would put the comether on
thim too quick. But it's 'like masther,
like mon.' The b'ys all know that
Misther Winton don't care a damn;
and they'll not be hurtin' thimselves
wid the wurrk."
And the Rajah? Between his times
of smoking high-priced cigars with
Winton in the lounging-room of the
Rosemary, he was swearing Jubilates
in the privacy of his working-den
stateroom, having tri-daily weather
reports wired. to him by way of Car
bonate and Argentine station, and
busying himself in the intervals with
sending and receiving sundry mysteri
ous telegrams in cipher.
Thus Mr. Somerville Darrah, all
going well for him until one fateful
morning when he made the mistake
of congratulating his "ally. Then—
but we picture the scene: Mr. Dar
rah late to his breakfast, being just
in from an early morning reconnais
sance of the enemy's advancings; Vir
ginia sitting opposite to pour his cof
fee. Ah the others vanished to some ;
limbo of their own.
The Rajah rubbed nis hands de
lightedly.
"We are coming oa famously, fa
mously, my deah Virginia. Two j
weeks gone, heavy snows predicted '
tor ths mounUin region, and nothing.'
practically nothing at all. accom
plished on the otheh side of the can
yon. When you marry, my dealt, you
shall have a block of C. & G. R. pre
ferred stock to keep you in pin
money."
"I?" she Queried. "Out, Uncle Som
ervllle, I don't understand —"
The Rajah laughed.
"That was a very pretty blush, my
deah. Bless your innocent soul, if 1
were young Misteh Winton, I'm not
sure hut I should consideh the game
well lost."
She was gazing at. him wide-eyed
now, and the blush had left a pallor
behind It.
"You mean that I —that I —"
"I mean that yon are a helpeh worth
having. Miss Carteret. Anotheh time
Misteh Winton won't pay cou't to a
cha'ming young girl and try to build
a railroad at one and the same mo
ment, I fancy. Hah!"
The startled eyes veiled themselves
swiftly, and Virginia's voice sank to
its softest cadence.
"Have I been an accomplice in this
—this despicable thing, Uncle Somer
vllle?"
Mr. Darrah began a little to see his
mistake.
"Ah —an accomplice? Oh, no, my
deah Virginia, not quite that. The
word smacks too much of the po lice
cou'ts. Let us say that Misteh Win
ton has found your company mo' at
tractive than that of his iaborehs, and
commend his good taste in the mat
teh."
So much he said by way of damp
ing down the lire he had so rashly
lighted. Then Jastrow came in with
one of the interminable, cipher tele
grams and Virginia was left alone.
For a time she sat at the deserted
breakfast table, dry-eyed, hot-hearted,
thinking such thoughts as would come
crowding thickly upon the heels of
such a revelation. Winton would fail;
a man with honor, good repute, his
entire career at stake, as he himself
had admitted, would go down to mis
erable oblivion and defeat lacking
some friendly hand to smite him alive
to a sense of his danger. And, in her
uncle's estimation, at least, she, Vir-
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SHE WROTE 11111 A NOTE.
ginia Carteret, would figure as the |
Delilah triumphant.
She rose, tingling to her finger-tips \
with the shame of it, went to her j
stateroom and found her writing ma- j
terials. In such a crisis her methods
could be as direct as a man's. Win- 1
ton was coming again that evening.
He must ba stopped and sent about his |
business.
So she wrote him a note, telling ,
him he must not come—a note man- j
like in its conciseness, and yet most
womanly in its failure to give even
the remotest hint of the new and bind- j
ing reason why he must not come. !
And Just before luncheon an obliging J
Cousin Billy was prevailed upon to i
undertako its delivery.
When he had found Winton at the J
shale-slide, and had given him Miss |
Carteret's mandate, the Reverend Bil
ly did not return directly to the Rose
mary. On the contrary, he extended
his tramp westward, stumbling on
aimlessly up the canyon over the un
surfaced embankment of the new line.
Truth to tell, Virginia's messenger
was not unwilling to spend a little
time alone with the immensities. To
put it baldly, he was beginning to be
desperately cloyed with the sweets of
a day-long Miss Bessie, ennuye on the
one hand and despondent on the other.
Why could not the Cousin Bessies
see, without being told in so many
words, that the heart of a man may
have been given in times long past
to another woman? —to a Cousin Vir
ginia, let us say. And why must the i
Cousin Virginias, passing by the life
long devotion of a kinsman lover, j
throw themselves—if one must put it |
thus brutally—fairly at the head of an
acquaintance of a day?
So Questioning the the j
Reverend Billy came out after some j
little time in a small upland valley j
where the two lines, old and new, ran
parallel at the same level, with low
embankments less than a hundred
yards apart.
Midway of the valley the hundred- j
yard interspace was bridged by a]
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY JANUARY 3, 1907.
hastily constructed spur track start
ing from a switch on the Colorado and
Grand river main line, and crossing
the Utah right of way at a broad an
gle. On this spur, at its point of in
tersection with the n<>w line, stood a
heavy locomotive, steam up. and
manned in every inch of its standing
room by armed guards.
