Gunnison news-champion., 1915-06-18
CHAPTER xSxIii.
Pullman.

Pullman.
Come inside" Law suggested. "and
introduce me 10 the brakeman. I pre-
sumo I've got to fla things up with
him"
III there's really any doubt in your
mind as to that" Barcus said. rising,
Il don't mind telling you you're right"
He paused as Alan entered the car
before him and was greeted by a storm
of vituperation that fairly blistered
the panels OF the Pullman Mr. Seneca
Trine. helpless in his invalid chair.
thus celebrated his introduction to the
young man whom he had never before
seen whose life he had schemed to
take these many years. His heavy
voice doomed and echoed through the
car like the sounding of a tocsin.
Alan made no effort to respond. but
listened with his head critically to
one side and an exasperating expires
sion of deep interest informing his
countenance until Mr.. Urine was
out of breath and vitriol; when
the younger man bowed with the slight
est shade of mockery in his manner
and waved q tolerant hand to Barcus.
He has. no doubt Alan inquired,
his own private cell aboard this cart"
Vas, subj" Barcus agreed, aping
well the manner of his apparent caste
and color. Amt dat de troof?"
Take him away, then" Alan re.
Quested wearily-'fif you please
Vas. suh!' Barcus replied with
nimble alacrity seizing the back of the
wheeled chair and swinging 1t round
for spin Up the length of the car.
Before Urine had recovered enough
to curse him properly. the door to his
drawing room was closed and Barcus
was ambling back down the aisle.
His grin of relish at this turning of
the tables on the monomaniac proved,
however short-lived 1t erased itself
In twinkling when Judith shouldered
roughly past him. wearing a sullen
and forbidding countenance, and flung
herself into the drawing room with
her father.
The cause of her temper was not
far to seek: at the far end of the car
Alan was bending solicitor sly over the
chair in which Rose was resting. One
of his arms was around her shoulder.
Her face was lifted confidently to his.
Barcus mused morosely on his ap-
prehension of trouble a-brew simmer
Ing over the waxing fire of that strange
woman's jealousy. He difnt ( like the
prospect at all. II only Alan and Rose
hadn't been so desperately in love
that they couldn't keep away from one
another, II only Alan had been SEN
sible enough to outwit the woman and
leave her behind when he started in
pursuit of the special, II only there
had not been that light engine in pur-
suit-as Barcus firmly believed it must
be-loaded to the guards with Trines
INSCRIPTIONS hirelings,
No telling when they might catcl
up
The fear of this last catastropbe
worked together with his fears of In
dith to render that night sIeeulass
one for Barcus. He spent il in a chair
whence he could watch both the door
to the compartment Judith had chosen
for her own formerly Marrophat's
quarters and the endless ribbons of
steel that swept beneath the tracks.
But nothing happened. He Manned
ucoasiy from time to time. waking
with a start of fright. but always to
find nothing amiss. Ever Judith
stopped b-tind that closed door. aad
ever he tack behind was innocent of
the glare of a pursuing headlight
Nor did anything untoward marx the
progress of the morning-unless in
deed, Judith's protracted sessions
with her father behind the closed
door of the drawing room were TO be
counted ominOus
Ever since lUnchtine the Eirl had
been closeted with her father: Rarcus
had been getting some weIl-earrH4 apd
sorely needed rest in his qua-re-s.
Aaa stand his watch on tEa -r.ssr-
alton plltfC-m, in c~u.4-- -.rh
.tC~e, and the train b31uT-z 4Hrns
ihroGgh an GncOuth Wilderness .af fr,J