NORTH PLATTE KHMMVETCTCTiY TRimTT3 NERVOU: PROSTRATION Mrs. J. Christman Proved That Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a Remedy for this Trouble. Binghamton, N. Y. "I was in a very nervous condition for over a year, my AEY of the 14 By PETER B. KYNE Author of "Cappy Ricks" 11 "GOD HELP Y0U1" HyriupslM. I'loneer In Hip Cnllfor niu redwood region, John CunllKun, lit forty-Hoven, Ih tlie leiidlnR citizen of 8oiiolii, owner of mills, nlilpn. and many acres of tlmlmr, u wid ower after three year of married life, and father of two-year-old Ilryce CitrdlKmi. At fourteen Hryee iiiahen the aciiualntunre of Shirley Humiur, a visitor at HaquoiH, and hlH Junior by a few years. ToKothur they visit the Valley of the UlunlN, Hucred to John CunllKim und hln son us (he htirlal place of llryco's mother, and part with mutual te Krot. While llryco Is at colluK John Cardlxan mcetH with heavy luminous losses und for the first tltno views the future with uncer tainty. After graduation from 'ol lee, and a trip abroad, Hryce Car dlKan comen home. On the train ho meets Shirley Hunmcr, on her way to bciiolii to make her home there with her uncle, Colonel 1'unnlnctoii. Ilryce learns that his futher's uye slKht has fulled and that Colonel l'ennlnKton Is decking to take ad vantage of the old mini's business misfortunes. John CardlKan Is de spairing, hut Ilryce Is full of llKht. llryco Ilnds a hurl redwood felled across his mother's khivo. lie Koes to (I I lino r ut I'ennlnBton's on Hhlr-. ley's Invltutlon and Muds the dln Ing room paneleil with hurl from the tree. Ilryce and I'onnliiKion de clare war, IhouKh Shlrloy docs not know it. Ilryce bests Jules Iton deau, I'ennlnBton's HKhtltiK IokkIuk hoss, and forces him to confess that I'ennlnKton ordered the hurl tree rut. I'ennlnKton butts Into the llKht and KOts hurt. llryco stands off a KaiiK of 1'ennlriKton's lumber men. Shirley, who Hecs It all, tells Ilryce It must his "Koodby." llryco tenews uciualntance with Molra McTavlsh. daughter of his drunken woods-hoss, CHAPTER VIII Continued. T1k thought Hint hu ho readily un dcrmnm! touched her; a gUnrof tenm wuh In Jut sud ojth. He huw them nnd plneed hln hniih fraternally around her slioiiltltTH. "Tut-tut, .Molrn ! Don't cry," lie wotheil litr. "I mi derHtund fxtrfoctly, ittxl of cour.se we'll luive to do Hnniethlng nhout It. You're too lino for HiIh," With n Hweep of li Ih hand hi; Indicated the ciniip. "Sit down on the steps, Molrn, mid we'll tnlU It over. I renlly culled to see your father, lint I Kiiesx I don't wunt t( new liim nflerNill If Jio'h sick." Sjjlie looked at liltn hravuly. "I didn't Unnw ynu nt first, Mr. Ilryce. I Milted. Father Isn't sick. Hoty drunk," "I thoiiKlit ko when I saw the loading-crow taking It eiiHy nt the log landing. I'm terribly Horry." "I loiitho It und I cannot lenve It," hIic hurHt out vehemently. "I'm chain ed to my degradation. 1 drenm dreaniH, and they'll never come true. I I oh, Mr. Hryce, Mr. Hryce, I'm no unhappy." "So mil I," lie retorted. "Wo all Ket our dose of It, you know, and Just nt present I'm having an extra helping, It Kcenm. You're cursed wltli too much linnshmtlon, Molra. I'm sorry about your fntlier. For all his sixty years, Molrn, your confounded parent "Father Isn't Sick. He' Drunk." can still manhandle, any man on the pay-roll, nnd iih fast as Dad put In a new woods-lmss old Mae drove him of the Job. Ho simply declines to be llred, and Dad's worn out and too tired to bother about Ills old woods-boss any more. He's been waiting until I should get bnck." "I know," said Molrn wearily. "No body wants to bo Cardigan's woods Iiosh and hnvo to light my father to hold his Job, I icallze what a nuis ance lie has become." Ilryce cliuckled. "Of course the mat ter simmers down to this: Dad Is so fond of your father that he Just har.n't got the morn! courage to work ' lilm over nnd now that Job Is up .to int. Molrn, I'm not going to beat about the hush wltli you. Tlioy toll mo your fiillier Is n hopeless Inebriate." '"I'm afrnld he Is, Mr. Hryce" "How long bus lie boon drinking to excels?'' "About ten years, I think. Of course, he would always take a few drinks with the men aroitid pay-day. but after mother died, he began taking hl drinks between pay-days. Then he look to going down to Sequoia on Saturday nights and coming back on the mnd-trnln, the maddest of the lot. I suppose he was lonely, too. He didn't get real hod, however, till