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Little Helen Holmes daughter of Gen
eral Holmes, railroad man. Is rescued
from Imminent danger on a scenic rail
road by Qeorge fltorm, a newsboy. Grown
to young womanhood Helen make a
spectacular double rescue of Storm, now
a freight fireman, and of her father and
his friend. Amos Rhlnelander. financier,
end Rbbert Seagrue, promoter, form a
threatened collision between a passenger
train and a runaway freight. Safe
breakera employed by Reagrue and Ca
pelle, his lawyer, Interrupted by Helen
while stealing General Holmes' aurvey
plana of the cut-off line for the Tide
water, fatallv wound General Holmes
and escape. Storm and Helen chase the
THiroerer on m iigni rimin" m
i it am Mm if A n&B mnnim i tin uinm n i u.
j manages to Inform Beagrue where they
I ere cached. Her father estate, badly
i ln"olved bv hi death. Helen goes to work
fon the Tidewater. Seagrue helps Bplke
; to break Jail and uses him to set fire
' to a powder train hauled b Storm's en
! glne. Helen tavci Rtorov from a horri
j hie death. Helen receives the survey
I plans from Seagrue, and though they are
: taken from her, finds an accidentally
! made proof of the survey blue print.
FirTH INSTALLMENT.
The Fight at Slffaal Station.
The day operator at Signal station could
hardly have been more peacefully en
, gaged than she was at the moment
I George 8torm threw open the office door
and paused on the threshold,
j "What are' you doing over here this
morning V demanded Helen of Storm.
! "Looking for a Job."
"Tou might take mine," suggested
! Helen, lifting her eyebrows in a profes
! sion of sympathy.
"Whereabouts Is that man Rhine
lander?" asked Storm laslly. "nasn't
' he got soma kind of a construction camp
around this Joint?"
"Why, how stupid of me' not to have
thought of Uncle Amos myself," ex
claimed Helen. "Of course he has. And
he's sure to nave a goo ior you.
J'He Is sure," drawled Storm, "either
. Ao have a Job for me or the best chance
he ever had In his life to get licked
I give him his choice."
"Kind of you," retorted Helen; "he
wouldn't mind getting licked.' of course.
til I ne 18 Btiori Ul lutrti '".' "
that." '
.-Maybe I'd better go over and give
him a chance to hire me." ,
"Suppose I go with you."
Helen and Storm found Rhlnelander
hard at work. It was the first time he
had seen Storm since the night on the
launch and he greeted his visitor with
a hearty laugh. " 'Licked? " he echoed,
after Helen had repeated her companion's
threats. "Why, George, I could whip m?
weight in wildcats this morning. I'll
have steel half way up the pass It I can
.t hnid of a few cars of ties this ween.
And something always happens when I
feel this way.' I'll tell you right now.
he pointed a sttibby finger at Storm. "If
up to you. young fellow. Either go to
work there. r take a dressing down
"My hands are up." aaio etorm.
go to work.' What have you got?"
Rhlnelander turned to tola foreman.
They took ;on!y a minute to confer.
"Wood has a Job for you right now," an.
nounced Rhlnelander to Storm. 'Tou are
ssslstant foreman. Get busy!"
That particular day was to prove a
busy one for the whole camp. Helen re
turned to the tation and Storm went oat
with Wood himself a veteran englnemaa,
The mailman came In presently with a
letter for Rhlnelander. advising him that
a bid ha had made for a large quantity
of ties had been accepted. The first
Rhlnelander -railed In Wood to hear the
news. "Have the flying gang here to
morrow early, to the last man Jack," di
rected Rhlnelander. "Now that we've got
a chance, let's make a killing.'.
Wood summoned Storm. "Put up the
bulletin. Georgle." directed Wood.
At Oceanslde the directors of the road
were in session. Capelle, representative
of Seagrue, leader of the enemy camp In
the cut-off 'race, learned from then-that
morning of the new construction credits
granted to Rhlnelander. 'In the directors
room inerv no.u uvron m enjnuj wcn
Capelle denounced the action they had
taken. But' his angry protest came too
late and he was forced to carry his wrath
.and the bad news out to Seagrue.
