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face with crime. Phineas' tricks might
be ~veiled-his tricky heart was not.
The governor measured him in an in
slant and went on guard.
Yes, sir, / can do 1t; | can deliver
the goods" Phineas said emphatically.
after a full statement of his PROPOSE
ton and sharp questions from his lis
tener.
Let me understand you thoroughly.
Well go over 1t again, and slowly. 1t
is too important a matter to be hur.
ried-or. bungled. You agree to de-
liver into our hands within one month
from date a controlling number OF
shares in the Sacramento Valley rail-
road?'
II do"
You agree to enter employ, and
hereafter work for our interests as
you have before now worked for those
opposing usv
Il do"
You promise to keep secrets in
trusted to you, and never by any sort
OF word or communication to disclose
the nature Of this interview, to give
the slightest hint that It ever took
place."
II do"
Very we'll"
There followed a few further de-
tails Of the bargain. At a nod from
the governor toward the hall door, un-
seen by Phineas, a man with scratch
pad and pencil entered so quietly that
only by the expression on the govern
or's face was his coming announced to
Phineas. He turned and started half
out OF his chair. yet quickly composed
himself again.
did you get that perfectly the
governor asked OF the ste%nographer.
He nodded afirmativeiy.
Read it," The governors voice was
stern.
Phincas went ashen as the sale Of
himself to the corporation he hated.
sentence by sentence, was riveted.
Bat he was intrepid still. sitting erect,
listening carefully.
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CHAPTER XIII.
vanquished.

Alone in his chamber Phineas
gloomed. The company had prose-
cuted on the charge of overlapping
only. This troubled Phineas but lit
tie. Fulfilling his expectation IL case
of discovery. certain merchants of San
Francisco had raised a large sum
for his bail; retained for his defense
the best lawyers In the state. As he
had been held on the lighter charge
he felt sure the plot to blow up the
steamer was still secret. He fumed
at the stupidity Of his underlings;
never s~uspecting another cause might
have saved the Flora"
Whether chance or plan had given
Phineas his name he knew not: but
he had believed in its meaning, gloried
in it. Phineas. mouth Of brass; Cad
w~allader, battle arranger. Many a
brazen battle had he arranged and
fought to a successful finish. But
these We're past. The easy, luxurious
life was surely gone. The best seat,
the finest room, the open cigar case,
drinks that cost him nothing, the still
hunt for secrets, popularity. jollity-
all that he best loved was lost. In
stead the-prison, perhaps. Restless
ly he walked the narrow room. his
courage rising, while his nimble brain
wove him yet another bold plot.
Through his attorney he contrivcd an
interview with Gov. Stanford that
came to pass with unexpected prompt
ness.
The governor entered, outwardly the
genial rosy citizen adored by Cali
iorn:ss best, wrapped as with q man
tie in his optimistic atmosphere OF
success, But today ne was face to
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CONTINUED from last week.

GO ntinuc'i frof last Week
Good enough he called. I'VE need
no more evidence. You can go on to
town for the night, or back to camp.
as you choose. I'll ride too hard for
you, perhaps"
The man chose to turn back. Alfred
arranged for payment for the extra
work and again rode east.
In q few minutes he arrived at the
Dutch Flat Office and telegraphed Al
vim, asking of Phineas. Five minutes
later he was reading the reply:
"C.'s here, pacing the platform like
trick for the regular train o. X. But
he thinks he's going on the special In
spite of fate"
Let him go In peace" Alfred wired
back; and Immediately sent a message
to the sheriff at Auburn that was an
swered after two hours as follows:
'Sheriff's Office, Auburn. II. G. walked
into my arms as unsuspecting as a
lamb. He had no time to destroy In
eliminating evidence. Is now resting
noisily in the cooler
Alfred stretched his weary legs and
went out into the cool evening. The
day had been stressful and a bed
would have been welcome. Yet Stella,
He looked into the overhead blue and
saw a young that might last till
IL o'clock.
"a light night! ! can ride fast and
do 1t by $780," he said to himself with
sudden cheer. STELLA"
A hasty snack at a nondescript res
taurant, a fresh horse and he was
again In the saddle, following the
stage track westward, re-riding the
miles that he might have an hour with
Stella-dear Stella, who had discov-
cred the plot and whose service to hui
manity and to the Central Pacific Rail
road company might never be known
to more than Alvin and himself.
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king sight crooked and brains ma
goty," Gregory thought aloud as he
went to a rude kit for paper and pen.
He wrote steadily for an hour, handed
letters and dispatches to a messenger
and was off again.
