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A FOOL FOR LOVE
By FRANCIS LYNDE
AUTHOR OP “THE GRAFTERS" Eta
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CHAPTER V— Continued
Those who knew her best said it
was a warning to be heeded in Miss
Virginia Ca'teret when her eyes were
downcast and her voice sank to its
soltest cadence
‘‘Why certainly how simple!” she
said taking her cousin’s am again
and the secretary went in to set the
wires at work In Wlnton’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 super-feminine
One of these was a measure of discre-
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
Wlnton’s threatened danger over with
some one she lent herself outwardly
to the Reverend cllly's mood — which
was one of scenic enthusiasm this
without prejudice to a growing deter-
ruination to intervene in behalf of fair
piay for Wlnton 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
sense of justice It was not like him
to fight with Ignoble weapons sne
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 knew well enough that
the secretary had no right to show
her the telegrams anew also that Mr
Somerville Darrah’s first word would
be a demand to know how she had
learned the company’s business secrets
Regarding Jastrow as little as a high-
bred young woman to whom sentiment
is as the breath of life can regard a
man who Is quite devoid of it she was
' still far enough from the thought of
effacing him
To 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 Wlnton But there were
obstacles 1 reemingly Insuperable 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
ploye doubtless loyal to 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?” asked the Reverend
Billy when the scenic enthusiasm be-
gan to outwear Itself
“No but I am tired ot the sentry-go
part oi it— ten steps and a turn” she
confessed “Can’t we walk on the
track a little way?’
Calvert saw no reason why they
might not and accordingly helped her
over to the snow-encrusted path be-
tween the rails
“We can trot down end have a look
at their construction camp If you
like" he suggested and thitherward
ithey went
There was not much to see after all
ms the Reverend Billy remarked when
they had reached a coign of vantage
below the curve A string ot use-worn
bunk cars a “dinkey” caboose serving
as the home on wheels of the chief of
construction and his assistant a
crooked siding with a gang of dark-
skinned laborers at work unloading a
car of steel These in the immediate
foreground and a little way apart
perched high enough on the steep slope
of the mountain side to be out ot the
camp turmoil a small structure half
plank and half canvas— to-wlt the
end-of-track telegraph office
It waa Virginia who first marked the
boxed-up tent standing on the slope
“What oo you Buppose that little
house-tent Is for?” she asked
“I don't know” said Calvert Then
he saw the wires and ventured a guess
which hit the mark
“I didn't suppose they would have a
telegraph office" she commented wlih
hope rising again
“Oh yes they’d have to have a
wire one of their own Under the
circumstances they could hardly use
oure”
"No” she rejoined absently She
was scanning th group of steel han-
dlers In the hope that a young man
In a billy-cock nat and with a cigar-
ette between his Ups would shortly
reveal himself
Bhe 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
-come over and speak to us If he knew
we were here?”
The Reverend Billy’s smile was of
-honest admiration
"Row could you doubt it? Walt
here
you
He was gone before she could reply
—across the ice bridge spanning one
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
“Eheu! what a little world we live
In Miss Virginia! Who would have
thought of meeting you here?” said
the technologlan taking her hand at
the precise elevation prescribed by
good form — Boston good form
“The shock is mutual" she laughed
I must say that you and Mr Wlnton
have chosen a highly unconventional
environment for your sketching field”
“I’m down” he admitted cheerfully
“please don’t trample on me But
really it wasn’t all fib Jack does do
things with a pencil— other things be-
sides maps and working profiles I
mean Won’t you come over and let
a minute and I’ll call him for
of the rails from the car to the bench-
es took her up into the cab of the big
"oetopod” locomotive gave her a
chance to peep into the camp kitchen
car and concluded by handing her up
the steps of the "dinkey”
"Oh how comfortable P ahe ex-
claimed when he had shown her all
the space-saving contrivances of the
field office “And this is where you
and Mr Wlnton work?"
