The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1916, Page 4

Member of tne Berippe North weet League of Newspapers The Seattle Batered at Reattia, By mail, out of etty, one year, & H ver Wy carrier, city, 2 Published Datiy Wy Th G Star second-class mai month up to @ mea He Tells the Kentuckians ae tickled again to chronicle that, ‘way down in th Hughes really undertook to answer, “What would yo of the Lusitania and Mr. Hughes explained thus: he Kentucky mountains, Mr, u do?” It was in the matter First, he would have had the state department so equipped as to command the respect of the world. This is a direct slap at Mr. Bryan, and Bryan got out of the state department because his chief was too warlike. Secondly, Mr. Hughes would have so conducted aff fairs in Mexico that we were » for peace, good will and protection of American lives and property in Mexico, This is a direct slap at Mr. Taft, who handed rank anarchy in Mexican affairs over to Woodrow Wilson. Thirdly, Mr. Hughes, when newspapers announced that the Lusitania was to be | attacked, would have “made it known in terms unequivo: cal” that we would break diplomatic relations with Germany, if said attack were made. In other words, prompted by newspaper notices, Pre sident Wilson should have warned Germany, a friendly government, that she must not commit wholesale mur- der of Americans. Respect for our state departments didn’t prevent the blowing up of the Maine or the cold-blooded murder of Madero. 1 ment which will head off great calamities and tragedies, wh gon couldn't, is a proposition open to discussion. That Mr. Hughes can pick a state depart- hen McKinley, Taft and Wil- 4 Certain it is that if he goes to running his administration on threatening news- paper notices, he'll have his troubles, and so will all the rest of us. Impotence of the Mighty! ‘AN was never so mighty. In Europe he has involved himself and his neighbors in a war in which he has de- d almost superhuman powers. lan was never so weak. He has started a war so ter- that he cannot stop it, he cannot even permit it to run of itsetf. In the United States, also, man makes a similar showing strength and his impotence. The American permits two er cent of the population to possess 60 per cent of the coun-| wealth. He has developed and even encouraged an omic system which he finds unjust and unendurable but he has no power to control. : The classes who wrought Europe’s misery and America’s and the masses who suffer from either evil are helpless. N of living are widely DIFFERENT. | Tn this, as in economics, man’s THEORY and PRAC- b COLYUM MATCHES | | | | war has convinced both conservatives and radicals | man’s instinct for right is everywhere greater than his moral achievement, and some predict a world-wide awakening when peace comes. Indeed there are that it is already here. Such a revival may be hysterical, it may come quickly pass away in three years; it may be sane and slow and three decades; it may influence history for the next 300 How long it will take human beings to relearn and are urging that humanity live up to the level of its instincts, that men try to do as well as they know how and that, lacking strength in themselves, they turn to fion to find it. Blunder? E allies, themselves, admit that the situation of Rumania critical. Assailed from three directions, unless aid is promptly m her, she may share the fate of Serbia and Belgium. aid can only come from Russia, for the allied forces onika are, it appears, unable to make much headway the Bulgarians. It is difficult to understand why did not foresee the plight in which Rumania is “placed and, with all the time they had, make ready a it army of Russia’s surplus men to rush into Rumania as ‘soon as her decision to enter the war was announced. ‘On the surface it looks like another monumental blunder credit of ‘the allies. Instead of turning the tide of their way, Rumania’s entry, should she be crushed, redound to the immense benefit of the central powers. _ Rumania, as a neutral, admittedly friendly to the entente, a tower of strength to the allied cause. Rumania, a pleated belligerent, will be a source of weakness. He’s Mum EDIATELY after the German U-53 had raised the deuce off Nantucket, a reporter asked Mr. Hughes, who| pa that he would have prevented the Lusitania horror, he would now do, if president. Mr. Hughes refused to discuss the matter at all. _ Yet, it was a pertinent question. Still, Mr. Hughes-was 