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CHAPTER XVI
The TruthfuI ATTITUDE,

low, tremulous shudder was begin
ming TO lift itself. like the distant
growing Of thunder, upon the tinnient
air Of the high summit. A moment
later heavy construction engine shot
around the final curve in the westward
climb. with Michael Gallagher hanging
out of the cab window on the engineers
side.
The two at the summit faced about
to watch the approach. The big engine
came numbering and lurching danger
ously over the unsurfaced track in a
fierce squirt for the mountain top, it's
stack vomiting fire, it's cylinder cocks
kissing shrilly, and its exhaust ripping
the spheral silences like the barking
detonations of machine gun.
Ford glanced aside at his companion;
her expressive face was a study in de-
lighted animation and he decided that
he had again misjudged the presidents
niece. She was beating time softly
with her gloved hands and singing the
song of the LOCOMOTIVES:
With a -ghignai-shtingall
Yah. Yahl Yah!
Observation-Disclosures! Yah. Yah!
She climb upon der shteepIe,
Cnd she frtghten all der people,
Singin' michnai - =, ghignai -shtingal!
she quoted, ana fOrdS heart went out
TO her in new and comradely outreach-
ihgs
You read ht-naught-seven?" he
said; you are one woman in a thou
sand"
'Merci." she countered. Small fa-
vors thankfully received Brother
thinks there is only one person writing
nowadays and the name of that per-
son is Kipling. / get little OF 1t by
mere attrition."
The brakes Of the big engine were
still gripping the wheels when a small
man with wicked mustaches and goatee
dropped from the gangway. His Khaki
suit was weather faded to dirty green
and he was grimy and perspiring and
altogether unpresentable; but he pulled
himself together and tried to look
pleasant when he saw that his chief
had a companion and that the COM
panion was a lady.
I'm sorry if / have kept you wait
ing" he began. Gallagher was shift
ing steel for the track layers when
your wire found me and the engine
couldn't be spared. this. of course. to
Ford. Then, with an apologetio side
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car like the Nadia. There are only a
few sidings and what there are are
filled up with construction stun and
camp cars, and"
She was shaking her head and laugh
ing at his strivings.
Never mind" she said; you can't
tell the truth. either. with Mr.. Ford
looking on. But 1 shall find Il out"
Frisbie looked horrified.
'You-you certainly will, Miss Adair;
if Mr.. Colbrith insists upon having his
car dragged over the range" Then
being quite willing to make his escape
he turned to his chief. rs there any
thing else? If not, I'll be getting back
to the Riley mixup before the trouble
has time to grow any bigger.
Ford shook his head, and
Frisbie lifted his hat to
Miss Adair and turned to climb to his
engine cab But at the moment OF
brake releasings Ford halted him.
"One minute he said and turning
to his charge: 'Tll borrow Dicks en-
gine and take you down to the Nadia s
siding, If you'd rather ride than walk.
"Oh. will your That would be fine!
But oughtnt Mr.. Frisbie to get back
to his work?''
Yves" Ford admitted. Time is
rather important just now"
Inen we II walk, Sne said with
great decision.
an eye open for Garcia. He might make
a 1uke and shoot straight for once In
way"
They stood in silence on the wind
swept summit until the curving down
rush of the western grade had swai-
lowed the retreating engine. Miss ALI
cia was the first to speak when the
iron clamor was distance drowned.
'I like your Mr.. Frisbie." she said
refectively. isn't he the kind of man
who would have taken the message to
the other Garcia?"
He is the kind OF man who would
stop a bullet for his friend. and think
nothing of tiff the bullet should hap
pen to leave him anything to think
with" he returned warmly. And then
he added. half absently. He saved
my life four years ago last summer. "
There was genuine human interest
in her voice when she said gently:
Would you mind telling me about
it?"
"It was up in the Minnesota pineries
where we were building a branch rail-
road through the corner of an Indian
reservation. A halfbreed pot hunter
for the game companies had a right OF
way quarrel with the railroad people
and he pitched upon me as the proper
person to kill. 1t was knife rush in
the moonlight. and Dick might have
shot him, only he was too tender
hearted. So he got between u.s."
'sWell?" she prompted. when It be-
came evident that Ford thought he
had finished.
THAT was all; except that 1t was
touch and go with poor Dick for the
next six weeks, with no surgeon
worthy of the name nearer than St
Paul"
Miss Alicia was more deeply i'm
pressed by the little story than she
cared to have her companion suspect
Her world was a world of the COM
monplace conventions, with New York
as its starting point and homing place
and she thought she knew something
of humankind. But it came to her sud-
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We'll, look out for him; he Is getting
side cut from the MacMorroghs and
is likely to translate you crooked, If 1t
suits his purposes. Check him by hav-
ing our man Luigi present when he
does the talking act. Any word from
Major BensonY
He was up at the tie camp on Ute
creek yesterday. Jack Benson and
Brissac are lining the grade for the
steel on McGraths section, and the
bridge men are well up to the last
