(Copyright by Chas. Scribner's Sons) who refused to be the scapegoat. left him for dead. Watrous to CHAPTER I!—Continued. —— the Lawrenceville Athlete club had sald of the well-muscled young bank cashier that he did not know his own strength. It was the sight of the pistol that maddened him and put the drivi force behind the smashing blow tl landed upon the big man's chest, lifted pistol dropped from Mr, Wat Dunham's grasp and he wilted, se back into his chalr, and then slippin to the floor. In a flash Smith knew what he done. Once, one evening when he been induced to put on the the Athletic club's teftiner, he had trived tb plant a body blow which had sent the wiry little Irishman to the mat, gasping and fighting for the breath of life. “If ever yez'll be givin’ a man that heart-punch wid th’ bare fisht, Misther Montygue, 'tis you {'r th’ fasht train widout shtoppin’ to buy anny t'll be murther in the first de the train had sald, when he compass the saying. With the gent and clam knelt horror- man. the and in foolish ished. Sn the the The 1} a smash od C Smith got the electric light of habit, closed and sng president's d The » not vet returned. Sm chair beside the passed it on hi cashier's once to police headquarters and give himself up. Then he remembered how carefully the trap had been set i how impossible it would be for him to make any reasonable def With one glance over hi the darkened fromt windows bank, Smith began to run, not to the police station, but In the opp gloves 1 ticket— gree had er breath to unheeded ing in warning resur- Smith 101 his ears, On the sta smile ith loosened thick k neck and spot where the g man tock. upon hi and, from mere ip-locke watchman the o1 esk. ith saw vault door as s way to the street. Th only thought was to go ense, 8 shoulder at the ward of © For J. Montague Smith, slipping from shadow to down the Neghted cross street and listening mentarily for the footfalls of pursuit, a new hour had struck. It was prodigiously Incredible. The crowdin sensations were terrifying, but were also precious, in their way. Long forgotten bits of brutality and tyranny on Watrous Dunham's part came up to be remembered and, In this ret aftermath, to be triumphantly crossed off as items in an account finally tled. On the Smith side the bank cash- | fer's forebears had been plodding farm- ers, but old John Montague had been the village blacksmi®™ and a soldier— a shrewd smiter In both trades. Blood ' shadow scant Smith Knew What He Had Done. #411 tell. Parental Implantings may have much to say to the fruit of the womb, but atavism has more, Smith's Jaw came up with a snap. He was no long: r an Indistinguishable unit in the rank « of the respectable and the well- ehoved; he was a man fleeing for his Ife, What was done was done, and the next thing to do was to avert the consequences, At the rallroad station a few early comers for the west-bound passenger train due at ten o'clock were already gathering, and at the bidding of a cer. tain new and militant craftiness Smith avolded the lighted waiting rooms as if they held the pestilence, box cars had been pushed up from the freight-unloading platforms recently, and In the shadow of the cars he Keeping to the shadows, he walked along the line of cars the make-up track, alertly seeking his op- Half-way down the length the traln he found what he was looking for: a box car with its sidedoor hasped but not locked. With a bit of to lengthen his reach, on stick crew's addition of another car to the “make-up” he took of the poise made by the Jangling crash and slid the door. groping into the dark Interior that ns empty. With a foot on the truss-rod he climbed in, and at the next coupling erash closed the doer, advantage car w CHAPTER The High Hills, The Nevada through freight was two hours late issuing from the western Timanyon! canon. Through the early mountain-climbing hours of the night and the later flight across the Red desert, the dusty, travel-grimed young fellow In the empty box car mid. of the train had the hard car floor his folded coat for a pll of the « portal of soundly, bed and way +h itn slept w for a low, fen cessation | | | i : ok out, It was still no later than a lazy man's renkfast time, and the May mor Over the top of the east- ange the sun was looking, level- raved, a parked walley bounded on all sides by high spurs and d now peaks. In Its nearer reaches the was dotted with round hills ome of them otrers dark with mountain pine and fir. the outer loopings of the the young tramp at the had momentary glimpses of wvonl, a mountain torrent in its and the swiftest of upland riv ; even here where it had the valley in which to expand. A Copah switch- mann had told him that the railroad di vision town of Brewster lay at the end of the night's run, in a river valley