Show TORY C c F 7 osos A FOOL FOO L FOR F LOVE LOVIE 0 0 by y FRANCIS RANC S ty LYNDE DE at author Autho hr of th the r graffe et s et etc A 9 W coper b 3 P L pp neo t co boj jaw CHAPTER I 1 it was a december morning the missouri december ot of mild tempera tures and saturated skies and the chicago alton a fast train dripping tram from the rush rugh through the wet night bad had steamed baisl ly to ita terminal in the union station at kansas city amo men one smoking a short pipe and the other snapping the ash from a scented cigarette stood aloot aloof from the hurrying throngs on the platform looking on with the measured interest of those who are in a melee but not of it more delay said the glancing at his watch we are ars over an hour late now do we get any a of it back on the run to denver the pipe er shook his bead hardly I 1 should say the limited Is a pretty heavy train to pick up lost time bu it won t make adv lar difference the western connee eions all wait tor for the limited and we shall reach the seat of war to morrow night according to the boston itinerary mi morton P kadams flung aa am ay the unburned halt half of his cigarette and iii masker asket a yawn behind his hand it its s no end of 0 a bore winton and that is the plain tact fact he protested I 1 think the governor owes me something I 1 worried through the tech because he insisted thatIs that I 1 should hould have a profession and now I 1 am go lug ing in tor for fiel cell I 1 work with you in a howling winter minter wilderness because he insists on a practical demonstration humph it its s too bad about you laid said the other ironically Hs 19 was a fit figure of a man clean cut and vl via orous drous from the steadfast 0 ot of the gray eyes and the close clip of the van an dyck beard to the square finger alps of the strong hands and his smile was ot of good natured contempt As you say it Is an outrage on filial corn com plaisance all the same with the right af f way fight in prospect quartz creek creel anyon lanyon may not prove to be such a valley alley of dry bones as a look out chere the shifting eugine had cut a car tom the rear of the lately arrived al on anaw and was as sending it down the out pound track to a coupling with the Crans transcontinental continental limited adame adams stepped back and let it miss him by a hand s breadth and as the car was passing winton read the name on the panelling the rosemary somebody s 20 ton private outfit that cooks our last chance of making up any lost time be tween this and to morrow he broke brok off abruptly on the square rear observation platform of the vate car were three ladies one of 0 them was small and blue eyed with wavy little puffs of snowy hair peep ing eat out under her dainty widow widows a cap another was small and blue eyed with wavy masses of flaxen hair caught up from a face which might have seved as a model tor for the most exquisite bisque figure that ever came out cot 01 france but 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 clear skinned brown eyed a very goddess fresh from the bath in winton s in slant summing up of her and her crown of red gold hair helped out the simile now thus tar far in his thirty year pil gr images john winton man and boy had lived the intense life of a work ing hermit so far as the gods and goddesses were conter concerned ned yel yet he had a pang of disappointment or I 1 hinted sy or something akin to 10 both when adams lifted his hat to t this particular goldess and was re warded by a little cry of recognition she Is a friend of jours ours then he said when adams had taken the bait ed hook open eyed the modified the as gumption inot quite in your sense of the word I 1 fancy I 1 met her a number of times at the houses houes of mutual friends in boston she vi as studying at the con atory but she isn t a bostonian Bost onlan said winton confidently miss virginia hardly she Is a carteret of ot the Cart erets virginia born bred and named stunning girl isn t she no said winton shortly resent ing the slang for no leason reason that he could hive 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 she has winged 0 o i it sight I 1 suppose as she does most men then he added calmly its it s no go what s no go 9 adams la ched unfeelingly lou ovi demind me of the table fable arout the ie id hid ng no didn dian t I 1 see you ng it her as it ou were about to hava BO but it is just as I 1 tell yo i its it s no go she isn t the mir marrying I 1 ind it if you knew her shed she d bo be nice to 3 ou till she got a good hance chance to flay yo i alive areil creil it of growled wilton winton presently As I 1 was saying the would mia mi the chance of marrying the best man in the world for the sake of taking a rise but of him more over she comes of old cavalier stock with an english earldom at the back of it and she Is inordinately proud of the tact fact while yo i er you ve given me to understand under stani stan I 1 that you are a man of th people haven t you youa winton nodded absently well that settles it definitely was the bostonians Bost onlan s comment miss car is of the sani san azure the man who marries her will have to know la s grandfather grandfathers s middle name pame and a good bit more besides winton s laugh mas n as mockingly good natured lou ou have missed your calling by so something methIn more than a hand s breadth mort you should have been a novel 1st give you a spike and a cross tie and you d infer a whole railroad but sou pique my