The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02

| i asked, Wnen ne gave me Duck tne
glass.
"A-few days"
"Where from?"
He stared at his shabby boots with
out reply.
Mentally reviewed the list of ca
tnstrophes in recent daily papers, and
could recollect no mention of the
name of Rolfc.
"Hard luck, I'm afraid-eh?"
| He nodded.
"Where is your chum? I'D doubles,
we used to call you"
He looked dumbly up at me, while
into his eyes came that which none of
MS behold often-thank God but
which Mt first meeting we know to be
despair
Then his head dropped, and he
tainted.
| got him down on the floor, and
worked over him until he revived u
little.
"Why should bear this?" he muir.
mured, half consciously. 81 would
let no other man live who had killed
jim" He caught his breath with
sobbing cry that hurt to hear. "My
darling, | must go to herl / must
tell her how =" His voice sank
inaudibly,
And remember hearing that he was
to marry Jim Crosby's pretty sister
next autumn.
Well, boys, we read the bible oc-
casionally in Colorado, AMI we find
lessons which fit our lives there. Such
lessons teach MS TO prefer the Samari-
tan to the Pharisee, even when our
neighbor proves to be stained by the
blood of friend, and mad with the
resolve to tramp across continent to
see once more the sweetheart from
whom his crime had parted him for
ever.
Rolfe rallied some strength after he
had eaten the fragments of my din
ner, and bathed his blisterel feet.
But he refused my off,r of ticket on
the night express to the east.
81 cannot ris k meeting any one
from Trinidad a." he said hoarsely.
bethought me of certain box cars,
waiting on our sidetrack, to be car
ried during the next twenty-four
hours many hundred miles further
from Trinidad. Within one of these
empty vans proposed to install him,
ana SO label it that neither tramp nor
official would disturb his solitude un-
til it reached the limit of his journey,
where he could probably slip out nm
detected. This plan he accepted
engerly, and, just before the time for
my own departure, / accomplishe d
that defrauding of the company VIII o
paid me to protect their interests.
"You don't want thanksl" he ex-
claimed. when 1 left him in the dusky
car. with jug of water and some
crackers. "As for shaking hands ~
he ended, shuldering, "you have
guessed what mine have donel"
l was going whence he had come, as
had been summoned to Trinidad
by division superintendent at that
point 1 should soon be familiar
with the details of poor Rolfe's
tragedy, reflected, as settled my
self in the "sm,ker." The conduct
or took seat beside me when we
we're fairly off, and remarked that we
had escaped the wanted fight to dis
possess secreted tramps.
"There is one chap, however, sup
posed to be tramping In this way,
whom / would like to meet" he con-
tinued- "Terrcnce Rolfe."
Terrence Rolfe?"
young engineer-you know him,
Watts; you went down the road with
his party few months ago"
"Great chum of fellow named
Crosby?"
; "Just SO, aud engaged to Crosby's
sister. Well sir, he skipped out of
Trinidad last week under the belief
that he had killed his friend"--
"The belief? Is Crosby not dead?
interrupted something children call
slump" choking my throat.
"Neither dead nor likely to die un.
less he brings on brain fever fretting
: over Rolfe's disappearance.
"Tell me your story and 1 will tell
You mine"
g This was his story.
MI ,~,o;aotaJ th;a n, ~, -