Charlevoix county herald., 1906-09-15
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A FOOL
FOR LOVE
By FRANCIS LYNDE
Author OF THE Grafters. Etc.
copyright, 1905, by J. T. Lippincott Coz

so himself. And then more pointedly
10 the foreman: "Bridgebuilders to
the front at the first crack of dawn,
Mike. Why wasn't this break filled
In the grading?"
"Sure, sorr, tbs dhrain 1t is,' said
the Irishman; from the placer up
beyant," he added. pointing to a
washed-out excoriation on the steep
upper slope of the mountain. Major.
Evarts did be tellin' us we'd have the
lawyers afther us hot-fut again II we
didn't be LAWN ut open the full
width
"Mmph," said Adams, looking the
ground over with a critical eye. ITS
a bad bit. 1t wouldn't take much to
bring that whole slide down on us II
it wasn't frozen solid. Who owns the
placer?"
Two fellies over in Carbonate. The
company did be thryin' to buy the
claim, but the sharps wouldn't SELL
Oein' put up to hold ut by thin c. &
q. Il. divils. It's more throuble We'll
DE havin' here, I'm thinking"
While they fingered a shrlll whistle
,echoing among the cliffs of the uprcr
gorge like an eldritch laugh announced
the coming of train from the direc-
tiOn OF Carbonate. Adams looked at
his watch.
I'D like to know what that is" he
unused. It's two hours too soon for
1be accommodation. BY Jove!"
The exclamation directed itself at
rone-car train which came laundering
down the canyon to pull in on the
siding beyond the Rosemary. The car
was a passenger coach, well lighted,
and from his post on the embankment
Adams could see armed men filling the
windows. Michael Branagan saw
them, too, and the fighting Celt IN
Slim rose to the occasion.
"'Tis Donnybrook Fair we've cone
10 this time, Misther Adams. Shall
call up the b'ys wild their guns?"
Not yet. Let's wait and see what
happens"
What happened was a peaceful
.Sortie. Two men, each with a kit of
some kind borne in a sack, dropped
from the car, crossed the creek and
struggled up the hill through the un-
bTidged gap. Adams waited until they
were fairly OF. the right of way, then
ne called down to them.
Halt, there. you two. This is cor
.poration property"
Not much it amt! retorted one of
the trespassers, gruffly ITS the
.sirainway from our placer up yonder."
What are you going to do up there
as this time of night?"
None o. your blame business!" was
The explosive counter-shot.
perhaps it isn't" said Adams, mild
3y- Just the same, I'm thirsting to
know. Call it vulgar curiosity If you
like"
'All right, you can know, and be
cUssed TO you. We're goin' to work
our claim. Got anything to say
against it?"
oh no." rejoined Adams; and when
the twain had disappeared in the up
per darkness he went down the grade
with Branagan and took his place on
the man-loaded flats for the run to
the construction camp, thinking more
of the lately arrived car with its COM
Lplement of armed men than of the
two miners who had calmly announced
uheir intention of working a placer
claim on a high mountain, without
water, and in the dead of winteri BY
which it will be seen that Mr.. Morton
p Adams, G. e. Inst. Tech. Boston,
had something yet to learn In the
matter of practical field work.
A l.
his solitary supper In the dnkey he
had quite forgotten the incident of the
mysterious placer miners. Worse
chau that, it had never occurred to
him to connect their movements with
the Rajah's plan of campaign. On the
other hand, Re was thinking altogeth-
er of the carload { armed men, and
trying to devise some means of finding
ont how they were to be employed in
furthering the Rajahs designs.
The means suggested themselves
after supper, and he went alone over
10 Argentine to spend a half-hour In
Nhe bar of the dance hall listening to
the gossip of the place. When he had
learned what he wanted to know, he
forthfared to meet Winton at the In
coming train.
Eve are in for it now" he said,
when they had crossed the creek to
the dinkey and the ChinaEsan was
bringing Winton's belated supper.
THE Rajah has imported a carload
CT armed mercenaries. and he is going
TO clean us all out tomorrow; arrest
everybody from the gang foreman up"
Winton's eyebrows lifted. 80? that
as pretty large contract. Has he
men enough to do it?"
Not so mary men. But they are
ssworn-in deputies with the sheriff of
Ute county In commando posse. in
fact So he has the law on his side"
(Which is more than he had when
ne set a thug on me this afternoon at
Carbonate" said Winton. sourly; and
ihe told Adams about the misunder-
standing in the lobby Of the Bucking-