Storm lost no time in posting the bul
letin. While he wrote it out men gath
ered about and one. In especial, read the
announcement with keen, snaky eyes:
"Flying gang will be at Signal station
at t a. m. to unload ties."
This one waa Spike, Seagrue's spy In
the Rhlnelander camp. Restless, con
scienceless,, teeming with crooked In
stincts, as devoted to mischief as the
devil to men. Spike printed the substance
of the bulletin on his memory, and turn
ing from the men around him left the
scene. By a circuitous route which he
habitually used In sneaking from one
camp to the other. Spike made his way
to Seagrue's hut and reported what he
had Just read on the bulletin board.
Seagrue regarded him with amusement.
"There are no more ties coming to Rhlne
lander," ha explained, patiently. "His
supplies are cut o.f."
Before . Seagrue could say more there
was a knock at the door and hia fore
man, BUI Delaney. appeared with Capelle.
Seagrue lost no time In asking the news
and Capeiie. with the beat face he could
summon, to.'d him how they had lost out
on stopping Rhlnelanders credit. Men
that had ki.own Seagrue a long time
could never iemember seeing him as an
gry as he wa.i at that moment.
"Why wasn'f the credit stopped," he
demanded furiously, "as you said It was?"
Capelle answered bluntly: "Rhlneland
er' new credit was granted during my
absence." v
No explanation served to sllay Seagrue's
rage. He pointed wrathfully at Spike.
"Tell him what you saw about ties."
While Capelle. humiliated, listened.
Spike repeated once more the bulletin
board message.
"Had you followed my Instructions."
erled eagrue, regarding Capelle scorn
fully, "the ties would not have been
furnished.
f Capelle turned sullenly away, refusing
xo laia lurtner. I dtd the best I sould,
wsa all he would say.
Seagrue himself waa In no mood to lis
ten to excuses had there been any more
' to offer, raying no more attention to
Capeile's presence he whirled angrily on
Spike, Few words were ever needed or
exchanged between these two men
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1 Bedlam Was It looho. a Rapped the Convict Ore the
"Those ties" Seagrue looked significantly
at his tool "must never reach Rhlne
lander." , '
With a great deal of thought and very
brief expressions, the two conferred apart.
What they worked out no one knew. But
a few momenta later Seagrue' gave Spike
a liberal supply of 'money and Spike left
the hut. Calling to Capelle, Seagrue re-'
sumed his abuse. . ' v
Spike, without delay, hastened to Signal
station, bought a ticket from Helen and
took the local passenger train for Ocean
side. . He had the day and the night be
fore him to figure out schemes to pre
vent the delivery of the ties to Rhlne
lander, and by morning he had more than
one ready.
The easiest one he tried first, and he
might have been seen in the morning,'
early, In the out-freight yards at Ocean-
aide watching the make-up of the freight
train that was to take the four cars of
ties to Signal. He kept In the background
every moment, but had continually within
his eye the preparations to get the train
under way. When at length the brake
man entered the caboose to place the
waybills on the desk, Spike watched him
elosely, only taking care to get away be
fore he waa observed himself. Sneaking
up toward the head end he caught eight
of the conductor, and to avoid him dodgtod
in' between two box cars. But the con
ductor had seen htm and scenting a knave
summoned a yard .policeman. The two
descended on Spike with scant ceremony.
The detective dragged him from his hid
ing place, questioned him, warned him.
and . marching him off shot him out. of
the. yards on a goose step. But Spike, as
strong for resources as a cat for lives,
had only begun to work when he was
ordered to "beat It." He did beat it, but
to such good purpose that he got down
to the bridge ahead of the freight train.
When the train drew near. Spike handily
boarded the head end.