crossing of Horse creek"
That's encouraging. How about the
grade work on the detour-your new
line into Copah?"
1t was the assistants turn to frown.
but the brow wrinkling was of puzzle
ment.
There's something bit curious
about that-you don't mind our talk
ing shop like a pair of fioorwalkers, do
you. Miss Adair? You know we ex-
pected the MacMorroghs would kick
on the change of route and the loss of
the big rock cut in the canyon. There
wasn't word Of protest If I hadn't
known better. I should have said that
old Brian MacMorrogh knew all about
1t in advance. All he said was: Sure.
It's your railroad, and we'll be buildin'
1t annywheres you say. Misther Fris-
little army of men on that detour
throwing dirt to beat the band. It'lI be
ready for the steel by the time we can
get to it With the track layers"
Ford nodded approvingly Speed is
what we are paying for, and we're
thankful to get it whenever and
wherever we can. Is the bridge timber
coming down all right now?"
Yes; and we are getting plenty of
fiac H.. mo
paint and went after the MacMorrogh
subs in the tie camps. It Is the rock
work that Is holding US back"
Ford nodded again. Then he tried a
little shot in the dark.
THE presidents car Is just below
at the basin switch. He wants to have
it taken to the front and have been
trying to dissuade him. Is the track
safe for it?'
Frisbie guessed what kind Of answer
was desired. and stretched the truth a
little.
II should say not It's something
fierce, even for the construction trains. .
Miss Alicia's smile was seraphic.
You two gentlemen needn't tell Abs
for the possible effect on me-" she said
with charming frankness. Nothing /
could say would carry any weight with
Uncle Sidney"
"Stungr said Frisbie, half to himself:
and the two men laughed shame
facedly
''Will 1t disarrange things so very
much If the Nadia is taken to the
'front?" asked Miss Adair
well rather said Frisbie bluntly.
Then he tried to excuse himself and
made q mess of 1t.
Just why?" she persisted Forget
the conventions, Mr.. Frisbie, and talk
to me as you have been talking to Mr..
Ford. Is there any good reason, apart
from the Inconvenience. why our little
pleasure party shouldn't see your new
railroad? 1 am appealing to you be-
cause Mr.. Ford won't tell me the
TRUTH
Ford stood aloof and let Frisbie
worry with 1t alone.
There are a dozen reasons, Miss
Adair; the track is fearfully rough
really, you know, 1t isn't safe for big
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glance for the lady: "Riley's in hot
water again-up to his chin"
What's the matter now?" gritted
Ford; and Alicia marked the instant
change to masterful command.
Same old score. The Italians are
kicking again at the Marlborough
brothers mmissary-because they
have to pay two prices and get chuck
that a self-respecting dog wouldn't eat;
and, besides, they say they are quarry
ing rock-which is true-and getting
paid by the MacMorroghs for moving
earth They struck at noon today"
The chief frowned gloomily. and the
presidents niece felt intuitively that
her presence was a bar to free speech
IT'S straight enough about the rot
ten commissary and the graft on the
pay rolls" said Ford wrathfully. is
the trouble likely to spread to the
camps farther down?"
'I hope not; / don't think 1t will
without whisky to help it along" said
Frisbie, with another apologetio SIDE
glance for Miss Adair.
yes, but the whisky isn't lacking
there's Pete Garcia and his stock OF
battle. murder and sudden death al
Paint Rock, short half mile from
Riley's," Ford broke in.
CRIME and the coal dust, was tri-
umphantly demoniacaL
mot now there isn't" he amended
adding: ANY fire water at Paint ROCK
7 mean When Riley told me what was
doing I made a bee line for Garcia
wfckiup and notified him officially thai
he'd have to go out Of business for the
present"
."Oh. YOU did?" said Ford. "Of course
he was quite willing to oblige you!
HOW much time did he give you to get
out of pistol ranger"
Frisbie actually blushed-in DEFER
erce to the lady.
"Why-er-it was the other way
around. He quicked little
side trip down the gulch while
knocked In the heads of his whisky
barrels and wrecked his bar with
striking hammer had brought along
For the first time in the interview
the chiefs frown melted and ne
laughed approvingly
Miss Adair, you must let me intro
duce my friend and first assistant, Mr.
Richard Frisbie. He is vastly more
nicturesoue than anything else we have
10 show you at this end of the Pacific
southwestern. Dick-Miss Alicia Adair
President Colbrith's niece"
Frisbie took off his hat. and Miss
Alicia gave him her most gracious
smile.
please go on" she said. I'm I'm
mensely interested. What became OF
Mr.. Garcia afterward?"
.'I don't know that" said Frisbie In
genuously. only I guess I shall find
out when go back. He is likely te
be a little irritated, I'm afraid. But
there are compensations. even in Pete
like most Mexicans, he can neither tel
the truth nor shoot straight" Their
again to Ford: What is to be done
about the Riley mixup?"
"Oh, the same old thing. Go dowr
and tell the italians that the company
will stand between them and the Mac
Morroghs, and they shall have Justice
provided always that every man OF
them is back on the job again tomor-
row morning. Who Is Riley's inter
nreter nowT"
'Lanciotto.'
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CHAPTER XVII
A Night of Alarms

