New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18

into the rav,, wagon since the time knew them ana
got their money Let me sec. Om-m-h! hooked
them in about three years apart, and al tndt uhc
don't think they knew each other. Then they get IN
and came together ON this Ford settlement somehow
when old Henry Ford died. and that son Of hls wouldn
FOLLOW, after the old mans example, but lett h ic" nun
dred millions to be handled by others They say us
all Ford money that controls the line; SO that where
they landed"
tip to this point his deductions had been wdevl'ngy
true but now he reaching point where conJecture
might go awry.
~Tbev e1mshoe it out West here trying, like all rail-
WAY projectors DO TO pry loose whatever concessions
the, can from the biggest along the route They
have heard so much about Port Hatch through the adj
vcrtisng that they say TO themselves Wen just sneak
NJ there and loo, her over That when see some Oh
en- don't know they've climbed up the dollar lad.
der so Jar and think they've come to give me away ana
I bolt. They hear about me here in the town while
they're browsing around and send for the Colonel
e. come 10 Seattle 10 meet them. lie, poor oId GUS
loses his nerve Also he don't know how to handle
them Seattle looks better To them for the y q - than
Port Hatch and the Lord only knows what inducements
Seattle made them.
~NIavbe they didn't give me away to the Colonel at
all. No man who is % director Of q transcontinenta
rjlwav likes TO tell anyone about the gold bricks ne
bought He likes 20 have folks think hes so ALFRED
smart that nobody in the world could ever bunko HIM
off II q cent 1t hurts his pride and his reputation to
soueal If had al the money that's been PAID by the
big bankers for phony stuff III build two or three rail-
WAYS before breakfast every morning tor a month
Probably Carleton Thornton, or Sprague none OF EN-
said word; but they GOT me Just the same as they
looatit. Navbe if it hadn't been for me, they would
have come here with the road and the Colonel and Ara
bella and everyone woud have really been Tlch-H II
hadn't been for the dirty crookedncss OF me- uSt me.
He groaned and shook his fists at his own reflection IN
the mirror, and his clear eyes arragned the refecto
line BY line he mathematical II. lie began WIN IFS
childhood and chased its history through the devious
Gears cir,inq them III because they had led to this
,ot where when ne wanted TO be honest and straight
forward. that past held sinister hand ana barred
him from al that was good and condemned HIM TO the
r.tributive chains Of his reputation He sat tor an
hour desperately trying from the fertility OF his re-
sources and his splendid imagination, 70 conceive some
method Of saving the situation ana III all u"I hou
there was at no time thought Of self. lie coud see
nothing ahead but failure for Port Hatch ana al con-
cc~led Its doom was sealed, and unless something
could be done 20 mend its fallen fortunes 1t would IN
e,itablv be a vcritablc deserted city. First Of al he
must see the Colonel
AND so it was that he stood on the ornate cement
"a pier waiting for the steamer when she appeared
round the curve Of the bay and whstled her salute
Others were there also drawn-laced men, who talked
Quietly in groups and occasionally came to him, and
asked him in voices that bravcly tried TO suppress
t-emor whether the news conveyed IN the morning
papers was true. Invariably he responded checruIy
that he hoped not but could not tell until the Colonel
arrived The shadow Of ruin already darker1ng the
skies above the City Beautiful IL seemed as II
large majority OF the business men Of the town were
there beside him when the Golden Eagle threw out her
gangpank.
The Colonel was almost the only passenger, and it
was II he had already to be one Of the sole resi-
dents Of Port Hatch and that traffic had reversed itself
He came down the gangplan, looking as though he had
aged ten years in a day. His face was white and set;
but his ewes had the old brave look in them, the look
Of the man who still dreamed Of victory to the very end
Of the fight The anxious crowd rushed upon him, al