be- he eastern Timanyonis, and that lon of the irrigation project which was advertising for laborers In Denver newspapers a few miles up the river from Brewster, As the train swept along on its way n the prospect broadened "| ning 18 perfect, ern r into istant valley 8 bare, car the anon, the grades valley becam At the one of the promontory box-car passenger had of a shack-bullt construct t} margin some rounding fn glimg we fon camp on dis was rising In . . tane vers tance on ing the dam and the shacks two steel towers, with a carrying cable stretched | between them, formed the plers of the nerial spout conveyer for the placing The train made no stop at the ¢ struction siding, cone but a mile farther Sliding the oung tramp with the week-old stubble beard A block against the His opportunity was at hand. semaphore was turned i i Whalting until the brakes shrilled again, the tramp put his shoulder to the sliding door, sat for a moment in the wider opening, and then swung off, His alighting was upon one of the embankments, To the where the curving rallroad of the river, lay the little Intermoun- tain city of Brewster, a few of Its the distance, Paralleling the rallroad, a dusty wagon road pointed In one di- rection toward the town, and in the other toward the construction camp, The young man who had crossed four states and the better part of a fifth ns } { upon the distant town as a place to be avolded, Scrambling down the rail rond embankment, he made his way to the wagon road, crossed it, and kept on until he eame to the fringe of aspens on the river's edge, where he broke all the trampish traditions by stripping off the travel-worn clothes and plunging in to take a soapless bath, The water, being melted snow from the range, was it was wet, and some part of the travel dust, at least, was soluble In It. He came out glowing, the soiled clothes on again, There was no present help for that, and five minutes later he had | As he walked he rend for the fiftieth time something on the page of a recent St. Louis paper. It was under flaring headlines: PRESIDENT. Cashier Embezzies $100,000 and Makes Murderous As- sault on President. Lawrenceville, May 15.—J. Montague Smith, cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank and Trust company, and a leader In the awrenceville younger set, from justice with head At a late hour last wit of ‘the bank found Presiden Dunham lying unconscious in front of 5 desk. Help was summoned, and Mr. Dun. wm, who was supposed to be from some sudden attack uiien to his hotel. Later, iat the president had been the murderous assault Discovering return to the city yester t the cashier had been using t funds in an attempt to cov of his Dur and charged him wi the cr ade an unprovoked and desp upon his superior officer, bea insensibllity gitive A price on ny lation ith own, ie th ime ate ting and leaving him for ce it is known that he did not n yf the night train s east or west is supposed to ! i ys the viet: nto be infty of the city and a reward of $1, detention has g It is not thou ape. It was c since that Smith nent young Lawrenceville, but this has untrue, Can os not jong irrent: prom He folded the newspaper The thing and put it done, Having put of the in his pocket, and it cou self on the wus Id not be undone, wrong side ) was nothing mplet disappe of Identity severance with his pas When he had gone a 1 that the wagon way twice befor at the $y in % 14 rossings yard for had been installed, this point on, the river bank, foubtliess the was wterial and fron the wagon road held to The ditch pec getting all their raliroad so there wou )y wagon, But there were tracks in the dust, and | shortly after he had passed ‘the mate- rial yard the tramp heard a car com- ing up behind him. It was a six-cylin- der roadster, and its motor was miss. ing badly Its sing! e occupant was a big, beard- od man, wearing his gray tweeds as whom clothes were merely a ence, He was chewing a black and the unoccupled side of his mouth was busy at the passing moment heaping objurgations upon the limp notor. A hundred yards farther nlong the motor gave a spasmodic gasp nd stopped. When the young tramp ime up, the big man had climbed out id had the hood open. What he was saying to the stalled motor enough to make the young man stop and grin appreciatively, “Gone bad on you? he inquired. Col, largest landowner, and a breeder fine horses who tolerated motorecars only because they could be driven hard nnd were Insensate and fit subjects for abusive language, ‘took his head out of the hood. “The third time this morning,” he snapped. “I'd rather drive a team of wind-broken mustangs, any day in the year!" “I used to drive a car a while back" sald the tramp. “Let me look her over.” The colonel stood aside, wiping his hands on a plece of waste, while