“It is where we eat and sleep” cor-
rected Adams “And speaking of eat-
ing it Is hopelessly the wrong end 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
“While we are waiting on Ah Foo
I’ll show you some of Jack’s sketches"
he went on finding a portfolio and
opening it upon the drawing board
“Are you quite sure Mr Wlnton
won’t mind?” she asked
“Mind? He’d give a month’s pay to
be here to show them himself He Is
peacock vain of bis one small accom-
plishment Wlnton Is— bores me to
death with it sometimes”
"Really?” was the mocking rejoin-
der and They began to look at the
sketches -
They were heads most of them Im-
pressionistic studies In pencil or pastel
with now and then a pen-and-ink bear-
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’s note book
“They don’t count for much In an
artistic way” said Adams with the
brutal frankness of a friendly critic
“but they will serve to show you that
“CAN YOU BEND ALL THAT?”
me do the honors of the studio?” with
a grandiloquent arm-sweep meant to
include the construction camp In gen-
eral and the “dinkey” caboose in par-
ticular It was the invitation she would have
angled for but she was too wise to
assent too readily
“Oh no I think we mustn't I’m
afraid Mr Wlnton might not like It”
“Not like It? If you’ll come he’ll
never forgive himself for not being
here to ‘shoot up’ the camp for you In
person He Is away you know gone
to Carbonate for the day"
“Ought we to go Cousin Billy?” ahe
askqd shifting not the decision but
the responsibility for it to broader
shoulders
“Why not If you care to?” said the
athlete to whom right-of-way fights
were mere matters of business In no
wise conflicting with the social ameli-
orations Virginia hesitated There was a
thing to be said to Mr Adams and
that without delay but how could she
say it with her cousin standing by to
make an Impossible trio out of any
attempted duet confidential? A will-
ingness to see that Wlnton 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 Darrah’s right-
eous Indignation was not lightly to be
Ignored
But the upshot of the hesitant pause
was a decision to brave the conas-
quonces— all of them so she took
Calvert’s arm for the slippery crossing
of the Ice bridge
Once on his own domain Adams did
the honors of the camp as thorough-
ly and conscientiously as If the hour
held no care heavier than the enter-
tainment of Miss Virginia Carteret
He explained the system under which
the material was kept moving forward
to tho ever-advancing front let her
watch the rhythmic swing and slide
I wasn’t all kinds of an embroiderer
when I was telling you about Wlnton’s
proclivities the other day”
“I shouldn’t apologize for that If I
were you” she retorted “It Is well
past apology don’t you think?" And
then: “What Is this one?”
They had come to the last of the
sketches which was a rude map It
was penciled on the leaf of a memo-
randum and Adams recognized it as
the outline Wlnton had made and used
in explaining the right-of-way entan-
glement “It Is a map" he said “one that
Jack drew day before yesterday when
be was trying to maka-me understand
the situation up here I wonder why
he kept it? Is there anything on the
other side?”
She turned the leaf and they both
went speechless for the moment The
reverse of the scrap of cross-ruled pa-
per held a very fair likeness of a face
which Virginia’s mirror had ofteaest
portrayed a akctch setting forth in1
a few vigorous strokes of the pencil
the impressionist’s ideal of the "god-
dess fresh from tae bath
“By Jove” exclaimed Adams when
he could find the word for his sur-
prise Then he tried to turn it off
lightly “There Is a good bit more
of the artist In Jack than I have been
giving him credit for Don’t you know
he must have got the notion for that
between two hali-seconds— when you
recognized me on the platform at Kan-
sas City It’s wonderful!”
