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THEIROjV WAY \ tvs -v J.dMCCZOPc'rCa V ) CH7CU&C? A TALE OF THE BUILDERS OF THE &r*S4t Ojpjz. SYNOPSIS. The story op*-ns during a trip of the “Overland Mail” through the liocky mountains. "Fncle Billy’* Dodge, stag** driver. Alfred Vincent, a young man. and Phineas Cadwaliad* r. introduced. They • come a- loss the remains of a massacre. Later at Anthony's station they tind the redskins have carried their destructive work there also. Stella Anthony, daugh ter of Anthony, keeper of station, is in troduced. Anthony has been killed. ^ n > :tt assigned his work ;n unearth ing plans of enemies of railroad being built. Vincent visits town where railroad men are working on the road and receives token of esteem from Stella. The old stage driver decides to work (lose to town in order that he may be able to . keep fatherly watch over the young j woman. She is engaged as a tutor for Viola Bernard, daughter of hotel land lady Vincent visits society circles of en emies the Central Pacific railroad and learns their set rets. 11* returns to Stella, j ca It showing signs of love for the other. ( Pi tineas Cadwallader. pushing a railroad opposing Centra! Pacific, reaches mining town She writes to Alfred Vincent his boast Plying his attentions Cadwallader insults her and slit- is rescued by Gideon, her father’s servant. In turn he proposes marriage, is rejected, leaves her declaring he will return the sort of a man she will i love Sfella hears from her lover. Gideon, and of his phenomenal success. Finds letter of importance involving plans of opposition road. Plot to destroy company's ship Flora is unearthed and incriminating evident* against Cadwalla der on charge of wire tapping is also found. Impending disaster to Central Pacific is averted by protecting the Flora. Phineas Cadwallader faces prison on charge <-f wire tapping. A perfect chain of evidence connects him with plot t<> blow up "Flora." Stella and Alfred show love for each other d« spite hostility of Gideon. Alfred and Stella pledge their troth and former is • impelled to leave on company business. Mrs Bernard leaves for scene of husband’s recent "strike.” leaving Stella in charge. Again the girl repulses Gideon's advances. In showing Miss Hamilton, a niece of a railroad of ficial. about the ramp. Alfred somewhat neglects Stella, who shows pain at treat ment. Banquet in railroad town is scene of more monopolization of Alfred bv Miss Hamilton with determination on Stella's part to change her temperament. CHAPTER XVIII.—Continued. * Alfred made some quiet reply Stella did not hear, and hastened to the door, returning quiekly to say that Mr. Crocker had gone with Mr. Greg ory, no one knew where. “You must let me carry you to vour room. Sallv B—" “Oh. no! I'm too heavy! I'm such a big girl!" Miss Hamilton inter rupted. looting up at him with tired, • appealing eyes. Stella, thinking of her own largeness, felt this last sentence to be sheeT affectation. For answer. Alfred gathered her easily in his arms, and Stella recog nized the quiet authority in his voice. ‘ You cannot stay here. IT! carry you gently. Don't worry, you're only a fairy weight. I'll call Miss Anthony Stella had seen the delicate face set tle against his shoulder, had felt the solicitude in his tones. They came toward her, and the gleam of a lamp . fell full on their faces as the sound of her own name startled her. She ^ shrank as from a blow, and fled to her room. And when Alfred knocked later she marie no response, though to Sally B.'s anxious inquiry, following soon, she sent a cheery reply. Yet there was no sleep for her in those early morning hours she was fighting a battle that would change her life. She did not leave her room till late, giving herself barely time to go to the station, where she arrived just as Miss Hamilton was being lifted in a chair to the platform of the rear car. Stella adroitly avoided Alfred's at tempt at a private moment. There was no rancor in her serene face, her cheerful speech. She met his look squarely. And he approved of the fine dignity with which she received Miss Hamilton's extravagant compli ments. the invitation to her home and her voluble good-bye. Yet when Stella put her hand in his in farewell, though she smiled, and her words were all he could expect, there seemed an ada mantine wall between them that