Riding west to the end Of the rails
two hours later he rounded the elbow
AZ q small hill and came upon a gang
of track-layers working alone, the fore
man being hidden by a second sharp
turn. For a moment the men did not
know themselves watched. Some were
resting on their hammer handles, some
snatching a surreptitious smoke, while
low joke and dialogue ran lazily
around. Others kept up a noise with
half-hearted blows at the spikes.
Take your time, boys. This is all
the iron for a month o. Sundays.
Something's gone wrong with the
Flora, an the last lot was shipped on
her."
The plunge Of the horse, urged upon
the men with cruel spur, startled them
into rightly. Gregory's hair bristled
under his hat. His nose lifted threat
eningly. His cheek paled and his
eyes flung q burning spark to every
shirkling soul.
You hell-hounds! Call this work?
Is this what you're giving the C. p.
company for their good coin? You
think any railroad under Gods canopy
can be built a-sitting on your ham,
mers? I'll break your worm-eaten
heads! Ill set men over you with
shotguns, III send you into kingdom
come without wooden o%vercoats, I'll
-" His %invectives tore along the line
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like thunderbolts.. Rough men, desper-
ate some Of them were, cowed under
his blasting TRADE, breathing easily
again only when he turned to meet the
luckless foreman coming round the
point.
Late in the afternoon a hurrying
messenger overlook the boss with
dispatches. The Flora is at Sacra-
mento. Iron at Front tomorrow.
Crocker."
The superintendent handed the tele-
gram to Bennett. Pass ii along he
said. Let every man in camp know
the iron is coming"
Bennett moved away, and Gregory
took of his hat and threw back his
head. A long breath of relief brought
ease. and he lifted his eyes to the
armament. The gray day had passed.
The sun paused in splendor on the
western heights, finging g triumphant
red banner across to meet the ap-
preaching twilight curve.
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CHAPTER XII.

"Our Banner Shall Float Red"
George Gregory urged his horse to
a gallop over the rough path that
skirted the long string OF ties-ties
that had waited many days for iron.
The noon hour was on. At all the
camps men and beasts were feeding.
The superintendent took letters and
dispatches that met him as he dis
mounted, and, passing his bride to
the man in waiting, went to the lee
side OF the dining tent to read them
before eating. One after another he
glanced over yellow slips, tore open
envelopes.
mo iron yet. Flora detained
he read, and groaned as he thought of
bare ties. and the so miles still far
from finished.
Snatches of low table talk came to
Gregory, ftful straws on gusts that
swoop along the track of labor, con
trary to the steadier gales of capital.
The Union Pacific amt doin'
nothin' neither; failed in their con
tracts" one voice said.
IL tHdt tOuipdny Cdu I Uullu = Idll-
road next door to cheap food. cheap
iron, good forage and a fat country,
what do these c. p. fellers expect to
do against a wall OF rock standing on
edge q mile an a half high"
Yes; an 40 feet of snow on top of
that" a third added.
AN thar's the iron-not enough to
be had, no ships to tote it, an 10000
miles to come"
The superintendent heard, though
eye and mind were reading letters.
He though of the delayed Flora"
and pain stabbed sharper at his EN-.
pies.
A shufhing inside warned the super,
intendent that the meal was nearly
finished. He moved off a little that
the men might not guess themselves
overheard; scrutinized them keeBly as
they filed out and sought here or there
a sheltered spot for pipe or chew be-
fore the short respite ended.
The superintendent went inside and
ate sparingly of the coarse food, di.
gestion losing its fight to the over
wrought brain. Why could not the din.
ner-time critics. with all their know
ings, have gained yet a few other
facts? Land iobbers and stock specu-
lators held the Union Pacific fran
chise by the throat, dallied with the
work, cheated their contractors. These
cheated in turn, making their cuts
narrow and ragged. their fills loose
and brush padded, starving their men
and failing with their time limit. No
wonder United States commissioners
refused the road!
But the men OF pick and shovel
men upoE whom. then as now. depends
the success of all contests with ma.
1ture---saw only the bare fact. failure.
And failure In the east meant. doubly.
failure in the west!
A second time Gregory read a San
Francisco newspaper clipping in.
closed III a letter from the treasurer:
''The Central Pacific company can
never build on time as long as the
present owners control the Sacra,
mento Valley road. That little link.
with its .Freeport connection. and it's
arms outreached to McLane's road 20
Ing east from Placerville, will put the
iron horse to the state line long before
Stanford can make good his blum at
BIZ time limit. The state and the ma.
tiona1 government should hail McLane
and HIS associates as their saviors
-HE$&castseae steal.
