A FOOL FOR LOVE
By FRANCIS LYNDE
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(Copyright, lSW5,t>j j i». Lippincou Co.)
i CHAPTER I.
*r was a December morning—the
Mifteouri December of mild tentpet -
tur^:, and saturated skies- and r
Chicago & Alton’s fast train, drippi
iroi^i the rush through the we: ni ht
had steamed briskly to its terminal in
the I'nion station at Kansas City
•’Kv.'o men, one smoking a shot’
and the other snapping the ash r t, j
scented cigarette, stood aloof f,,,Ul r*p.
hurrying throngs ,,n tin ,;1
looking on with the mea--tired inter
■of those who are in . melee but not
of Id
“More delay,'* said the oigar.-rti
glancing.at his wnuh. d’.< r. ov-r
*a hour late now. n( we gc ,u. t
Jt back bn (he run to Denver':’
The pipe smoker -in • , ins ,
hardly, I shotil i sa\ The ‘Limited’
is a pretty heat / u in o dck up lost
time. But it won * niaki an; particu
lar difference. The western connec
tions ail waft for tin ‘Limited, and
we shall reach the seat of war to
morrow night, according to the Boston
itinerary.
Mr. Morton P Adams flung away the
unburned half t hi.- cigarette and
masked a yawn behind his hand.
“It's no end of a bore, Winton, and
that is the plain, unlacquered fact, ho*
protest jd. "1 think the governor owes
me something. I worried through the
Tech because he insisted that I should
have a profession; and now 1 am go
ing iu for field work with you In a
bowling winter wilderness because he
Insists on a practical demonstration.
I shall ossify out there in those moun
tains. it’s written in the book.'1
“Humph! it’s too bad about you,”
enid the other, ironically. He was a
fit figgre of a man, clean-cut and vig
orous, from the steadfast outlook of
the gray eyes and the close clip of the
Van Dyck beard to the square finger
tips of the strong hands, and his smile
suis of good-natured contempt. "As
ou say, it is an outrage on filial com
. laisance All the cine, with th“ right
of-way tight in prospect. Quartz Creek
canyon may not pro\e to be such a
valley of dry bones as— Look out,
there!”
The shifting engine had cut a car
from the t ear of the lately at rived Al
ton, and was sending i’ down the out
bound track to a coupling with the
spicuous, loudly stylish shoes, |
because they are worn by the
many.
Tne “good." sign in
shoes is
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Transcontinental "l.imteiV' Adams
s; < ‘ptierl back "and lei it miss him by
■' hand s-t readth, and as the car was
la i \\ im m read the name on the
panel ling.
I hi* 'Koseniary;” someb dy's 2(K
ton private outsit That cooks our last
*i> *‘ of making tip any iost time be
t vri ti this and to-morrow—”
II • bi-oki* off abruptly. On tlte square
r ir obaen 'ti»m platform of the pri
vate ear vere three ladies. One of
them win small and blue-eyed, with
wavy lime puffs of sinfwy hair peep
ing out under imr dainty widow's cap.
Another was small and blue-eyed, with
wav> masses of flaxen hair caught up
from a lace which mieht have served
as i model for the most exquisite
bisque figure that ever came out of
l':'l! ,e. it it Winton saw only the
third.
She was taller than either of her
companions—-tall and straight and
lithe a charming embodiment of
health and strength and beauty; cdear
sklnned, brown-eyed—a very goddess
fresh front the byth, in Winton’s in
stant summing-up of her. and her
ti t'vii if red-gold hair helped out tKb
simile.
Now Ihm far in his thirty-year pil
grimages John Winton, man and boy,
had lived the intense life of a work
ing hermit so far as the social gods
and goddesses were concerned. Yet
he had a pang—of disappointment or
pointed jealousy, or something akin to
both—when Adams lifted his hat to
this particular goddess, and was re
warded by a little cry of recognition,
and stepped up to the platform to be
presented to the elder and younger
bisques.
So, as we say. Winton turned and
walked away as one left out, feeling
one moment as though he had been
defrauded of a natural right, and de
riding himself the next, as a sensib'e
man should. After a kit he was able
to laugh at the "sudden attack,” as he
phrased it, but later, when he ana
Adams were settled for the day-long
run in the Denver sleeper, and the
“Limited" was clanking out over the
switches, he brought the talk around
with a carefully assumed air of Jack
interest to the party in thv* private
car.
"She is a friend of yours, then'.’’ he
said, when Adams had taken the bait
ed hook open-eye:]
The technologlan modified the as
sumption.
Not quite in your sense of the word^,
I fancy. I met her a number of times
at the houses of mutual friends in ^
Boston. She was studying at the con
servatory."
"But site isn’t a Bostonian,”' said
Winton, confidently.