tha young man sought for the trouble, It was found presently In a loosened magneto wire; found and cleverly cor- rected. The tramp went around In front and spun the motor, and when it had been throttied down, Colonel Bald- win had his hand In his pocket, “That's something like,” he sald. ple were material 1d be 1it- ne fle convenl deny iBAr, ing iresque of " What's your fee?” The tramp shook his head and smiled good-naturedly. “Nothing; for a bit of neighborly | help like that” The colonel put his coat on, and in the act took a better measure of the stalwart young fellow who looked like a hobo and talked and behaved like a gentleman, “You are hiking ott to the dam? he nsked brusquely, “I am headed that way, yes,” was the equally erisp rejoinder, “Hunting a job?" “Just that" “What sort of a Job? “Anything that may happen to be In sig i" hat means a plek and shovel or a wheelbarrow on a construction job. But there Isn't much office work.” The tramp looked up quickly. “What makes you think I'm hunting for an office Joh?" he queried. “Your hands” sald the shortly. The young man looked at his hands colonel from the tinkering with the motor, but | the inspection went deeper than the grime, “I'm not afrald of the pick and shovel, or the wheelbarrow, and on some accounts I guess they'd be good | for me. But on the other hand, per- | haps it is a pity to spoil a middling rood office man to make an indifferent dny-laborer—to say nothing of knock- ing some honest fellow out of the only job he knows how to do.” Colonel Baldwin swung steering wheel of the roadster and held a fresh match to the black cigar, Though he was from Missouri, he had lived long enough in the high hills to know better than to Judge any man | altogether by outside appearances, “Climb In,” he | vacant seat at his side. i in behind the indleating the “I'm the pres- | ident of the ditch company. Perhaps Williams may be able to use you: but your chances for office work would be ten to one in the town.” “I don't care to live in the town,” gald the man out of work, mounting to the proffered seat; and past that the big roadster leaped away up the road and the roar of the rejuvenated motor made further speech impossible, sald, CHAPTER IV. Wanted-—A Financier. | It was a full fortnight or more after ! this motor-tinkering incident on the ill rond to the dam, Williams, chief engineer of the ditch project, met President Baldwl the Brewster of- fices of the ditch company and spent a when nin bh mega “] Used to Drive a Car.” erosir E o I¥ for the colonel ith contractors’ usy hour w the over est] the In interval of , Baldwin reme young tramp ites mn mbered who had . YO8; knew there w g else that I wanted to you," he sald. “How about the young fellow | that I unloaded on you | weeks ago? Did he make “Who—Smith? “Yes: if that's his name.’ The engineer's left evelld had a quiz- gical droop when he sald dryly: “It's the name he goes by John Smith.’ * I haven't asked him his other na as some- thin usk in camp: me." The ranchman-president | the drooping evelld of unbelief with a “I thought he looked as f he might be out here for his health— {like a good many other fellows who i have no particular use for a doctor. How is he making it? The engineer, a hard-bitted man with the prognathous lower jaw characteriz- tribe of those who accomplish thrust his hands into his pock- walked to the window to look wn When he turned to face Baldwin again, It was * say: “That young fellow is a won- der, colonel. matched sober smile. ng th t} he NES, ets and 5 0 into the Brewster street, at first, as yon suggested, and In three days he had things to the tune of a 20 per cent saving In pro- duction costs. Then I gave him a hack iat the concrete-mixers, and he's mak- ing good again in the cost reduction. That seems to be his specialty.” The president nodded and was suf- ficiently Interested to follow up what had been merely a casual Inguiry. “What are you calling him now?—a betterment engineer? Youn know your first guess was that he was somebody's bookkeeper out of a job" Williams wagged his head. “He's a three-cornered puzzle to me, yet. He isn't an engineer, but when you drag a bunch of cost money up the trail, he goes after It like a dog after a rabbit, I'm not anxious to lose him, but I really belleve you could make better use of him here In the town of- fice than I can on the job™ Baldwin was shaking his head dubi- ously. revolutionized The young ex-tramp soon finds that his services are very much in demand, despite the fact that he Is suspected of trying to hide his past. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Had Her Reasons, when Mary eame home from school, ors have big ears,” and the conversa. tion stopped. A few days afterward the minister came to tea and gave | some of his attention to Mary. | “Do you like to go to church? he asked. “No,” answered Mary, very firmly but politely. “And why not, my little dear?" “Oh,” said Mary, with a smile, “lttle | pitchers have big ears,” very much to the surprise of her mother and Aunt Maria, who colored consciously, and the minister changed the conversation. ARMY DRAFT BILL 15 LAW Senate, By a Vote of 65 to 8 Adopts Conference Report. AGE REMAINS 21 TO 30 Anti - Conscriptionists Made a Hot Fight To Have the Bill Sent Back To Conference—To Be Called in September The Bill pr approximately of Sen Washington the Conscription army of by As sent for the WA’ De YY Al immediately the a yole 65 to ¥ at to the President's once partment wide 31 and the s¢ The lia month lective draft Senate mentary REFUSES TO STATE WAR AIMS Hollweg Says Would Not Serve Coun- try's Interests. The declared Berlin Socialist leader, George in the Be "uesd thi it was impossibi fo any to win eo Wal subjuga and expressed the convi lution d Ledebour, Gern zt} of tion A reve as must hap in Germa 3 } happened lussia VE 4 We tutional repara all propose a const committee.” he sald tor ps in the m of intro ducing a republic in Germany.” Hollweg Withholds Terms. of the us poken speeches he has vet the Re the of the war bluntly refused (re in atives “to take p ¥ aie directi vigoro and made gince out imperial German enter In most plain a he fore break Chancellor into a discussion aims demanded interpella bs Consery and Socialists Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg asserted that these called for the Government's ific peace program, announcement of which would at this time not only be premature, but which it would be difficult to formulate, and also practical service to the nation present situation. one ichstag the {io peace ptions of rmany’s as the spe C 100,000 ENLISTED MEN IN NAVY. Man From Jackson, Miss, Completes Total Washington.—When Richard Farris Canon enlisted in the navy Wednesday at Jackson, Miss, of the navy touched the 100,000 mark for the first time. The strentgh of the navy was 100.657, in cluding all auxiliary forces, but bill just passed by both House und Senate puts it up to 150,000. { i intensive fight several After days of most ing, ino which position times changed hands and men fell in and counter-at have jast the more the hundreds in attacks Bri Germans out at vil the ish forces tacks, driven the of Bulle of irt and once threaten! the southern end of ng Drocourt-Queant line, which Fie shal von Hindenburg defend Cambrai from the ¢ Haig’ ¢ i "ield M German constru vance of F arshal ands of fresh troops the heir ef hrown but communica in ave Deen into Bu 4, BCCOTAIng gone to drive fray around lecourt, forts to official tions, have naught en out the Brit of at ynaerance ations heen forced 9 a AUR id thers keeping clemeoents oth NE acks and Prince renewed have lence the ch northeas ave ans also are the forves meeting with he Entente lussia indicate the tt of the differences govern Workm Another lication , in Gurko, lement existed between the of Nal fon Delegates ymptom in 1 af + i Of 3 Council en's the 1 oe iana and ded Army cor TS enerals Brussiloff resigned, have deci posts 0 re their $100,000,000 TO RUSSIA With Loan More Will Be Forthcoming. Washington. — The Russia $100,000, is to be pulation intimation Given That United States O00 spent as need understand- ing of any sort further than that Rus ands back of the obligation, will BY and will perse the in this country under the super n of a representative of the Treas partment or a commission to be named ‘by the American Government. The latter stipulation was made in a pirit of co-operation, without intend ing embarrass the Russian Govern- ment or curt its participating pow- ers, but with the end in view that Rus- sia would secure the maximum result for the money she is to spend. To ald Treasury Department will +3 at her the or sia st Od dis re to -il 0 aii in this eo place disposal expert buyers familiar with American markets and with American values services of TO GET SUPPLIES ABROAD. All Available American Tonnage To Serve France, Italy and Russia. Washington.—All available Ameri can transatlantic tonnage for time be ing will be used to transport supplies to Russia, France and Italy under an American government with the Allies. Great Britain has assured the United States that she can carry enough sup plies in her own ships to meet the need of the United Kingdom, and per tonnage in suppiving the AMERICAN SHIP SUNK. Steamer Milonian Torpidond and Four Members Of Crew Lost New York.—The American steam ghip Hilonian has been torpedoed and four members of the crew, according i owners, the Universal Transportation Company. The cablegram to the own. ers gave no details of the torpedoing.
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