Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-26

tOWaru OptllulSm when tDe
 boat lay alongside landing
 A stage at Woolwich and Kirk. wood had clambered ashore.
 "Yer'll mebbe myke It." the water man told him. with weatherwise sur vey of the skies. Winds freshenin' from the east'rds. an that'll old 'er back q bit. sir"
 "Arsk tn wye to tn Dorkyard sty. sbun." young William volunteered "'Tis tn shortest walk. sir. l 'opes yer catches 'er Thanky. sir"
 He caught deXterously the sovereign which Kirkwood. in ungrudging fiber. ality, spared them of his store of two. The American nodded acknowledg ments and adieus. with faded smile deprecating his chances of winning the race. sorely handicapped as he was. He was very. very tired and in his heart suspected that he would fail. But If he did he would at least be able to comfort himself that it was not for lack of trying. He set his teeth on that covenant in grim deter imitation. Either there was strain of the bulldog latent in the KirkwOod breed or else his infatuation gripped him more stroncly than he guessed.
 Yet he suspected something of its power He krew that this was alto gethpr an insane proceeding and that the lure that led him on was Dorothy Calendar A stran-e. dull light glowed In his weary eyes op the thought of her He'd co through fire ard water in her service. She was costinr him dear. perhaps wns to cost him dearer still. and perhaps there'd be for his gucrdcu 10 more than ''Tbank you Mir KirSwocdr' at the end of the pas sare. Eut that would be no less thar his deserts. He was net to forget that he was Interfering urwarrantahlr. The girl was in her fathcr's hands. surely safe enough thereto the cas- uaI mind. If her partnership in her parents fortunes were distasteful she endured 1t passively, without com plaint
 He decided that 1t was his duty to remird himself from time to ume that his main interest must be in the game itself. in the solution of the rid de. Whatever should befall. he must look for no reward for his gratuitous and self appointed part. Indeed. he was all but successful in persuading himself that 1t was the fascination of adventure alone that drew him on. A hu hnn no Nrhny,l hn ently encountered furnished minute directions fer reaching the Dockyard station of the Southeastern ard Chat ham railway. adding comfortable in- formation to the effect that the next eastbound train would pass through in ten minutes--if Kirkwood would mend his pace he could make it easily. with time to spare.
 KirkwoCd mcndcd his pace accord ingly, but. contrary to the prediction, had no time to spare at all. Even as he stCrmcd the ticket grating the train was laundering in at the platform. Therefore Il nervous ticket agent passed him cut a first class ticket in- stead of tha third class he had asked fer. ard there was TO time wherein to have the mistake rectiGed Kirkwood planScd down the fare. swore and srrinted for the carriages.
 The first compartment whose door he perlled violenly open proved to be occupied and was. moreover, not a smoking car. He received Q 1eeting impression of woman's startlrd eye; staring into his own through thin mesh of yelling. fell of the running board, slammed the door and hurled himself toward the next compartment Here happier fortune attended upon his desire. The bOxlike section was untenanted, ard a notice blown upon the window glass announced that 1t was 'Second Class Smoking" Kirk wood promptly tumblcd in. and when he turned 10 shut the door the coaches were moving.
 A pipe helped him to bear up while the train was making it's two other stops in the borough of Woolwich. It consoled him little that none disputed with him his lonely possession of the