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Copyright by Cbas. Bcrlbnor'a Sons
CHAPTER V Continued.
Smith heard him through, nodding
understanding when the tale wjih
old.
"It's the old story of the big fish
swnllowlng the little one; so old thnt
there Is no longer nny saving touch of
novelty In It," he commented. "I'vo
been wondering If there wnsn't some
thing of thnt kind In your background.
And you sny you hnven't nny Belmonts
or Morgans or Rockefellers In your
company?"
"We have a bunch of rather badly
senrcd-up ranch owners and local
people, with Colonel Unldwln In com
mand, and that's all. The colonel Is
a fighting mnn, all right, and he can
shoot as straight as anybody, when
you have shown him what to shoot at.
But he is outclassed, like all the rest
of us, when It comes to n game of finan
cial freer.c-out. And that Is whut we
are up against, I'm afraid."
"There Isn't the slightest xloubt In
the world about that," snld the ono
who had been called In as an expert.
"What I can't understand Is why some
of you didn't sl-zo the situation up
long ago before It got Into Its pres
ent desperate shnpe. You nro nt the
beginning of the end now. They've
caught you with an empty treasury,
nnd these stock sales you speak of
prove that they hove already begun
to swallow you by littles. Tlmnnyonl
common I suppose you hnven't any
preferred at thirty-nine Is nn excel
lent gumble for any group of men who
can see their way clear to buying the
control. With an eager market for the
water and they can sell the wnter to
you people, even If they don't put
their own Escalantc project through
the stock can bo pushed to par and
beyond, as It will be after you folks
arc nil safely frozen out. More than
that, they can chnrgo you enough, for
the wnter you've got to have, to finance
the Escnlante scheme and pay all the
bills; and their Investment, at the
present market, will bo only thirty
nine cents In the dollar. It's a neat
little play."
Williams was by this time far past
remembering that his adviser was a
man with a possible alias and presum
ably a fugitive from Justice.
"Can't something be done, Smith?
You've had experience in these things ;
your talk shows it. Ilnvo wo got to
stand still and bo shot to pieces?"
"The necessity remains to bo dem
onstrated. But you will bo shot to
pieces, to a dend moral certainty, If
you don't put somebody on deck with
tho necessnry brnlns, nnd do it quick
ly," snld Smith with frnnk bluntness.
"Ilold on," protested the engineer.
"Every mnn to his trnde. When I snld
that we hnd nobody but the neighbors
nnd our friends in the compnny, I
didn't mean to give the Impression
that they were either dolts or chuckle
heads. As a matter offnct, we have
a protty level-headed bunch of men In
Tlmanyonl Ditch though I'll admit
that some of them nro nervous enough,
Just now, to want to get out on almost
any terms. What I meant to say was
that they don't happen to bo up In all
the crooks and turnings of tho hlgh
flnnnco buccaneers."
MI didn't mean to reflect upon
Colonel Baldwin and his friends," re
joined tho cx-cnshlcr good-naturedly.
"It is nothing especially discrediting
to them that they are not up In all tho
"Can't Something Bo Done, Smith?"
tricks of a trade which Is uot theirs.
Tho financing of n schema llko this has
come to bo a business by Jtself, Mr.
Williams, and it is hardly ' to bo ex
pected thnt n group of Inexperienced
men could do it successfully."
Tho construction chief turned ab
ruptly upon his cost-cutter.
"Keeping In mind what you said n
few minutes ago nbout 'back numbers
would it bo cllmblug over tho fenco too
far for mo to nsk If your experlenco
has been such aa would warrant you
In tackling a Job of this kind?"
"That Is a fair question, and I can
tnswer it straight," said tho man un-
JOHN SMITH HAS THE GOOD FORTUNE TO PLAY HERO TO
A VERY PRETTY YOUNG LADY-HE IS OFFERED THE
JOB OF FIGHTING ENEMIES OF COL BLADWIN
8ynopsls-J. Montnguo Smith, cnBhler of tho Lawrenccvllle Bank
nnd Trust compnny, bachelor society leader engaged to mnrry Verdn
Rlchlandur, heiress, Is wrongfully accused of dishonesty by Wntrous
Dunham, his employer, nnd urged to bo a scapegoat for the crooked
accuser. Smith strikes Dunhnm, leaves him for dead and flees the
state. He turns up n tramp some time later at on Irrlgntlon dnm con
struction enmp In the Rocky mountnlns and as John Smith gets n rough
Job. Ho soon attracts attention because of his secretive manner nnd
hls'nlr of high clnss. Tho dnm compnny Is In flnnnclnl strnlts, nnd
WUUnms, superintendent, tells Smith his troubles.
der Are. "I've hod tho experience."