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Is SALE:
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Do not wait too long if you
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Sensible Medicine
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for an up-todate discussion of the sev- eral types and breeds of horses, asses, mules, cattle. sheep. goats and swine. It describes the commonly accepted types as for example draft or speed type of horse, dairy type of cattle and bacon type of swine. It includes discussions of the original habitat, of breed develop ment, European history, special American history work of pioneer breeders, famous animals, families or tribes, breed charac- terlstics, breed and individual records, as for example milk of cows, or speed of horses, etc. Many noteworthy records are given and numerous illustrations If famous animals shown. The book diff fers somewhat from others that have preceded it in that a number of breeds have received recognition for the first time, these being the ass, the mule, the angora and milch goats-all aninfals Of importance in certain localities. The more important or better known breeds have received more detailed consideration than those which may be regarded as the les ser known and are so arranged in the
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 Types and Breeds of Farm Animals
 by Charles S. Plumb (Ginn X Co.,, Ros-
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 This book by Charles S Plumb. profes- sor of animal husbanlry in the College oe Agriculture of the Ohio state miver- sity is one of the country life education series published by Sim and company. The book is written to supply the need
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quiet about her discovery and the New England e!!!-well-it gave her fits-that's all-when as matter of fact. it turned out at the end that the pos sessor of the money likewise the N. E. C., was entitled to the money (possibly the N. E. CD The person to whom the wife thought the money should have gone under a proper will was lovely girl-you see-we must, simply must have the Hove interest''-well-there it is: This pretty girl comes to the New England village wins her way in the love of con sciences weight-of course. Then thera must be a sweetheart for the pretty girl but that was easy-a high school princi- pal was brought in, who was loved by several girls, but the pretty visitor won him too, not before a certain other girl in the village, whom Mrs. Winkins Free man designates as a nymphomaniac very plainly in the book, causes a lot of trou- ble. It does seem that the bringing in of the poor pervert was unnecessary. Everything turns out well, of course. As did the man in the song "He married himself to a Marcel wave and now he is all at sea- the high school principal mar ried the pretty visitor and it is incumbent upon us alto hope for the be- go oe it. "The Shoulders of Atlas is good, of its type-but Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Free man has written much better, to say nothing of cleaner books, always. how ever, filled with that ''New Tnglaud conscience" which should, by now, be incarcerated for all time.
 Letters to a Daughter" by Hubert
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 the play of William c. De Mile. By
 George Cary Eggleston. co. w. Dilling-
 ham Co.)
 This Is another one of those metropoli tan stage successes which the firm of Dillingham; has had made into novel. '',Fhe Warrens in Virginia" with Miss Charlotte Walker in the leading female role together with the flrst-class com pany organized by David Belasco, has been running in New York for quite a while. Miss Walker is a southern girl- of Galveston. Those who keep up with the press dispatches will recall that re- gently Miss Walker applied for divorce from her husband in Galveston, claiming absent inhuman treatment" or some- thing distressing of that kind.
 The time of the play is laid-as is also the novel based on it-during the Civil War. General Warren Of the Confed crate forces opposite the Union army, had a lovely daughter (Niiss Walker) who fell in love with Yankee officer (Re- member, please, it is in bookD The whole plot of the novel and play hangs upon the discovery of false union plans and dispatches In the Yankee officers pockets when he manages to call to see his sweetheart; the dspatches, etc.. had been faisided with a vsew Of misleading the Confederate officers, in whose hands it was hoped they would fall. The dis patches did fall or were stolen from the Yankee officer; the Confederate army was rnobilized to meet the union army in line with plans therein, and the Con federates, of course, were defeated. That in nutshell is the plot. Of course the Hove interest Is the thing in the story as it must be in the play. Of course the fact that hardly any southern girls fell in love with any union officers during the war, and that all wartime plays and novels are based upon that situation, cannot be avoided, 1t does seem The novelization of the play is fair, but not as good as some that have been sent forth by Dillingham;.
 "Guess work-l01 Charades." by Emily
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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-12-10

apple growers IN the last two OF
three wears has induced farmers
everywhere to plant fruit trees
particularly apples, it lie NJ esti-
mated that fully half of the trees
planted this year were planted for
the purpose Of producing CONNER
cial apple orchards. The raising
Of fruit in Morrow County should
be more looked after. There is not
creek ranch in this county but
what will produce a small orchard
and the editor of this paper urges
that our people start to planting
trees. Hood River, Grand Ronde,
or the Touchet Valley, never pro-
duced in their history finer apple
than some that were placed on the
local market by our farmers during
tie past season. Morrow County
has the soil and the climate for the
production of fruit and the day is
not far distant when the bottoms
along Willow and Rhea creeks will
be one lmm aDse orchard.