The Yale expositor., 1906-09-14
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| FOR LOVE |
| By FRANCIS LYNDE
i Author of The Grafters." Etc.
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CHAPTER vI.-continued.
(Copyright, 1905, by J. p. LlpplncOtt Coz


the head of the gulch," he said. half
to himself. And then more pointedly
TO 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 a dhrain it is" said
the Irishman; from the placer up
beyant," he added, pointing to a
washed-out excoriatlon on the steep
upper slope of the mountain. Major
Evarts did be tellin' us we'd have the
lawyers afther us hot-fut again if we
didn't be LAWN ut open the full
width"
"Mmph," said Adams, looking the
ground over with a critical eye. us
a bad bit 1t wouldn't take much to
bring that whole slide down on us If
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
bein' put up to hold ut by thin G. q
G. r. divils. It's more throuble We'll
be havin' here, I'm thinking"
While they fingered a shrill whistle
echoing among the cliffs of the upper
gorge like an eldritch laugh announced
the coming of a train from the direc-
ton of Carbonate. Adams looked at
his watch.
I'D like to know what that u.s." he
unused. ITS two hours too soon for
the accommodation. BY Jove!"
IL
one-car train which came laundering
down the canyon to pull in on the
siding beyond the Rosemary. The car
was a passenger coach, we'll lighted,
and froEa his post on the embankment
Adams could see armed men filling the
windows. Michael Branagan saw
them, too, and the fighting Celt IN
him rose to the occasion.
"'Tis Donnybrook Fair we've cone
to this time, Misther Adams Shall
call up the b'ys wild their guns?"
mot 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
struggled up the hill through the I'M
brldged gap. Adams waited until they
were fairly OIL the right of way, then
he 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
-, ~
What are you going to do up there
at this time of night?"
None o. your blame business!" was
the explosive counter-shot.
Perhaps it isn't" said Adams, mild
ly. Just the same, I'm thirsting to
know. Call it vulgar curiosity if you
like"
"Al 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 fats for the run to
the construction camp, thinking more
of the lately arrived car with its COM
plement of armed men than of the
two miners who had calmly announced
their intention of working a placer
claim on a high mountain, without
water, and in the dead of winter! BY
which 1t will be seen that Mr.. Morton
p. Adams, c. e. Inst. Tech. Boston,
had something yet to learn in the
matter of practical field work.
BY the time All Foo had served him
his solitary supper In the dinkey he
had quite forgotten the incident of the
mysterious placer miners Worse
than that. 1t 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 c armed men, and
trying to devise some means of finding
out how they were to be employed in
furthering the Rajah's designs.
The means suggested themselves
after supper, and he went alone over
TO Argentine to spend a half-hour In
the 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.
I'VE are in for it now" he said,
when they had crossed the creek to
the dinkey and the Chinarcan 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
is a pretty large contract. Has he
men enough to do it?'
mot so many men. But they are
sworn-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
he set thug on me this afternoon at
Carbonate" said Winton, sourly; and
he told Adams about the misunder-
standing In the lobby of the Bucking-