By MRANCIS LYNDE % Synopsis.—J. accuser. Smith strikes Dunham, state, job. his air of high class. cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank dead and flees the Tllusteations by IRWIN MYERS | = Copyright by Chas. Scribner's Sons CHAPTER V-=Continued. we Smith heard him through, understandingly when the told. nodding tale was swallowing the little one; so old that there is no longer any saving touch of novelty in it,” he commented. been wondering if there wasn't thing of that kind in your background, And you say you haven't any Belmonts or Morgans or Rockefellers in company?" “We have a bunch scared-up ranch people, with Colonel Baldwin in com- mand, and that's all. The of rather badly owners colonel | | | | | | der fire. “I've had the experience.” “I thought so. job eon this sick project of ours?’ “No,” was the brief rejoinder, “Why not?” Smith looked away out square window in the shack at the yusy scene on the dam stagings. “Because I'm not exactly a born sim- Mr. Williams, There are a of reasons which are purely pleton, number ‘doctor, as you call him shoot as straight anybody, when you have shown him what to shoot at. But he is outclassed, like all the rest of us, when it comes to a game of finan. cial freeze-out. And that is what we are up against, I'm afraid.” “There isn't the world about who had been cs as doubt the the slightest that,” said lled in one as an of you didn't size the sitnation long ago—hefore it ent desperate shape. You beginning of the end now, caught you with an and these stock sales yon prove that they have to swallow you by supp are at the They've empty treasury, Speak lttles. common—I se preferred—at thirty-nine lent gn gamble for any can see their way control. With an eager market water—and they 11 the people, ev their own Ese the stock beyond fire aii hat, the wa the Escal bills: you present nine litt] Willi remer ! man with ¢ ably af e you don't the ry ly,” sald Smi “Hold “Every m that and didn't mean to that they were either dolts heads. As a a pretty level-headed bunch of men Timanyonl Ditch—though I'll that some of them are nervous enough, necessn on,” we had n our friends in give the matter in any terms the crooks and turnings of the buccaneers.” high- finance wy didn't Colonel | joined ti “It mean to reflect ildwin and his friends ex-cashier nothing re good-naturedly. is especially “Can't Something Be Done, Smith?” $ricks of a trade which is not théirs, The financing of # scheme like this has come to be a business by itself, Mr. Williams, and it is hardly to be ex- pected that a group of inexperienced men could do it successfully.” The construction chief tarned ab- ruptly upon his cost-cutter, “Keeping in mind what you said a few minutes ago about ‘back numbers,’ would it be climbing over the fence too far for me to ask if your experience has been such as would warrant you in tackling a Job of this kind?” “That is a fair question, and I ean answer it straight,” sald the man un- the handling of the company’s money ind its n¢ gotiable You could, and should, put him under a fairly heavy bond. I'll not go into it ‘deeper than to say that I can’t bond.” Williams took his defeat, if it could be called a defeat, without further protest. seuurities Securities, “I thought it might not be amiss to talk it over with you,” he sald. “You say it is impossible, and perhaps it is. harm for you to think it over, and if I were you, I shouldn't burn all the bridges behind me," Sinith went back to his work in the quarry with a troubled mind. The little heart-to-heart talk with Williams It could depressive, a how remainder of his life That he mat descriptions and pho- of the Law Trust limited for all the would ank and company ng from hand to not doubt for a mot nid 1a t in his v On the second morning followl nnaft al tnlk iron-shieet ad in the SE the camp. Perkins, the timekeeper called Smith from the quarry and gave the ship- m the invoices covering ment, better down. to stuff in, “1 guess you'd the siding and check that "Hl know what we're getting.’ al suggestion to the genera EO this we was his ity man. let Smith get his first sight of the side saw that the traln was ready in. He sent gang back to camp with the teams, should have seen the car of steel and two cars of kicked in at the upper end of the sidetrack. cement to pull up and make the shift, if Williams were re The siding was on of a curve and within a yards of the river bank. and wondering wagon road itself, which came the railroad and made an abrupt turn As the long train pulled up to clear the road crossing, Smith stepped back A the forward section of the train went on to set the three loaded cars out at the upper switch, leaving the rear half standigg on the main line. One of the men of the unloading gang, a leather-faced grade shoveler who had helped to build the Nevada parting wagons to fill and light his pipe, “Wouldn't that Jar you up right good and hard £'r a way to run a railroad.” he sald to Smith, indicating the wholly deserted standing section of the