| Show 11 S THE REAL MAN S By FRANCIS LYNDE Copyright by Chas Scribners Scribner's Sons WHAT HAPPENED J. J Montague Smith c cashier of the Bank Trust Co young society leaders popular r bachelor engaged to marry Verda heiress and destined to be bo one of the towns town's leading citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens became Innocently Involved in a dishonest bank loan W Watrous trous Dunham president of the bank tried to shift the blame to Smith who refused to be tho the scapegoat When Dunham drew a pistol to threaten him Smith struck the tho president a blow over the heart and left him for dead S I CHAPTER II Continued li 2 2 Good ju Judges on the working floor of or orthe the Lawrenceville Athletic club had said of the well muscled young bank cashier ashler that he did not know his own strength It was the sight of the pistol that mad maddened ened him and put the driving force behind the smashing blow that landed lande upon the bl big mans man's chest The Tho lifted pistol dropped from Mr Watrous Dunhams Dunham's grasp and he wilted settling back Into his chair and then slipping sUpping to the floor In a n flash Smith knew new what he had Imd done Once one evening when he had been Induced to put on the gloves with the Athletic clubs club's trainer he had contrived contrived contrived con con- to plant a body blow which had sent the wiry little Irishman to the mat gasping and fighting for the breath of life If ever be givin givina a a- aman man that punch heart-punch wId th Ui bate bare l l Us you fr ir th train to buy anny ticket ticket ticket-it'll It'll be murther in the first degree the trainer had said when he had breath to compass the saying With the unheeded warning resurgent resurgent gent and clamoring In his ears Smith knelt stricken horror-stricken beside the fallen I man On the presidents president's heavy face face and In the staring eyes there was vas a foolish smile as of one mildly ly aston aston- Smith loosened the collar around the thick neck and laid his ear upon the spot where here the blow had fallen The big mans man's heart had stopped like a smashed clock Smith got upon his feet turned of oft the electric light and from mere force of habit closed and snap locked the presidents president's desk The watchman had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet et returned Smith saw the empty chair beside the vault door as he lie passed It O on his way to the street The cashiers cashier's only thought was to go at once to police headquarters and give himself up Then he remembered how carefully the trap had been set and how hon Impossible It would b be for him to tomake tomake make malte any reasonable defense se With one glance ove his shoulder at atthe atthe atthe the darkened front windows of the bank Smith began to run not toward the police poUce station but In the opposite direction toward direction toward the railroad station For J. J Montague Smith slipping sUpping from shadow to shadow down the scantily lighted cross street and listening momentarily momentarily momentarily mo mo- for the footfalls of pursuit a new hour had struck It was all nIl prodigiously incredible The crow crowding sensations were terrifying but the they were also precious in their way Long- Long forgotten bits of brutality and tyranny on Watrous Dunhams Dunham's part came up to tobe tobe tobe be remembered and In this retributive aftermath to be triumphantly crossed off as items in an account finally set set- tIed On the Smith side the tile bank cashiers cashier's cashiers cashier's cash cash- ier's forebears had been plod plodding farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers but old John Montague had been the village blacksmith and a soldier soldier- a n shrewd in both trades Blood t I S I S Li i I 0 rr 1 i. i t I Smith Knew What He Had Done ul tv-ul 1 tell Parental may have much to say to the fruit of the A vomb but atavism has more Smiths Smith's Jaw came up with a snap He was no an Indistinguishable unit In the ranks of the respectable and the well well- behaved he heas was as a U man Inan fleeing for his life What was done was done ald tho the next next thing to do was to avert the consequences At the railroad station statton a few early comers corners for the west-bound west passenger train due at ten o'clock were already gathering and at nt the bidding of a certain I tam tain new and militant craftiness Smith avoided the lighted waiting rooms as ast f t they held the pestilence A string o of ox cars had hart been pushed up from the unloading freight platforms recently and In the shadow of or the tho cars he lie rl tJ Bis cIs way westward to the ytm yard n rd where a n night switching crew was making mak- mak ing ng up 1 n train Keeping to the sha shadows he walked back along the line of cars on the up make track alertly seeking his op op- op- op way Half-way down the length of f the train lIe he found what he lie was looking for a box car with Its sl edoor ha pe 1 but not locked With a bit of stick tick to lengthen his reach rench he unfastened unfastened ened the hasp and at the switching g crews crew's addition of another car to the up make he took advantage nd of the noise made by the jangling crash and slid lid the door Then he lie ascertained by groping into the dark Interior that the car was empty empt With a n foot on