about two years ngo." "Well, we have to get logs to the mill, and we can't get them with old John Harleyeorn for a woods-boss, Molra. So we're going to change woods-bosses, and the new woods-boss will not be driven off the Job, because I'm going to stay up hern a couple of weeks and break him In myself. Hut how do you manage to get money to clothe yourself? Sinclair tells me Mac needs every cent of his two hun dred and fifty dollars a month to enjov himself." "I used to steal from him," the girl admitted. "Then I grew nslmmcM of that, and for the past six months I've been earning my own living. Mr. Sin clair was very kind. Ho gave me a Job waiting on table In the camp din ing room. You see, I had to have something here. I couldn't leave my father. He bad to have somebody to take cure of him. Don't you see, Mr. Hryce?" , "Sinclair Is a fuzzy old fool," Hryce declared with emphasis. "The Idea of our woods-boss's daughter slinging hash to lumberjacks. I'oor Molra !" He took one of her hands In his, noting the callous spots on the plump palm, the thick llnger-Jolnts that hint ed ho of toll the mills that had never been manicured save by Mnlni herself. "Do you remember when I was a boy, Molra, bow I used to come up to the logglng-cnnips to hunt and fish? I al ways lived with the McTavlshes then. And In September, when the huckle berries were ripe, we used to go out and pick them together. Poor Molra! Why. we're old pals, and I'll be shot If I'm going to see you suffer. Listen, Molrn, I'm going to (Ire your father, as I've kiiIiI, boeutiHo he's working for old ,T. H. now, not the Cnrdlgun Red wood I. umbel company. I really ought to pension him after his long years In the Cardigan service, but I'll be hanged If we can afford pensions any more particularly to keep a man In booze; so the best our old woods-boss gets from me Is this sliunty, or another like It when we move to new cuttings, and a perpetual meal-ticket for our camp dining room while the Cardi gans remain In business. I'd finance him for a trip to some state Institu tion when they sometimes reclaim such wreckage, If I didn't think he's too old a dog to be taught new tricks." "Perhaps," she suggested sadly, "you had better talk the matter over with him." "No, I'd rather not I'm fond of your father, Molrn. He was a man when I saw 111 m hist such a man as these woods will never see again and I don't want to see him again until he's cold sober. I'll write him a letter. As for you, Molra, you're llred, too. I'll not have you waiting on table In my lo'glng-cam) not by a Jugrul I You're to come down to Sequoia and go to work In our olllce. We can use you on the hooks, helping Slnclnlr, and re lievo him of the insk of hilling, check lug tallies, and looking after the pay roll. I'll pay you a hundred dollars u month. Molra. Can you get along on that?" Her bard hand closed over bis tightly, but she did not speak. "All right. Molra. It's a go, then. There, there, girl, don't cry. We Cardigans bad twenty-five yenra of faithful service from Donald McTnv Ish before bo commenced slipping; lifter nil, wo owe him something, 1 think." She drew bis hand suddenly to her !lpi and kissed It; her hot tears of Joy fell on It, but her heart was too full for mere words. "Flddlede-dee. Molrn! Huck up." he protested, hugely pleased, but em barrassed withal. "The way you take this, one would think you bad expect ed me to go bnck on nn old pal and I'iid been pleasantly surprised when I didn't. Cheer up. Molrn I I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll advance you two months' salary for well, you'll need a lot of clothes and things In Sequnln that you don't need liero. And I'm glad I've managed to settle the Mc Tavlsh hash without kicking up n row ami hurting your feelings. Poor old Mac! I'm sorry I can't hear with him, but we simply hnvo to have the logs, you know." He rose, stooped, and pinched her ear; for had lie not known lier since childhood, nnd had they not gathered huckleberries together In tho long ago? She was sister to hlni Just an other one of bis problems nnd noth ing more. "Heport on tho Job ns soon as possible. Molrn," he called to her from the gate. Presently, when Molrn lifted her Madonna glance to the frieze of tim ber on the skyline, there was n new glory In her t'yes; and lo, It was au tumn In the woods, for over that hill Prince Charming had come to her, and life was al crimson and gold I When