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seemed, the most inopportune time
possible to express his gratitude.
But there was his outstretched hand
should she ignore it? Anger swayed
her-yet something within her, and
something in Storms eyes and his
manner, pleaded against cutting him
dead. With .~furiously red cheeks but
sweeping aside the cost, Helen put out
her hand. ut was nothing" she said
quickly. do not think of it." Then
she repaid Storms impulsive stupid
ity, as she thought it deserved, by
catching at something Seagrue was
saying and failing to see Storm again.
The engineer had come up prepared
really to say how grateful he was; he
found himself, in a f1eeting second,
already we'll launched on the social
toboggan and shooting toward the bot
tom of a long hill. Seagrue, almost be-
fore Storms back was turned, was
laughing at Helen and pointing to her
glove. The white, soft kid now bore
beyond repair the heavy, black finger
prints of the engineman's hand.
Questions and gatherings from her
companions contributed nothing to-
ward restoring Helen's composure. But
as the group moved to the waiting mo-
tor cars, she unostentatiously drew
the offending glove yer her wrist and
threw it away. One pair of eyes
watched the action closely; Storm,
collecting his wits after his social dis
aster, noted what she had done. He
was too philosophical to resent it. In
stead, crossing the platform, when the
party had driven away, he picked up
the discarded glove and put it in his
pocket.
Nor did he, in his turn, escape I'M
seer AS n of the cars whirled
around a nearby corner Helen, look
ing back at the scene of her annoy
ance, saw Storm picking up something
white; she knew it was her glove.
On reaching home-where the ladies
were taken to their various rooms and
the men went to their business
Helen, from her own room overlook
ing the passing track, watched the
II Ol5ut, pCdi iI5 obOlh, oioW III ohN
stop before the station for orders.
Turning to her glass more than
once to see whether her cheeks were
still as flushed as they felt, she was
gratifed to find hat traces of her hui
initiation had disappeared. Her mind,
from which she had tried to dismiss
the whole incident, was now assailed
by a rebellious curiosity concerning
what she had seen happen on the dis
tant platform when Storm crossed it
to pick up her glove. AS his frank eyes
returned again and again to her imag-
i~nation, something seemed to call her
strongly, back to where he still was
detained. She resisted longer; then
surrendering to a sudden impulse, she
a downstairs, while her guests were
~disposing themselves, stepped into her
racing car, drove to the station and
alighting just as Storm came out of
the telegraph office, she herself began
to search at the edge of the platform
for something. The engineer, after
an interval, deliberately Joined her.
"You have lost something"
Helen glanced up with affected sur
prise. Nothing of moment. I missed
a ring when l got home" she fabricat-
ed lightly, land n of my gloves. I
thought l might have dropped the one
with the other here"
Storms hand moved toward his
blouse, then regaining his composure,
he withdrew his hand, empty, and af-
fected to search along the roadway
with her. 1t was a brief duel of wits,
but n in which the railroad man was
no longer at a disadvantage. He was
quite willing to search as long as she
would linger and Helen, more than a
little interested, was capricious and
did linger until Storms slow sentences
began once more to bear too directly
on the episode of the wreck and his
gratefulness; then with a hasty good
by she started for home and Storm,
climbing into his engine, pulled out
with his long train.
General Holmes, in the meantime,
with his two jealous groups of direc-
tors, was striving in his drawing room
to arrive with them at a mutually sat
lsfactory settlement of the proposed
stock issue. In reserving 10000 shares
of this for himself and his friends,
Holmes had allotted 10000 to Sea-
grue and his Wall street associates.
This both Seagrue and Capelle had
bluntly refused to accept, since the
proposed line would work havoc with
the through and local traffic of the
Colorado and Coast road. Seagrue de-
manded instead an equal distribution
of the new stock. Holmes and Rhine
lander, after a long conference, put
the motion fatty to the eleven direc.
tors. Seven of them supported Presi.
dent Holmes proposal.
Seagrue, white with anger, rose.
Cancel u allotment, then. We will
fight"