• Miss Virginia?—hardly. She is 'a
Carteret of the Carterets; Virginia
born, bred, anti named. Stunning girl,
isn’t she?”
"No,” said Winton, shortly, resent
ing the slang for no reason that he
could have set forth in words.
Adams lighted another of the
scented villainies, and his clean-shaven
face wrinkled itself into a slow smile.
"Which means that site has winged
you at sight, I suppose, as she does
most men.” Then he added, calmly:
Its no go.”
"What’s no go ?”
Adams laughed unfeelingly.
"You remind me of the table about
the head-hiding ostrich. Didn't 1 see
you staring at her as if you were
about to have a fit? But it is just
as r tell you; it’s no go. She isn't
the marrying kind. If you knew her.
she’d he nice to you till she got a
good chance to flay you alive—”
“Break it off!” growled Winton.
‘Presently. As 1 was saying, she
would miss the chance of marrying the
best man in the world for the sake
of taking a rise out of him. More-,
nvor. stie comes of old cavalier stock |
with an English earldom at the back
of it, and she is inordinately proud of
the fact; while you—er—you've given
rue to understand that you are a man
oi the people, haven't you
Winton nodded absently. It was one
of bis minor fads to ignore his lineage,
which ran decently back to a colonial
governor on his father's side, and to
assert that he did not know his grand
fathers middle name—which was ac
counted for by the very simple fact
that the elder Winton had no middle
name.
■ Well, that settles.it definitely,” was
ihe Bostonian s comment. "Miss Car
teret is of the sang azure. The man who
marries her will have to know his
grandfather’s middle name—and a
good hit more besides.”
Winton’s laugh was mockingly good
natured.
^ on hgve missed your calling by
somethin': more than a hand’s-breadth
Morty. rid should have been a novel
ist. Give you a spike and a cross-tie
and you'd infer a whole railroad. But
you pique ntjr curiosity. Where are
these Americ an royalties of yours .go
ing in the Rosemary.?” J
io California. The car belongs to
Mr. Somerville Darrah, who is vice
president and manager in fact of the
Colorado & Grand River road; the
‘Rajah, they call him. He is a rela
WINTON TURNED AND WALKED
AWAY.
tive of the Carteret s and the party ft*
on its way to spend the winter on the
Pacific coast.”
‘And the little lady in the widow's
cap; is she Miss Carteret’s mother?”
“Miss Bessie Carteret’s^ mother and
Miss Virginia's aunt. She is the chap
eron.”
Win ton was silent while the "Lim
ited” was roaring through a village on
the Kansas side of the river. When
he spoke again it was not of the .Car
te rets; it was of the Carterets’ kins
man and host.
“I have heard somewhat of the Ra
jah,” he said, half musingly. ”ln fact,
I know him, by sight. He is what th»
magazinists are fond of calling an
’industry colonel,’ a born leader who
has fought his way to the front. If
the Quartz Creek row is anything
more than a stiff bluff on the part of
the C. & G. R. it will be quite as well
for us if Mr. Somerville Darrah is
safely at the other side'of the conti
nent—and well out of reach of the
wires.”
Adams came to attention with a
half-hearted attempt to galvanize an
interest in the business affair.
“Tell me more about this mysterious
jangle we are heading for,” he re
joined. “Have 1 enlisted for a soldier
when I thought 1 was only going into
peaceful exile as an assistant engineer
of construction on the Utah Short
Line?”
" That remains to be seen.” Win
ton took a leaf from his pocket mem
orandum tind drew a rough outline
map. “Here is Denver, and here is
Carbonate,” he explained. "At present
the Utah is running into Carbonate
this way over the rails of the C. &
G. K. on a joint track agreement which
either line may terminate by giving
six months’ notice of its intention to
the other. Got that?”
"To have and to hold,” said Adame.
“Go on.”
“Well, on the first day of September
the C. & G. K. people gave the Utah
management notice to quit.”
“They are bloated monopolists,” said
Adams, sententiously. “Still, 1 don't
see why there should be any scrap
ping over the lino in Quartz Creek
canvon.”
“No? You are not up in monopo
listic methods. In six months from
September 1st the Utah people will
be shut out of Carbouate business,
which is all that keeps that part, of
their line alive. If they want a share
of that traffic after March 1st, they
will have to have a road of their own
to carry it over.” 4
“Precisely,” said Adams, stifling a
yawn. “They are building one, aren't
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“Trying to,” Winton amended. "But,
unfortunately, the only practical route
through the mountains is up Quartz
Crepk canyon, and the canyon is al
ready occupied by a branch of the Col
orado & Grand River.”
"Still, I don’t see why there should
be any scrap.”
“Don’t you? If the Rajah's road can
keep the new line out of Carbonate
till the six months have expired, it
will have a monopoly of alf the carry
ing trade of the camp. By consequence
it can force every shipper in the dis
trict to make iron-clad contracts, so
that when the Utah line is finally com
pleted it won't be able to secure any
freight for a year at least.”