Some momenta later the hind end brake-
man, sitting on the caboose, saw a tramp
in the door of a box car. The brakeman
started forward to Investigate and had
he been able to see all that occurred Just
a moment later, he would also have seen
the tramp clinging to the side of a car of
ties removing Rhlnelsnder's name from
the billing card and substituting therefor
the name of Seagrue. '
One after another of the billing cards
on the four cars of ties Spike manipu
lated in the same way. In the meantime
the two brakemen, one of whom had
caught a glimpse of him, were consulting
a to how to get him. But by the time
they had made their plans and were
ready for a forcible laying on of hands
Spike's work was done. Watching the
trainmen walk forward, he dropped lightly
from the last car and waiting for the
caboose, which was empty, swung up by
the hand rail and went Inside the car. He
grabbed the waybills from the rack box
and examined them. Finding those for
the cars of ties, he carefully erased
Rhlnelander's name from each of them
and taking his time lnoerted Seagrue's.
Having done what struck him as an artis
tic Job on these, he replaced the bills and
climbing Into the cupola looked outside.
It was then by good fo$un that the
conductor and one of the two brakemen
spotted him. To get back quick they
flagged the engineer the train was going
at a pretty good clip and started for the
side. But this suited Spike's own game,
for as the train slowed he dropped oft
and the crew, thinking themselves well
(id of a nuisance, signaled their engine
man ahead.
The train was running not far from
Beaman when Spike left It, and slinking
into the woods adjoining the right-of-way
he made his way as fast aa he could up
to the Beaman telegraph office, where he
sent this message to Seagrue:
"Changed the two ties you thought
Rhlnelander wear for two that suit
Seagrue."
"Say, where la the nearest livery stable
in this place, mister?" Spike asked the
agent
He hardly waited to hear the answer
given him before he was on his way out
of the office. And without losing a mln
ute he got a home where he had been
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directed for one and rode hastily away i
on It.
Helen, a - few moments later, .took
Spike's message to Seagrue. When she
handed It to Lyons he said he would de
liver it. Placing the duplicate on file.
Helen resumed her crochet work. '
. Passing the- Tidewater , camp, Lyons
'saw Rhinelander, Storm eljd Wood in
conference ovei unloading the ' expected
ties.
"You don't need me over at the sta
tion." said Wood to Rhlnelander. "I ll
end Storm with the men to look after
the unloading. I'll stay here with these
lazy graders." '."''"
Seagrue himself took the message from
Lyons. He read It with secret saturfao
tlon. The moment Lyons had left, Sea
grue called Delaney, his .foreman, told
him to get the gang together to unload
four care of ties the instant the local
freight pulled In. He calculated that
possession of the tlea would be at least
the big end of the game In delaying the
opposition.
But In he Interval the Tidewater camp
leaders, Rhinelander and Storm, were not
losing any time in looking after the ship
ment themselves, and they appeared to
gether at the station to get track of It.
Lyons, In . response to Rhlnelander's In
quiries, said, he did not know what the
local freight was carrying.
"Tou find out, will you, Helen?" asked
Rhlnelander. And as he made the request
he showed her his letter advising him the
tlea would be on the local. v -
While Rhinelander, Storm, Helen and
Lyons were thus engaged, Seagrue and
his foreman, Delaney, entered the office.
Seagrue seemed at hia best, very affable
and friendly with evrybody, ' and was
soon' asking "questions as to what ties
were coming for him that morning. Helen
took his Inquiries and Rhlnelander, over
hearing, explained that the ties coming In
on the local freight train that morning
were for the Tidewater work, not for
Seagrue. Seagrue declared him mistaken.
A dispute flared up. which in a moment
involved . practically everybody In the
room. Of these, the opposition bosses for
the unloading Jobs, Delaney and Storm,
became the most heated and seemed about
to come to blows. But Rhlnelander,
checking Storm's indignation, advised re
straint and referred the whole thing to
Helen, asking her to find the real fact
out from the dispatcher. Helen sent a
hurry -up message and the answer came
from the dispatcher's office within a few
minutes:
"Local will set out four cars ties at
Signal for Rhlnelander's construction
gang. H. C. W."
Lyons, without comment, passed the
message to Rhinelander, who read it and
showed it triumphantly to Seagrue. Sea
grue entered an emphatio dlaaent. "I
don't care what those boobs at Oceanslde
say," he snapped. "Those ties are for
me and you'll find out I know what I'm
talking about."
Fast words followed. Storm nnd De
laney again eyed each other fiercely.