“So very wonderful that I think I
shall keep It” she rejoined not with-
out a touch of austerity Then she
added: “Mr Wlnton will probaby
never miss it If he does you will
have to explain the best way you can"
And Adams could only say “By Jove!"
again and busy himself with pouring
the tea which Ah Foo had brought in
In the nature of things the tea-
drinklug in the stuffy “dinkey” drawing-room
was not prolonged Time
was flying Virginia’s errand of mercy
was not yet accomplished and Aunt
Martha 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 interrup-
tion So presently they all forthfared Into
the sun-bright snow-blinding out-of-door
world and Virginia gathered up
her courage and took her dilemma by
the horns
“I believe I have seen everything
now except that tent-place up there”
she asserted groping purposefully for
her opening
Adams called up another smile of
acquiescence “That la our telegraph
office Would you care to see it?” The
technologlan was ot those who shirk
all or shirk nothing
“I don’t know why I should care to
but I do” she replied with charming
and childlike willfulness so the three
of them trudged up the slippery path
to the operator's den on the slope
Not to evade his hospitable duty m
any part Adams explained the use and
need of a “front” wire and Miss Car-
teret was properly interested
“How convenient!” she commented
“And you can come up here and talk
to anybody you like— just as If It were
a telephone?”
“To anyone In the company s serv-
ice” amended Adams “It Is not a
commercial wire”
“Then let us send a message to Mr
Wlnton” she suggested playing the
part of the capricious Ingenue to the
very upcast of a pair ot mischievous
eyes ‘Til write It and you may sign
it”
Adams stretched his complaisence
the necessary additional inch and
gave her a pencil and a pad Ot blanks
She wrote rapidly:
“Miss Carteret has been here admiring
your drawings Bhe took one of them away
with her and I couldn’t stop her without
being rude You shouldn't liavo done it
without asking her pormlsalon She
saya— '
“Oh dear! I am making it awfully
long Does It cost so much a word?”
“No” said Adams not without an
effort Ho was beginning to be dis-
tinctly disappointed In Miss Virginia
and was wondering In the Inner depths
oi him what piece ot girlish frlvoi-y
he was expected to sign and send to
his chief Meanwhile ahe went on
writing:
“—I am to tell you not to get into any
fresh trouble— not to let anyone else get
you into trouble by which I Infer aha
means that some attempt will be mode to
keep you lrom returning on the evening
train”
“There can you send all that?” she
asked sweetly giving the pad to the
technologlan
Adams read the first part of the letter-length
telegram with Inward groan-
lugs but the generous purpose of it
struck him like a whip blow when he
came to the thinly veiled warning
Also It shamed him for his unworthy
judgment of Virginia
“I thank you very ueartlly Miss
Carteret” he said humbly "It shall
be cent word for word” Then for Ue
Reverend William’s benefit: “Wlnton
deserves all sorts of a snubbing for
taking liberties with your portrait I’ll
see that he gets more ot it when he
comes back”
Occaslo: tly the first to propose a
reform is the last to accept it
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Hindu Moon Lore
The full eclipse of the moon was ob-
served in Singapore on the night of
August 4 According to the Hindus
this eclipse is the contact between
the moon and another planet called
Rahoo but the masses believe that
owing to the will of God Rahoo or the
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moon by its hideous mouth and re-
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At the first contact the Hindus
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Times
—
BRAVED ANGER OF KING
Lafayette Flaunted Liberty Medal In
Face of Louis
Shortly after Lafayette’s return to
France from his second sojourn in
America he was at Versailles where
the king was about to review a divi-
sion of troops Lafayette was asked
to join In the review
He was dressed In the American uni-
form and was standing by the side of
the Prince do Conde when the king
in his tour of conversation with the
officers came to him and after
speaking on several topics asked him
some questions about bis uniform and
the military costume of the United
States The king’s attention was at-
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the general’s coat and he asked what
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Lafayette replied that It was a sym-
bol which It was the custom of for-
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wear and that It bore a device
"And what is the device upon
yonrs?” asked the king
“My device” said the young gen-
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and scepter"
The king smiled and with some
pleasantry upon the republican pro-
pensities of a French Marquis la
American uniform turned the conver-
sation into other channels Conde
looked grave but was silent — The
Sunday Magazine
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Old Khedive Ismail’s expensive com-
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