Ford put Miss Alicia up the steps of
the Nadia and followed her into the
vestibule. meaning to fight 1t out with
Mr.. Colbrith on the spot. and hoping
he might have private audience with
the president for the doing Of It.
The hope was not denied. Penfeld.
who was acting as private secretary
to Mr. Colbrith en- route appeared in
the passageway to say that Ford was
wanted in the presidents stateroom.
Well, Mr.. Ford. what are we wait
Ing for?" was the duerulous demand
which served as Mr.. Colbrith's greeting
when Ford presented himself at the
door of the private compartment.
Ford's reply lacked the deferential
note. He had reached point at which
his job was not worth as much as 1t
had been.
II have Just brought Miss Adair back
from the top of the pass, where we met
Mr.. Frisbie. my chief Of construction.
I wished to ask him IL he thought the
track was safe for your car, and he
says, most emphatically. that 1t is not.
cannot take the responsibility of
sending the Nadia to the end OF track
The presidents thin face was work
ing irritably. II haven't asked you to
assume any responsibility. Mr.. Ford.
II the track Is safe for your material
trains, II Is safe enough for my car.
But didn't send for you to argue the
point. 1 desire to have the Nadia taken
to the front. Be good enough to give
the necessary orders"
Ford tried again. In addition to the
precarious track there were few or no
unoccupied sidings, especially near the
front. Moreover. there was no tele-
graph service which might suffice for
the safe dfspatching of the special
train. There might be entire sections
over which the Nadia would have to be
tagged by a man on foot and
The president cut him on with al
most childish impatience.
sI don't know what your object is
In putting so many stumbling blocks in
the way. Mr.. Ford" he rasped. "A
suspicious person might say that you
have been doing something which you
do not wish to have found OUT
Ford was fair skinned man and the
blood burned hotly in his face. But,
as once before under the presidents
nagging. he found his self-control ris-
ing with the provocation.
My work is open to inspection or
Investigation, now or at any time, and
think we need not discuss that point
he said when he could force himself to
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Cro Be Continued Next sunday.)
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HITCHCOCK IS CHOSEN
Will Manage Republican Cam
paign in Coming Contest.
CONFERENCE At HOT SPRINGS
George r. Sheldon of New York Sc.
Iected Treasurer of the Ma
tionaI Committee.