4 It is be remembered that he sat mum on the supreme bench, he really could have prevented the Lusitania’s destruc- ent in withholding his cure for the situation. according to his own say-so. It’s only a foolish 100 per cent candidate who will actually nit himself to anything, anyhow. ing Up to a King i E would like to shake hands with Mr. Venizelos, of Greece, for the lovely way in which he handed the of divine rights a full black eye. “I,” said King Constantine, “leave the internal affairs of to the government, but in international relations, I ider myself direction. “Your father,” replied Citizen Venizelos, “was elected There by the Greek people. You are his successor. no divine right in that title.” It isn’t often that the world is treated to the spectacle one of the masses taking a king by the whiskers and slap- We bespeak Mr. Venizelos opportunity to beat his propaganda into the divine rights obsession out of him. quarters in Europe. Crazy King Otto of Bavaria is dead. He was an _ anomaly among European monarchs, being crazy and locked up. ora | ie nia north azin fopics Bake ya EE ET purity end high quali '‘ Walter Baker & Co.Ltd ESTABLISNED 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS, 7 the Golden Rule is outside prophecy, but already clear! myself alone, responsible before God for A match Is a sliver of wood cov. ered with a piece of the real es tate found where our present day kings, politicians and many other ; prominent citizens are going when heir lease on rth = expires. Matches are the reason for pockets being on vests, and the only time they are in them is when the vest je at the cleaners. A match can be ignited by giving it to an 18 month-old baby or by drawing it rapidly across mahogany piano. Misdirected energy, is looking for @ match on a golf course or in a newspaper office. You'll get quick- er results In a newspaper office by touching an editorial writer for @ case note than by asking him for a match. . | FITS THE CRIME Country Justice-—Ten and costs for reckless driving. Young Motorirt—Listen, judge! We were on our way to your office to have you marry us. Justice—Twenty and costs, then. You're a darned sight more reck- less than I thought you were.— Judge. eee DIPLOMACY Photographer—Merciful heavens, Mr, Spiffkin, can't you look a little more cheerful? Mr. Spiffkin—Not for this pic- ture! I'm to send it to my wife, who is away on a visit, and if I looked too cheerful, she'd take the JOB WAS SOME BABY oo a a don’t baby talls, pa Father—He can't talk yet, my boy. Young babies never do. Tommy—Oh, yes, they do, Job aid. My Sunday school teacher read to me out of the Bible how Job cursed the day he was born!— Puck. EXPLAINS HIGH COST If 1 am permitted to express my view! your request in your ed itorlal, “A High Winter Prospect,” I would say that a certain sordid class of people in the United State are responsible, more or less, for the VOLUME of war in Europe, and |its corresponding effects and costs jupon the people of the United | States. And the effects and costs to bear it. The banks, bankers, bond houses and individuals who are loaning millions to the countries at war, that they might, in thelr madness continue the destruction of coun tries, cities, commerce, homes, be sides murdering and starving men, women and children, are murderers at heart. It is to be regretted that there are men and women in Se attle, as well elsewhere, who in their selfishness and eagerness to obtain money, will stop short of nothing, not even murder and starvation of men, women and chil dren, The war has two things: (1) thysical strength; (2) financial atrength. The war bonds—murder bonds—starvation bonds, written tn the blood of men, women and chil- dren, find no market except in the United States. Hence they ar \practically getting their financtal |strength from many of our mis. guided people, who would stand jaehast at a trifling thing, but read- ily clasp hands with the agency of | Satan. Politically I am a republican, B proud and ready to fight for my country if need be, but at the same time not going about with a chip on my shoulder, looking for a fight (he who {# looking for a fight will #lways fine one), but I intend to cast my vote this coming election for Woodrow Wilson, because he has | gulded our national affairs in such @ manner that we have no war. H. 8, JEFFHRY, j STAR—SATURDAY, OCT. 21, 1916. PAGE 4 Sueuataanagnencenert gagetagsezasaegegserasstasgetasseteasyy gH Next