freight with the burnt match-end. “Them fel- lies ‘ve all gone off up ahead, a-deavin' this yere hind end without a sign of a man 'r a flag to take keer of it,” Smith was listening only with the outward ear to what the pipe-lighter wns saying. Somewhere in the west. ward distances a thunderous murmur was droning upon the windless air of the June morning. A big gray auto- mobile, with the cut-out open, was top- ping the side-hill grade, and Smith rec- ognized it at once, ter Baldwin's roadster, occupant—namely, woman who was driving it, Turning to look up the track, he saw that the three loaded cars had been and it held a the traln was backing to make coupling with the standing half, hoped that the trainmen had seen the and that they would make the coupling until car had crossed behind But in guessed now automobile, to after the gray the he guess thov attempt caboose, ed, were and rightly, far around the curve to the wagon-road Lil L100 be able to see mach, Smith saw the speed for bottom of the hill, saw the ca ding the young woman t tu £ he abrupt tu 1 turn in a ski slide, hear “I'm Smith,” he told her; adding: “It's my real name, Her laugh was an " instant easing “Oh, Williams’ yes; you're Mr, I've heard father, speak of you.” “No,” he denied in blunt honesty, “I'm not Willlams’ assistant; at least, the pay roll doesn't say so. camp they call me ‘the Hobo.” The young woman had apparently regained whatever small fraction self-possession the parrow escape had shocked aside, “Are they never going to take that miserable train out of the way?’ she exclaimed. “I've got to see Mr. Wil- liams, and there isn't a minute to spare. Colonel-da—I mean my father, has gone up to Red Butte, and a little nn while ago they telephoned over to the ranch from the Brewster office to say that there was going to be some more trouble at the dam.” “You won't find Williams at the He started out early this morn- ing beyond Little creek, and sald he wouldn't be back until some time morrow. Will you tell me what you're needing 7" “Oh!” gasp of | got to body ! thir to- she exclaimed, with a disappointment, “I've simply find Mr. Willilams—or Do you happen to 1g about the lawsuit I know all { has told me.” “Then I'll tell you what JJlephoned. He sal phon to little EOIN e- know any- troubles?" about them; d pretend was opened for a run at the embank ment grade. Then the unexpect dropped nb. There and the on t motion. The set in (te their « alf of the clash Cars were train was ing down the cro Smith's sl con nt out. or the sig ing tr the fi CHAPTER VI A Notice to Quit. gray roadster drifted the rallroad crossing and it came to rest in the sag in the road. Running to I that the was still trying ineffectually herself. In releasing the dress had been caught, backward from kept on until g at the turn overtake It young won free her to clutch the caught skirt and the cranking of the engine serve for a breath-catching recovery. When he stepped back to “tune™ the spark the young woman had subsided into the mechanician’s seat and retying her veil with fingers that were not any too steady. She was small but well-knit: her hair was a golden brown and there was a good deal of it: her eyes were set well apart, and in the bright morning sunlight they were a slaty gray-—of the exact shade of the motor veil she was rearranging. Smith had a sudden conviction that he had seen the wide-set eyes before ; also the straight little nose and the half. boyish mouth and chin, though where he had seen them the conviction could give no present hint. was something appropriate,” she was be stood at the fender and grinned, “You don't have to say anything, It's been a long time since I've had a this.” And Baldwin's daughter, stand play as “You're Colonel aren't you?” She nodded, saying: “How did you know? “I know the car. And you have your father's eyes” She did not seem to take it amiss that he was making her eyes a basis for comparisons. She was her father's only son, as well as his only daughter, and she divided her time pretty evenly in trying to live up to boil se's of re- quirements, “You have introduced me; wo-won't you Introduce yourself?” she sald, when a second crash of the shifting freight train spent itself and gave her an opening. Time Only for a Mighty Heave daybreak hrides #4 nia £ GRY place again | and Smith of it. “Take the other seat and »" he d: and changed over, he swung in wheel and ut a foot on the clutch let me get her sal when she had behind the i pedal, “What are you going ti “I'm going to take you on up to the camp, and then, if you'll lend me this car, I'll go and do what you hoped to persuade Williams to “run mining-claim jokers into the tall tim- ber.” “But you can't!" she protested; “you can't do it alone! And, besides, they are on the other side of the river, and you can’t get anywhere with the car. You'll have to go all the way back to Brewster to get across the river!” It was just here that he stole an- other glance at the very-much-alive little face behind the motor veil; at the firm, round chin and the resolute slaty-gray eyes, “1 suppose 1 ought to take you to the camp.” he sald. “But you may go do these along with me, if you want to-—and are not afraid.” \ She laughed in his face. = Smith shows his real araracier | to Colonel Baldwin's daughter something of the fierce brute na. ture that is alive in him, There's a real fight described in the next instaliment. xl) I —— (TO BE CONTINUED) Internal Heat of Planets, ery that Saturn does not rotate as one the same structure. As pointed out by Professor Very, the friction of lay- ers of different velocities would gene erate heat, and thus retard the vols ing down of the planets.