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Pater at Anthony’s station they find 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, Vincent is ass gned his work in 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 close to town In order that he may be able to keep fatherly watch over the young woman. She Is engaged as a tutor for Viola Bernard, daughter of hotel land lady. Vincent visits society circles of en emies of the Central Pacific railroad ana learns their secrets. He returns to Stella, each showing signs of love for the other. Phineas Cadwallader. pushing a railroad opposing Central Pacific, reaches mining town. She writes to Alfred Vincent his boast. Stella 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 j Incriminating evidence against Cadwalla der found. Phineas Cadwallader fares prison on charge of wire tapping. A per fect chain of evidence connects him with j plot to blow up “Flora.” Stella and Al fred show love for each other despite hostility of Gideon. In showing Miss Hamilton, a niece of a railroad official, about the cainp. Alfred somewhat neg- j leots Stella, who shows pain at treat- j ment. Banquet in railroad town is scene mere monopolization of Alfred by Miss ; Kami Iron, with determination on Stella's part to change her temperament. Alfred writes passionately to Stella, decrying the attention which he was compelled to give Miss Hamilton. Mrs. “Sally” Ber nard announces riches. Gideon makes threat against Alfred's life. Quickly leaves town on best procurable horse in search of Vincent. Race to beat opposi tion company's stage a success. Stella fail? to hear of Gideon. Stella receives a letter: “Promise to marry Gideon In gram or Alfred Vincent will die.” After conference Stella decides to flee. Years pas? Stella becomes known as Esther Anthony, becomes a rich woman, edu cates herself at Vassar and steps into highest San Fran isco society. Kidnap ing changes Alfred greatly and when he and Stella meet in ’Frisco society, she passes him without recognition. Stella’s love for Alfred and his for her is revived. However, neither shows recognition of the fact to the other. Stella visits Mrs. Sally Bernard, now in top notch society and wealthy, being known as Mrs. I„ang Bernard. Viola finds it impossible to forget lo\ e for Alvin, her sweetheart of railroad town. CHAPTER XXVI. Gideon's Story. Between the social gardens of Sac ramento and San Francisco Amabel fitted, gathering the honeydew she fe upon When Esther met her she was as gay with one cavalier as with another, until Alfred appeared. He was never her escort: yet if he came to party or theater she claimed him at once. Esther became convinced that .he barrier that had once separated herself from Alfred now existed be tween him and Amabel; that for Ama bel’s sake he insisted on her perfect freedom in the eyes of society. This conviction did not bring tranquillity; and Esther asked herself bitterly, why, In all the throng that followed her, there was not Borne brave and honest soul that could dislodge Alfred from her heart. As the winter waned she found herself very weary of the mo notonous round, of the days and nights that loomed before her, stretching to blank, gray years. And when the warm sunshine adorned the hills with rioting bloom, more and more she spent solitary hours on the rcad with her smart team, her most conspicuous extravagance. " Valentine's day,” she mused this morning, as she leaned out of the open window to the brilliant, close-bending sun of California. Fuchsia and nastur tium vied with perfumed heliotrope and jasmine in the long climb up the houseside; but purple and white won through their fragrance, and she gathered a feathery cluster for her belt. She met her housekeeper in the dining room, and looked over the at tractive heap brought by mail and messenger; valentines of the old lace paper sort, hiding tiny mirrors and ar dent poetical requests to ‘‘look on my fair;” flowers, books, gems which she would never accept—ail the what-not of sentimental Valentine's day 40 years ago. One offering charmed her. It was a golden arrow' of delicate Mex ican filigree, light, graceful, wonder fully brilliant, a brilliance Esther did not at first discover as coming from many tiny diamonds, each hardly larger than a pinpoint, set very close ly together. “How exquisite!” exclaimed Mrs. Brockett, who was friend as well as housekeeper. “I never saw anything like it. For your hair, isn’t it?” She took it from Esther and shot it through her big brown coil, the feathered end standing high, the pointed shaft shin ing just back of her ear. “It's the most beautiful ornament you have. Won't you keep it?” “I see no way to return It," Esther said, searching wrappers and box for a clew to the sender. “There isn’t a word, a letter—not even the merch ant's name on the box. How did it come?" “The Chinaman said a small boy | brought it this morning before seven j o'clock,” Mrs. Crockett replied, as she | left the room. The trinkets did not interest Esther. She took up her paper instead. At the first glance she cried out. "Gideon Ingram Anthony—His Ro mance!" were the first words she saw. She stared uncomprehendingly for a moment, then read on feTerishly. It was a strange tale, pieced together from many sources, and confirmed by appended interviews with several "old est settlers:” "The story of Gideon Ingram, of the ■well-known freighters. Ingram. Finn & Gould, reads like one of Mrs. South worth's novels; yet it is only one of the many dramas resulting from the clash of Latin and Anglo-Saxon in