the truss rod he lie climbed in and at the I next coupling crash closed the door I CHAPTER III The High Hills The Nevada through freight was two hours late Issuing from the western portal mortal of TIman canon Through h the he early mountain-climbing mountain hours of the he nl night ht and the later flight across the Red fled desert the dusty travel-grimed travel oung young fellow In the empty box car midway midway midway mid mid- way of of the train had slept soundly with the hard car floor for a bed and his folded coat for a n pillow But the tho sudden cessation of the crash and roar of the shut-In shut mountain passage awoke him ilm and he lie got up to open the door and look ook out It lt was still sUll no la later ter than n a lazy mans man's breakfast time and the May morning was perfect Over the top of the eastern eastern east east- ern era range rang the sun was looking level- level ra rayed ed Into a parked valley vaHey bounded on au all sides by high spurs and distant snow peaks In Its nearer reaches the valley was dotted with round hills some of them bare otters dark with mountain pine and fir From the tim outer of the curves the young tramp nt at the car door ha had momentary glimpses of the n a mountain torrent In Its canon and the swiftest of upland rivers riv rh ers even here where it had the valley In which to expand A switchman switchman switchman switch switch- S man had hod tol told him that the railroad di division division division di- di vision town of Brewster lay Iny at the end of the nights night's run in a n river valley beyond beyond be be- yond rond the eastern and that the situation of the irrigation project which was advertising for laborers In Inthe inthe inthe the Denver newspapers was a n few miles up the tho river from Brewster As the train swept along on Its way down the grades the valley became more open and the prospect broadened At one of the promontory the car box passenger had hod a glimpse of a built shack construction camp on the rivers river's margin some distance on ahead A concrete dam was rising In sections out of the river and dominating dominating ing the dam clam and amI the shacks two steel step towers with a carrying cable stretched between them formed the piers of the aerial spout conveyer er for the placing of the material in the forms The train made no stop at the construction construction construction con con- si siding but a mile farther along the brakes began to grind and the speed was slackened Sliding the car door another foot or Ol two the young oung tramp with the week old stubble beard beardon on his face leaned out to look ahead His opportunity was at hand A block semaphore was turned against the tho freight and the train was slowing in inobe obe obedience to the signal Waiting until the brakes shrilled again the tramp put his shoulder to the sliding door sat for a moment in the wider opening and then swung oft off Ills His alighting was upon one of the promontory embankments T To the westward where the curving cur railroad track was lost in the farther windings of the river lay Iny the little intermountain tam tain city of Brewster a few of its higher buildings showing cut clear-cut In Inthe inthe inthe the distance Paralleling the railroad on a lower level and nearer the river rivera a 4 dusty wagon road pointed in one di direction direction direction di- di toward the town and In the theother theother theother other toward the construction camp The young man who ho had hind crossed four states and the better part of a n fifth as asa asa asa a fugitive and vagrant turned his back upon the distant town as a place to be avoided a Scrambling down the tho railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road embankment he be made his way to the wagon road rood crossed it and ond kept kepton on until he came to the fringe of aspens aspenson on tho the rivers river's edge where he lie broke althe al un the traditions by stripping of oft off the worn travel-worn clothes and and plunging In to take a bath The water being melted snow from the range was Icy cold and It stabbed like knives Nevertheless It was wet and some Home part of the travel dust at nt least was soluble in it lIe He came out glowing but a thorn from his hits well-groomed well pas past came caine upland pricked him when be he had to put the soiled clothes on again asnin There was no present help for that however and five minutes later he had hud regained the road and was on his way y to the ditch camp As he lie walked he read for the fiftieth time something on the he page of or n a recent St. St Louis paper It was un under er flaring headlines ATTEMPTED ATTEMPT D MURDER OF OF BANK BANK PRESIDENT Society Leader Cashier Embezzles and Makes Murderous Assault Assault As As- sault on President May Moy 15 J. J. J Smith cashier of ot the Bank Dank and Trust company company and a a. leader lealler in the younger set Is today tOllay a fugitive fu- fu froth from justice with a n. price on his head A At a lato late hour last lant night the watchman of ot the bank found President Dunham lying unconscious In front of ot his desk dealt Help was vas summoned and Mr Dunham Dun- Dun ham lam who was supposed to be suffering from some sudden attack of ot Illness was taken t to his hotel Later it transpired that tho the president had been tho the victim of ot