"I thought so. If the colonel should
nsk you to, would you consider as a
possibility tho taking of tho doctor's
Job on this sick project of ours?"
"No," wns the brief rejoinder.
"Why not?"
Smith looked away out of tho ono
square window In the shnck nt the
busy scene on tho dam stagings.
"Because I'm not exactly n born sim
pleton, Mr. Williams. There nro n
number of rensons which nro purely
personal to mc, and nt lenst ono which
cuts Ice on your side of the pond. Your
flnnnclnl 'doctor,' ns you call him,
would hove to be trusted absolutely In
the handling of tho company's money
nnd Its negotiable securities. You
could, nnd should, put him under a
fnlrly heavy bond. I'll uot go Into it
nny deeper than to sny that I can't
give a bond."
Williams took his defeat, If It could
be called a defent, without further
protest.
"I thought it might not be nmlss to
tnlk it over with you," ho snld. "You
sny It Is Impossible, nnd perhaps It Is.
But it won't do nny harm for you to
think it over, and if I were you, I
shouldn't burn all the bridges behind
me."
Smith went bnck to his work in tho
qunrry with a troubled mind. The
little henrt-to-hcart talk with Williams
hod been shnrply depressive. It hod
shown him, as nothing else could, how
limited for all tho remainder of his Ufa
his chances must be. Thnt ho would
bo pursued, that descriptions and pho
tographs of tho cx-cashlcr of tho Law
rcnccvlllo Bank nnd Trust compnny
were already circulating from hnnd to
hand among the pnld man-catchers, ho
did not doubt for a moment. While' ho
could remain ns n workman unit In an
Isolated construction camp, there was
somo little hope that ho might be over
looked. But to become the public char
acter of Williams' suggestion In a
peopled city Was to run to meet his
fate.
It is sold that the flow of a mighty
river may owe its most radical change
in direction to tho chance thrusting of
a twig into tho current at soma critical
instant in the rise or fall of tho flood.
To tho reincarnated Smith, charting
his course upon tho conviction that his
best chance of immunity lay in isola
tion and a careful avoidance of tho
peopled t6wns, came the diverting twig
in this wise.
On tho second morning following tho
unofficial- talk with Bartlcy Williams
in tho iron-sheeted headquarters ofllco
at tho dam, a delayed consignment of
cement, steel nnd commlssnry supplies
wns duo nt the sldctrnck a mllo below
tho camp. Perkins, the timekeeper,
called Smith from the qunrry nnd gnvo
him tho invoices covering the ship
ment. "I guess you'd better go down to
tho siding nnd check this stuff In, so
that we'll know what we're getting,"
was his suggestion to tho general util
ity mnn.
When tho crooklngs of tho tote-rond
let Smith get his first sight of the side
track, ho sow that tho train was al
ready in. A few minutes sufllccd for
tho checking. He sent tho unloading
gang back to camp with tho teams,
meaning to walk back himself after he
should have seen the car of steel and
the two cars of cement kicked In at
tho upper end of tho sidetrack.
While ho was waiting for tho train
to pull up and mako the shift, he was
commenting idly upon tho clumsy iny
out of tho temporary unloading yard,
and wondering if Williams were re
Rponslblo for it. Tho siding wns on
tha,outsldo of a curve and within a
hundred yards of tho river bank.
Thero was scanty space for tho unload
ing of material, and a good bit of what
thero was was taken up by tho curv
ing spur which led oft from tho siding
to cross tho river on a trestle, and by
tho wagon road itself, which enmo
down a long hill on tho south sldo of
tho rntlrond and mndo an abrupt turn
to cross tho main track and tho siding
fairly In tho midst of things.
As tho long train pulled up to clenr
tho road crossing, Smith stepped bnck
and stood between tho two tracks. A
moment lator tho cut was made, and
tho forward section of tho train went
on to set tho thrco loaded cnr3 out at
tho upper switch, lenvlng tho rear half
standing on tho main Hue.
Ono of tho men of tho unloading
gang, u leather-faced grade shoveler
who had helped to build tho Novadn
Slioro Line, had lagged behind the de
parting wagons to fill and Hght his
pipe.
"Wouldn't that Jar you up right good
and hard f'r n way to run a rnllrond,"
ho said to Smith, Indicating tho wholly
deserted standing section of tho freight
with tho burnt match-end. "Them fel
lies 'vo all gone off up ahead, a-leavln'
this ycro hind end without a sign of
a mnn 'r a flag to take keer of It."
