Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-24
CHAPTER XIV.
nFirhtl Elnht Like Hellln


So began yelled hostilities between
these two. AT first Miss Ordway COW
cred her fury with a smile and tried
every art of Cancellation, but Siletz
held far from her. Night and day she
Kept the packet in her breast, though
for what end she did not know. She
knew only with her unfailing instinct
that it must never go east to the
cities, or infinite harm would befall
Sandry. Also, as unfailingly, the same
instinct warned her not to show them
to him. even though their possession
might mean his safety. The primal
cunning of woman kept her from be.
lifting or betraylng her rival.
Sandry was becoming more and
more anxious about the East Belt.
More and more he feared the contin
gency Of having to fall back upon a
woman for help at the last, and this
was particularly CALLING to his man.
hood
II mad become personal question
with him. the getting" of Hampden
The timber at the north was running
better than they had expected. and
Daily and Collins with the lumber.
jacks from Sacramento and the ST.
washes were doing splendidly. Still
the magnificent belt was the Dilling-
worth's future and 1t was in grave
jeopardy.
From time to time he ran across
Hampden along the shores of the
backwater, at Toledo, or on the 81.
letz road. Here the Yellow Pines
owner often rode TO meet Miss Ord
way who had lessened her efforts in
his direction since he had given her
all the material she needed for his
own undoing. He was more wild
about her than ever, and added to
his enmity for Sandry the mighty
spur Of suspicious jealousy.
So July dragged out in blue heat
and August blazed down upon the
hills
The eastern lawyer at Salem was
ready to give up in despair Not one
tiniest point showed itself wherein
he could hang a thread of evidence;
and ore day Sandry, sitting on the
east porch shocked the heart into
Miss Ordway's throat.
81 believe ! will write to New York
for the great Farnsworth" he said;
its mighty risk, for he'll bankrupt
me If he comes. though it's hardly
likely he'll bother. They don't know
the chances for big work out here"
And the woman shut her teeth
hard, while the blood left her face
in pale anger Siletz, on the step,
played with Coosnahs ears and she
too lost bit of color
The next day Miss Ordway made a
flying trip to Salem, stopped over
train, and went on to Portland. There
she sought out the most well.
thoughtof legal firm in the city and
was closeted for three hours In its
private offices.
She was much too shrewd to trust
the great scheme in the hands of a
Salem firm. But here she had hun.
gled after all, for her newly allied
lawyer fine-looking, open-faced in.
dividual. followed her to Salem on
the next train. bearing copies of her
mysterionsly oblained proofs OF
Hampden's guilt, which we're as good
as warrants for his arraignment and
that of the amorous young commits
sioner.
The ring" was wider than she
had any conception of and reached
AFR throughout the state
she was not half over the Coast
Range on the one-horse railroad when
h-s lawyer laid the copied papers on
the commissioners private desk.
It's come at last" he said tensely;
''sJmebody'A leaked"
And in lightning flash the com.
RAesinner knAH what sad becoms Of