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^ » \\\ V \ SYNOPSIS. The story op*-ns during: a trip of the "Overland Mail” through the Rooky mountains, "t’ncle Billy” Podge. stage driver, Alfred Vincent, a young man. arid Phir.eas Cadwallader, introduced. They come across the remains of a massacre. Later at Anthony's station they find the redskins have curried their destructive work there also. Stella Anthony, daugh ter of Anthony, keeper of station, is in troduced. Anthony lias been killed. Vincent is assigned his work in unearth ing plans of enemies of railroad, being built. Vincent visits town where railroad men are working on road and receives token of esteem from Stella. The old stage driver decides to work clos- to town in order that he may be able to keep fatherly watch over the young woman. She is engaged as a tutor f«*r Viola Bernard, daughter of betel land lady. Vincent visits society cir !es of en emies of the Central Pacific railroad and learns their secrets. He returns to Su lla., each showing signs of love for the other, showing signs of love for the other. Phineas Cadwallader. pushing a railroad opposing Central Pacific, readies mining town. She writes tc Alfred Vincent his boast. Plying his attentions Cadwallader insults her and she is rescued ny Gideon, her father's servant. In turn he proposes marriage, is rejected, leaves k* r declaring he will return the sort of a man she will love. Vincent “shows up" San Francisco and Washoe road and i- praised i - gov ernor and heads of C- ntral Pacific. Be ing known as agent of C. P. he decides to retire to position of a brakeman : r a short time. Stella hears from her lover. Gideon, and of his phenomenal success. Finds letter ol importance involving plans of opposition road. , CHAPTER X.—Continued. ‘•Some deviltry to our company. Say! You know everything: maybe you can figure it out. And say! Mum's the word. I ain't supposed to let any one see what goes over the wire, you know. So long.” He handed her a bulky envelope and turned. “Is it all this?” Stella began, when Alvin broke in: "Oh my work's in there, too. Say. Miss Stella, you're a bully teacher! My le-ains are growing so fast my skull aches. I must skip or my chief'1! cali me before 1 get back, and that'll mean—" He drew his finger across his throat, laughed merrily and almost closed the door when he turned back a sheepish face and in a voice to match said: "There's a note to Yi in there; would you—would you—" Stella laughed. "Oh. yes, I will: but 1 11 tell her mother, too. " "Ye—s, I s'pose that goes. O. K.. too. Good-bye. I’m gone.” Stella heard him stumping off down the street, watched him through the dim light climb the muddy hill to the little box where he was jailed with the "clicker” f’4 hours a day. save the three—sometimes only two—short res pites the chief operator in Sacra mento gave him for meals. Stella thought of the eerie nights, thought of Alvin's social nature and sighed. No wonder his predecessor had been dis charged tor drunkenness. But Alvin was made of better stuff. To-night the budget went unopened. Stella extracted the note addressed to Vialo. carried the rest to her home made desk in grandma’am's room and went to supper. But Yic Wall's best efforts were un appreciated. She toyed with her food, listening tensely for a herald of the stage and was gladdened at last by the shout that announced its coming. Doors were flung open and anxious eves peered into darkness, watching a black object embody itself from the night and labor up to the lament ex press office. Stella saw a rigid form on the box and ran down the sidewalk to learn for herself if it was really Uncle Billy. He did not move; only a feeble voice testified to life. "Some one take the lines. I—I cain t open—my fingehs.” he said, as kind hands held hot whisky to his lips “Don't mind me yet.” The words came thickly between swallows. "Take the po’ fellehs out from where they stand won't you? Boys, you all take hold— those hosses played a lone hand—don't make ’em pull the ole—wagon up that muddy hill—to-night. Po' Snorteh! It's good-bye for him—I reckon. He's His words uwindled to a «nis|ier and the huddled figure, relaxed from the ions strain, drooped lower and lower. • Boys, he'll fall! Some o' you lift him down!” called Sally B. sharply -Be keerful! Don't straighten his fin gers too quick!” “And some of you bear me also tc my downy couch, won’t you? I, too am a frozen wayfarer, Sally B.' Phineas climbed out of the coach and stepped up to Sally B. with proffered hand. "Oh, you git!” she said, half vexed though she laughed. "Why didn't yot set on the box an' spell Uncle Billy with the lines, you skunk? 