The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-12-01

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II Mr.. John Winton, G. E., stood in
| need Of Il moral tonic. as Adams had
| so delicately intimated to Miss Bessie
Carteret it was administered in
quantity sufficient before he slept on
the night of dinner-givings.
For clear-eyed Teclnologian, free
from all heart-trammelings and able
to grasp the unsentimental fact, the
enemy's new plan OF campaign wrote
itself quite legibly. With his pick
and choice among the time-killing ex-
pedients the Rajah could scarcely
have found one more TO his purpose
than the private car Rosemary, in
Guiding in its passenger list a Miss
Virginia Carteret. There would he
more dinners and social diversions
other procrastinations like this Of
neglecting to look after the consign-
ment Of steel-which. by the by. was
not yet to be seen or even definitely
heard from; and in the end. defeat.
All of which Adams. substituting
friendly frankness for the disciplinary
traditions Of the service. set forth in
good Bostonian English for the heneft
and behoof Of his chief. and was an
swered according to his deserts with
scoff1ngs and deridings
II wasn't born yesterday. Morty.
and I'm not SO desperately asinine as
you seem to think" was the besottsd
ones summing UP. 81 know the
Rajah doesn't split hairs in a bust
ness fight. but he is hardly unscrup,,.
lous enough to use Miss Carteret a.
a cat's-paw."
But Adams would not he scofled
aside.
YOU'RE of in your estimate Of Mr..
Darrah, Jack. way off. know the
tradition-that a southern gentleman
Is all chivalry when it comes to
matter touching his womankind, and
don't controvert it as general
proposition. But the Rajah has been
fighting western railroad magna,e
so long that his accent is about the
only southern asset he has retained.
II I'm any good at guessing he will
stick Mt nothing to gain his end"
Wfnton admitted the impeachment
without prejudice to his own point of
view.
Perhaps you are right But fore
warned is forearmed. And Miss vir-
ginia is not going to lend herself to
any such nefarious scheme
Mot consciously. perhaps; but you
don't know her yet. II she saw a
good chance to take the conceit out Of
you. she'd improve it--without think
ing overmuch Of the possible conse-
quences to the Utah company"
'Pshaw!" said Winton. THAT I.
another of your literary differences.
I've mot her only twice, yet ven.
ture to say 7 know her better than
Won do. If she cared anything for mA
which she doesn't"
ooh. 80 to s1ecp!" said Adams. who
was not minded to argue further with
man besotted; and so the matter
went by default for the time.
But in the days that followed days
, In which the sun rose and set in
cloudless winter splendor and the,
!, heavy SHOWS still held aloof, Adams
prediction wrought itself out into
sober fact. After the single appeal TO-
force. Mr.. Darrah seemed to have
given up the fight None the less the
departure OF the Rosemary was de-
layod, and its hospitable door was al
ways open to the Utah chief of con-
struction and his assistant. ~
1t was worry deftly done. and even
Adams. the clear-eyed. could not help
admiring the Rajahs skillful hnesse.
OF formal dinner-givings there might
easily have been an end, since the
construction camp had nothing to
offer in return. But the formalities
were studiously ignored, and the two
young men were put upon footing
OF intimacy and encouraged to come
and go as they pleased.
Winton took his welcome broadly,
as what lover would not; and within
a week was spending most Of his
evenings in the flosemary-this at a
time when every waking moment or
the day and night was deeply mort
gagged to the chance of success. For
now that the Rajah had withdrawn
his opposition. nature and the per-
versity Of inanimate things had taken
hand. and for fortnight the work
OF track-laying paused fairly within
sight of the station at Argentine.
First 1t was carload of steel az
cidentally derailed and dumped into
Quartz creek at precisely the worst
possible point in the lower canyon, a
jagged, rock-ribbed. clin-bound gorge
where each separate piece of metal
had to be hoisted out singly by Z der
! rick erected for the purpose-a process
which eifectually blocked the track
for three entire days. Next It was an
other landslide (unhelped by dyna-
mite, this) Just above the station, a.
crawling cataract of loose, sliding
shale which, painstakingly dug OUT
and damned with plank bulkhead dur.
ing the day, would pour down and
bury bulkhead, buttresses. and the
very right Of way in the night.
In his right mind--the mind of an