The Newark journal., 1907-01-18
A FOOL FOR LOVE
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men loaded on the flats for the run down to camp over the lately laid rails of the lateral loop.
 Not such a bad day, considering the newness of us and the bridge at the head of the gulch," he said, half so 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, SOFT, 'tis a dhrain it is," said the Irishman; from the placer up beyant." he added, pointing to washed-out excoriation on the steep upper slope of the mountain. Major Evarts did be te1lin' us we'd have the lawyers afther us hot-fut again if we didn't be lavin' Ut open the full width"
 "Mmph," said Adams, looking the ground over with a critical eye. Tt S a bad bit It wouldn't take much to bring that whole slide down on us if it wasn't frozen solid. Who owns the placer?'
 Two fellies overin Carbonate The company did be thryin' to buy the claim, but the sharps wouldn't sell bein' put up to hold ut by thim c. & c. R. diyils. It's more throuble we'll be havin' here, I'm thinking"
 While they fingered shrill whistle echoing among the cliffs of the upper 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. Its two hours too soon for the accommodation. By Jove!"
 The exclamation directed itself at a one-car train which came laundering down the canyon to pull in on the siding beyond the Rosemary. The car was st 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 him rose to the occasion.
 "'Tis Donnybrook Fair we've come to this time, Misther Adams. Shall call up the b'ys wid 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 sack, dropped from the car, crossed the creek and struggled up the hill through the un- bridged gap Adams waited until they were fairly on the right of way, then he called down to them.
 Halt, there! you two. This is cor poration property
 Not much it ain t! retorted one of the trespassers, gruffly It's the drain-way from our placer up wonder. y "What are you going to do up there at this time of night?"
 None 6 your blame business!" was the explosive countsr-shot
 Perhaps it isn't, said Adams, mild- ly. Just the same, Tm tAilstiag 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 s5y against it?"
 "Oh, mo-" reioined 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 it's 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, oHd in the dead of winter By which it will be seen that Mr Morton P. Adams, C. F. Inst Tech. Boston. had something yet to learn in the matter of practical field work.
 By the time An Foo had served him his solitary supper in the dinkey he had quite forgotten the incident Of the mysterious placer miners. Worse than that, II kad aeyer occurred to him to connect eaeia 1ao~oHeut~ wttb the Raiah's plan Of campaign On the other hand, he was thinking altogeth- CT of the carload o. armed men, and irving 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 half-hour in the bar of the dance hall listening to the gossip of inc place When he had learned what he wanted to know, he forthfared to meet Winton at the h. coming train.
 We are in for it now," he said, when they had crossed the creek to