tho trUi loaded wltli Caidl- gun logs crawled In on the main track and stopped at the log-landing In Pen nington's ramp, the locomotive un coupled and bached in on the siding for the purpose of kicking the rnlmose. In which Shirley and Colonel Penning ton bad ridden to the woods, out onto the main line again where, owing to a slight downhill grade, the cuboose controlled by the brakenian could const gently forward and be hooked onto the end of the log train for the return Journey to Sequoln. Throughout the afternoon Shirley, following the battle royal between Hryce nnd the Pennington retainers, had sat dismally In the caboose. She was prey to many conflicting emo tions; but having had what her sex term "a good cry," she had to a great extent recovered her customary poise and was busily speculating on the rapidity with which she could leave Sequnln and forget she had ever met Hryce Cardigan when the log train rumbled Into the landing und the last of the long string of trucks came to a stop directly opposite the caboose. Shirley happened to be looking through the grimy caboose window at that moment. On the top log of the load the object of her unhappy specu lations was seated, apparently quite oblivious of the fact that he was back once more In the haunt of his enemies, nlthough knowledge that the double bitted ax be had so unceremoniously borrowed of Colonel Pennington was driven deep Into the log beside hlnis with the haft convenient to his band probably had much to do with Hryce's nlr of detached Indifference. Shirley told herself thnt should he move, should he show the slightest disposition to raise his head and bring his eyes on a level with hers, she would dodge away from the window In time to escape his scrutiny. She reckoned without the engine. With n smart hump It struck the ca boose and shunted It briskly up the siding; at the sound of the Impact Hryce raised his troubled glance Just In time to see Shirley's body, yield ing to the shock, sway Into full view at the window. With dllllciilty he suppressed a grin. "I'll bet my Immortal soul she was peeking at me," be soliloquized. "Con found tilt? luck ! Another meeting tliK afternoon would be embarrassing." Tactfully he resumed his study of his feet, not even looking up when the caboose, after gaining the main track, slid gently down tho slight grade and was coupled to the rear logging truck. He heard the engineer shout to the hrnkctnan who had ridden down from the head of the train to unlock the sltllng switch and couple the caboose to hurry up, lock the switch, anil get hack aboard the engine. "Can't get this dunged key to turn In the lock." the brakemaii shouted presently. "Lock's rusty, anil some thing's gone bust Inside." Minutes pnssed. Hryco's assumed abstraction became real, for he had ninny matters to occupy his busy brain, and It was Impossible for hhu to sit Idle without adverting to some of them. Presently ho was subconscious ly aware that the train was moving gently forward; almost Immediately, It seemed to bltn, the long string of trucks had gathered their customary speed: and then suddenly It dawned upon Hryce thnt the train had started olT without a single Jerk and that It was gathering heailwny rapidly. He looked ahead and his hair grew creepy ut the roots. There was no lo comotive attached to the train! It was running away down u two per cent grade, anil because of the tre mendous weight of the train. It was gathering momentum nt a fearful rate. The reason for the runaway dawned on Hryce Instantly. The road, being privately owned, was, like most log ging roads, neglected as to roadbed ami rolling stock ; also It was under manned, and the brakenian, who also acted as switchman, had failed to set the hand-brakes on the leading truck after the engineer had locked the air brakes. As a result, dining the five or six nilnules required to "spot In" the caboose, and nn extra minute or two lost while the brakemaii struggled with the recalcitrant lock on the switch, the nlr bail leaked away through the worn valves ami rubber tubing, and the brakes hnd been re leasedso that the train, without warning, had quietly and almost noise lessly slid on' of the log-landing anil started on Its mad career. There was nothing to do now save watch the wild runaway and piny, for of all the mini runaways In n mad world, a loaded logging train Is by far tho worst. For an Instnnt after realizing his predicament, Hryce