Hot Springs, Va, July 8.-Frank II.
Hitchcock, former first assistant post
master general, one of the managers
Of w. H. Taft in the campaign for the
nomination for the presidency by the
Republican party, was unanimously
chosen chairman of the Republican
national committee.
The committee also chose George
Rumsey Sheldon of New York to be
treasurer of the national committee,
designated Arthur I. Vorys as mem
mittee to have charge of the campaign
in Ohio and chose Cincinnati as the
headquarters of the Republican ma
tional committee for the state of Ohio.
The executive committee issued the
following statement:
"Mr. George R. Sheldon is elected
on the recommendation of Mr.. Bliss of
New York, former treasurer, who de-
clined to accept reelection. Mr.. Shell
don is the president of the Union
League club of New York and was
treasurer of the Republican state COM
mittee during the campaign of Mr..
Hughes for governor of New York and
rendered complete statement under
the publicity law Of that state of the
receipts and expenditures of the cam
palgn. This was one of the reasons in
addition to the recommendation of Mr..
Bliss and the standing of Mr.. Sheldon
that has induced his election, as the
law of New York requiring publicity
will apply to his action as treasurer of
the national committee"
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RUPTURE NOW COMPLETE
Venezuelan Charge at Wash
ingion Recalled.

Washington, July 9.-Senor Veloz-
Goiticoa, the Venezuelan charge DAFT
flares In this city, called at the state
department and presented to Acting
Secretary Bacon his letters of recall.
This action was taken by direction of
President Castro and as the result Of
the withdrawal from Caracas of Jacob
Sleeper, the American charge. The eff
feet of this action is the complete rup-
ture of relations between America and
Venezuela.
The charge appeared at the state
department by appointment and was
admitted to see Acting Secretary Ba-
con in the course of a few minutes.
He was greeted very kindly by Mr..
Bacon. The interview lasted about
five minutes, when the charge retired
and said farewell to some of the off,
Gals of the department, by whom he
is highly regarded. He will leave
Washington for New York Saturday
and sail on the first passenger steam
er for Venezuela The Venezuelan
legation here will be closed and the
papers and files will be placed in the
hands of the Venezuelan consul gen
eral at New YoX1
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WILLIAM J. BRYAN.

thinned out in the remoter galleries
after hours of waiting and the intense
discomforts of the hot night.
1t was a spectacle of immense
proportions-tier on tier and gallery
on gallery of agitated forms, the wo-
men in white, the delegates massed
below, many of them coatless, a
myriad of fans futtering to combat
the sitting heat and close atmosphere
tude, ever ready to spring into fever
fish outbreaks of enthusiasm, and ev-
erywhere the blaze of flags, bunting
and patriotic devices and the envelop-
ing folds of Old Glory. Twice before
the throng had been moved into a
mad ecstacy, first by the speech plac
ing the name of Bryan in nomination
and again when that Of Governor
johnson of Minnesota was proposed;
but these manifestations paled before
the eliminating outburst Of emotion.
Kern Named by Accian,ation.
The nomination of Kern was made
by reclamation amid the resounding
cheers of delegates and spectators.
No ballot was necessary, as the tide
of sentiment had set irresistibly to-
ward the Indiana candidate, state af-
ter state registering their delegation
In his favor, and all other candidates
withdrawing before the universal de-
mand for his nomination.
The convention, after adjourning at
daylight with the nomination of Mr..
Bryan, resumed Its session at / p. m.
with a powerful undercurrent already
In motion toward the nomination of
Kern for second place. On the call
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guished. Mr. Towne in person was
the first candidate to recognize the
decisive nature of the Kern move
ment and in a ringing speech he with
drew his name from consideration and
pledged his support to the ticket of
Bryan and Kern. Withdrawals quick
ly followed from the supporters of
Howell Of Georgia and Mcneil of Con-
necticut, leaving the Indiana candi-
date alone In the field. The with
drawal of the Connecticut candidate
was accompanied by a motion that
the nomination of Kern be made by
reclamation. The motion was carried
with a deafening shout and the great
assemblage broke into clamorous
demonstration on the accomplishment
OF its work and the completion of the
Democratic national ticket,
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SYNOPSIS Of PLATFORM.
Democratic Declaration of Principles
Boiled Down.