had been builded in a night. The frank girl he loved had changed places with a baffling, inscrutable woman. And Alfred realized that henceforth there might be chambers in her heart for ever closed to him. CHAPTER XIX. Alfred Pays the Fiddler. Clarifying daylight had not brought Alfred an easy conscience the morn ing after the banquet. The -pell of the fair sprite he had held in his arms the night before had been broken with the setting of the lop-sided moon. And Stella, standing on the railroad plat form. wise in staying aw-ay from him ^ till that morning, strong in her re solve which he could feel hut not de fine—it needed but this attitude to re call the ardor of his love for her, more insistent as she grew more remote. Alfred wrote at great length to Stel la. making a bad matter worse by his too ardent defense of Amabel, and by self-condemnation that did not ring quite true. The reply to this letter disclosed to him a hitherto unknown Stella. More than a second time he read it. He knew now that he could never de- j ceive her. She would always know his ! inmost heart. She might uncomplain ingly bear neglect after marriage, coldness; but she would never for give him if he married her with less than the whole of his love. The middle of October found Alfred in Placerville, where had been sent to purchase for the company a large amount of fish-joint iron originally bought for the Placerville road. When j the river end of this road, the Sacra mento Valley road, fell into Central Pacific hands, iron was to longer use ful to the defunct San F rancisco and Washoe, which was to have taken over all track to Placerville. Yet, ‘ Any thing to beat the Central Pacific” was still the cry; and Alfred had need of all his discretion: for the opposition would never knowingly sell rails to the ■* Central Pacific company. “I have a delicate errand here," he wrote toward the close of a long let ter to Stella, “that 1 may not tell you of further than to say 1 am making as much haste as possible. I hope to be one of the passengers to Virginia City on the day the Placerville Stage company has set to 'snow under’ the Dutch Flat and Donner Lake State Company's schedule. If so, I shall complete my business there and be with you two days later. I'll telegraph the day I leave Virginia. "B> the way, Cadwallader is here, ostensibly looking up laborers, which is about all the company gives him to do lately. He is very cordial, and claims to know of a secret 'big deal;’ a mine in Nevada, that he wishes me to join him in exploiting. I'm sus picious of bis schemes; yet he has some good men with him, and I may look it up. “But here is the cream of my letter for you, dear—for us. I am to have a handsome percentage of any money that I can save the company in this enterprise now pending. If the busi ness goes as it promises, the day when I may say 'Come' will be a long leap nearer.” Closing words were penned from a flood of tenderness that carried over mountain and vale, and were still warm on the page when they met Stella’s eye. In her favorite hillside nook, the Lord himself put a crook in ought to be tipped the cold shoulder for that ?” “Boy! ’Tain't that!” Sally B. said sharply before Stella could speak. “If you had a home, an' money, an' could give Vi some place in the world—” “You bet I'li never ask you to give her up, ma'am, till I have a home for her,” Alvin broke in impetuously; “a number one home, too!” “But, Al, that's tumble fur off. How in thunder kin you do it?" Sally B.’s heart warmed to the pluck of him in spite of her deter mination. “Do it? I'll just inch along, a little every day, same's I have been doing. I got three hundred saved already, an’ on interest; and it'll grow faster all the time. Ma, she helps a lot, too. I'm going to night school in Sacramento; and when I ask you for Vi I’ll be no Greaser. I can’t go on my shape, but I’ll make what brains I got stretch like blazes!" His face was eloquent, but Sally B. would not look at him. Instead she gazed at Viola, all the mother's pent pride shining in her eyes. "Oh, Vi," she said, after a pause that was broken only by the buzz of an uneasy autumn fly on the window, "I’ve staked a hull mountain o' hopes on you. I ain't never thought o’ you separate from me, some way. I—” She stopped, and Viola spoke with some spirit in spite of her sobs. “But, ma, you expect me to wear a Mrs. in front of my name some day, don't you? And Mrs.