ofa i n. murderous assault Discovering upon his Ills return to the city yesterday evening that the Cashier had been using the banks bank's funds In an attempt to cover a stock speculation speculation spec spec- of or his own own Dunham sent sont for tor forSmith forSmith Smith and charged him with the crime Smith made mado an unprovoked and desperate assault upon his superior officer beating him into insensibility and leaving him for dead Since Sinco It Is known own that he did not board any of oC the tho night trains cast or west Smith is supposed to be bo in hiding somewhere some- some where In lii the vicinity of ot the tho city A warrant warrant warrant war war- rant is out and a 0 reward of ot 1000 for tor his hits arrest and detention has been boen offered by the bank It Is not thought possible that he can escape It was currently reported not long since that Smith was engaged to toa toa a n. prominent young society woman oi of oC but this has proved to be bo untrue He lIe fol folded ed the newspaper and put ItIn it itIn itin in his Ills pocket The thing was done and amI it could not be undone Having pu put himself on the wrong sl side e of the law there was nothing for it now but a complete disappearance exile n a change of Identity and an absolute severance with his past When he had gone a little distance he found that the wagon road crossed the right of way twice before the construction construction con con- camp came Into view The Thelast Thelast last of the crossings was at the temporary tern tem material yard rard for which the side track had been installed and from this point on the wagon road held to the river bank The ditch people were doubtless doubtless- getting setting all nIL their materIal materia over the railroad so there would oum be littie littie little lit lit- tie tle hauling by wagon But there were automobile tracks in the dust and shortly after he lie had passed the material material material mate mate- rial yard the tramp heard a car comIng coming com corn Ing lag up behind him It was a six der roadster and its motor was missing missing miss miss- ing badly Its single occupant was a big bearded beard beard- ed man wearing his gray tweeds as one to whom clothes were merely a n I convenience He lIe was chewing a black cigar and the unoccupied side of his mouth was busy at the passing moment heaping upon the limping limping limping limp limp- ing motor A hundred yards s farther along the tho motor gave a sI spasmodic gasp and stopped When the young oung t mp came up the big man had hind climbed ou out and had the hood open What lIe he was wassa sa saying ing to the stalled motor was picturesque picturesque pic pie enough to make malee the young oung man stop and grin appreciatively Gone bad on you ou he Inquired Col Dexter Baldwin win the largest landowner and a breeder o ofine of fine horses who tolerated motorcars only because they could be driven hard were Insensate and fit subjects fo for abusive language took his head ou out of the hood The third time this morning he snapped Id rather dr drive a team o of wind-broken wind mustangs In the year 1 I used to drive a n car a while back bacle said the tramp Let me look her hei over o The colonel stood aside wiping his hands on a piece of waste vaste while the young man sought for the trouble I Iwas It was found presently In a loosened magneto wire found and cleverly cor cor- The tramp went around In front and spun the motor and when I it itha ha had been throttled down Colonel Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win had hI his hard hand In his pocket et something like ho lie said The liThe garage man said it was carbon You take hold as eta if It you knew how What's your fee feo The tramp shook his head and smiled good na good ture ly Nothing for a bit of or neighborly help like that The colonel put his Ills coat coot on and Inthe in Sn inthe the act took a better measure of the stalwart young fellow who looked mea like a hobo and talked and behaved like a n gentleman You out to the dam he asked brusquely I 1 am nm headed that way yes was the equally crisp rejoinder Hunting a Job Just uJust that What sort of a Job An Anything thing that may happen to be in sight That means menns a pick and shovel dr Or a wheelbarrow on a n construction Job But there Isn't much office work The tramp looked up quickly What makes you think Im I'm hunting for an office Job he lie queried Your hands said said sald tim the the colonel shortly S The young man looked at Rt t his bIs hands han s I thoughtfully They ere were dirty again I Irom I from rom the tho tinkering with the motor moor but I he thui insI Inspection went deeper than the J II grime Im not afraid of oC tb pick anti and shovel hovel or the wheelbarrow and on some ome accounts I guess they'd be good for or me But nut on the other hand perhaps per- per Imps haps laps it Is a pity to spoil spon a middling good man to make an Indifferent laborer to lay laborer to say nothing of r knock knock- knocking Ing ng some honest fellow out of the only Job ob he knowS how to do Colonel Baldwin swung in behind th tho th steering wheel of the roa roadster ster and held helda a n fresh match to the black cl cigar ar Though he lie heas was as from Missouri he lie had lived lon long enough In the high hills to know better than to Judge judg any man altogether |
