The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-17

clothes were English be-
yond the possibility of the most char
table error. But the piquant, sad
face. the soulful brown eyes, the
cheeks of dark but wholesome and
even color, the full red lips. the small
and delicately nodded features, these
were legacies perhaps of French an
cestors. more likely tokens OF that
conglomerate strain now called. the
American type; but English, never.
AS she came opposite my elbow
she raised her head and gave me a
look fun in the Nges. a look SO full OF
helpless appeal that it startled me.
Our drawing-room connected with
the stateroom of the English couple
by a door SO that the two might on
occasion be thrown together en- suite.
looked down and saw the corner
OF an envelope appear. I called
Ciarke's attention and we watched 1t
until the entire envelope, long, white
one. stuffed SO fun of papers that it
went under the door with difficulty.
lay on the floor at orr feet.
O~A pretty HdstH progresses,
whispered Clarke There is a billet
doux for you"
hastily seized the envelope and
empted its contents ON the reading
table. And then Clarke and stared
and gaped in helpless and idiotic as
tonishment. Before us lay bonds of
the United Zinc Corporation to the
value Of $4,000.
With them was single sheet of
note paper with the crest of the Los
Angeles limited at the top. Clarke
and read it silently.
TO Mr.. Carlton Clarke: / am TAX
ing what / believe to be the only
course to save theee papers and my
Hfe. By the time we reach Old Faith
ful Inn ! hope to devise some DISPOSE
ton TO ask you to make Of them. Until
then guard them well. | know l can
trust you. Destroy this note at once.
Lady Ethelbert Snively."
After breakfast at Yellowstone sta
tioa the next morning our entire party, |
numbering about so. were loaded into
the big MY. stages for the 32-mile
drive to the Upper Geyser basin and |
Old Faithful inn. Clarke and had a |
surrey to ourselves in charge of one |
Bo Hughes 'Bo" being Yellowstone |
slang for driver. We also travelled
special" That is, we were relieved |
from adhering to the regular schedule
laid down by the stage company.
We reached the Fountain lunch sta
ton and the Lower Geyser basin in
advance of the rest of the party and
Clarke reused to his duty sufficiently
to walk out with me over the "forma-
uon.~ ~ the acres of limestone de-
posft made by. the geysers is oficially
ana technically known Here again
We met my lord and lady when the
rest OF the tourists came up, and we're
grouped reverently il circle to watch
the Fountain geyser play. Lady
Snively clapped her hands in glee as
me boiling water. throwing clouds of
seefhing steam, shot so feet in the air.
Tho shadows of the western snow
lDeaks were lenghtening when we drew
'sp. In advance OF the rest of the party,
oGAin by virtue of our special" be-
1ore the log portals of that wonderful
piece Of forest architecture. Old Faith
full inn.
| vas assigned 20 room IL and
Clarke to room Is. Lord and Lady
Snively followed us and drew No. IS
Whatever the destiny that bound us
together 1t seemed unbroken.
This would be dangerous place
to travel about on at night. Be-" I'll
said To Hughes as We clambered nm
and down the mounds Of calcareous
depoait, between bottomless pools of
boiling water, peering down into the
sulphurous depths of the
Lion and the Cubs" threading the
,reanherous and precipitous sides of
he "0rotto" and feeling beneath our
let he hollow crunch Of the crust
hat seemed but thin partition be-
.ween the beautiful world above and
he regions Of the inferno beneath. II
You're mighty right" answered ,
aughsA Il never knowed OF but one
nan that evcv come over here ct ,
Light ard he wandered out o. IT,