Week A Novel The Idyl of Twin Fires A Week | (Continued From Our Last Issue) CHAPTER XI. The Terror Judson was late tn reporting. But when he finally climbed the | stair of the Crow's Nest to tap at) | Lidgerwood's door, he brought the | first authentic wews from the camp lof the enemy, tho he hadn't yet} |found Halleck, | When McCloskey had come at a push of the call-button, Lidger | wood snapped the nightlateh on the corridor door, “Let us have it, Judson,” he sald. Summarized, Judson's story was |the report of intelligent scout, | Since he was ¢ d with the dim jcharged men, he had been able find out some of the enemy's | moves in the game of coercion, From barroom talk Judson had gathered that the strikers knew |nothing as yet of McClowkey's plan | to keop the trains moving and the | wires alive. There would probably |be no open outbreak before mid- night. As an offset to this, how. lever, the engineer had overheard jenough to convince him that the Copah wire had been tapped; that |Dix, the day operator, had been elther bribed or intimidated, and was now under guard at the etrik- headquarters, and that some important message had been inter. }eepted which w tin Judeon's | phrase, “raising sand” in the camp of the disaffected. “It i Hallock again,” Mac rasped, “He is the only man who could have used the private code. Dix probably picked out the el- pher; he's got a weakness for such things, Hallock’s carrying double. He has fixed up some trouble. making message, or faked one, and ned your name to it, and then schemed to let it leak out thru Dix,” making the trouble, all was Judson'’s comment. When I left Biggs’ a few minutes ago, Tryon was calling for volun- teers to come down here and steal an engine, From what he sald, I jtook it they were aimin’ to go over into the desert to tear up the track land stop somebody or something coming this way from Copah—all on account of that make-believe message that you didn't send.” About & o'clock that evening lAdgerwood strolled over to the Nadia. Under the “umbrella roof of the Nadia’s rear platform the | young people of the party were sit- | ting out the early half of the per fect summer night. There wa lunoceupied campchatr, and Mis: | Brewster pointed {t out to the su- | porintendent | Lidgerwood swung himself over the railing, and took the proffered jebatr, * your strike she asked. “No; it isn't due until midnight.” don't believe there is going to any.” Before he could reply, a man platform railing, and said, “Is Mr. Lidgerwood here? Lidgerwood answered tn person, crossing to the railing to hear Jud- son's latest report, which was given in hoarse whispers, Miss |Brewster could distinguish no word of it, but she heard Lidger wood's reply. “Tell Mac, and say that the engine I ordered had bet- ter be sent up at once.” When Lidgerwood had resumed his chair he was promptly put upon the question rack of Miss Eleanor’s curiosity, “Was that ove of your scouts?” she asked. ‘Did he come to tell you that there wasn't going to be any strike “No. “Mow lucidly communicative you are! But gracious goodness! Is/| that engine going to smash into our car?” The anxious query hinged Iteelf upon the approach of a big, elght- wheeled passenger flyer which was thundering down the yard on the track occupied by the Nadia, With- in half a car length of collision the alr brake hissed and the shudder-| ing moneter rolled gently backward to @ touch coupling with the presi-| dent's car, materialized i) WALTER P, EATON Eleanor's cousin's arm. this mean? hand was on her} “Howard, what does} she demanded. ED “Nothing, Just at present; it ts ly @ precaution.” ou are not going to take us away from Angels?” “Not now; net at all unless your safety demands ft.” Then he rose d spoke to the others, “I'm sorry to have to shut off your moon vista) line to collide with and wreck what | nearer, with that noisy beast, but it may bo necessary to move the car, later on, Don't get out of touch with the Nadia, any of you, please.” He had vaulted the hand rail and sald good night. At the top of the corridor stair McCloskey was waiting for him, “Judson has told you what's due to happen?” queried the train master, “He told me to look for swift trouble; that somebody had be trayed your strike- breaking scheme.” “He says they'll try to keep the| east-bound out.” “That would be a small matter, But we mustn't lose the moral ¢ fect of taking the first trick in the game. Are the sections all in line freights