Smith was listening only with tho
outward car to what tho pipe-lighter
wns saying. Somowhero In tho west
ward distances a thuudcrous murmur
was droning upon tho windless air of
tho Juno morning. ' A big gray auto
mobile, with tho cut-out open, wns top
ping tho Blde-hlll grade, and Smith rec
ognized it nt once. It wnH Colonel Dex
ter Baldwin's roadster, and It held n
single occupant namely, tho young
woman who was driving It.
Turning to look up tho track, ho saw
that tho thrco loaded cars had been
set out, and tho forward section of the
train was now backing to mnko the
coupling with the standing half. lie
hoped that the trainmen hnd seen the
nutomobllo, nnd that they would not
attempt to mako tho coupling until
after tho gray car had crossed behind
the caboose. But in tho samo breath
ho guessed, and guessed rightly, that
they were too far around the curve to
bo able to sco tho wagon-road ap
proach. Smith saw tho young womnn check
tho speed for the abrupt turn at the
bottom of the hill, saw tho car take the
turn In a skidding slide, heard tho re
newed roar of the motor as the throttle
was opened for a run nt tho embank
ment grade. Then the unexpected
dropped its bomb. There was a Jan
gling clash and the cars on tho main
track were set in motion. ThC train
men had failed to make their coupling,
and the rear half of the train was surg
ing down upon tho crossing.
Smith's shout, or tho sight of the on
coming train, one of the two, or both,
put tho finishing touch ou tho young
woman's nerve. Thero wns still time
in which to clear tho train,' but at the
critical instant the young woman ap
parently changed her mind and tried
to'stop the big car short of the cross
ing. Tho effort was unsuccessful.
When tho stop was made, tho front
wheels of tho roadster were precisely
In tho middle of tho main track, and
the motor wns killed.
By this time Smith hnd thrown his
coat away and was rnclng tho bncklng
trnln, with tho ex-grndc-laborer a poor
second a dozen ynrds to tho rear. Hav
ing ridden in the roadster, Smith knew
that it had no self-starter. "Jump I"
ho yelled. "Got out of the carl" and
then his heart came into his mouth
when he saw that she was struggling
to free herself and couldn't; that she
was entangled in somo way behind tho
low-hung tiller wheel.
Smith was running fairly abreast of
the caboose when ho made this discov
ery, and tho hundred feet of clearance
had shrunk to fifty. In imagination
ho could already seo tho gray car over
turned and crushed under the wheels
of tho train. In a flying spurt he
gained a few ynrds on the ndvnnclng
mennco and hurled himself ngolnst
the front of the stopped rondster. He
did not attempt to crank tho motor.
Thero was time only for a mighty
heave and shovo to send tho cor back
ing down tho slope of the crossing
approach; for this and for the quick
spring nsldo to save himself; and the
thing wns done.
CHAPTER VI.
A Notice to Quit.
Onco started and given its push, the
gray roadster drifted backward from
tho railroad crossing and kept on until
it enmo to rest In the sag at the turn
In tho road. Running to overtake it,
Smith found that tho young woman
was still trying Ineffectually to freo
herself. In releasing the clutch her
dress had been caught, and Smith was
glad enough to let the extricating of
tho caught skirt and the cranking of
tho engine servo for a breath-catching
recovery.
When ho stepped bnck to "tuno" tho
spark tho young woman hnd subsided
into the mechanician's scat and was
retylng her veil with Angers that were
not nny too steady. Sho was Rmall
but well-knit; her hair wns a golden
brown and thero was a good deal of
It; her eyes wero set well apnrt, and
In tho bright morning sunlight they
wero a slaty gray of tho exact shodo
of tho motor veil sho was rearranging.
Smith had a sudden conviction that ho
hod seen tho wide-Bet eyos before ; also
tho straight llttlo noso and tho half
boyish mouth and chin, though whero
ho had seen them the conviction could
glvo no present hint.
"I Bup-pup-supposo I ought to say
something appropriate," sho wns be
ginning, hnlf breathlessly, while Smith
stood nt tho fender nnd grinned.
"You don't hnvo to any anything. It's
been a long tlmo slnco I've had a
chanco to mako such a bully grand
stand play ns this.", And then:
"You'ro Colonel Bnldwln's daughter,
nren't you?"
Sho nodded, saying:
"How did you know?"
"I know tho car. And you hnvo your
fnthcr's eyes."
Sho did not seem to tnko It amiss
that ho was making her eyes n basis
for comparisons. Sho was her father's
only son, ns well as his only daughter,
and Bho divided her tlmo pretty evenly
In trying to Uvo up to both sets of re
quirements. "You hnvo introduced mo; wo-won't
you lntroduco yourself?" Bho said,
when a second crash of tho shifting
freight trnln spent Itself nnd gavo her
an opening.