—Mrs. Carter," she blushed and smiled through her tears, though her gaze shifted to the wundow, “Mrs. Carter's just as good as Mrs. Bernard, ain’t it?” The mother glanced furtively at Al vin, whose heart spoke naively in his adoring eyes fixed on Viola's downcast face. The boy had won Sally B.'s ap probation. yet she could not relinquish her dream. “If yore brothers had 'a “I Don’t Mean to Show Off, Ma.' wrapped about with the fruity fra grance of autumn, Stella read and re read Alfred's letter, and mused upon the vague plans for the future that now occupied her mind. Nothing definite had come to her; but her growing determination to improve her self was augmented by a tormenting vision of a little woman in blue, light and dainty, where she herself was heavy; vivacious and quick, where she was slow; charming, where she was dull. Stella wished she were small, delicate, timid—a hundred things she was not; yet she was sen sible enough to know that assuming them would be folly. For underlying all her vain wishes was a recognition of something within, a dim vision of the power of her own soul, - that brought tranquillity and courage for her difficult venture. The declining sun shot a level ray into her retreat before she realized the hour and the call of duty. Long before she reached the hotel, Alvin’s cheerful voice floated up in one of his jocund songs. Stella sighed. In a few days Alvin's bright face would be out of her life. He had been promoted from Colfax to the Sacramento office, and was now awaiting his successor. Yet the sight of him carried her thought swiftly to the telegram from Gideon he had that morning brought her. The message was brief. Gideon was coming for her! He had not heeded her negative-laden letters. She had not disclosed her engagement; she had been afraid. And there was reason for fear. The gossip concern ing Alfred that floated from tongue to tongue did not escape her sensitive ears. It was said that he was in love with the superintendent’s niece; again, that he cared nothing for her, only for the position he might, as.her hus band, command. Gideon must hear all this. Stella knew it would confirm his belief that Alfred had no love for her. and that she must meet Gideon, tell him, defy him. It would be a battle of wills, and Gideon would be defeated; but at what cost? What cost to him. to herself, to Alfred? Fear gripped her at thought of the time when the two men should face each other. In the parlor she fqund Sally B„ Al vin and Viola in an excited, triangular discussion, Alvin pleading, Saily B. stem, Viola in tears. “Oh, Miss Stella,” Alvin cried ap pealingly as she entered, “do you think a feller that's all straight but one leg lived. Vi,” she went cn slowly, ‘‘I might 'a considered of this. But yo’re all vo' paw an' me's got to bank on. We're goin' to be rich some day, an’ Bernard'll be a name to conjure with; an' yo're all we get to do it proud.” ‘ Oh. ma, we're always just going to | rich. It may be a thousand years!” There was a heart-break in Viola’s voice that touched Stella's sympathy. •'They're so young, Mrs. Sally; it'll be years before they can marry, and they may not care for each other when the time comes. They're too young to marry now; why not let marriage drop out of the case till Alvin has his home to offer, and Viola has seen more of life? Then Alvin can ask for her again.” Alvin peered eagerly into the older woman's face, waiting her slow reply. No, She Never Kissed Him Washerwoman, However, Had an Idea of the Situation. Nell is a girl who lives up on Capitol hill. On Mondays a woman comes to Nell's house to wash clothes. The woman s name is Nell, too. The other day Nell, the girl, was in the sitting room reading when the telephone rang. Nell, the washerwoman, an swered the ring. Nell, the girl, then heard Nell, the washerwoman, say: "Yes, this is Nell." Silence. "How's that?” Silence. "What! Am I mat because you kissed me last night. Look here, man, you re too fresh. Who are you, anyway. I never kissed—” Just then the telephone receiver was wildly snatched from her hand. Nell, the girl, blushing furiously, had grabbed it. She hung it on the hook. "He wanted me,” she said. "He al ways tries to tease me that way. I—1 never kissed him in my life.” When it came the two young things hung breathlessly on each