Denver, July 10.-After nearly fifty
hours of almost continuous session the
resolutions committee of the Demo
cratic national convention submitted
its report and it was adopted by unan-
imous vote. A brief synopsis follows
Injunctions only were injunctions
ganization involved.
Trial by jury in indirect contempt
cases.
Eight-hour day, employers liability
and full right to maintain labor or
ganizations
Immediate revision of the tariff
downward, restoring it to revenue
basis.
Repeal of pulp and lumber tariff.
Abolishing private monopolies.
Federal license for big interstate
corporations.
Publicity in campaign contributions
Guarantee of national bank depos-
it's.
Federal control of emergency cur
rency.
Postal savings banks as alternative
if deposit guarantee fails.
Exclusion of Asiatic and Oriental
labor.
Income tax as part of revenue sys-
tenn.
Territorial rights for Alaska and
Porto Rico.
Admission of Arizona and New Mex
leo as separate states.
Improvement Of waterways.
More power for Interstate COM
merce commission,
Conservation Of natural resources.
National public health bureau
Physical valuation of railroads.
Overthrow of dictatorship in house
of representatives.
independence for Philippines.
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RESUME. THEIR LONG CRUISE
Battleships Leave San Francisco for
Hampton Roads.

5attiesnIPs Leave San Francisco for
Hampton Roads.
San Francisco, July s.-Fiftesn bat
tleships of the Atlantic feet sailed
from here on the voyage that is to
take them around the world and end
at Hampton Roads, whence they start
ed last December. The sixteenth
member of the feet, the Nebraska.
was left behind because of an out
break of scarlet fever among the crew
She will be placed in quarantine three
days and thoroughly fumigated, after
which she will join her sister ships at
Honolulu.
Without ceremony or celebration of
any sort the fifteen big fighting ships
got under way promptly upon signal
from the Connecticut, Rear Admiral
Sperry's flagship, and steaming in sim
gle column slowly wendell their way
out of the bay where they had found
anchorage from time to time since
their arrival here just two months ago
A few small craft followed in the wake
of the fleet as far as Golden Gate and
gave the big white ships parting sa-
lutte with their sirens, while on the
hills were scattered groups of people
silently watching their departure,
which was in striking contrast to it's
enthusiastic reception on it's arrival
Nav s,
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Df states Indiana presented the name
of Kern; Colorado, through ex-Goy-
ernor Thomas. placed in nomination
Charles A. ToWne of New York: Con-
necticut presented Archibald McNeill,
and Georgia Clark Howell. The
names of Judge George Gray of Della.
ware and John Mitchell of Illinois
were not presented, owing to the
positive requests of these gentlemen
not to have their names go before
the convention
For time it looked as though a
ballot would be required. But the
steady line of states which joined in
seconding Kern's noncsnation soon
made it apparent that the chances of
all other candidates had been extia-
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HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.

harbor Front of East Boston Swept
by Flames.
Boston, July "a fire, believed to
have been caused by spontaneous COM
buston or locomotive spark, and
famed by brisk northwest wind,
swept nearly quarter of a mile of
the harbor front of East Boston, caus-
ing property loss estimated at nearly
$1,50O,OO0. Much of the loss falls up
on the Boston and Albany railroad
One person was reported missing and
it is thought that he persisted in the
flames. He was Daniel Sullivan, a
Waterman at the Cunard Line pier.
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ONLY SEEKS ONE TERM.
If Successful Bryan viii Not Ask
denominations

- SASsSSSi0i bryan VIII NOI Assn
denomination.
Lincoln, Neb., July 10.-The follow
Ing statement was made by William
]. Bryan when he received announce
ment of his nomination as the candi-
date of the Democratic party for pres
ident.
The honor is the highest official
position in the world and no one
occupying it can afford to have his
views upon public questions biased
by personal ambition. Recognizing
his responsibility to God and his obli-
cation to his countrymen he should
enter upon the discharge of his duties
with singleness of purpose. Believing
that one can best do this when he is
not planning for second term l an
nounce now, as l have on former occa-
sions, that if elected shall not be
candidate for reelection.
This is a nomination as purely
from the people as can be and If elect
ed my obligation will be as purely to
the people. appreciate the honor
the more because it came not from
one person or few persons, but from
the rank and file, acting freely and
without compulsion."
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CROSSING STREAM IN BASKET
Five Persons Drowned Near Mel
rose, Mont.

Melrose, Mont, July I'd. Pisinti
and his brother and eleven-year.old
son and G. Cutone and Rinaldo Pol
toni, the latter two Greek railroad Ia
borers, were drowned in the Big Hole
river at Browns Station, below Mel
rose. They started across the river
on basket suspended from a cable.
Whether the current was too swift or
the weight of the basket was too great
is not known, but the men were car
ried under and down stream.