Show STORY TOR f isis fb ab A FOOL FOR 0 P LOVE LOVIE O 0 r by y FRANCIS 3 LYNDE ly j author Autho luthr of th the ft s etc t L coper fh 1305 1905 b J P L pp neo tco t co VII continued she turned upon him quickly was it an accident mr jastrow 9 how could it ft be anything else be he inquired mildly I 1 don t know but there was an explosion I 1 heard it S 8 irely uncle somerville Soi nerville wouldn t the secretary shook bis his head no I 1 think you may exonerate mr darrah personally in fact I 1 am quite sure you may but someone planned it you knew it was going to happen you were our ou here watching for it was 11 as 19 the secretary a smile was a mere baring of the teeth his blood was the sycophantic lymph which flows in the veins of those who do murder at a great man mans s nod it Is horribly unfair she went on I 1 understand the sheriff Is here couldn coulden t he have prevented thise jastrow a reply was an evasion ob it a all legal enough that bare place up there is a placer claim sup posing the owners found it necessary to put in a few sticks of dynamite to loosen the frozen ground it is mr winton a misfortune if his railroad happens to be in the way don t you thinka but it was planned beforehand and you knew of it she insisted her eyes were flashing and the secre secretary s desire for possession warmed into something like admiration did if 19 yes you did it would be impolite to contradict you it is more impolite not to answer my question couldn coulden t the sheriff have prevented ita it supposing he didn dian t want to pre vent supposing he men who did it over on bis his train last nighta then I 1 say again it Is horribly un fair the secretary secre s rejoinder was a platitude everything Is fair in love or war but this la Is neither she retorted think not he ald coolly walt wait and nd you 11 see and a word in your ear miss carteret you are one ot of us you know and you t be disloyal I 1 know what you did yesterday after you read those telegrams I 1 irginia a 8 face became suddenly wooden until that moment it had not occurred to her that jastrow a mo live la in showing her the two telegrams might have been carefully calculated I 1 have never given you the right to speak to me that way mr jas strow she said with the faintest pos sible emphasis on the courtesy prefix and with that she turned from him to focus her field glass on the con st ruction camp below at the utah stronghold all was ac of the fiercest winton had raced back with his news of the catas batas and the camp was lalive alive with men clustering like bees and swarm ing upon the flat cars of the material train to be taken to the front fo t while she looked studiously agnor ing the man behind her virginia saw engine come clamor ing up the grade shoving the flats be it losing itself quickly in the doubling of the gulch loop to reappear presently on the scene of the disaster in a twinkling the men were off and at work and the frosty morning air aang with the battle shout at of labor triumphant or meaning to be virginias color rose and ard the brown eyes filled swiftly one part of her ideal her mancul ne ideal was cour age of the sort that rises the higher for reverses so the prompt counter filled her with joy and at the moment winton was as near gaining a partisan as the rajah was to losing one in the open compartment of the rosemary the waiter was laying the plates tor for the early breakfast and bessie and the ceverena Re verena willlam lellam were at the window watching the stirring industry battle now in full swing on the opposite slope virginia joined them isn t it a shame v she said of course I 1 want our side to win but it seems such a piti pit that we can t fight fairly the flaxen haired cousin looked her entire lack of understanding and cal vert said what a shaine thereby eliciting a crisp explanation from N virgin in which she set well founded suspicion in the light of fact touching the cause of the landal de the reverend billy hook his head it was his to deprecate vio lence and he did it such things may be within the law of bL business BIness but they will surely breed bad blood and lear au to reprisals I 1 hope the interruption was the rajah in hia proper person bustling out fierce ly to a conference with his cyrint dons by tacit consent the three at the window fell silent there wag was battle and murder and sudden death in the rajah rajahs s eye I 1 the event for which they waited did not linger there was a hasty muster ing of armed men under the windows of the rosemary and they heard sheriff deckert a low voiced instruct eions to bis his posse taip it slow and easy toy toys and t f don t get rattled its the laa ina sty of the law against i mil mb and the ilas 1 wont won t fight it comes to a sli slier ur down keep ill jil ht P with the car aa as long as aou ou can lucre there aint ain t going to be a shot find from up onder fonder ao 0 o long ong as there theres s a chance of hitting taa car instead of you low now then guns to the front beeady th the ae reverend billy rose and the veins in his forehead fore licad stood out ille e v hip cords what are 3 0 oi i going to do said virginia she was standing too and her hand dembling rem bling a little was en n hia his arm th clerical meekness in the ath lete a renly was ras conspicuous by its ab sence bence I 1 in going to give winton a tip if its it a the last thin thing I 1 ever do they 11 rush ruh him like a rat in a corner she shook her head and pointed eastward to the mouth of the thin lateral gulch under cover of a clump of fir scrub a man in a wide flapped hat and leather breeches was climbing swift ly to the level of the new line cau can piously waving a handkerchief as a peace token that Is the man who 1 arrested mr winton ic et erday this time he Is going to fight on oil the other side hell he 11 carry the warning think 0 said calvert I 1 am sure