“Oho! that’s the game, is it? I be
gin to savvy the burro: that’s the prop
er phrase, isn’t it? And what are our
chances?”
“We have about one in a hundred,
as near as I could make out front Mr.
Callowell’s statement of the case. The
C. & G. it. people are moving heaven
and earth to obstruct us in the can
yon. If they can delay the work a lit
tle longer, the weather will do the
rest. With the first, heavy snow in
the mountains, which usually comes
long before this, the Utah will have to
put up its topis and wait till next
summer.”
Adams lighted another cigus'ette.
“Pardon me if 1 am inquisitive,” he
said, “but for the life of me I can’t
understand what these obstructionists
can do. Of course, jhey can’t use
force.”
Winton’s smile was grim. "Can't
they? Wait till you get on the ground.
But the first move was peaceab.e
enough. They got an injunction trom
the courts restraining the new line
from encroaching on their right, of
way.”
“Which was a tiling that nobody
wanted to do,” said Adams, between
inha'aUoris.
' Which was a thing the Utah had to
do,’ collected Wmtoj. “The canyon
is a, narrow gorge—a mere slit in parts
of it.*- This is where they have us."
“Oh, well; l s ippos we took an
j appeal and asked to have the in
junction s#t aside?”
“We did, promptly; and that, is the
; present status of the fight. The appeal
decision has not yet been handed
down; and in the meantime we go on
building railroad, incurring all the pen
alties for <.ontempt of court with
every shovelful of earth moved. Do
you stiil think you will be in danger
of ossifying?”
Adams let the question re t while he
| asked one of his own.
“How do you come to be mixed up
in it. Jack? A week ago some out*
told me you were going to South
America to build a railrqad in tho
Andes. What switched you?’
Winton shook his head. “Fate, I
guess; that and a wire from Presi
dent Callowell, of the Utah, offering
me this. Chief of Construction Fvarts,
in charge of the work in Quartz Creek
canyon, said what you said a few
; minutes -ego—that he had not hired
i out for a soldier. He resigned, and
! 1’iji taking his berth.”
rlUiums rose and buttoned his coat.
City Directory, i
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MUNICIPAL OKKICKK8
Mayor, M. L. Arnold,
Recorder, E. W. Madness,
Treasurer, O. E. Craig,
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Aldermen:- F. C. Hoyf, R. B. Ad
j inis, G. O. Madness, C. M. Edwards
and W. C. Mims.
Council meets tirst Monday night in
eaelf month.
CIIUKCIIKH
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
m and 7:30 p. in. the second and fourth
Sundays in each month. Rev. C. H.
Newman, pastor.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before lirst Sunday, and
a. in. tirst Sunday in each month.
Rev. W. 1*. Jackson, pastor.
Christian church, services first and.
third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Hev. J. II. McDon
iel, Pastor.
.KKATKKNI I I KN
Dannoily Chapter H. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. 1. <:. Nuckolls,
K. H. P.;T. H. Dearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. A A. M. No. 24#
meets second Saturday night. R. K.
McHenry, W. M.; J. T. Tharp, Sec.
Newark Encampment 1 O. <). F. 4£
meets second and fourth Wednesday
nights. (). <). Moss. C. 1\: G. L. Fink,
Serilie.
Newark Camp W.O.W. No,288 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights iri
month. C. J. Magues:-., O. K.
Craig. Clerk.
Newark Grove W. < . N >. 87 meets
first and third Tuesday i its. Mrs.
C. M. Edwards Guardi m; N. .V.
Speed, Clerk.
Newark Lodge i. O. O. I’. No. 2t>3
| meets the tirst and thud Wednesday
i nights. J. W. Stone, N G : T. M.
| Harrelson,’ Secretary.
Banner Rebekah Lodge No. 1>
| meets every Saturday afternoon at :*
, o’clock. Mrs. T. J. Haney, N. G.; Miss
1 Lucy Lawton, secretary,
i Independence Lodge No. 2379 K. wj
[ L. of II. meets tirst and third Monday
! nights in each month. K. M. Edgar,
| Protector; Zed Griffith, Secretary.
“By all of which it seems that w«
two are in for a good bit more than,
the ossifying exile," he remarked. Ami
then: "1 am going back into the Rose
mary to pay my respects to Miss Vir
ginia Cartaret. Won’t you come along?’*'
“No," said Winton, more shortly than
the invitation warranted; and thetech»
nologian went his way alone. 4
(To be continued.)
Author of Popular Nursery Rhyme.
The familiar nursery rhyme, “Maty
Had a Li:tie Lamb," was written b|i
Mrs. Sarah J. Halo.
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