The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06
THE MAN WITH THE MASTER MIND

stuffed so full of papers that it went
uncer the door with difficulty. lay on
the floor at our feet.
Our pretty liaison progresses" whis-
pered Clarke. There is a billet doux
for you"
/ hastily seized the envelope and
emptied its contents on the reading Ia
bic. And then Clarke and / stared and
gaped In helpless and idiotic astonish-
ment. Before us lay bonds of the United
Zinc Corporation to the value of $780,
900.
| With them was a single sheet of
note paper with the crest OF the Los
Angeles limited at the top. Clarke and
l read 1t silently.
ITO Mr.. Carlton Clarke: am TAX
ing what believe to be the only course
TO save these papers and my life BIZ
the time We reach Old Faithful inn /
nope to devise some disposition to ask
you to make of them. Until then guard
them We'll / know / can trust you.
Destroy this note at once
Lady Ethelbert Snively"
Now what do you think of that p"
| gasped in a whisper.
What is the use of thinking?" an
swered Clarke I'VE will wait. Lady
Snively, you are a brilliant woman. You
| order You are taking an awful
chance, but you have put your trust
In the right men. We will be true to
II and see this thing through to the
end" And Clarke took off his trav-
eiing cap and gravely bowed toward
the door that separated us from the
mystery beyond.
And now, Sexton he continued.
there Is but one course for us to pur-
sue and that is to act as if nothing
mas happened. IT is safe to say the
iIusoano VIII not suspect us unress we
give him cause to do so. Nothing Is
likely to happen on this train. and the
next act of the drama is laid at Old
Falthful so we might as we'll possess
our souls in patience"
When we met the English couple. or
Lord and Lady Snively as we now felt
privileged to call them, on the observa-
| ton platform the next morning we
coulC discern absolutely nothing differ
ent In their manner toward each other
nor toward us than in previous meet
lngs- The husband seemed. as usual,
utterly wrapped up in his own selfish
self and oblivious to his wife and to the
other passengers on the platform. Once
clarke caught the woman's eve and a
quick exchange of telepathic glances
passed between them. Again I found
her eyes looking into mine when her
husbands head was turned and / tried
To make my eyes say to her that all
was well and that we were on the lob
to the end. The bonds were safely
strapped in Clarke's money belt. next to
his body, and, without boasting, be-
tween the two of us, ! would have de-
lled any SIX men TO take them away
from him.
further incident
the railroad journey and the state of
armed neutrality continued
AT Ogden we watched with interest to
De assured that the couple of mystery
transferred to the Yellowstone. 1t would
have complicated matters and been en-
barrassing II they had gone one way
while we. with the bonds, went another.
our routes were the same however and
when we boarded the Short Line sleep
er we found them in the opposite sec
ton, the staterooms having already
peen pre-empted by party of Ger
man tourists.
ton the next morning, the entire party.
numbering about fifty. were loaded into
the big MY. stages for the thirty-two-
mile drive to the Upper Geyser basin
and Old Faithful inn. Clarke and had
surrey to ourselves in charge of one
Bo Hugres. DO" 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. What
was infinitely more to my relief we were
spared the company of Lord and Lady
Snively. who went in one of the stages
Knowing what we did. with the mys-
terry of those three-quarters of a mil
lion hanging over our heads, their pres
ence could not but have Jared upon
the beautiful panorama of canyons for
ests and dashing mountain streams
through which we were passing. For
my part, / chose to forget them and
the mystery.
1t was different with Clarke. Slower
than / to awaken to the mystery. il now
absorbed his very being. 1 am sure he
saw none of the landscape through
which we passed and his master mind
was busy with the problem.
After several vain endeavors to draw
his attention to the landscape. 1 left
him to his thoughts and, taking the
front seat with 30 Hughes, l swallowed
with avidity and apparent gullibility
his marvellous tales of beavers. elk, bear
and the other tame wild animals of the
uark.
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-
.ion," as the acres of limestone de-
post made by the geysers is officially
and technically known. Here again
we met my lord and lady when the
rest of the tourists came up. and were
grouped reverently in a circle to watch
;he Fountain geyser play. Lady
Snively clapped her hands in glee rs
the boiling water. throwing clouds OF
steam. shot fifty feet into the
air.
Not a shade of trouble marked her
She was wonderful
2 ctress.
''All beastly rot. Just lot of beast
ly steam and water coming out of a
beastly hole" said her cheerful hus-
band. turning away with a disgust only
surpassed by that with which he in |
spired every other member of the |
My heart beat a little faster as we
began the last nine-mile lap to the |
Upper Geyser basin and Old Faithful |
inn, but 4 knew not what awaited us. |
so I put it out of my mind. and leaving |
to Clarke the thinking part, 1 again |
took the front seat with the driver.
Bo Hughes had began to interest me.
He was little chap, an ex-jockey. and |
he proudly boosted that he could still |
ride at an even hundred without train |
ing He had been by turns a cow
and horse a