California. ‘In the early '40s a yotng New Eng land teach “ William Anthony by name, aea- voyaging for his health, dropped into Monterey out of curiosi ty, and remained, entranced by the climate and bewitched by a pair of beautiful Spanish eyes. Influential letters opened the best doors of the capital to him; and his own fine per sonality soon won him popularity. Lolita, the spoiled and only child of Senor Hernando Guerrero, heiress to half a county and the toast of the town, fell in love with the young Puri tan, a love he returned as ardently as any swain of her own people. Those who know the Monterey of that day say that the blood of a prairie princess mingled with the blue Andalusian of the Guerreros in Lolita's veins. Whether true or not, she had the im periousness of a dozen royal maidens; and overriding all objections, she set a wedding day less than two months after the pair first met. “Meantime the groom's brother, a lively young officer of a Boston merchantman, hove into port a week before the nuptials, with a budget of news and an appetite for diversion. With characteristic reserve the elder brother did not at once confide his secret, and thereof came the mischief. The young man was caught in the twinkling of two eyes—Lolita's eyes— league-ions ranchos under Mexican rule. William Anthony came west with the first rush, found and claimed his nephew, mined, traded and grew enormously wealthy; though he lived always in the wilds, visiting cities only as compelled. “On the bleak side of a Washoe mountain he built a palace, the won der of the decade; sent for his daugh ter, and reared the two children in an isolated luxury that was the source of many Aladdin-like tales. But failure came, removal, wandering; and the Anthonys were lost to the world that had known them. Later the father was killed by Indians; and the chil dren, by this time man and woman grown, drifted, unknown and unknow ing, into the heedless stream of hu manity. "The sequel proves that William Anthony never forgave hi3 brother; for the boy grew up as a dependent, called only Gideon Ingram, and never knowing his right to his uncle's name. Senor Guerrero died some years ago, veiling his estate to his grandson and providing for a search for him. Yet It is probable he would have remained undiscovered had not the agents pur chasing right of way for the Southern Pacific Railroad company needed his j signature. His identity was discov i ered some time ago, but his story is j now for the first time made public.” Here followed the Interviews. “My cousin! Oh, he's my cousin!" Like an open book Esther read many things that had puzzled her—her fa I ther's contradictions, his gloom, his | reserves; Gideon, tender, cruel, con I stant, vengeful; a passion, a flame; I conquering, yet ever defeated. Poor j Gideon! Esther dreamed over the strange i tale till she was reminded of her team, waiting as she had ordered, and i restless. “I'll drive at once,” she said. He Was Haggard and Thin. and by way of trading on the capital his brother had made, told her, in the poor Spanish he could command and in the scant English she could compre hend, the story of his life, home and friends, a story that included a certain delicate maiden, his brother's be trothed, who embroidered intermin ably upon her trousseau and wept be cause her lover came not. “The fiery beauty carried the situa tion with a high hand. More than one gallant Spanish dandy assisted Senor Guerrero in escorting William An thony out of town. And from that hour the younger man was swept for ward by an amorous exchantment so adroitly exercised, so imperious, that had his heart not acquiesced he could hardly have escaped standing at the altar in his brother's place and taking to wife the woman who was to have been his sister-in-law. The spell she wove was deep and lasting. He loved her, endured her hasty temper, for gave the love she still bore his brother (though she called it hate), and died a heart-broken man when, two years later, the birth of their child cost her life. The last written word of the young husband was a plea to his broth er for forgiveness and a request that Lolita's child, Gideon Ingram Anthony, might find a second father in his uncle. “But William Anthony, melancholy, Resentful, was wandering over the un peopled wastes of Alta California, vainly , seeking relief from a sore heart. And Gideon's grandfather, not trying very hard, it is suspected, failed to trace the baby's uncle. Letters from New England found him, however; told him that the faithful woman of his early love was slowly fading away. Conscience-stricken, be hastened back, married her, tried devotedly and with apparent success to nurse her to health, but buried her one year after their only child was born.” "Oh, my poor, poor mother!” Esther moaned. “No wonder you are so sad!” She drew the locket from beneath her dress and gazed a moment on the pic tured face. Alfred's ring still hung on the chain, and she pressed R to her i lips before hiding It again. “Like mother, like child!” she whispered scornfully. “Both foolish!” With a sigh she took up the paper and read on: I “Then came from Sutter's Fort the cry of ‘Gold! gcldl'that peopled California and swept away forever the dreamy, pastoral days of hidalgo, fandango and and hastily prepared, eager for the out-of-doors, for motion. She was taking up the reins when a card was brought her—Gideon's. She started back and would nut touch it, til] penciled words caught her eye. “Stella. I have wronged you; but if you have read the morning paper you know how your