—Scientific American, ' No Room for Party Squabbling at This Time. Both Parties Are Supporting the War, but the Responsibility Lies With the Democrats—The Next House. the talk, already begimming, about the complexion of the next house? What could be more in doubt? What depends more on circumstances? What basis exists for reasonable spec: ulation? Over twelve months will lapse before the first nominations are made, Eighteen months will lapse be- fore election day comes. At present the subject is cloudy in the extreme. Today, politics is largely in the back- ground. The every- thing, and both parties are supporting the war. They will continue to do so. They are voting supplies, and showing every disposition the thing through. But called stride, ’ Why war overshadows to see we fare not yet In what may be certainly not in our Until we strike that, no causes action or sharp divisions are likely But when cause for criticism arise, the to arise. should we do strike politics may come to the fore ag: Although bot the war, h parties are supporting I Pl in The the Democratic party is the Is beginning under control f rovernment., 8 Democratic ander in Dem the house are MNOCTAts administration hief of the army and wrat, 1 he vice pres peaker Democrats control the d are I Measures, therefore, if War matters ghteen mon ve or elg that lange hat lon tities continue President Wilson's Great Task. “President {gon rank In his tory amor } ive greatest presides of this country ent business Young, a of farion end of Harry many 1 an Interview at Washing- “We Hist hington, must include in this Thomas Jack- and Wilson I doubt if the four Mr. Wilson lems to contend with Lincoln I the late Mr intimately, Jefferson, son, Lincoln any of had greater not receding even Was a great MeKinley and but his troubles pared with Mr. Cleveland was a Wilson is greater than all four 1 have named.” were nothing coms Wilson. hut the those of President great man, ox cept Daniels Saves $20,000,000. By his prompt action the day war was declared Secretary Daniels saved the government £20,000,000, In the purchase of steel for naval construc tion by negotiation he secured a reduc tion of prices that amounts to $18. 000,000. On the cost of torpedoes, hy executive action, the aavy department saved over $2,000,000 by fixing a price covering production and a reasonable profit, where the manufacturers’ bids were found to be excessive. By agree ment with the Council of National Defense the copper interests have of. fered to supply over 45.000.000 pounds of copper for the army and navy at about half the market price. Mr. Bryan's Attitude, modest example set by William Jen- government in any military | that may seein naoat useful, capacity He in be enrolled as a private, an offer which it may be supposed will not be accept: | 18 capable of more important work. Perhaps it will be deemed that his greatest usefulness will be in civil life, but his attitude is the right one PRISON TERM FOR FOOD BARONS Amendment to Food Bill Makes Hoarding a Felony. PENALTY IS THREE YEARS the Proves To Futile—Poin Attempt Senate Modify Amendment In dexter Insists That It Go Through As Offered Washington. Hoarding, stor of food, fuel necessaries of life to limit supply affect prices would be a felony under age or destruction or other or an amendment to the government first food bill adopted the out a recorded vote in Senate with U. S. ENGINEERS IN PARIS. Lager To Get Away To the Front As Soon As Possible, rival the i! on Unite comm States Ambassador 4 who made for ception by War m ir Parsons said he were keenly ngements the ay Ministry of Ar and desirous TivVAa his of wore here Major colleagues the big guns would do everything busi ness in Paris in order to hasten their gelling out where roaring, and they to exped te their in their power departure for the fleld of action MESSAGE SENT TO RUSSIA, Communication From Wilson Secret For Present Washington «President Wilson has sent a document the Russian Gov ernment outlining the war aims of the United States and, it understood, dealing with the position of "no an nexations, no indemnitien,” set out by Russian officials. It is not to be pub- lished until Ambassador Francis in Petrograd has had opportunity to pre sent it to the Russian Government, and then it will be given out in Wash ington, Kept 10 in $
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