Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-06-21
CHAPTER II.
The Nature OF the Web.

Inc nature or the wen.
Comics eyes lifted from the pa.
per. "You were right" she said soft
ly. ut seems even more wonderful
now that you show US this. | think
feel little bit like used to do
when | heard a ghost story"
Semi Dual nodded
"And yet il is only an example OF
the operation of the natural law OF
vibration he answered. Because
your husband and were wanted and
Colonel Sheldon was thinking about
us, and had telegraphed to Gordons
firm and so. caused Mr. Bryce to be.
gin thinking about us also their
thoughts set up strong current in
our direction, which | finally sensed.
1t is simple. after all. and not strange,
or cause for any thought or emotion
Of awe. .-...-.. -,s, .,.-.---..-s,
IL you ST Ike musical not1 in a
room With harp or piano its strings
vibrate in sympathy with tn noe
you strike. So thought-waves may
affect sympathetic mind. At the
time first sensed this message we
were speaking OF thing which | now
know was in way related to our
need in Goldleld. That scnsitized mo
to the thought-waves of Sheldon. Do
you see?'
You mean the fly in the spiders
Web said Connie. "but what else do
you mean"
That ! have an idea we will find
some person caught in the web of
circumstance at the end of our Jour.
ney, Mrs. Glace,'
you wired Sheldon" aues-
toned.
"Yes-of course-at Grand juno.
ton Now suppose we return to our
muttons--oi, to be exact, to our mel
ons-whch see the waiter is bring
ing. There is something decidedly
refreshing in a nicely iced melon for
breakfast. There is no need Of an.
ticipating trouble, 50 enjoy the day.
We make Salt Lake this afternoon
and take the first train for Las
Vegas"
Our waiter served us, and Dual at
once attacked the cantaloup before
him. He ate with a relish which
neither Connie nor could initiate,
Injured to strange situation. as | had
become. and after breakfast he sat
with us for while, explaining to
Connie all about his relations with
Curzon and their Goldfeld mine,
and telling her of Colonel Sheldons
mines as well
TO have heard him one would
never have imagined that he had a
care in the world, or have suspected
that even then he was rushing to the
front TO engage in one more of those
battles he had so often waged in de-
Tense Of right
And \lere is little to tell of the rest
of the trip. We made Salt Lake on
time; Dual called a taxi and had us
rushed from one depot \ TO another.
Luck attended us there, and we
caught the bclated Western Limited
some five minutes before it left for
the South.
From Salt Lake to Las Vegas was
made in the rest of that day. and the
night and the next day saw us run
ming up from the latter station to
Goldfield, where ". arrived in due
time.
Colonel McDonahue Sheldon met
us as we stepped off the train. He
was the same old Colonel Mac, little
changed so far as | could see Per-
haps the hair under the light Stetson
was trifle grayer than the first time
! had met him; but the steady gray
eyes were the same and his mustache
bristled as stifrly as ever Under il his
thin lips were now wreathng into a
smile as he came forward TO greet us,
dragging off his hat in Difference to
my wife.
my Lord" he burst out, gripping
Duals hand. "but TN sure glad to
see you. Got your message yesterday
mornin' | reckon that Teller Bryce
muster 'headed you off, all right. I
~. ssp first lonu hroath aftnr I pof