Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-10
CHAPTER IX-Continued.
SCopyrish,, 1905, by ]. P. Lippincott Cob

hut another member of the Rose
mary group had more courage-or
fewer scruples. When Miss Carteret
Eet herself out of the rear door,
9astrow disappeared in the opposite
direction, passing through the for
ward vestibule and dropping catlike
from the step to inch his way silent
gy over the treacherous snow-crust to
q convenient spying place at the other
e4d Of the car.
Unfortunately for the spying pur-,
pose. the shades were drawn behind
the two great windows and the glass
gt1Or, but the starlight sufficed to show
the watcher a shadowy Miss Virginia
standing motionless on the side which.
gave her an outlook down the canyon,
Eeaning out, it might be, to anticipate
the upcoming of some one from the
construction camp below.
The secretary, shivering in the
G1Snifelike wind slipping down from
che bald peaks, had not long to wait.
BY the time his eyes were fitted to
the darkness he heard a man coming
sTp the track the snow crunching
grostily under his steady stride,
Iastrow ducked under the platform
and gained a view point on the other
side of the car. The crunching foot
calls had ceased, and man was
swinging himself up to. the forward
step of the Rosemary. AT the instant
n voice just above the spy's head
called softly: "Mr Winton!" and the
newcomer dropped back into the snow
tra nj 10
The secretary saw him take her
daNd and heard her exclamation, half
Indignant, wholly reproachful:
You had my note. told you not
rsy come!"
so you did, and yet you were ex-
yecuDg me-" he asserted. He was still
Eoldtng her hand, and she could not
--ov aid not-withdraw it.
"-Was |, indeed" There was
Gouca OF the old-tlme raillery in the
words. but it was gone when she
added: "Oh, why will you keep on
cnming and coming when you know
sp well what it means to you and
your work."
II think you know the answer to
GHaE better than anyone" he re-
fotHed, his voice matching hers for
earnestness. "It is because l love
yoa, because l could not stay away
fl should try. Forgive me, dear;
4 3id not mean to speak so soon. But
y0u said in your note that you Gould
aIe leaving Argentine immediately
Sf2at r should not see you again; so
tlad to come. Won't you give me a
weed, Virginia?-a waiting word, If
1t rMust be that?"
Jastrow held his breath, hope dying
within him and sullen ferocity crouch
ing for the spring if her answer
should sic it on. But when she spoke
the secretary's anger cooled and he
hreathed again.
NO; a thousand times, No." she
burst out passionately; and Winton
<laggered as If the suddenly freed
hand had dealt him a blow.
CHAPTER X.
For a little time after Virginia's s
Ga8sionate rejection of him Winton
.zSGnd abashed and confounded.
Weighed in the balances OF the after
thought, his sudden and unpremedi-
tsIted declaration could plead little ex-
cEse in encouragement. And yet she
Mad been exceedingly kind to him.
~'g have no right to expect better
aaswer," he said, finally, when he
coHid trust himself to speak. but
am like other men; 1 should like to
IGR0w why"
@<Ycu can ask that?" she retorted
''Tou say you have no right. What
Ga-ve you done to expect better an
swerq"
HE shrugged Nothing, l suppose
But you knew that before"
Il only know what you have shown
me during the past three weeks, and
te has proved that you are what Mr.
Adams said you were-though he was
only jesting."
"And that is?"
"A faineant, dilettante; man
with all the God-given ability to dc
ass tIe will and to succeed, and yet who
mfI not take the trouble to perse
vere''
Winton smiled a grim little smile.
You are not quite like any Other
mon1an I have ever known-not like
any other in the world, believe
Taur sisters, most of them, would take
tt as the sincerest homage that a mar
saould neglect his work for his love
KleS ypu care so much for success
tkeng"
For the thing itself-nothing, les
than nothing. But-but one may care
~ little for the man who wins o.
Noses"
He tried to take her hand again
tried and failed
~Virginia!-is that my word o
hope?"
mo. Will you never see the com
r..cgs,aaa2cn effronterv of Ii Mr Win