"I'm Smith," he told her; adding'.
"It's my real name."
Her laugh wns an Instant easing
of tensions.
"Oh, yes; you're Mr. Williams' as
sistant. I'vo heard colonel-da my
father, speak of you."
"No," he denied In blunt honesty,
"I'm not Wllllnms'isslBtant; nt least,
the pay roll doesn't sny so. Up nt the
enmp they cnll me 'the Hobo."
The young woman had apparently
regained whatever smnll fraction of
self-possession the narrow escape had
shocked aside.
"Aro they never going to take that
miserable trnln out of the way?" she
exclaimed. "I've got to boo Mr. Wil
liams, and there Isn't a minute to
spnre. Colonel-da I mean my father,
has gone up to Red Butte, nnd a little
while ago they telephoned over to tho
ranch from the Brewster office to say
that there was going to be some more
trouble nt tho dnm."
"You won't And Williams at the
camp. He started out early this morn
ing beyond Little creek, nnd snld he
wouldn't be bnck until some time to
morrow. Will you tell me what you're
needing?"
"Oh!" she exclaimed, with a little
gasp of disappointment, "I've simply
got to And Mr. Williams or some
body t Do you happen to know nny
thing about tho lawsuit troubles?"
"I know all about them; Williams
has told me."
"Then I'll tell you what Mr. Martin
telephoned. He said that three men
were going to pretend to rclocnte a
Mil I1!
Time Only for a Mighty Heave.
mining claim In tho hills back of tho
dam, somewhere near tho upper end
of the reservoir lake-that-Is-to-be.
They're doing It so that they can get
out an injunction, or whatever ypu
call it, and then we'll have to buy them
off, as tho others have been bought
off."
Smith was' by this time entirely fa
miliar with the maps and profiles and
other records of the ditch company's
lands and holdings.
"All the land within the limits of tho
flood level has been bought and paid
for somo of it more than once, hasn't
it?" ho asked.
"Oh, yes ; but that doesn't make any
difference. These men will clnlm that
their location was mndo long ago, and
that they nro Just now getting rendy
to work it. Jt'fl often done in the enso
of mining claims."
"IVlinn la nil flita rmlnn frt linnnnnV
he Inquired.
"It Is nlready happening," she broke
out impatiently. "Mr. Martin said
tho three men left town a little after
daybreak and crossed on the Brewster
bridge to go up on tho other sldo of
tho Tlmanyonl."
The young womnn hnd taken her
place again behind tho big tiller wheel
nnd Smith calmly motioned her out
of it
"Take the other seat and let me get
In here," ho snld; nnd when she hnd
changed over, ho swung In behind tho
wheel and put a foot on tho clutch
pedal.
"What aro you going to do?" she
asked.
"I'm going to tnko you on up to tho
camp, and then, If you'll lend me this
car, I'll go and do what you hoped to
pcrsuado Williams to do run these
mining-claim Jokers into the tall tim
ber." "But you can't 1" sho protested ; "you
can't do it nlonol And, besides, they
nro on tho other side of tho river, nnd
you can't get anywhere with the car.
You'll have to go all tho way back to
Browster to get across tho river I"
It was Just hero that ho stole an
other glanco at the very-much-allvo
llttlo face behind tho motor veil; nt
tho firm, round chin, nnd tho resoluto
slaty-gray eyes.
"I supposo I ought to take you to
tho camp," ho said. "But you may go
along with mo, If you want to and
aro not afraid."
Sho laughed In his face.
Smith shows his real character
to Colonel Baldwin's daughter1
something of the fierce brute na
ture that Is alive In him. There's
a real fight described In the next
Installment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Internal Heat of Planets.
Tho Into Professor Lowell's discov
ery thnt Snturn does not rotnto as one
piece, but has "confocal layers, rotat
ing faster within," suggests that somo
of tho other largo planets may havo
tho samo structure As pointed out
by Professor Very, tho friction of lay
ers of different velocities would gen
croto heat, and thus retard tho cool
ing down of tho planets, Scientific
American.
BURGLARS TURN
ABILITIES TO USE
Italian Thieves Become Spies
and Win Redemption From
Government.
GET VALUABLE PAPERS
Deliver to Their Government All tho
Documents of the Austro-Hun-
garlan Espionage Bureau
at Zurich.