Then the sound of a freight train pulling
in started everybody in the room out
for the platform. The moment the train
stopped the disputants crowded forward,
each side eager to reach the conductor
first. The conductor, a man of peace,
listened unmoved to the violent conten
tions addressed to him. At length he
produced the waybills for the property
in dispute. Seagrue got hold of them
and examined them first. To his delight
he saw that, as expected, they read to
him as consignee and he showed them
with an Injured air to Lyons. Rhine
lander, resding the doctored hills over
Lyons' shoulder, was confounded. He
looked at Helen. There was no getting
away from what the waybills said.
Seagrue meant to let nothing of hi
advantage slip for lack of action. Re
whirled on Delaney. "Get our tie off
those ears. BUI, and do tt quick."
Storm took a hand in. He felt his side
was beaten, but would not quit. "Hold
on," he said gruffly. "Not yet. This
thing is in dispute. Take your time,"
hn added to Delaney, and a significant
look lent strength to his words.
Pelaney eyed him contemptuously.
"Look after your own business, will
you?" he retorted
Again Rhlnelander milctcd Storm down.
Pelaney began giving orders to his men.
snd while Seagrue kept a guarded rye
on them, suspicious of some counter-
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move, Rhlnelander and Storm accom
panied Lyons and Helen Into the sta
tion.' Seagrue's men, crowding after their tri
umphant foreman, gave the laugh to the
Tidewater gang, who stood with their
hands In their pockets, and started after
the ties. .- ,
' Inside the office a perplexed and dis
gruntled group gathered around Helen.
She showed the dispatcher's message to
the conductor. Seagrue, not to be out
faced, came inside to watch the pro
ceedings and demanded to know again
of the puxxled conductor whether the
ties were not plainly enough for him.
In the face of the conflicting evidence
the conductor did not know what to de
cide. "Fight It out yourselves, bdysl I
give up," was all that could be got out
of him. And Seagrue, declaring he would
unload the ties anyway, left the office.
Once outside, he again spurred Delaney
to haste.
Storm followed Seagrue from the of
fice and once outalde and away front
Helen he protested vigorously. Rhlne
lander, behind him. told Storm to keap
cool. At that moment Delaney, breaking
In, almost precipitated a riot. "Oct out
of this thing." he bellowed at Storm,
"and keep out! Do you get that? You're
talking too much."
With the words, he pushed Storm back.
It waa the wrong moment to lay hands
on the stalwart young engineman, now
greatly wrought up. His arm shot out
and his fist caught Delaney on the Jaw.
The big foreman staggered.
Seagrue's man sprang to his help. He
needed help, but cutting. loose from
everybody, Storm, following his assailant
forward, started . In to mow a lano
straight through the opposing forces. Ills
men, tickled to death at the sight, crowded
In to assist.
Seagrue, glad enough to find himself
outside the center of the brawl, walked
away only to encounter Spike as tho
latter, dashing in from the highway,
sprang from his horse and hurriedly
beckoned Seagrue to him.
The two conferred In quick undertones
together and Rhlhelander, who stood
with Helen and Lyons, watching them,
saw them run to the tie cars, remove the
billing cards and bring them back. Sea
grue, with the air of a man aggrieved,
showed the cards to Rhlnelander.
"What do you ray to this?" he de
manded. In the confirmation of his claims.
"Call off your men. They're starting a
riot here to keep me from taking posses
sion of my own property."
Rhlnelander, as near angry as he ever
got, stamped his foot. "I tell you thouo
tlea don't belong to you. It's aoms
trickery and thievery your gang haa put
up on us. Those ties are mine and I
am Rolng to have them. This way,
Lyons!"
Accompanied by the agent, Helen fol
lowing, Rhinelander entered the station
Helen went to her dosk to wire for a
confirmation of the dispatcher's message
As she did this, her eyes fell on the clip
on which had been filod the duplicate of
Spike's message to Seagrue. Across It
she had thrown her crochet work and her
eye waa now met by the words of th
cipher message as Spike had meant the
secret measaKe to be read by Seagrue:
"Changed ties Rhlnelander to Keagruo."
Startled, she called to Rhlnelander.