Cardigan was tempted to Jump and take his chance on n few broken bones, before the train could teach n greater speed than twenty miles an hour. His next Im pulse was to run '"wnnl and set the linnil-bmko on the leaning truck, but a glnnce showed him that even with the train stnndlng still ho could not hope to leap from truck to truck nnd land on tho round, freshly peeled sur face of the loirs without slipping, for hn lind no calks In bis boots. And to slip now meant swift and horrible death. Then he remembered. In the wildly rolling caboose Shirley Sumner rode with her uncle, while less than two miles ahead, the tnirk swung In n -burp curve high up along the hillside above .Mad river. Hryee knew the leading truck would never ttiku thnt curve ut high speed, even If the nn clent rolling stock should hold togeth er until the curvo was reached, but would shoot off nt a tangent Into the canyon, carrying trucks, logs, nnd ca boose with It, rolling over and over down tlie hillside to the river. "The caboose must be cut out of this runaway," Hryce soliloquized, "and It must be cut out In a devil of a hurry. Here goes nothing In par ticular, and may God be good to my dear ols man." He Jerked hl.s axe out of the log, drove It deep Into the top log townnl the end, and by using the haft to cling to, crawled toward the rear of the load and looked down nt tho caboose coupling. The top log was a sixteen- "I'll Hold You Yet, You Brute." foot butt? the two bottom logs were elghteen-foolers. With n silent prayer of . thanks to Providence. Hryce slid down to the landing thus formed. He was still five feet above the coupling, however; hut by leaning over the swaying, humping edge and swinging the axe with one hand, he managed to cut through the rubber hose on the nlr connection. After accomplishing this, axe In band, he lenped down to the narrow ledge formed by the bumper In front of tho caboose driving bis face Into the front of the caboose; antl be only grasped the steel rod leading from the brnke-ehnlns to the wheel on the roof In time to nvold fulling half stunned between the front of tho ca boose and tho rest of the logging truck. The caboose had onco been n box car; hence then- was no railed front platform to which Hryce might have leaped In safety. Clinging peril ously on the bumper, he reached vlth his foot, got his toe under tho lever on the side. Jerked It upward, and threw the pin out of the coupling; then with his free band he swung the uxe antl drove the great steel Jaws of the coupling apart. The caboose was cut out I Hut al ready the deadly curve was In sight ; In two minutes the first truck would reach It ; antl th" caboose, though cut loose, had to be stopped, else with the headway It bad gathered, It, too, would follow tho logging trucks to glory. For a moment Hryce clung to the brake-rod, weak anil dizzy from the effects of the blow when, leaping down from the lontletl truck to the caboose bumper, his face had smashed Into the front of the caboose. His chin was bruised, skinned, and bloody; his noso had been broken, and twin rivu lets of l.lood ran from his nostrils. He wiped it away, swung his axe, drove the blade deep Into the bumper and left It there with the haft quivering: turning, he climbed swiftly up the narrow Iron ladder beside the brake rod until he reached the roof; then, still standing on the ladder, he readied the brake-wheel and drew It promptly but. gradually around until the wheel-blocks began to bite, when lie everted his tre mendous strength to the utmost and with his knees braced doggedly against the front of the caboose, held the wheel. The brake screamed, but the speed of the caboose was not appreciably slackened. "It's had too good n start !" Hryce moaned. "The momentum Is more than I can overcome. Oh, Shir ley, my love' Ootl help you!" He enst a sudden despairing look over I1I3 shoulder downward at the coupling. He was winning, after nil. for it space of six feet now yawned between the end of the logging truck and tho bumper of the caboose. If he could hut hold that tremendous strain on tlie wheel for a quarter of Copyright by Pater n. Itjroe a mile, he might get tho demon ca boose under control I After what seemed an eon of wait ing, he ventured another look ahead. The rear logging-truck was a hundred yards In front of him now. and from the wheels of the caboose nn odor of something burning drifted up to him. "I've got your wheels locked !" be half sobbed. "I'll bold you yet, you brute. Slide! That's It I Slide, and flatten your Infernal wheels. Hah ! You're quitting quitting. I'll have you In control before we reach the curve. Hum, curse you, burn !" With n shriek of metnl scraping metal, the bead of the Juggernaut ahead took the curve, clung there an Instant, and was catapulted out Into space. Logs weighing twenty tons were flung about like kindling; one In stant, Hryce could see them In the nlr; the next they bail disappeared tlown the hillside. A deafening crash, a splash, n cloud of dust With n protesting squeal, the ca boose came to the point where the logging-train had left the light of way, carrying rails and ties with It. The wheels on the side nearest the bank did Into the dirt first nnd plowed deep Into the soli ; the caboose came to nn abrupt stop, trembled antl rattled, overtopped Its center of gravity, and fell over against the cut-bank, wearily, like a drunken, hag. Hryce. still clinging to the brake, was fully braced for the shock and was not flung off. Calmly he descend ed the ladder, recovered the axe from the bumper, climbed back to the roof, tiptoed off the roof to tlie top of the bank and sat calmly down under a inanznnltn bush to await results, for he was quite conlltlent thnt none of the occupants of the confounded ca boose had been treated to anything worse than a wild ride and a rare fright, and be was curious to see bow Shirley Sumner would behave In an emergency. Colonel Pennington was first to emerge fit the rear of the caboose. He leapetl lightly down the stfeps, ran to the front Of the car. looked tlown the truck, and swore feelingly. Then bo darted back to tlie rear of the ca boose. "All clear and snug ns a bug under a chip, my dear," lie called to Shirley. "Thank Cod. the caboose become un coupled guess that fool brakenian forgot to drop the pin ; It wns the last car. and wjien it Jumped the track and plowed Into the dirt. It Just nat urally quit and toppled over against the bank. Come out, my dear." Shirley came out, dry-eyed, but white and trembling. Tlie O.ilonel placed his nrm around her, antl she hid her face on his shoulder and shud dered. "There, there!" he soothed her affectionately. "It's all over, my dear. All's well that ends well." "The train," she cried in a choking voice. "Where Is It?" "In little pieces down In Mntl river." "Hryce Cardigan." she sobbed. "I saw him lie was riding ntnp on the train. He ah. Cod help him!" The Colonel shook her with sudden ferocity. "Young Cardigan," he cried sharply. "Hiding the logs? Are you certain?" She nodded, antl her shoulders shook plteously. "Then Hryce Cardigan Is gone!" Pennington's pronouncement was sol emn, deadly with Its flat fluidity. "No man could have rolled tlown Into Mad river with a tralnload of logs and sur vived. The devil himself couldn't." lie heaved a great sigh, and added: "Well, that clears the atmosphere con sltlerably. although for all his faults, i regret, for his father's sake, that this dreadful affair has happened. Well, It can't lie helped, Shirley. Poor devil ! For .all his damnable treatment of me, I wouldn't have bail this happen for a million dollars." Shirley burst Into wild weeping. Hryce's heart leapetl, for he under stood the reason for her grief. She had sent him away In anger, and he hnd gone to his death; ergo It would be long before Shirley would forgive herself. Hryce had not Intended pre senting himself before her in his bat tercti and bloody condition, but lb sight of her distress now was nin-.i than lie could bear. He coughed slight ly, and the alert colonel glanced up at him Instantly. "Well, I'll he hanged!" The words fell from " Pennington's lips with a heartiness (hat was almost touching. "I thought you'd gone with the train." "Sorry to have disappointed you, old top." Hryce replied blithely, "but I'm Just naturally stubborn. Too bntl about the atmosphere you thought cleared a moment ago I It's clogged worse than ever now." Brycc turns a deaf ear to Shirley and forces the fight ing. ITO HB CONTINUED.) A South African mine develops 100 horsepower from the fnll of water piped Into the workings for various other uses. imind was gloomy, could see no light on anything, could not vork and could not lavo anyone to seo mc. Doctor's mod- icino did not help mo ind Lydia E. Pink mm s Vegetable Compound was re commended. 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