Geneva. A French-Swiss paper
gives the following version of n sensu
tlonnl Incident which has been told In
several forms:
Recently, two elegantly dressed men,
carrying a heavy satchel, appeared at
tho office of tho Italian general staff
In Rome and demanded an audience
with the chief of the intelligence de
partment. When they were received
by this official they made sensational
disclosures and delivered all the doc
uments of tho Austro-IIungnrlan es
pionage bureau In Zurich.
The men were two notorious Italian
burglars, who were known nnd fenred
from one end of tho kingdom to the
other. When the wnr broke out they
were cnllcd to the colors nnd detailed
to the same regiment. Llfo In tho
trenches did not suit them nnd they
decided to desert. They escaped to
Switzerland nnd settled In Zurich,
where they plied their old trnde with
considerable success.
Turn Abilities to Use.
Regretting their desertion, the bur
glars decided to use their ubllltlcs In
the Interest of their country by "denn
ing out" the Austro-Hungnrlnn espion
age bureau In the Zurich consulate of
the dual monarchy. Accidentally they
made tho acquaintance of a former of.
Acer of the Italian navy, who hnd been
cnshlered many years before, and after
an adventurous llfo in many countries,
had entered the servlqe of Austria as a
spy.
From this man th'o two men ob
tained detailed plans of the offices of
the consulate, nnd after a thorough
preparation they carried out their raid
on the espionage bureau. They bought
the most modern tools nnd with their
They Worked Nearly Two Hours.
aid they we're able to open the safes
In tho consulate quickly and without
much difficulty.
The safes, which contained tho most,
important documents, had compart
ments Ailed with poisonous gases
meant to kill any burglar who might
dare to tamper with them.
Made Their Eccape.
The burglars had learned this from
tho former Italian naval officer, who
hnd turned against his Austrian em
ployers and aided tho burglars on tho
promise of a liberal reward. Procur
ing masks llko those worn by soldiers
In the trenches they were ablo to open
the compartments containing tho dead
ly gases without danger to themselves.
Although they worked nearly two
hours, they were not disturbed. They
made their escape safely, but had dif
ficulty In getting out of Switzerland,
and wero compelled to wait many
weeks before they wero ablo to smug
gle tho stolen documents across tho
Italian frontier.
In February a cable dlspntch from
Berne reported that a burglary had
been committed for political reasons Id
tho Austro-Hungnrlunconsulategeneral
In Zurich, and that tho perpetrators
had not only ignored a largo sum of
money which was In ono of tho safes,
but also left burglars' tools valued at
more than $1,000 behind.
Spent Fortune for Booze.
Chicago. When Mrs. Margaret
Naughton told Judge Thomson that her
husband, David A. Naughton, had
spent more than $21,000 on liquor In
less than two yenrs, tho Judgo granted
her a dlvorco immediately.
Boy ThrowB Dynamite Into Furnace.
Shelby vllle, Ind. -Paul McCain,
eighteen, barely escaped death when
ho threw n box containing dynamite
Into tho furnnco nt his home. The,
heater was torn to pieces and tho bo;
knocked unconscious.
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Sir Edward Carson Tells How the
Young Man Got Into the Brit
ish Navy.
Sir Edward Carson introduced a
personal note Into n speech which he
mnde the other duy when he wns tho
guest of the Hrlttsh Empire Producers'
organization, at the Snvoy hotel, says
the London Chronicle.
"I remember," snld Sir Edward,
"when a little son of mine came to me
nnd snld 'Father, I 'want to join the
iinvy clnss nt school.' I snld, 'What
rubbish 2 You nre going to bo a law
yer.' He told me plainly thnt I wns
wrong, nnd I explained to hlth how
much better It would be to mnkc mon
ey In the Temple than lose It nt sea.
lie said, 'You don't seem to recognize
the importance of the navy; It Is tho
great connecting link between tho
mother country nnd the colonics.'
"I replied, 'Well, If you put It on
that high pliine, I must niter my views.'
lie Is now commanding a submarine,
nml only yesterday, In my capacity of
lirst lord of the admiralty, I hud to
rend un account of un attempt of one
of our destroyers to sink his subma
rine." Did He Understand?
Wife lllg checks for dresses will
not be in demand this season.
Husband Thank heaven I
Always begin nt the bottom and
rvnrk up, young man, unless you con-
templule digging u well.
The Danger
Zone for Many Is
Coffee Drinking
Some people find
it wise to quit coffee
when their nerves
begin to "act up."
The easy way now
adays is to switch to
Instant
Posttim
Nothing in pleas
ure is missed by
the change, and
greater comfort fol
lows as the nerves
rebuild.
Postum is economical
to both health and purse.
"There's a Reason"
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