from going jon the long siding?” “Yen,” “Good, We'll start them a little abead of time, and let them kill back to schedule after they get out on the road.” “Call tt done,” said the train-mas- ter, and he went to carry out the order. In ten minutes the three heavy freight-pullers hissed, rT belched fire, and the long train be gan to move out It was Lidgerwood's challenge to the outlaws, and as if the blasts jof the three tearing exhausts had been the signal it was awaiting, the strike storm broke with the suddenness and fury of a tropical hurricane. From a hundred hid ing places In the carstrewn yard men came running, some to swarm thickly upon the moving engines and cabooses, others swinging by the drawheads to cut the alr-brake hone. Shote were fired; shrill yells arose. Into the midst of the clam- or the great siren whistle at the shops boomed out the fire alarm, and almost at the same instant a red glow rose to beacon the de- struction already begun in the shop yards. And while the roar of the siren was etiil jarring upon the windless night air, the electric light circulta Were cut out, leaving the) yards and the Crow's Nest in dark- ness. In the Crow's Nest the sudden coup of the strikers had the effect which {ts originator had doubtless counted upon, It was some min- utes after the lights were cut off, and the {frruption bad swept past the captured and disabled trains to the shops, before’ Lidgerwood could get his small garrison to gether and send it to reinforce the shop guard, which was presumably fighting desperately for the con- trol of the power plant and the fire pumpa, Only MeCloskey’s protest and his own anxiety for the safety of the Nadia’s company kept Lidgerwood from leading the little relief col- umn of loyal trainmen and head- quarters clerks in person. The lus of battle was fn his blood, and for the first time the shrinking palsy of physical fear held aloof. When the departure trainmaster had left the of- fice story of the headquar- ters deserted, it was the force of of the mero mechanical habit that sent) would my word, extorted—under | Pursuit. Ladgerwood back to his room to close his desk before going down to order the Nadia out of the zone of immediate danger. There was a chair in his way, and In the dark- ness and in his haste he stumbled over it, When he recovered him- self, two men, with handkerchief masks over their faces, were enter- ing from the corridor, and as he turned at the sound of their foot- steps, they sprang upon him, For the firet rememberable time tn his life, Howard Lidgerwood met the challenge of violence joyfully, with every muscle and nerve sing: ing the battle-song, and a huge will- ingness to slay or be slain arming him for the hand-to-hand struggle. But it was two against one; when it was over, the conflagration light reddening the southern win- dows sufficed for the knotting of the plece of hemp lashing with which the two masked garroters were binding their victim in his fall upon those who are least able ies to ha think of, and portieu! M5 Please cond me REE Ie plain wrapper, your book on (C10 siciasmenaeemnenate the POT pote aN RN AN So eee YSU Pree hy held ‘and beld with f' comfort, Misery COMFORT are peRPuct, Atted SCHUTLING Rt fan't come down, bear that In min ‘mi come dows lor what he Sette CANCE com down ‘aad ‘et tus ‘with REAL COMPOR , DUL wFite It and eapd ie AT ONCKL Pau” Send This Now tna, Raptore and full perticalare of your Trial Offer ples, “THE BU char, | Meanwhile, up at the head of the} three-sectioned fretght train a mad} mob was cutting the leading loco | motive free, They were preparing to send the freight engine east ward on the Desert division main} }ever coming thing it was that they | feared The threatened deed wrought itself out before Mac, who saw the) move, could even attempt to pre vent it. A man sprang to the foot-| board of the freed locomotive,| Jerked the throttle open, stayed at) the levers long enough to hook up| to the most effective cutoff for| speed, and jumped for his life | While the abandoned engine was, 6 yet, only gathering speed for the eastward dash, M dodg ing the straggling riote' in the yard, racing purposefully for the} jonly available locomotive ready and headed to chase the runaway —namely, the big eight wheeler) coupled to the president's car, He} wet the switch to the main line as) he passed it, but there was no time to uncouple the engine from) the private car. | So ‘there was no more than a} gaspedout