The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-08

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 Eleanor. It's hard enough when you
 are unkind; you mustn't make it hard
 CT by being what you used always to
 be to me-
 What lover you are when you for
 get to be self conscious!,' she said softly. None the less she freed the i'm prisoned hand with hasty little jerk.
 Then she went on with playful auster-
 ity: "Now you are to do exactly what
 you were meaning to do when you didn't know we were coming with you. I'll make them all stay away from you just as long as can.''
 She kept her promise so well that for an industrious hour Lidgerwood scarcely realized that he was not alone.
 When he came out on the rear plat
 form Miss Brewster asked him how
 far it was to the canyon portal.
 'Only mile or two now," was Lidl
 gerwood's rejoinder. williams has
 been making good time." And two
 minutes later the one car train, with the foaming torrent of the Timanyoni
 for its pathfinder, plunged between the
 narrow walls of the upper canyon and
 the race down the grade of the crook ed water trail through the heart of the mountains began. Miss Carolyn clung to the platform handrail, and once Lidgerwood thought he surprised Van Lew with his arm about her-thought it and immediately concluded that he was mistaken. Mir fam Holcombe had the opposite corner of the platform, and Jefferis was mak-
 ing it his business to see to it that she
 was not entirely crushed by the gran
 deurs.
 Miss Brewster, steadying herself by the knob of the closed door, was not overawed. She had seen Rocky noun
 tain canyons at their best and their
 worst many times before. With her E lips to Lidgerwood's ear she said:
 'Tell me, Howard, how soon should 6 chaperon begin to make diversion? ? sI'm only an apprentice, you know There was a small Pintsch globe in the hollow of the umbrella roof,' with it's single burner turned down to a mere pea of light. Lidgerwood's an-
 swer was to reach up and flood the platform with sudden glow of arti- ficfal radiance. The chorus of protest was immediate and reproachful.
 'Oh, MT. Lidgerwood, don't spoil the
 perfect moonlight that wayv' cried Miss Doty, and the others echoed the beseeching.
 asserted Lidgerwood in good natured
 sarcasm. 'It is so dark here in the canyon that I'm afraid some of you
 might fall overheard or get hit by the rocks or something
 ''You can do the meanest things in the name of solicitude, Howard" Ele-
 amor began, but before she could fin
 fsh he had reached up and turned the gas of with snap, saying, 'All right;
 anything to please the children" after which. however, he spoke authorita-
 lively to Van Lew and Jefferis. Don't let your responsibilities lean out over the railing, you two. There are places below here where the rocks barely give the train room to pass" ''I'm not leaning out,' said Miss Brewster. as if she resented his care taking, then for his ear alone, "But I shall if I want to- "Not while I am here to prevent you"
 "Howr
 The special was rushing through the darkest of the high walled clefts in the lower part of the canyon. 'This way" he said, his love suddenly break ing bounds, and he took her in his arms.
 She freed herself quickly, breathless and indignantly reproachful. 'I am ashamed for you!" she panted. And then. with carefully calculated malice, What if Herbert had been
 lookingw
 ''1 shouldn't care if all the world had
 been looking" was the stubborn re- 5oinder, then passionately, "Ten me one thing before we go any further, Eleanor-have you given him the right to call me out?"
 How can you doubt it?' she said,
 but now she was laughing at him again.
 There was safety only in flight, and he fed-back to his desk and the work thereon. The train came to stand at Timanyoni, the first telegraph station in the shut in valley between the mountain ranges. A minute or two later the wheels began to revolve again and Bradford came in. More maverick railroading," hs said disgustedly. "Timanyoni had his red light out, and when I asked fol
 orders he said he hadn't any-thought
 maybe we'd want to ask for 'em our
 selves. being as we was running wild"
 "So he thoughtfully stopped us to
 give us the chance" snapped Lidger-
 wood in wrathful scorn. What did
 you doY'
 "Oh, as long as he had done it had
 him call up the Angels dispatcher to
 find out where we were at. We're on
 2O4s time, you know-ought to have mGk her -hnrn~