'iou art vounger'n him.” "I ain’t driving Charley Crocker's stage I'm his passenger.” Sally B. hustled him aside and cleared the w-ay for the men who car ried Uncle Billy, protesting feebly, tc her best chamber, where the twc women took him in charge. But their ministrations' and the sight of Stella’s pitying fao-, rousec him for a minute only; he was soor in the vision-laden spaces where trick sies make jest of human travail. Fci long hours, under a wearying conglom eration of angles and curves thal grardma'am called a "dream of thf nlgi l.” poor Uncle Billy tossed at t moaned, fought over again his lonely battie with the storm. “Keep it up a little longeh, boys Lights ahead—no, lights out! Fly boys! The mountain's falling! Po Snorteh, down again! Git up, boy! Pull up, there! Now, altogether Uncle Billy must stick—by the stage live—or die—save the treasure—don’t Stella, dear! The old man ain't wo tt a teah from—yo' sweet—good-bye, lit tie one. Uncle Billy cain't go any—’ Stella's tears fell unheeded on the stiff blistered hands while the story of the awful drive grew out of his fevered babblings. Towards mominf he was quieter. Stella declared she could not rest, but Sally B. drove hei I to her room; and nature and youth soon prevailed. She awoke late in the morning, depressed by a dread her rest had not banished. Hen- first thought was of Uncle Hilly; her next was of Pliineas; and from him her mind flew to the strange dispatch. She dressed hastily and ran down stairs, attacking it at once. Fruitless ly she searched for a clew, some pre science of its importance holding her to the task heedless of breakfast and of Uncle Billy. Suddenly the signifi cance of the paiier she had picked up cn the hillside after her encounter with Pliineas flashed upon her. She found it and began her work anew, re 1 warded at last by a message that ! whitened her cheek, unsteadied her hand. Waiting for neither breakfast nor wraps, she flew up the hill to the station. CHAPTER XI. T racked. Alvin saw Stella coming and sprang I to the door. Heard the news?" he nature. I ni sure. 1 heard it once be fore.” ■'Those initials are ours.” ‘Sure, they're Cad's, too, backward. That's why he uses 'em, so anything | crooked he does will be charged to! us." Alvin grinned, but was quickly serious again. "There's worse—the wire's been tapped. " “How do you know that?” "'Cause 1 asked every operator clear ! down the line from Virginia if he , heard any Choctaw going through, and ; not one clicker east of here had it. | At Sacramento the night man heard it, bur paid no attention to it." "It s a state’s prison offense.” | ”Oh. yes; but Cad won't go to pris I on. You'll see! How'll they catch : him? And. anyway, the fellers he's j working for in San Francisco ’ll save ■ him. They'll have to, if they save ; their own skins." Alfred was heedless. He was read ing the second dispatch. "A. C. & O., San Francisco. To be called for. Everything fixed. 'Flora' leaves Fri day at ten. with five hundred tons iron. P. Q. undertakes the job for price we offered. No mistake. Timed for the straits. Don't let her take pas sengers. C. P. 2 & 4.” “Good heavens!" Alfred cried, drop ping into a chair by the desk and reaching for slip and pencil. “This is Friday, and—" He took out his watch. "Nine-five! Got a San Francisco paper, A1 ?” , "Yes; but it's several days old.” "No matter! Find out quick what dock the Flora' leaves, then get to your key. We must beat lightning tee day!” The two were silent. Alvin nervous-1 ly turning the paper, Alfred scratching dispatches. Evidently the “Flora" w as Alfred's Eye Was Caught by the Glea m sf a Crescent of Burnished Gold shouted before she could speak. “Vir ginia «c Tiuckee railroad's a go this , time. sure. Xo sardines behind it. like before, but men; money, too. ■ They'll build from Virginia to Reno, and we'll meet 'em there. It'll help us like sixty!" All this was poured out impetuously as she came toward him. her mind scantily comprehending the import of ! his words, though a mental flashlight j told her that the complexion of the roads would make forever unnecessary such drives as I'ncle Billy's latest stormy trip. "Oh, Alvin," she panted: “that j cipher dispatch—it means—it means death! What shall we do? If the I chief knew you showed it to me—” “N'o matter what happens to me! Tell me. quick, what's in it!” "But I mustn’t get you discharged. Alvin." She had the woman's mind, that delays, protects, conserves; and she hesitated. But Alvin had the masculine cour age that destroys boldly to build again i boldly. "The discharge of one or more two-bit operators don't count 'longside 1 of this matter. Mr. Vincent’s due on the extra in a minute. He's O. K. for company's inside business if he is only ; a brakeman.” j “Every minute’s precious," Stella I said. "What if the train’s late? If Mr. Vincent is not—” A whistle in ! terrupted her. i "There she is!” Alvin exclaimed. I turning toward the rock promontory I that hid the train, though the rever ! berating whistle sounded from across the gorge. •'I’ll start back," Stella said. “If Mr. Vincent's not aboard—they may have transferred him—wave to me | vhen 1 come in sight under the hill." The train puffed in. Alvin gave dis patch and translation to Alfred with a whispered explanation, and Stella saw no hand wave from the