word to Williams, the | Nadia’s engineer, as he climbed to! the cab, before the elght-wheeler, |with the Nadia tn tow, shot away ‘from the Crow's Nest platform And it was not until the car was growling angrily over the yard-| into the central compartment like! a man demented, to demand ex-| leitedly of Mre, Brewster and Mise} Doty: “Who has seen Miss Eleanor?) Where is Miss Eleanor?” The Crucible | Only Miss Brewster berself could} have answered the question of her whereabouts at the exact moment} ot Van Lew's asking. She was left! behind, standing aghast in the! midst of tumults, on the platform) of the Crow's st. Terrified at the sudden outburst of violence, she |had ventured from the car to look | | for Lidgerwood, and in the moment of frightened bewilderment the Nadia had been whisked away. Naturally, her firet impulse was to fly, and the only refuge that of- fered was the superintendent's office on the second floor, The tairway door was only a little dis- tance down the platform, and she the stairs, The Ught of the shop-yard fire {shone rediy thru the upper corridor |windows, enabling her to go di- |rectly to the open door of the su- perintendent’s office, But when she reached the door and looked) within, terror held her spellbound, speechless, unable to move or even to cry out. Two masked men were covering with revolvers a third, who was tied helpless in a chair. The cap- stained. He seemed to be trying to speak, but the ruffian at hir right would not give him leave. “This is where you pass out, Mr. | Lidgerwood,” the man was saying |threateningly. “You give us your word that you will resign and leave the Red Hutte Western for keeps, or you'll sit in that chair till some- body comes to take you out and bury you.” The answer came jJerkily, “What, such conditions—be worth to you?” Eleanor could hear, in spite of the terror that would not let her jery out or run for help. He was poets to them, bargaining for his ife! “We'll take it,” sald the spokes- man coolly. “If you break faith with us there are more than two of us who will see to it that you) don't live long enough to brag} about {t. YouVe had your day, and you've got to go.” “And if I refuse?” Eleanor made sure that the voice was steadier now. “It's this, hore and now,” grated the taller man who had hitherto | kept silence, and he cocked his re-| |volver and jammed the muzzle of| |{t against the bleeding temple of | the man fn the char. | The captive straightened him- | self as well as his bonds would let him “You—you've let the psycholog- ‘teal moment go by, gentlemen: I— f've got my second wind. You may burn and destroy and shoot as you please, but while I'm alive I'll stay with you, Blaze away, if that's what you want to do.” The horror-stricken watcher at he door covered her face with her hands to shut out the sight of the nurder, It was not until Lidger- vood’s voice, calm and even-toned and taunting, broke the silence | hat she ventured to look again “Well, gentlemen, I'm waiting. Why don’t you shoot? You are sreater cowards than I have ever been, with all my shiverings and teeth-chattorings. Isn't the stake big enough to warrant your last | desperate play? I'll make it biz: | ger. You are the two men who broke the rafl-joint at Silver Switch Ab, that nits you, doesn't it?” “Shut up!" growled the tall man, with a frightful {mprecation. But! the smaller of the two wag silent. Lidgerwood's grin was ghastly. “You curs!” he scoffed. “You haven't even the courage of your own necessities! Why don't you pluck up the nerve to shoot, and be done with it? I'll make it still more binding upon you; if you don't kill me now, while you have the chance, as God ts my witness Til hang you both for those mur ders last night at Silver Switch, I know you, in spite of your flimsy disguise; 1 can call you both by name!" Out in the yard the yellings and |Shoutings had taken on a new note, jand the windows of the upper room were jarring with the thunder of incoming trains, Eleanor Brewster heard the new sounds vaguely; the jangle and clank of the trains, the quick, steady tramp of disciplined men, snapped-out words of com- mand, the sudden cessation of the |riot clamor, and now a shuffling |of feet on the stairway behind her. Still she could not move; still she was speechless and spell-bound, but no longer from terror. Her cousin~-her lover—how-’ she had misjudged him! He a coward! | | | | | was presently groping her way up ¢ tive'’s face was ghastly