With Lyons, the latter read the message
as she now pointed it out to them. The
two men saw the import at once. But
outside the station Spike and Seagrue
were listening. "You see you're caught."
muttered Peagrue to Spike. "Tht y'll wire
for confirmation and help. We're In for
trouble."
"No trouble .at all," declared Spike
coolly. "I'll save them the work of wir
ing." "How?"
"Hy clipping their wire. Just keep cool,
Seagrue, I'll get you through."
A telegraph pole stood In front of the
fie Ik lit house. From It the wires led Into
ti e station, hpike, without delay, climbed
the polo and with a pair of clippers made
i.(iu h.n threat.
Helen, sitting at the Instrument, was
trying to call. She stopped. "The wire
are cut," she exclaimed.
Seagrue and Spike on the platform
passed the window. Storm, at tll Junc
ture, ran In from Ihe field of battle.
"There's too many of them," ho aald In
dlrgunt. "Every tlmo you knok one
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from the K&ddle to the Knfrine.
dago down, two Greeks come In to take
his place. The way to wind this thing
up, Mr. Rhlnelander, quirk and clean, la
to capture Seagrue and lock him up. We
can do It. Stick him In the freight house
here and pile a couple of dosen bans of
cement on him. Nu? I say, yes!!! Some
thing's got to be done."
Can't you get a message through some
how?'' asked Rhlnelander of Helen la
agitation.
"Yes," she answered, unhesitatingly, ''I
can. I'll get one through tor you." 9j
saying, she caught up an extra Instru
ment, ran out on the platform and
climbed the pole Spike had climbed,' to
cut In with her pony above the break.
Storm called Into conference the handi
est of hit men mea whe cared neither for
the law nor the' devil and giving brief
and hurried Instructions, ran from the
station at the moment that Seagrue with
his outfit were running the outnumbered
Tidewater n.
Pushing straight through his own de
moralised forces to the thick of the
scrimmage, knocking men right and left
when he had to and dodging In between
when he could, Storm, his two trusties
at his elbows, struck, shoved and Jumped
his way straight to where Seagrue waa
urging his fighting men on.' The latter,
busy with the main encounter, saw
Btorm too late. The engineman catching;
him by the collar whirled him uncere
moniously around, pinioned him before a
blow could be struek and with his helpers
dragged him victoriously off.
Bedlam was let loose. Seagrue's men,
seeing the trick too late, ran In with a
yell to rescue him.. Back and forth the
fight swayed, while Helen above at the
depot attached her Instrument and vent
to the dispatcher her hurry-up mesasge.
"Seagrue has tho tlea. Send help. 11."
But whoever had the ties. Storm had
Seagrue, and his men were now easily
standing off the onslaughts of Seagrue's
men on the platform. The latter, need
ing help,, sent for reinforcements, and a
momant later the entire gsng. leaving the
unloading of the tie cars ran down the
track to Join in the fight The train waa
left deserted. Storm, seeing this, turned
his prisoner over to his men and chose a
moment when he could break away to
run to the engine. Gaining the cab. he
immediately started to back the train
up to Rhlnelander's camp, where the
main body or tneir men sun were. n
the train drew past .the station, Helen,
having finished, sprang recklessly from
the pole to the top of a box car and
running forward met Storm, who had
Marted back, and showed him a message
from the dispatcher:
"Will send sheriff to Signal."
While the men were atlll flehtlng In
front of the station, 8plke managed to
tear himself loose from the frsy In tlini
to see the frelttbt train backing up the
hill. He knew what this meant and real
ized the move must be stopied. Running
to his horse ho mounted and spurred after
the receding train. But his intervention
had turned the fighting In favor of Bea
gruo's men, and they were fast beating
Rhlnelander's gsng off. Hy a sudden
rush on the freight house they even re
captured and released Seagrue himself.
The latter, covering the situation at a
Elaticc, saw. as Spike had seen, the real
danger: Storm, now In possession of the
ties, was running away with them.
Yelling to his men, Sengrue bade them
drop the fight and follow. Spike on his
horse was fust overtaking the train.