doorway. It needed little time for him to read and 'erify Stella's solution. He toot the s' otter of the two messages first. ’D. I-.. San Francisco. To be called ! for. Buy G. & C. at any price, con i tiguous lodes if possible. Big strike. Secret yet. C. H. 2 & 4. Alfred scowled. "Secret information for favored buyers. When did you get this?” "Wednesday morning before day light" What were you up to at that time in the morning?” "Nothing. The stuff waked me go ing through, it was so queer. The minute I heard the signature I smelt a mice.” "What do you mean?” “ C. P. 2 fc 4’ is Blowhard Cad's sig 1 net a regular boat: her name was not in the shipping lists. "We'll have to send the message on trust then. Quick, All Tell the op erator down there it means life or death to officers and crew—this ! message does. Tell him to put a man on a horse—I'll stand the expense— anything to get word to the 'Flora' in time: Oh. sign my name. It won't do to have the company show up in this." Alvin bent over his key. Men came and went, Alvin holding off trainmen and "commercial'' messages alike with the decisive words, "company's busi ness." He looked up at last, breathing freer as he spoke. "They’ll do it." he whispered to Alfred. "They know where the 'Flora' lies. They have 20 minutes to catch her.” ! Alfred sent a second message to the company's office in Sacramento telling of Alvin's discovery and asking relief from his train for the day. A third dispatch went to the county sheriff, telling him of the wire tapping and of the evidence against Cadwallader. While waiting for replies Alfred wrote to Gov. Stanford, inclosing the cipher dispatches and their transla tions. But this was soon done, and the two men, oppressed with their 1 death-laden secret, watched the clock | feverishly. The minutes dragged as intolerably for Alfred, though he wore his mask more easily than Alvin. Would they be in time? Would they catch the little steamer before she left port for her fate? Even then, would they find the infamous secret before its fateful moment arrived? What would it he? Powder? A slit in the hull? A cun ning injury to the boiler? At last San Francisco called. Alvin sprang to the key. The steamer had started, had been hailed, had waited for a small boat and the message, and had gone on her way. Alfred rose, as stiff with the tension as if minuses had been hours. "That's all we can do at that end. Keep your eye and ear busier than your tongue, Al. for the rest of tl day. I'm ofT to settle with his nibs, Phineas Cad walladev. By the way, couldn't you contrive some way to get him left? The train reported late in leaving, false report, something like that?” Aivin nodded. "Guess I can think up that trick in four hours." At the hotel Alfred took only time to don riding boots and to find Stella for a hurried word. "Get Sally B. to hold Cadwallader here o’ er train time, if it's possible, " Alfred said before his good-bye. "It may mean everything to the company, i'll return to-night if I can." A swift horse took him to the "Front.” where he found the superin tendent riding his beat. Alfred told his story briefly and asked if there Y.as a lineman on the force. “Jupiter! You can't track that man, Vincent! The snow's come and gone since that Hecate's job was done.” "But. Mr. Gregory, he'd have to cut the wire, anti he’d have to climb a tree or a pole to ti t it. Couid that be done without leating a trace?" “What then? How can you prove it was he?" "How'll I know 1 couldn't prove it unless I try?" "Linemen don't show up often in ray diggings, i'll ash Bennett; his sec- ; tion begins here." Inquiry discovered an intelligent | man who had worked cn '.he line. His climbers were at can:; near by; and Hr. Gregory's resourcefulness provided horse and saddle. The two men set off without delaw. They rode fast till within nearly five miles of Dutch Flat. Alfred judging that, since Pitineas took the stage there, his exploit must be in that neighborhood. The afternoon was past its half when they began to inspect each pole ! and wire-touched tree with close | scrutiny. “We'll work east over these | five miles to Dutch Flat," Alfred said. “If we find nothing we ll have to stay over night in town, go east a short distance in the morning, and then take it west from here.” For the first two or three miles their search was unrewarded by any sign. Just at sunset, in a windy little vale, the lineman's practised eye caught a peculiar piecing of the wire, and he climbed nimbly to inspect it. It was not a joining made by the regu lar force, but a recent cut. The marks of the climbers were also fresh. J “Is there anything about it to dis- ! tinguish it from regular work?" Al 1 fred asked. “You bet! Any chump could tell, if , he see it close, that ii was the work of an amachure by the way the wires are tied." That w as something gained, but not enough. "How did the man get up there?" Before the man could reply Alfred s 1 eye was caught by the gleam of a f crescent of burnished gold. Lying