father wronged me. Blood makes us cousins. I must see you a moment, must a little atone.” How could she see him? Yet she must. Childhood memories, the in justice he had suffered, his sorrows, all pleaded for him. Yet not in the narrow closeness of a room. It would be easier out in the open, away from her own house. "Tell him I'm driving.” she said to the maid. “Ask him to step to the front door.” Esther drove around the house to find him standing, bareheaded, on the graveled road. He was haggard and thin, his shoulders stooped, his eyes gloomy. His clothes were handsome and well made; but they had a bor rowed, misfitting look, that was piti ful to Esther. He did net speak, but stood waiting, slightly bent, only his somber eyes pleading. “Will you drive with me, Gideon?” she asked quietly. Without ft word he put on hla hat and stepped In beside her, tucking thft robe carefully about her. Every move ment had a gentle deprecation foreign to the Gideon she had ktiuwu. The team was restive, the streets crowded; and she could do no more than drive until a mile or more of hills had taken the first mettle out of her horses. When they were on the road, fol lowing the shimmering bay shore around Fort Point to the sea. the plangent waves at their feet, the salt air blowing clean upon them, the vast farness of blue ocean sweeping away petty thoughts, bringing eternal veri ties—there Gideon and Esther found a common meeting ground. Gideon freed her from her promise and would have explained, but she ob jected. “It's past, Gideon. Alfred is safe, well. Let me forget what I know, hear no more." Her heart bounded, yet was leaden again. Freedom had come too late. Alfred no longer loved her. “Yes, one thing I would know. Did Phineas Cadwallader have anything to do with Alfred's—capture?" "No.” "What makes him hate Alfred, then?” “He hates him on more than one score. Vincent knows some important secret of his, and Vincent has also caught Cad in one or two tricks against the company. Cad's afraid he'll be reported. Besides all this. Cad was the last man seen with Vincent before he disappeared; and if the case is ever investigated Cad'll have hard work to clear himself.” “Were you—? Did any one find out —? Why were you not arrested?” “There was not a scrap of evidence against me. My alibi was perfect.” Esther was long silent. Gideca looked out to sea, and waited. “Have you told any one?” she asked finally. “You—you had the thing done, if you didn't do it yourself, didn't you?” “Yes. And I—I’ve told no one—must not.” “Must not?’” she questioned wonder ingly. She knew he did not lack courage. Drag you into such a foul compli cation—the trial, your heart's secrets exposed, prison! To be sure, I didn't think of that three years ago. Now you are my cousin—my name yours—” “But justice,” she began, as he halted. “Ought respect for a name to stand in the way of that?” ‘T're thought of that. But Vincent is free, as well in health as ever; no trouble or disgrace attaches; and he's better off in pocket than if he had not suffered from me, for I’ve been able to throw a thing or two his way. There are the lost years, and—and you. Do you think at this late day it would please him if I dragged your name before the public? Wouldn't that rather distress him ?” “On account of his own name, per haps; he cares nothing for mine.” She was thinking of Amabel's face as she had waltzed by her the night before, looking into Alfred's eyes. “Of course! I knew that always,” Gideon said dully, and gazed seaward. On the veranda of the old Cliff house they stopped as does the tourist of to day to watch the endless flip-flop of wet, glistening seals clambering the gray rocks only to drop into the sea again. The same brilliant, limitless panorama unfolded westward then as to-day—beetling cliffs, the sapphire sky, white, fantastic clouds, twin green promontories guarding the Golden Gate, the misty, enchanted Farallones, the eternal roar of the surf. But na ture then was all unsubdued. They lingered a little, both silent, Gideon nearer content than for years. "Where have you been this long, long time, Gideon?” Esther asked on their way back to the city. “Many places. Twice I went to Poughkeepsie. I saw you, though you didn't know it; saw that you were well and happy.” "Gideon!” Esther exclaimed, aston ished. ' “I've gridironed Nevada and I'tah deserts looking for gold, and for wagon routes; and have found both. The last few months I've spent between San Francisco and the ranch. I’ve seen you often, Stella.” He looked at her wistfully. "Seen me?” “Yes, in theaters, on the street, wherever society notes in the papers gave me a clew to your goings." “And you never came—never spoke "No. I knew you could not marry Vincent. He loves Charley Crocker's niece. As long as I was silent it—it seemed— 1 love you, Star, just the same; no, a thousand times more!” he went on despondently, using uncon sciously the old familiar name. "But you need not fear me. I shall never trouble you after this. We re—were cousins, yes, more like brother and sister; and I'm unfit—” His sentence went unfinished. They were nearing Esther':, home. "What are your plans, Gideon?" “To see the finish of the railroad, then sell out my holdings and go to my ranch." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hard Life of Bachelor Seal Ha* Nothing Like So Good a Time as Human Counterpart. “This skin,” said the furrier, ‘‘came from a young seal bachelor, a youth ignorant of love and of life.” "How do you know?" the lady asked. 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