Helen and Storm, watching from the cab,
knew he would attempt any desperate ex
pedient, but hardly expected what fol
lowed. Running his horse close to the. moving
train, Spike si rung from the sad ile to
the engine Itself and started back. As he
came over the top of the rah, Storm on
the tender confronted him and the two
grappled. Helen had at once taken the
throttle, but Spike, fighting Storm back
into the coal? quickly put hint at a dis
advantage. He was, In fact, overpower
ing him when Helen camo to the rescue
and rapped the convict smartly over the
head. She Jumped hark to the engineer's
seat In time to halt the train opposite
Rhlnelander's camp, and without losing a
moment she ran over to headquarters,
where she gave the alarm to Wood and
asked him to hurry the remainder of the
construction gang over to the train before
the cars should be stolen again by their,
active enemies. Wood, who would rather
fight than cat, responded like a whirl
wind, and heading his men, started them
across the fields on the run for the kid
naped train.
Storm had, meantime, dropped a rope
around Spike's neck. He tied him to the
engine rab Just as Helen, with her re
en forcomcnt. reached the tin cars and
the men hurriedly began the unloading.
They were not to have an easy time of
It. HcoKrue, with his rioters, had already
climbed the hill and was urging them
forward. Not a soul on the englno had a
weapon, and as Seagrue's men came on
tt looked as If the train would be taken '
then and there hy force of numbers.
Helen, however, waa not without reserves
"(live them the live steam. George, and
a lot of It. quick." she cried. "Don't let
them capture us."
Storm needed no more than the hint.
Turning on the valve he let loose a hot
cloud that drove Seaarue and his gang
gasping from the engine. Tho foremost
of the men rntight in the white fog were
glad to net. away unhurt, and halting at
a safe distance tallied fur orders.
Delaney, whoie fighting blood was Just
getting warmed up. saw a further chance
and called to hi men to follow him
around the cut. The gang divided and
Delaney's part of It, starting over the
hill, met Rhlnelander's men. For a time
there was a hot mlxup. As the enemy
came on in ever Increasing numbers,
Wood and his men were soon getting the
worst of It. but fresh shouts were heard
down the hill and at the moment the
sheriffs posse now arrived running In,
took the side cf Rhlnelander's men and
helped them beat Seagrue' gang back.
Outnumbered, driven from their vantage
ground and disheartened at the unex
pected dlverslbn of the enemy. Seagrue's
men sullenly ' gave way; even BUI De
laney's , fiercest efforts failed to rally
them. It was only a few minutes before
the sheriffs men were making prisoners
A Chapter of
By YVETTE GUILBERT
This war! It la the failure of man,
the proven failure of his civilisation, the
frank avowal that his poor Instincts
have remained In their brutal, primitive
condition the cruel, piteous admission
as to that single motive, which still fas
cinates him and which Is sufficiently
intoxicating to rally men In their thou
sands to the banner of one sole cause
that of murder.
War has millions of men at Its heels;
Christ has but twelve apostles. The cen
tories that are past have furnished va
rious examples. In pilgrimages, such ss
that of Compostella, some few men met
year by year to fight together against
their Vices to strive to diminish them
by the example of remorse, and thus to
purify the atmosphere of Ufa and of the
duties Imposed by honor.
The crusades gathered together In their
thousands those heroes who wars fired
by an exalted poetical Ideal to go forth
to defend a falth-the sanctifler of their
energies, their defense amid the sorrows
of the earth, snd the vehicle of a Bible
which, In testaments Shakespearean in
their crudity, laid bare the vices of that
day, which are equally those of our
own time lust, drunkenness, pride and
cupidity.
A few poets, that is to say, a few
priests In their turn, formed brother,
hoods to make war after their fashion
war on corruption, a summons for the
restoration of abased bodies and souls,
yet, though they called men to a life
nobly Interpreted ad lovingly carried
out, their recruits were but few In num
ber, for the guerdom was merely hap
piness. Led away by men, women havs. by
their complicity, added to the Hat of sins
and sinners. Misery foes on playing its
mechanical tune, while all humanity
reels on Its tragic dance in unison, nor
thlnka to stay the faulty rhythm, the
halting cadence of life; a life which ex
cludes true happiness because men lack
"civilisation." and hitherto it la they
who have directed the sentimental In
fluences and the moral forces of the
world.
