The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-30

tnAoSt thought OF him. Yet she would
not finch or so back.
ihere is so much to be done in the
"oriu, and so few to do the work..
she pleaded in extenuation.
ana Adams has told you that am
.io' one OF the few? 1t is true enough
to hurt"
She looked him fairly in the evaa
what Is lacking, Mr. swinton-the
spurg'' ''ie
POSSIBLY" he rejoined. '.rhere is no
one near enough TO care, or to saw.
Wen done.'"
How can YOU tell?" she questioned.
musinsly. 1T is not always permitted
us TO hear the plaudits or tho
hisses-happily, think. Yet there are
Always those standing by who are
ready to cry 10 triumphe!' and mean
IT, when one approves himself a good
soldier"
me coffee had been served, ana
Winton sat thoughtfully stirring the
lump or sugar in his cup. Miss Car.
teret was not having MONOPOLY az
.he new experiences. For instance
mad never before happened to John
Winton to have u woman, young.
charming. and altogether lovable. read
MN lesson out of the book Of the
overeomers.
He smiled inwardly and wondered
what she would say II she could know
10 what battlefield the drumming
~heeis OF the Limited" were speeding
MIN. Would she be loyal to her mem
torship and tell him he must win ot
Whatever the cost to Mr.. Somerytlle
Darrah and his business associates,
UT would she. woman-like. be her
nncle's partisan and write one John
Winton down in her BLACKLIST book for
DARING to oppose the Rajah?
he assured himself 1t would make
no )ot OF difference II he knew. He
had a thing to do, and he was pur-
posed to do 1t strenuously. infiexibly.
fet IN the Utmost chamber of his
heart, where the barbarous ego stands
hnabashed and isolate and recklessly
contemptuous OF the moralities mir
and major he saw the birth of an IN
nuence which must henceforth be des-
perately reckoned with.
Given name. this newborn factor
was love; love barely awakened. and
yet no more than a masterful desire
to stand we'll in the eye OF one wom-
an. None the less. he saw the possi-
Diiities; that time might come when
This woman would have the power to
intervene; would make him hold his
hand in the business affair at the
very moment, mayhap. when he should
strike the hardest.
II was rather unnerving thought.
and when he considered 1t he was glad
that their ways. coinciding for the mo-
ment, would presently go apart, leay.
Ing him free to do battle as an honest
soldier in any cause must.
The Rosemary norty ,,,a, rt,ta-
Winton rose. too. folding the seat for
Miss Virginia and reaching her wrap
from the rack.
Il am glad to have met YOU" she
said. giving him the tip OF her fingers
and going back to the conventional
tiles as If they had never been tg-.
nored.
But the sincerity in winton's reply
transcribed the conventional fora
OF it.
Indeed. the pleasure has been
wholly mine. I assure you. I hope
the future will be kind to me and let
me see more of you"
Who knows?" she rejoined, smiling
at him level-eyed. THE world has
been steadily growing smaller since
Shakespeare called 1t narrow"
He caught quickly at the straw OF
hope. Then. we need not say good
by?"
No; let it be auf wiedershen." she
said; and he stood aside to let her
join her party.
Two hours later. when Adams was
reading in his section and Winton was
smoking his short pipe in the mems
compartment and thinking things I'M
speakable with Virginia Carteret for
q nucleus, there was a series of sharp
whistle shrieks, sudden grinding of
the brakes, and Earring stop of the
"Limited"-a stop not down on the
time-card
Winton was among the first to reach
the head OF the long train. The halt
was In little depression OF the bleak
plain, and the trainmen were in con-
ference over badly derailed engine
when Winton cine up. A vast herd of
cattle was numbering away into tho
darkness. and a mangled carcass under
the wheels OF the locomotive sufi-
GENTLY explained the accident
We'll, there's only one thing to do"
was the engineers verdict That's
Tor somebody to mog back to Arroyo
to wire for the wreck-wason."
Yes, by gum! and thst 0 .
night" growled the condocsor.
There was a stir in the gathering
throns of half-alarmed and all-curious
passengers. and red-faced, white
mustached gentleman, whose soft
southern accent ,,t+orI,,