A FOOL FOR LOVE
Continued from page -vcn
men loaded on tfie flats for the run
down to camp over the lately laid rails
of the lateral loop.
“Not such a bad day, considering
the newness of 11s 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
beyant,” 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 aft her us hot-fut again if we
didn’t be lavin’ • ut open the full
width.”
“Mmph,” said Adams, looking the
ground over with a critical eye. “n s
a bad bit. It wouldn’t take much to
bring that whole slide down on us if
it wasn’t frozen solid. Who owns the
placer?”
“Two fellies over 1n Carbonate. The
company did be thryin' to buy the
claim, but the sharps wouldn’t sell—
bein’ put up to hold ut by tliim C. &
G. R. divils. It’s more throuble we’ll
be havin’ 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
tlid' accommodation. By Jove!”
The exclamation directed itself at a
one-car train which came thundering
down the canyon to pull in on the
eiding beyond the Rosemary. The car
was a passenger coach, well lighted,
and from his post on the embankment
Adams could see armed men filling the
windows. Michael Branagan saw
them, too, and the fighting Celt in
him rose to the occasion.
“ ’Tis Donnybrook Fair we’ve come
to this time, Misther Adams. Shall 1
call up the b'ys wia their guns?”
“Not. yet. Let’s wait and see what
happens.”
W mu nappenea was a jieaceiui
sortie. Two men, each with a kit of
some 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 on 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
drain-way from our placer up yonder.”
——— -'HVhat are you going to do up there
at this time of night?”
“None <?’ your blame business!” was
the explosive count* r-shot.
"Perhaps il 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
cussed to you. We’re goin’ to work
our claim. Got anything to say
agginst it?”
“Oh, no,” rejoined Adams; and when
the twain had disappeared in the up
per darkness he went down the grade
with Bramigan 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, '"id in the dead of winter! By
which it will he seen that Mr Morton
P. Adams, C. E. Inst. Tech. Boston,
had something yet to learn in the
matter of practical field work.
B*y the time Ah Foo had served him
his solitary supper in the dinkey he
had quite rorgotten the incident of the
mysterious placer miners. Worse
than that, it ’ ! ne'e.- occurred to
him to comm■ ' *’iei ■ i :i* ■ '1 h
the Rajah’s plan of campaign. t>n the
other hand, lie was thinking altogeth
er of the carload o. armed men, and
♦ to devise some means of finding
out how they were to be employed in
furthering the Rajah’s designs.
The means suggested themselves
after supper, and he went alone over
to Argentine to spend a half-hour in
the bar of the dance hall listening to
the gossip of ihe place. When he had
learned what lie wanted to know, he
forthfared to meet Winton at the In
coming train.
v\e are in tor it now, lie said,
when they had crossed the creak to
the dinkey and the Chinaman was
bringing Winton’s belated sir p r.
“The Rajah has imported a carload
of armed mercenaries, and he is going
to clean ns all out to-morrow; arrest
everybody from the gang foreman up.”
Winton’s eyebrows lifted. “So? that
is a pretty large contract. Has he
men enough to do it?’
'Not so many men. But they tire
sworn-in deputies with the sheriff of
T’te county in command—a posse, in
fact,. So he has the law on his side.”
hich is more than he had when
he set a thug on me this afternoon at
Carbonate, said Winton. sourly; and
he told Adams about the misunder
standing in the lobby of the Bucking
ham.
The technologian whistled under his
breath. “By Jove! that’.s pretty rough.
no you suppose the Rajah dictated
any such Lucretia Borgia thing as
that?”
Winton took time to think about it
and admitted a doubt, as he had not
before. Believing Mr. Somerville Dar
rah fit for treasons, stratagems, and
spoils in his official capacity of vice
president of a fighting corporation, he
was none the less disposed to find ex
cuses for Miss Virginia. Carteret’s
uncle.
“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 tie 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.
I But 1 can’t. Mr. Dnrrah 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
j sage from me this afternoon?”
I I (11(1. '
I “What did you think of it?” (
“I thought you might have left out
; the first part of it; also’ that you ;
1 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
technologian’s impassive face, and he ,
lighted another cigarette.
"Every man has nis limitations,” he 1
said. “I did the best I could under !
the existing circumstances. But you 1
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: ,
I “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 to go back of me—say to ;
Confucius or beyond—to find that
out.”
Winton was silent for a moment, i
balancing his spoon on the tip of his <
finger. Finally he said; "I hope you 1
did what you could to make it pleas- 1
ant for her—not that there was much l
to be done in such a God-forsaken
chaos as a construction camp.”
“1 did. And 1 didn’t hear her com- i
plain of the chaos. She seemed as in- (
terested as a school girl—particularly i
in your sketches.”
“That was low-down in you. Morty.
I wouldn’t have shown you up that (
way.”
Adams chuckled reminiscently. “Had <
to do it to make my dav-before-yester- <
day lie hold water. And she was im- ;
mensely taken with the scrawls, es- ,
pecially with one of them.”
i Winton flushed under the bronze.
“I suppose I don't need to ask which j
t one.”
, Adams' grin was a measure of his ,
complacence, lie was coming off l «
easier than he had anticipated. <
“Well, hardly.”
“She took i: away with her?’ ' 1
“r.*ook it. or tore it up, I forget !
which. ’
Winton’s look was that of a man •
distressed. 1
"Tell me, Morty, was she very an- '
gry?” I
The teehnologian 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.”
(To be continued.)
Trustee’s Sale
■Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned ns trustee in a certain deed
of trust executed by E. A. Hulsey and
Lela Hulsey, his wife, on the 9th day
of November. 1905, in favor of E. H.
J Williamson, said deed of trust being
! now of record in Hook K2, page 507. of
! the. recoi.'i j 's otlicc of Independence
. cojinf y. A rka> s iwill, at the request
j of the legal holder of said indebted
j ness, which is now past due and un
paid, on
SATURDAY. 1 Killfr A liY 9, 1907,
Between the ! mis of lo o'clock a. it.
and 3 p. m. offer for sale at public out
cry, to tbe last and highest bidder for
cash, at the trout door of the postotlice
in the town ol Newark, in said county
and state, the following described real
estate, situated in tlie said county of
Independence and stah of Arkansas,
to-wit: A part of the west half of lot
j litre (3).of the northeast quarter of
! section five (5) township twelve (12) N
11. 4 W., more fully described as l'ul
lows; Beginning it the northeast cor
ner ot Jesse Seward's land, thence
south thirteen degrees west 1924 links;
jlieL ce south >7 degrees east 44(i links
to Elisha Robertson's laud; thence
i north 23 degrees east 192 links; thence
i north 85 degrees west485 links to place
| of beginning, <•■ ntaiaing eiglitytwo
I onebundredeths *2-100 of an acre,
more or less, lor 11,c purpose of satis
fying said debt, interest and costs
Given under my hand as such trustee
this 8th day of •kuiuary, 1907.
S. A. Moohh, Trustee.
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