curiosity where are these american royalties of yours go ing in the rosemary 9 to california the car belongs to mr somerville parrah darrah who is vice president and manager in tact fact of the colorado grand river road the rajah they call him he is a rela tive of the Lart Cart erets and the party is on its way to spend the winter on the pacific coast and the little lady in the widow widows s cap is she miss Cart erets mother miss bessie carteret s mother kind und miss virginia s aunt she Is the chap eron eror vi inton was silent while the lim cited was roaring through a village on the kansas side of the river I 1 have heard somewhat of the ra jah he s id half musingly in fact I 1 know him by sight he is what the 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 tor for us it 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 I 1 ready occupied by i i branch of the he colorado grand river still I 1 don t see why there should be any scrap don t jou oua 1 I if the kajah rajah s road can keep the new lit lire e out of carbonate till the six months hae haie expired it will have a monopoly of all the carry ing trade of the camp by consee ence it can torce every shipper in the dis brict to make iron clad contracts so that when the utah line Is finally corn com plated it wont won t be able to secure any freight tor for a year at least oho cho the game Is if I 1 be gin to savvy the burro that s the prop er phrase isu t it ita and what are our cha chances aces we have about one in a hundred as near aa I 1 could make out from mr hallowell Cal lowell s statement of the case the C G R people are moving heaven and earth to obstruct us in the can yon it if they can delay the work a lit tie longer the ther weather will do the rest with the first heavy snow in the mountains which usually comac long before this the utah will have to put up its tools and wait till next summer adams lighted another cigarette pardon me if I 1 am inquisitive he said but for the life of me I 1 cant caul understand what these can do of course they can t use force winton s smile was grim can cant t wait till you get on the ground but the first move NA as e enough they got an injunction from the courts restraining the new line from encroaching on their right ol 01 way which was a thing that nobody wanted to do said adams between inhalation inhalations which was a thing the utah had to do corrected the canyon is a narrow gorge a mere slit in parts of it this Is where they have us oh well I 1 s we took an all appeal and asked to have the in junction set aside we did promptly and that Is the present status of the fight the appeal decision his not yet been handed down and in the meantime we go on building railroad incurring all the pen allies for contempt of court with evera ever ful of earth moved do k I 1 ca 1 1 1 lit 6 WINTON TURNED AND WALKED AWAY tell me rile mure more about this mysterious jangle we are heading tor for he re joined have I 1 enlisted for a soldie when I 1 thought I 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 pod poel et mem oran brandum durn and 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 ot of the C G R on a joint track agreement which either line may terminate by giving six months notice of its intention to the other got thata fo have and to hold said adams go on well on the first day ot of september the C G R people gave the utah management notice to quit they are bloated monopolists sal I 1 adams sententiously still I 1 don t see why there should be any s st ap pin ping over the line in quartz creek cannon noa you are not up in listic meth in six months from september 1st the utah people will be shut out of carbonate b siness which is all that keeps that part of their line alive it if they want a share of that traffic after march 1st they vill have to have a road of their own to carry it over precisely said adams stifling a awn they are building one aren they trying to winton amended but unfortunately the only practical route through the mountains is up quartz creel canyon and the canyon Is al iou ou still think ou will be in bange of adams let the question rest ahil he asi ed one ol 01 his own how flow do you come to be mixed up in it jacka A week ago some one told me coif were going to south america to build a railroad in the andes what swathed swi thed youa winton his head fate 1 I guess that and a wire tro m dent fallowell Cal dal lowell of the utah offering me this chief of construction evarts in charge of the worl in quartz creek canyon said what you said a few minutes ago that he had not hired out for a soldier he resigned and I 1 m taking hia his berth kaarns rose and buttoned his coat by all ot of which it seems that we two are in for a good bit more than thlin the he ossifying exile he remarked and then I 1 am going back into the hose rose ary to pay my respects to miss I 1 lr ir finla certai et won t tou ou come along 9 no said baid IN inton more shortly than the invitation warranted and the tech no logian went his way alone CHAPTER 11 me sah private can cah sah it was the porter s challenge in the vestibule of 0 the rosemary adams found a card take that to miss carteret miss virginia Vl iginia carteret Lar he directed and waited till the man came back with his welcome the extension extrusion table in the open rear third of the private car vas claued cb sed to its dimensions and the movable li it were disposed about the compartment to make it a comfortable lounging room TO arp I 1 MJ WUI A |