The situation explained Itself, even
to a Reverend Billy. The Rajah had
not been idle during the interval ci
dinner-givings and social divagations.
He had acquired the right of way
across the Utah's line for his block
ading spur: had taken advantage of
Winton's inaiertness to construct the
track; and was now prepared to hold
the crossing with a live engine and
such a show of force as might be need
ful.
Calvert turned back from the en
trance of the valley, and was minded,
in a spirit of fairness, to pass the
word concerning the new obstruction
onto the man who was most vitally
concerned. But alas! even a Rev
erend Billy may not. always rise su
perior to his hamperings as a man and
a lover. Here was defeat possible—
nay, say rather defeat probable, for a
rival, %vith the probability increasing
with each hour of delay. Calvert
fought it out by length and by breadth
a dozen times before he came in sight
of the track force toilinj; at the shale
slide. Should he tell Winton, and so,
indirectly, help to frustrate Mr. Dar
rali's well-laid plan? Or should he
hold his peace and thus, indirectly
again, help to defeat the Utah com
pany?
He pat it that way In decent self
respect. Also he assured himself that
the personal equation as between two
lovers of one and the same woman
was entirely eliminated. But who
can tell which motive it was that
prompted him to turn aside before he
came to the army of toilers at the
slide; to turn a::d cross the fUream
and make as wide a detour as the
nature of the ground would permit,
passing well beyond call from the
other side of the canyon?
The detour took him past the slide
in silent, safety, but it did net take
I him immediately back to the Rose
i mary. Instead of keeping on down
i the canyon on the C. & G. R. side, he
j turned up the gulch at the back of
| Argentine and spent the better half
of the afternoon tramping beneath the
j solemn firs on the mountain. What
j the hours of solitude brought him in
| the way of decision I t him declare
is he sets his face finally towards the
! station and tho private car.
| "I can't do it. I can't turn traitor
to the kinsman whose bread I eat.
And that is what it would come to in
plain English. Beyond that I have
no right togo; it is not for mo to
pass upon the justice of this petty
war between rival corporations."'
Ah, William Calvert! is there no
word then of that other and far
subtler temptation? When you have
reached your goal, if rc-ach it you
may, will there be no remorse
ful looking back to this mile-3tone
where a word from you might have
taken the fly from your pot of pre
cious ointment?
The short winter day was darkening
to its close when ho returned to the
Rosemary. By dint of judicious ma
neuvering, with a love-weary Bessie
for an unconscious confederate, he
managed to keep Virginia from queo
tioning him, this up to a certain mo
ment of cataclysms in the evening.
But Virginia read momentous things
in his face and eyes, and when the
| time was fully ripe she cornered him.
It was the old story over again, of
I a woman's determination to know pit
j ted against a truthful man's blunder
| ing efforts to conceal; and before he
j knew what he wa.i about Calvert had
' betrayed the Rajah's secret — which
| was also the secret of the cipher tele
gra.us.
\ Miss Cartoret said little —said noth
: ing, indeed, that an anxious kinsman
lover could lay hold of. But when
trie secret was hcra she donned coat
and headgear and went out oji th«
[ square railed platform, wliither tli*
j Reverend Billy dared not follow hftl,
| ITO I3E CONTINUED.)
jfIPROVEHrg
STORING WATER.
How a Reservoir Can Be Cheaply
Built at the Spring.
An easy way to make a reservoir
at the spring, is to throw up a bank,
perhaps laying a wall first, founding
it below the surface. I have seen
many reservoirs excavated at great
expense, sometimes in the solid rock,
at the useless expenditure of money.
By going down hill a few feet it would
have been simple and inexpensive.
Should the soil be such that water
percolates through it, face the soil
with loam on top and puddle it well.
If this leaks face it with clay and pud
dle the clay, as shown in cut. These
Dam for Spring Reservoir.
rules apply to all dams made of stone
and earth.
Pipes entering the reservoir should
i enter at the bottom and the soil be
well puddled around them to prevent
the water working through beside
the pipe. Each pipe must have a
strainer over its supply end and have
no airholes in its entire length.
A good strainer can be made from
a piece of large load pipe punched*
full of holes, as shown, says Farm and
Home. One end may be flattened or
turned over and the other drawn 011
over the end of the water pipe. Let
nobody suppose that simple, inexpen
sive arrangements are faulty because
primitive. If constructed correctly
and in line with natural laws they are
not only all right, but are preferable
to fancy, complicated devices that get
out of order easily or in a year or two
require a master mechanic to put
them into working condition again.
DUST PREVENTION ON ROADS.
Application of Tar Being Tried in the
Vicinity of Troy, N. Y.
A modification of the common meth
od of using tar en a public highway
for the purpose of laying dust is re
ported from the vicinity of Troy,
New York state. The experiment is
being tried by State Engineer Van
Alstyne. in a village of considerable
size. The first step is to sprinkle hot
tar on the road, and then to fill up
low spots with screenings. When tlie
surface has boon well packed by
teams, a second application is made.
The job is not considered complete,
though, until there has been a third
coating. Before being used, the tar is
boiled to drive off any water it may
contain.