and blood-| tab loffered, which chanced to be the lone or two of the others in hot |to apologize. |from the chamber of borrors, and Francis Copyright Ry Charles This man who was holding his two; executioners at bay, quelling them, cowing them by the sheer force of the stronger will, and of a courage that was infinitely greater than theirs? | The shuffiing footeteps came and once again Lidgerwood straightened himself in bis chalr, this ti with a mighty struggle! that broke the knotted cords and freed him. 1 could name you, and! he cried, springing to his) You,” pointing to the) smaller man, “you are Pennington | Fiemiater; and you,” wheeling upon the tall man and lowering his volee, “you are Rankin Hallock!” The Ught of the fire in the shop yard had died down until its red glow no longer drove the shadows from the corners of the room Eleanor shrank aside when @ dozen) men pushed their way into the private office. Then, suddenly the electric lights went on, and a gruff voice sald, “Drop them guns, you two, The «how's over.” It was Judson who gave the or- der, and {it was obeyed mullenly. The engineer-constable thrust a| handcuffed prisoner of his own! capturing into the lighted room. | “There he is, Mr, Lidgerwood,” | snarled Judson. “I nabbed him over yonder at the fire, workin’ to put it out, just as if he hadn't told hin geng to go and set it!” j “Hallock!” exclaimed the super.) ined,| limit awitches that Van Lew burstlintendent, starting as if he had/ seen a ghost. “How is this? Are there two of you?” Hallock looked down moodily. ‘There were two of us who wanted your job, and the other one needed | it badly enough to wreck trains and kill people, and to lead a lot of pig-| headed trainmen and mechanics) into a riot to cover his tracks LAdgerwood turned quickly. mask these men, Judson.” It was the signal for a tumult. The tall man fought desperately to] preserve his disguise, but Flemis- ter's mask was torn off in the first) rush, Then came a diversion, sud- don and fiercely tragic. With al ery of rage that was like the yell) of a madman, Hallock flung him- self upon the mineowner, beating him down with his manacled hands, eM@king him, grinding him into the dust of the floor. And when the/ avenger of wrongs was pulled off) to his feet, Lidger- U ple, saw the figure of a woman) ing at the corridor door; saw) awful horror in her eyes. In the turning of a leaf he had fought) his way to her. | “Good heavens, Eleanor!” he} “What are you doing! here?” and faced her about quickly and led her into the cor- ridor lest she should see the dis- torted fcsturea of the victim of Hallock'a vengeance. “I came—they took the car away, and I—~I was left behind,” she fal- tered, And then: “Oh, Howard! y; hide me some too horrible!” There was a bull-bellow of rage from the room they had just left, and Lidgerwood hurried bis com- panion into the first refuge that | Out of the! trainmaster’s room. | private office and into the corridor came the taller of the two garrot- ers, holding his mask in place as he ran, with Judson, and all but Notwithstanding, the fugitive gained the stair and fell, rather than ran, to the bottom. There was the crash of a bursting door, a sol- dierly command of “Hi the crack of a cavalry rifie, and Jud- won came back, accompanied by Mac. “They got him,” said Mac; and then, seeing Eleanor for the first tim s jaw dropped and he tried “Exeuse me, Miss Brewster; I didn't have the least idea you were up here.” “Nothing matters now,” said Eleanor, pale to the lips. “Come in here and tell us about ft. And —and—is mamma safe?” “She's downstairs in the Nadia, with the others—where I supposed you were,” McCloskey began; but Lidgerwood heard the feet of those who were carrying Flemister’s body quickly shutting the door on sight and sounds, started the trainmas- ter on the story which must be made to last until the way was clear of things a woman should not see. “Who was the tall man?” he asked. “I thought he was Hallock —I called him Hallock.” The trainmaster shook his head. “They're about the same build; but we were all off wrong, Mr. Lidger- wood—'way off, It's been Gridley; Gridley and his side-partner, Flem- ister, all along. Gridley was the man who helped Fiemister last night at Silver Switech—with Jud- son trying to keep tab on Hallock, and getting him mixed up with Gridley at every turn, even to mis- taking Gridley’s voice and his shadow on the window-curtain for Hallock’s. Gridley was the