word, their faces growing dull with despair as the fateful sentence fell. “Vi, yo're yo' paw's child s well ae mine. I ain’t got no right to settle this question without his havin' a say. An' you all might's well know it now's later—yo’ paw's made his pile. It's on the sly yet, so lock yer lips. We re goin' to pull up stakes pretty soon an' git to the Bay. An' we ll flame out, an' ride on the gilt edge o’ society a while, an’ see how that feels. How on airth are two ole duffers like yo’ pawr an' me goin’ to show off without you, Vi?” “I don't mean to show off, ma," Viola, said, pitifully. “I’ve slaved all my life waitin' fur the chance to live like white folks; | an" now It's come, are you goin' to spoil it all, honey?” She held out her hand and her voice trembled. Viola looked up suddenly, wonder ingly, to see tears in her mother's eyes. She was accustomed to her mother's fiery sympathy for others; but this was the first time she had ever heard her plead for herself. A fleeting, hopeless look the child sent Alvin, then crossed the room and took her mother's hand in both her own. “Good-bye, Alvin,” she said, piteously. “She was my mother before you were my lover; and I must stick to her— and paw.” She flung herself into Sally B.'s arms and the two sobbed to gether. For an instant Alvin stood petrified, then straightened to a new manliness. “Mrs. Bernard, you've no right to re quire such a sacrifice of us. We only asked you to let us be honest with you about our love for each other. I'm not the kind to forget, and neither is Vi. I’m.going to win that home and a bank account; and then I'm coming for Vi. If w?e can't marry with your consent, by that time the law of Cal ifornia will let us do it without.” He turned to Viola, who had gone to the window. “Good-bye, Vi,” he said slow ly, looking at her yearningly, though he took no step toward her. "You'll hear from me as soon as I'm ready to build that house. Have your plans drawn and ready, my girl, for it won't be so very long.” There was nothing defiant in his manner, for all of the fearless ring of the words. Stella could have hugged him for the cheer, the hope, the man hood in voice and face. He gave Vi ola one last look, glanced furtively at Sally B., smiled at Stella a smile sad der than tears and closed the door be hind him. In a moment his cheerful whistle came back to them, and the | stump stump of his crutch. CHAPTER XX. Into the Night. ■'Howdy, honey,” Uncle Billy said to Stella that evening as he came in and took his supper-seat at the table, where Sally B. proudly included him in her elastic family circle. Are you ready fo' the race?” "Oh, Uncle Billy, are we really go ing to race the Placerville Stage com pany to Virginia City? I thought their weeks of talk and preparation were just to beat our previous time schedule.” "Yes, I reckoned it would go at that; | still, Mr. Crocker s word's the law.” “But why didn't he give^you more j warning? You haven't even a day to I get ready!” "Our folks have biggeh pots a-boil | ing than staging. However, the Boss is in Virginia now; and I reckon he got so tired of those blamed Placer ville Stage agents Mowin' oveh there j that he's reivin' on us to shut their | mouths. And we've got to do it, if we | ain't ready. It’s my trip.” "The race is on!” Alvin shouted, as he pegged in with a message for Sal ly B. Exclamations in concert were shot at Alvin from several tables. "Yes, the steadier Chrysopolis left the San Francisco wharf at four o'clock; and she's streaking it up the bay like lightning!” ”1 hope she'll keep up her gait plumb | to Sacramento,” Uncle Billy said at the first break in the hubbub. "You bet she won't,” some one re plied. “She'll have a breakdown after I she gets the mail and passengers off at j Freeport for the Placerville Stage peo ple.” “Don't you go into partnership with any worry,” Alvin said, pausing at the door. “I ain’t giving away the clicker, ' but let me tell you the C. P.'s ain't j fools.” “I got to have hot lunch ready for i them passengers to eat on the fly,” Sally B. said brusquely. “Uncle Billy, what time do you reckon they’ll be here?” “Some time neah about fo' o’clock in the mawnin', I figger. You can tell into five minutes when we heah what , tinje the train leaves Sacramento.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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