of it open the window please I 1 want to see better As yet there was no sign of tion on the embank embankment nent for the e moment the arms of the track force e were laid aside and every man w r I 1 plying pick or shovel as if his life de on the amount of earth he e could add to the re forming dump in a given number of minutes winton was in the thick of the pick and shovel melee urging it on when biggin ran up HI III be he shouted fixin to take another play day in carbonate 9 bookee down yonder winton loot 1001 ed and came alive to 1 04 1 ji 0 ax A I 1 ai S 1 COME DOWN BELLOWED S the possibilities in the turning of a leaf guns he yelled and at the word of command the tools were flung aside and the track force oer over strong became an army not with banners but well withal winton snapped oat out his orders it 1 te a martinet major of drill sq lads mulcahy take half the men and go up the grade till you can rake fellows without hitting the car branagan you take the other halt half and go down along till you can cirss fire with mulcahy aim low both of you and the man who fires before he gets the word from me will break his neck at a rope ropes s end fall in by jove said adams are you going to resist that spells felony doesn doean t it ita pointed to the waiting octo pod I 1 m going to order the down out of the way QU on may go with her if you like I 1 guess not the tech nolo glan calmly lighting a 9 fresh cigar ette and then to the water boy who was acting quartermaster give me a rifle and a cartridge belt chunky and t it stay here with the boss and where do I 1 come inc said biggin reproachfully you 11 stay out it your head a level you i e done enough now to send pend you to canyon city if anybody cares to take it up heavens and earth man do jou ou forget that you are a sworn officer of the lawa I 1 ain aln t a forgetting tor for gettin nothing sa d peter cheerfully casting himself flat behind a heap of earth on the dump edge and a fighting ight ing one section of his hip battery over the breastwork Preas winton pounced upon him gasping here you fire eater aou ou austn t shoot he protested it s 8 only a long bluff and I 1 m going to raise the limit so those fellows cant can t come in there are ladies in that car you play our blufe hand and lemme alone said the ex cowboy I 1 ira m jest lest gola to hae ha v e a little fun with old bart deckert the qun un a a shin in tt was at this moment while the t J ft a pos e was picking its way gin erty erly ovel the loose rock and earth dam P fin tied uy oy tl e landslide that tha the window vf 4 t up in the rosemary and winton saw v anit without mean ing to she gave f t a hia ill battle word while she looked on ii would fight to win and that without viol violence eilee we ne are a dozen winchen Win cheSi rs to your one mr deckert and we shill resist force with force order your men in en or will be trouble winton stood out on the edge of the cutting a solitary figure where a few minute before the earth had been flying from a hundred shovels the sheriff a reply was an art order but not for retreat hes he a one of the men we want cover him ha he commanded and vir ginia caught her breath was she to see him shot down before her eyes happily the tragedy was only poten hat unless the public occasion ap peals strongly strong 3 to the sympathies or the passions a picked up sheriff sheriffs a posse la Is not likely to have very good metal in it winton was covered by three or four of the guns pointed awk ana peter biggin laughed don t be no ways nervous he said in an aide to winton them probes ventry chumps couldn coulden t hit the aide side 0 pacific peak winton held his ground waiting the turn ot of events and looking on not without interest while the sheriff tried to drive h a men up a bare slone commanded by rifles to right and left the attempt was a humiliating I 1 allure being something less than soldiers trained to do or die the deau ties hung bach back to a man hugging tae back grounding shelter of the kose rose mary as if they were shackled to the private car by invisible chains virginia standing a ai the open win dow and trembling with excitement could not forbear a smile it was too in mich ich lor for the sheriff the added straw and his exhortation to his foot pobo burst into caustic profanity where upon mr peter biggin rose up in his place took careless aim and sent a bullet to plow a little farrow furrow tn in the ice fee and frozen snow within an inch of i beckert s heels ex cuse me bart he drawled but no cuss words don t go in this here highly moril show they pains us extreme under ordinary circumstances the sheriff would have replied to mr big gins gin s sal ita ion in kind As it was be he ignored peter biggin as a person who chuh gul I 1 V argued with at leisure and turned his attention to winton come down he bellowed winton laughed the tide had turned and he knew it let me return the invitation coma come up and you may read your warrants wan wari ants to us all day the crisis was past deckert with drew his men and at winton s signal the track layers came in and the earth began to fly again virginia sighed her relief and be sie plucked up courage to go to the window which she had deserted in the moment of impending battle oh it it I 1 wish uncle somerville llla would tal tale e us away she gasped can t you persuade peu suade him Virginia 9 try said virginia gravely foreseeing future tragic situations too terrifying to be witnessed breal fast is served announced tha the waiter as calmly as if the morning meal were the only matter of bohse quence in a world of happenings they gathered aboudi the table a silent trio made presently a quartette by the advent of nar mrs carteret who from having her stateroom on the peaceful side of the rosemary had neither seen nor heard anything a il of the warlike episode 1 ith w which aich the da had begun le |