Show F fi I 1 ajaj Sj STOR aJ I 1 I 1 I 1 asi cl 01 A FOOL FOR LOVE by FRANCIS LYNDE Autho rafters etc 41 W 1905 p V continued thoe who I 1 new her best said it was a warning to be heeded in miss MIs virginia ca when her eyes were downcast aud her voice sank to its softest cadence why certain certainly how simple she said taking her cousin cousins s arm again and the secretary went in to set ohp th wires at work in winton s affair now miss carteret was a woman in every fiber of her but among her gifts she might have counted some that were to say the least feminine one of these was a measure of diacre tion which would have been fairly creditable in a past master of diplo macy so while the sympathetic part of her was crying out for a chance to talk tall winton s threatened danger over with some one she lent herself outwardly to the reverend dillys s mood which was one of scenic enthusiasm this without prejudice to a growing deter mi nation to intervene in behalf of fair play tor for winton it if she could find a way but the way obstinately refused to discover itself the simple thing to do would be to appeal to her uncles uncle s sense of justice it was not like him to fight with ignoble weapons she thought and a tactful word in season might make him recall the order to the superintendent but she could not make the appeal without betraying jastrow she I 1 new well enough that the secretary had no right to show her the telegrams knew also that mr somerville darrah a first word would be a demand to know how she had learned the company s business secrets regarding Hegardt ng jastrow as little aa as a high bred young woman to whom sentiment is as the breath of life can regard a manicho man who is quite devoid of it she was still far enough from the thought of effacing him lo 10 this expedient there was an un hopeful alternative namely the send ing by the reverend billy or in the last resort by herself of a warning message to winton but there were obstacles seemingly insuperably she had not the faintest notion of how such a warning should be addressed and again the operator at argentine was a colorado grand river em aloye doubtless loyal to hia his salt in which case the warning message would never get beyond his waste basket getting too chilly for you out here want to go in ina asked the reverend billy when the scenic enthusiasm be gan to outwear itself no but I 1 am tired of the sentry go part of it ten steps and a turn she confessed lan lant t we walk on the track a little waya way we can trot down and hae hane a look at their construction camp if you like he suggested and thitherward they went it was virginia who first marked the boxed up tent standing on the slope what do you suppose that little house tent Is fora she asked I 1 don t know said calvert then he saw the wires and ventured a which bit hit the mark I 1 didn dian t suppose they would have a telegraph office she commented with hope rising again oh yes they d have to ha hai e a wire one of their own under the circumstances they could hardly use ours no she rejoined absently she was scanning th group of steel han diers in the hope that a young man in a billy cock nat and with a cigar ette between his lips would shortly reveal himself she found him after a time and turned quickly to her cousin there is mr adams down there by the engine do you think he would tome come over and speak to us if he knew we were herec the reverend billys smile was of honest admiration how could you doubt if walt wait here a minute and III call him for you he was gone before she could reply across the ice bridge spanning one ot of the pools and up the rough frozen embankment of the new line there were armed guards here too as well as at the front and one of them halted him at the picket line but adams saw and recognized him and present ly the two were crossing to where vir ginia stood waiting ehert what a little world we live in miss virginia who would hae hane thought of meeting yo yoi i herec said the logian taking her hana at the precise elevation prescribed by good form boston good form fhe shock Is mutual she laughed I 1 must say that you and mr winton have chosen a highly unconventional environment for your sketching field I 1 in down he admitted cheerfully please don t trample on me but really it wasn gasn t all fib jack does do things with a pencil other cither things be sides maps and working profiles I 1 mean wont won t you come over and let me do the honor of the studio with a grandiloquent arm sweep meant to include the construction camp in gen eral and the dinkey caboose in par ocular ji it as the invitation she tilie would have anela I 1 tor for but she was too wise to assent too readily oh no I 1 think we austri t im I 1 m ahmid mr winton might not III e it not like ita it if aull come hell never forgive himself tor for not not being hare here to shoot up the camp for you in person he Is As away you know gone to carbonate for or the day ought we to go cousin billye she asked shifting not the decision but the responsibility tor for it to broader shoulders W why by not it if you care to toa sa d the athlete to whom right of way fights were mere matters of business bu giness in no wise conflicting with the octal ocial amell ameil orations v virginia hesitated there vas a thing to be said to mr adams and tha that without delay but how could she aay ay it with her cousin standing by to make an impossible tard oat out of any attempted duet confidential 7 9 A will dingness to see that winton had fair play need not carry with it an open desertion to the enemy she must not forget to be loyal to her salt and besides mr somerville dan ah a right aou indignation was not lightly to be ignored but the upshot of the hesitant baue was a decision to brave the cons all of them so she took Ca calvert lverts s arm for the slippery crossing of the ice fee bridge once on his own domain adams did the honors of the camp as thorough jy and conscientiously as it if the hour held no care heavier than the enter tain ment of miss virginia carteret oh how comfortable she ex claimed when he had shown her all