man! who stole the switch-engine and| ran it over the ol@ Wire-Silver| spur to the mine to sell it to Flem-| ister for his mine power-plant—| they've got it boxed up and run-| ning there, right now. Gridley is the man who has made all this strike trouble, bossing the job to get you out and to get himself in 80 he could cover up his thieveries, Gridley was the man who put up the job with Bart Rufford to kill you, And I've got a few thousand jher friends. saageaiegestiesrtay A Novel A Week Porritt | y Lynde \ 1910 erivners Sons LONDON EAGER FOR THE SHOW SEASON MADGE TITHERADCE-; : Londoners are looking forward to the opening of the theatrical sea | son with eagerness, despite the war and Zeppelin raids. Miss Tither- adge, favorite, will have the leading role in “Best of Luck,” « Drury, Lane drama. ——————— D'/gollare saved up that says that | Rankin Hallock isn't going to hang om for what he did to Flemister a few © minutes ago. Lidgerwood switched the subject abruptly in deference to Eleanor’s deep breathing. “1 must take Miss Brewster to | You say the Nadia is back? Who moved it without orders?” “Yes, she's back, all right, and the man who comes in for the blessing. I wanted an engine—I needed one right bad—and I couldn’t wait to uncouple the car. It was Hallock who sent that mes- sage to Mr. Leckhard that we've been hearing so much about, and it was a beg for the loan of a few of Tnele Sam's boys from Fort Me-. Cook. Gridley got on to it thru Dix. ers turnes an engine loose to run down the road for a head-ender with the freight that was bringing the soldiers. I chased the runa- way engine with the coupled-up Nadia outfit, caught it Just in nick of time to prevent @ col with 73, and brought it back.” Miss Brewster got up out of her chair, found she could stand “ will be perfectly frantic if some one hasn't told ber that I am safe. We can go now, can't we, Mr, Mo Closkey? The trouble is all over, isn't it?” The trainmaster nodded gravely. “It's all over but the paying of the bills. That rifle-shot we heard a little spell ago settled it. No, he isn't dead”—this in answer to Lidgerwood's unspoken question— “but it will be a heap better for all concerned if he don’t get over it. You can go down. Lfeutenant Baldwin has posted his men around the shops and the Crow's Nest.” Together they left the shelter of the trainmaster’s room, and passed down the dark stair and out upon the platform, where the cavalry- men were mounting guard. There was no word spoken by either un- til they reached the Nadia'’s for- ward vestibule, and then it was Lidgerwood who broke the silence to say: “I have discovered son thing tonight, Eleanor: I'm not quite all the different kinds of a coward I thought I was.” “Don't tell me'" she said, in keen self-reproach, and her voice thrill- ed him like the subtle melody of a passion song. “Howard, dear, I— I'm sitting in sackcloth and ashes. I saw it all—with my own eyes, and I could neither run nor scream. Ob, it was splendid! I never dreamed that any man could rise by the sheer power of bis will to such a pinnacle of courage, Does that make amends—just a little? And won't you come to breakfast with us in the morning, and let me tel? you afterward how miserable I've been—how I fairly nagged father into bringing this party out here so that I might have an excuse to —to—" He forgot the fierce strife so late- ly ended; forgot the double victory he had won, “But—but Van Lew,” he stam- mered—and then he took her in his arms and kissed her. She escaped from his arms and ran lightly up the steps of the pri- vate car. And from the safe van- tage-ground of the half-opened door, she turned and mocked him, “Silly boy,” she said softly. “Can't you read print when it's large enough to shout at all the world? Van and Miss Doty have been ‘announced’ for more than three months, and they are to be married when we get back to New York. That’s all; good-night, and don't you dare to forget your breakfast engagement!” (THE END.) p 4 By Gridley’s orders the strik- os % i Build Up for Winter | Clear out the congestion that has disturbed breathing and weakened your digestion, an dye. invigorate all the bodily processes to do their full share in cold weather, and thus build yourself up to perfect health. PERUNA IS INVIGORATION It ina tonic that restores the w o ed ettort and better health. experience points fect'thas proves quick t proves its val ministration. 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