This road is much used by automo
biles, whose owners found the dust
as unpleasant as did the local resi- !
dents, and consequently two classes !
of people are watching the experi
ments carefully. The extraordinary
increase everywhere in the number
of horseless carriages of late has
made the suppression of dust as im
portant to their drivers as to resi
dents along the roads frequented by
them. Formerly the man in an auto
mobile did Rot. appreciate what a
nuisance this dust was, but now that
many cars are running over each
good road there is no longer any
tendency to deny that these vehicles
are responsible for a somewhat se
rious action 011 the surface of the
highway, and that stops should bo
taken to prevent it. It is not wear
in tho usual sense of the term, but
rather suction, and as its effect can
be checked by the same means that
are used to lay dust, the importance
of these experiments can be readily
appreciated.
AGRICULTURAL POINTS.
The farm is what a fellow makes it.
Faith is the father of profit in farm
ing.
The frost strikes deep In well
drained soil.
Weeds are but the progeny of one
seed —neglect. Good practice is the
only true remedy.
Adv&e to those about to farm—.
Keep your tools bright, your fenc es
tight and your heart light.
Stone harvest lasts from Novem f, er
to March. During the rest oftL le
year other things Interfere with it.
It is poor management togo with
out things that are needed, in order
to hoard up money. Human necessi
ties come first.
The depth of the water table in the
soil will regulate bo a considerable
degree the moisture of the soil. The
water table should not.be nearer to
the surface than 30 inches and may
be ten feet below the surface in very
fine soils.
A Task for the Boy.
Encourage your boy to plant wal
nut, butternut and hickory trees in
odd corners on the farm instead of
trees useful for shade only. By the
time he is a man they will commence
to bear. Then you can crack home
grown nuts for your grandchildren.
A cow that fattens readily as a rule
is beef bred rather than of tho milk
strain.
•HOCK FOR THE HUSBAND.
Wifely Anxiety Had Considerably
Motive.
Anthony Comstock was talking in
New York about certain information
that had been lodged with him.
"It i'j perhaps helpful information,"
he said, "but 1 confess that I mistrust
its motive.
"It suggests to me an incident that
occurred last month in Matawan.
"A young woman of Matawan said
I to her husband one night:
" 'My dear, there is a gentleman in
the parlor. He wants to speak to
i you.'
"'Who is It, do you know?' th»
! husband asked.
" 'Dear,' said his wife, 'you must
forgive me—but that coiigh has both
ered you so much of late—and though
winter is coming on it still clings to
you and— oh, if you knew how wor
ried I've been about you!' And she
threw her arms around his neck.
'What would I do if I were to lose
you?' she moaned.
" 'Come, come,' said the young man
patting her shoulder tenderly; 'men
! don't die of a slight cold. So you've
called in the doctor, eh? Well, I'll
Bee him gladly if it will make you feel
easier. Which one is it? Squills?'
" 'lt isn't the doctor,' was the an
swer. 'lt's the life insurance agent.'"
WORD IS MODERN ENGLISH.
"Chap" To-Day Has Not Meaning Old
Writers Gave to It.
The name of the now play at the
Criterion, "Prince Chap," would have
been quite unintelligible to an English
man of Shakespeare's time. Not until
the end of the sixteenth century did
"chapman," a trader or peddler, get
contracted Into "chap" even in vulgar
speech, and even then for a long time
it did not advance beyond the mean
ing of buyer or customer.
I'd" this sense Steele speaks of "hunt
ing after chaps," and Wilkes writes
that "perhaps Mrs. Mead would buy,
but she would be a hard chap." "Chap"
seems to have reached its ultimate
siage as a casual equivalent of"man"
through the intermediate sense of a
man with whom one has dealings, not
of business, but of good fellowship.
The case of "customer" is very sim
ilar. Shakespeare used it to mean a
boon companion, but "a queer cus
tomer" now means little more than "a
queer man." There is a trace of the
old companionship idea, however,
when a young woman speaks of "my
chap," and in "Prince Chap" itself.—
London Chronicle.
Claim Nearly Cost Life.
Fred McNulty, of this city, had a
terrible experience while holding down
a claim which he has several miles
east of here. He went to the claim
just before the big blizzard of last
week. The weather previously had
been mild, and McNulty had no store
of fuel in the shack. The storm was
so fierce that he could not make his
way home, so he went to bed in order
to keep from freezing to death. For
three days the storm raged, and Mc-
Nulty lay covered up to his ears, with
out a bite to eat and only a small
quantity of water. When at last the
storm subsided he made his way tc, a
neighbor's, a mile distant, freezing his
face and ears while en route. >Vhen
he finally reached Minot he wag com
pelled to take to his bed as a. result
of his experience.—Minot Correspond
ence Duluth Herald.
Famous Band Leader Oead.
Prof. Louis Schneider, t.'fce first di
rector of the Marine bar 1( i in Wash
ington and the leader of the Imperial
band, which was at the» surrender of
Sedan, has just died ',n New York.
He received decorations from Na
poleon 111., from the ly nE of Italy, the
king of Belgium and p o pe Leo XIII.
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