the space saving contrivances of the field office and this is where you and mr winton work it Is where we eat and sleep cor reeled adams and speaking of eat ing it Is hopelessly the wrong end ef of the day or it would be in boston but our chinaman won t know the dif ference let me have him make you a dish of tea and the order was given before she could protest he could find the word for his alir prise then he tried to turn it off lightly there Is a good bit more of the artist in jack than I 1 have bocen giving him credit for don t you know he must have got the notion for that between two hall hah seconds when you recognized me the platform at kan sas city its N a nd erful t so very wonderful that I 1 think I 1 shall keep it she rejoined pot with out a to ich of austerity then she added mr winton will probably never miss it it if he does you will have to explain the best A ay you can and adams could only say by jove again and busy himself with pouring the tea which ah ali foo had brought in in the nature of things the tea drinking in the stuffy dinkey draw ing room was not prolonged time was flying av irginia a errand of mercy was not yet accomplished and aunt martha la in her capacity of anxious chaperon was not to be forgotten also miss carteret had a feeling that under his well bred exterior mr mor ton P adams was chafing like any barbarian industry captain at this un warrantable intrusion and interrupt Inter rup tion so presently they all forth fared into the sun bright snow blinding out of door world and virginia gathered up her courage and took her dilemma by the horns I 1 believe I 1 have seen everything now except that tent place up there she asserted groping purposefully tor for her opening adams cal ed up another smile of acquiescence ahat la our telegraph office would you baiao caito see ita it the was of ott iose who shirk all or shirk nothing I 1 don t know why I 1 should care to but I 1 do she che replied with charming and child chil dIll lil e willfulness so the three of them trudged up the slippery path to tire operator operators s den on the slope nut not to evade his hospitable duty a any part adams explained the use and need of a front wire and miss carteret was properly interested how convenient she commented f J N W f f CAN YOU END ALL THAT while we are waiting on ah ali fod foci I 1 1 I show you some of jack s sketches I 1 he went on finding a portfolio and opening it upon the drawing board are you quite sure mr winton wont won t minda she asked mind he d gh e a month s pay to be here to show them himself he is peacock vain of his one small accod ment winton vinton Is bores me to it death with it sometimes really was the mocking rejoin der and they began to look at the sketches they were w ere heads most of them IM studies in pencil or pastel with now and then a pen and ink bear ins ing evidence of more painstaking after work they were made on bits of map paper the backs of old letters and not a few on leaves torn from an engineer engineers s note book they don t count for much in an artistic way said adams with the brutal frankness s of a friendly tri endly critic but they will serve to show you that I 1 gasn wasn t all kinds of an embroiderer when I 1 was telling you about winton s proclivities the otner day I 1 t apologize for that it if I 1 were you she retorted it is well past apology dont you think and then what is this ones one they had come to the last of the sketches which was a rude map it was penciled on the leaf of a memo and adams recognized it as the outline winton had made and used in explaining the right of way antan glement it is a map ne lie said one that jack drew day before yesterday when he was trying to make me understand the situation up here I 1 wonder why he kept ftc Is there anything on the other side she turned the leaf and they both went speechless fer to the moment the re reverse erse of the scrap i erosa ruled pa per held a very fair I 1 kness k kt ness of a face which virginias virginia s mirror had often ottense ott enst st portrayed a sl etch setting forth in a few vigorous es of the purcil the impressionists ideal of the gd dess fresh from t e bath by jove exe excia lamed med adams when 7 and you can come up here and tails talk lo 10 anybody you like just as if it were a telephone 9 to anyone in the comp company anys s ice amended adams it Is 1 not a commercial wire then lef let us send a message to mr winton she suggested playing the part of the capricious capric capri lius cius to the very of a pair ot of mischievous eyes III write it and you may sign it adams stretch stretches etl his the necessary additional inch and gave her a pencil and a pad of blank she wrote rapidly 11 ss carteret has been here admiring your drawings ahe he took one of them away with I 1 er and I 1 could t stop her without being rude lou I 1 ou B t laze I 1 ai e done it without asking ler 1 er permission per bermiss misson on bhe she says oil oh dear I 1 am making it awfully long does it cost so much a word no said adam not without an effort he was beginning to be dis disappointed disappoint ea in miss virginia and was wondering in the inner depths oi 01 him what piece of girlish frivol cy ly he was expected to sign and send to his chief meanwhile she went on writing 1 I am to tell you not to get into any fresh trouble not to let anyone else get you into nto trouble by wh ch I 1 inter infer she means that some attempt will be made to keep you irom from returning on tie tl e evening train there can you send all that she asked sweetly bining the pad to the adams read the first part of the let tei length telegram with inward groan inga but the generous purpose of it struck him like a whip blow when he came to the thinly veiled warning also it shamed him tor for his unworthy J judgment of ivirginia I 1 thank you N very ery heartily ear tily alvis carteret he said humbly it shall be ent word tor for word then for tae reverend IN s benefit winton deserves all sorts of i i snubbing for taking liberties with your portrait I 1 it see that he gets more ot of it when he lie comes back TO BE CONTINUED |