j half imbedded in the wet remains of j a snowdrift, its upper surface washed clean and shining, he found a cull but ton of a peculiar design—a star within i a crescent, the two free points tipped with diamonds. He knew it, he knew who owned its fellow! Turning it over he saw the engraved initials, P. C. “Good enough!" he called. "We need ' no more evidence. You can go on to town for the night, or back to camp, as you choose. I'll ride too hard for you. perhaps.” The man chose to turn back. Allred arranged for payment for the extra work and again rode east. In a few minutes he arrived at the Dutch Flat office and telegraphed Al vin, asking of Phineas. Five minutes later he was reading the reply: "C.'s here, pacing the platform like a mad gobbler. We did the leaving trick for the regular train O. K. But he thinks he's going on the special in spite of fate.” "Let him go in peace," Alfred wired back: and immediately sent a message to the sheriff at Auburn that was an swered after two hours as follows: "Sheriff's office. Auburn. P. C. walked into my arms as unsuspecting as a lamb. He had no time to destroy in criminating evidence. Is now resting noisily in the cooler.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Do Hornets Stand Guard Experiments Seem to Show that They Have Sentinels. Is a hornet's nest guarded by sen tinels. after the manner of ant hills? It is not so easy to decide, for their private habits do not invite familiar approach. But some experiments seemed to point that way. No noises, however near or strident, had the least effect upon the workers. Blow on divers instruments as loudly and shrilly as I would, they poured in and out of the gate or labored on the walls, intent wholly upon their own affairs. But at the slightest jar ui>on the win dow or shutter, out flew a bevy of irate insects and flung themselves against the wire window screen with ! an angry "bump” that showed how good was their intention, at least, to defend their heme. It was always so; a squad of workers, free and ready for aggressive duty, seemed to be lurking near the gate, prompt to sally forth upon alarm. Even at night a few kept nearby, and although their port had lost its vicious swing and they moved about with a sluggish uace. like sleepy watchmen, as r mbtless they were, they left upon th> observer the impression that they wrre on sentinel serivce, in which the c mmunity was never lacking.—Harjier’s Magazine. Advice to a Your] Man. “What do you say to a young lady at a dance?" queried the youth who j was about to attend his first ball. “Oh," replied the society man, “talk 1 to her about her beauty.” “But suppose she hasn’t any?” said the youth. “In that case." rejoined the s. m., “talk to her about the ugliness of the other girls present.” Prolonged Duties. “1 would like to see the sheriff." announced the visiter in the county courthouse. “He’s out," replied one of the clerks. "When do you expect him back?” asked the visitor. “I don’t think he will be back for a week at least,” answered the clerk. "A watch factory failed, and he’s winding up its affairs."—Harper's Week ly._ . 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The human being who will deliberately steal a pair of trousers from the editor of a weekly paper, and knowing that they a'e his only pair for church-going, deserves a worse fate than our indignation will allow us to mention. It seems to us as if civiliza tion had been turned back half a cen tury.—Hometown (Pa.) Banner. The Soft Answer. Senator Tillman at a banquet in Washington said in humorous defense of outspoken and frank methods: "These people who always keep calm fill me with mistrust. Those that never lose their temper I suspect. He who wears under abuse an angelic smile is apt to be a hypocrite^, “An old South Carolina deacon once said to me with a chuckle: “ 'Keep yo' tempah, son. Don't yo’ quarrel with no angry pusson. A soft answah am ailus best. Hit's com manded an', furthermo', sonny, hit makes 'em maddah’n anything else yo’ could say.’ ” Selfish Etiquette. Some rules in an old book on eti quette seem to encourage a practice commonly called "looking cut for num ber one.” Here are two of them: "When cake is passed, do not fin ger each piece, but with a quick glance select the best. “Never refuse to taste of a dish be cause you are unfamiliar with it, or you will lose the taste of many a del icacy while others profit by vour ab stinence. to your lasting regret.”— Youth's Companion. DR. TALKS OF FOOD Pres, of Board of Health. "What shall I eat?” is the daily in quiry the physician is met with. I do net hesitate to say that in my judg ment a large percentage of disease is caused by poorly selected and improp erly prepared food. My personal expe rience with the fully-cooked food, j known as Grape-Nuts, enables me to Epeak freely of its merits. "From overwork, I suffered several years with malnutrition, palpitation cf the heart and loss of sleep. 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