God had a special object in maklnf
the world "round;" It was In order that
men might ever face one another, and
that It might bo Impossible for them to
misunderstand each other, flee from, or
harm, one another. A square world
would have Involved angles and comers
of retreat, and God wished to give His
work a form full of loving possibilities.
And the centuries have rolled on, bring
ing no cure for man s turbutent instincts.
Nsueht has brought wisdom to man a
evil heart neither the cross of Christ,
.Maiiu nor art. and no love of
woman, of mothers or of children has
vniled to soften man's cruelty, and to-
dsy. do men at last recognlxe that they
are so unworthy of life that Joy and a
sort of sanguinary Intoxication spur them
on to kill each other, to diminish their
number? What a terrible lesson! Whst
a ghsstly glimpse of the reality of the
truth!
Oh, God; help us to understand how to
read the secrets of the world, the mys
terious force which disfigures and un-
musks man and summons him Imperl
ously to the sacrifices of earlier cen
turies. Is it an unconscious oeslre to
purify the eerth. to renew It and to
please Thee. O, God?
Is It Thine ordered will, Lord, or the
disorder of their will The fsct that
each of them recognises the "necessity"
of living after this war, after these mur
ders, on a new basis, and the necessity
of mollifying "his way of life," of lead
ing a new life all these confeasl'ina, writ
ten and oft repeated, f our wickedness
have they reached even unto Thee? And
have they not found grace in Thine
eyes?
O Lord! If men have Insulted life. Thy
gift, and of a new era prepared by Thy
love, like the coming of Thy Bon upon
earth, shall now lighten the world, O
do Thou help us, the women, to second
the accomplishment of Thy holy will!
O Lord, set forth before my sisters
their new and Imminent duties toward
Thee and toward themselves.
They shall offer unto Thee as penance
all the suffering of the ever-repeated
right and left, rout dlng up the stragtfer
and marching them down tho cut. The
hill had been won and lost, but the ties
had been firmly held and were safely In
Rhlnelander's possession.
The moment the fight was decided,
Storm, with Helen, went back to the ea
glne to get their personal prisoner, the
redoubtable SpiHe. They took him back
to where the sheriff was giving his or
ders for the 1lpoltlon of those under
arrest. Helen explained to the sheriff
very forcibly just what Spike had done.
"Well." demanded the official. Jocu
larly, "what'll we do with him? Siring
hltn up right here In a baxcar?"
"No," exclaimed Helen, Indignantly.
"You can do better than that." She
pointed to Seagrue, now also under ar
rest. "Put those two men at work un-.
loading these ties for our camp. They
are the rlngleadeis in the whole affair.
If they had their deserts, they wou!d
both be In the penitentiary. Make them
work, sheriff. That's the last thing that
pair want to do." Rhlnelander came up
yllh his men as she finished.
"You're right," declared the sheriff.
I good humored over the outcome. "From
t the looka of 'em, what those guys need
Is a dose of good hard work." He turned
to his deputies and pointed to the ties.
"Get those fellows up on the flat cars
and see they both work every minute till
the last tie la unloaded.1
"Suppose they refuse to work." sug
gested a deputy.
"Refuse?" echoed the sheriff, savacely.
"If they do, find a pomp that will
work and give 'em the cold water."
But Seagrue snd Spike did work. When
Helen, Rhlnelander and Storm left the
scene the two, beaded with sweat, were
pitching ties In record time.
(ToBeCont Inued NVxV" Monda y . )
My
Gospel of Patriotism
maternity which has been their lot since
the beginning of the world! .
They shall offer unto Thee all the tears
which have been their lot since the world
began!
They shall offer unto Thee all the sick-
t.esses which have been their lot since
the world began!
They shall offer unto Thee all the hope
which have been their lot since the world
began!
They shall offer unta Thee their civil
isation, the only one that has been real
since the beginning of the world!
They shall corns to the aid of their
pitiable husbands, their terrible brother,
their criminal sons, whom naught,
naught, O Lord! oould make better, and
who shall be forever, and who shall be
forever branded with the seal ct thle
bloodstained deluge which Is their work.
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