The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1915, Page 17

‘Comrie NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD for CHRISTMAS WEEK A Romance With a Strange Hero of the Battling Breed peso ~ By CHARLES DICKENS ~ ev THIS YEAR ~ PUTO PSST SOSH IIISHO SED ry WE NEED THE " MONEY For THe where around the place where 1 T was just waitin’ to find where he'd gone. So long, See you him ye Perr Pr rr ind wallow.” 3 House ie CO A vouchsafed the at the hotel before train time,* strainin, is yes to pierce = Cony, ) “You knew of Blacarda’e move?” Hhrough the mist in front of them. 4, wine Caine citrine Gia Nien cried Caine, in amazement. “Mana made of dust, the parsons y.,,, , f “Bol vite my say; but I guess there was plenty of Ranier drove Arete ues b>} in,” yawned Conover, sand sprinkled in yours an’ mine, business to know things. An’ Kn’ 't iike you better for not beim Wem unannounced, to Blacarda’ plenty little I don't room, entered without knocking a ashamed to tell you was afraid. The ‘ hs comes to .22-callbre en'mies like Bia~ brave man ain't the one who don't °losed the door behind him, (Ceprright, 1908, by Aldert Payson Terhane,) OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, ome Se then Were cee. Ra a get ecared; he's tho feller who's _Blacarda looked up from the task af me. Us railroad men pull together, scared etff and goes ahead just the Packing hia suit-case, you know. I told him to keep his fame. ‘T guesy {il have to change still «rimy and dishevelled, Conover ———— $600 an’ tet the engine break down, that new job of yours from paas'nger stood facing him. Blacarda rose from i according to achedule, Then I came engineer to somethin’ in my own of- his knees beside the open sult-case ! CHAPTER II. on another train last night, Didn't fice, Now, chase back to your work, and started forward. | (Continued,) you see how pleased Blacarda looked ‘ I've got other things to think of | “I guess you know why I'm here? The Girl when he came into the hotel? He| beatdes Jawin’ with you. hazarded Caleb, looking acrose at the : Abad knows he ain't got hi t The Junction was reached and Well-sroomed figure, without the } 8 the fighter walked back chance with his Starke "No longer on hile own road, faintest trace of emotion. | from the Arareck Club, on deck in the State Ho lobby. . mover was less certain that the “To crow over your dirty, under } with Caine, victorious in his Here's our carriage. Come on, since ee be Ltr ag iad pie b epe art of to-day?” biased owt ; Governors, You're in euch a hurry.’ Xe is telegrams had had effect je other, a0, is can save your= clash with the » "The two men aplashed out through | SHE COULON'T The line was open, and he sent his self the trouble, | Leave my room af Conover sald carelessly: the sheets of rain toward the waiting LET X-MAS PASS with no let-up im once, I don't wish it 10d OF ee “ Blacard brewin’ tte terrific “It'll have to « a little more By the way, irda is bre vehicle, Calne stood aside to let WITHOUT GIVING 2 trouble-medicine for us.” Conover step in. As the latter's foot NE A PRESENT “Tl make hc te said ono onder potocton peters | Tm a ready to ot; / In the Steclotd affair? queried Was on the atep the hotel telegraph Bee Or cutie noid “omi® haven't come to crow, Caine, “I thougnt you'd won that clerk came running ont, sata ni ‘Over went the lever, and with an- in my tine, VA tte while seo i fight.” v aper ensage: @ man to tracin’ a tel’gram won that, but there's another Grad atill weet verre . mornin’, It seems you Tock die’ j ’ ” paid the hotel tel'graph clerk @-comin’, I gota tip on it same time | “Just ae bar ae ona alip it to me at the right time, ° I heard of the incorp'ration, to-day, handing Conover the despite tel 5 block! angle lie, I've got proof.” { : bi he Preset on wae S i bound Conover was out of the cab, — “I'm not given to lying,” i Reet ec ie Laay,} OeugEt you HER’ FOR Shouting to the Areman to follow, he Blacarda, “And if I were, 1 Legislature. He's back of that Starke started!” = A eet off at a run thro take the trouble to Me to @ ; Antl-Combine bill wo eide-tracked i Cant rae je no reply, ne boars puddles that lined th of = you, ae I wrote the | early in the session. If the Starke ing an reading 4 “whatcher stoppin’ for?” he de. What o | Dill passes, then goodby to our Steel. Calne, watching him impadenly, sew mended of the conductor who stood "You're « eweet-teced surt of « ofa corner! I've a tip he’s renewed = ‘Then, shouting to the driver: tries’ ain't yout’ said | it an’ tryin’ to rust it through before “Union Station! Go like hell!” Con. thoughtfully, “After tryin’ to get me the session closes, It's to be eprung Over Waa in the carriag stad out of the way like that.’ ms ‘i at a joss, had barely time to scram~- ‘Any weapon te justifiable | on the Assembly Monday. An Be Ss- bie in after him before Caleb had three minutes This train's @ & scoundrel,” eneered Blacaréa, } gers on gettin’ {t railronded through. slammed shut the door, The horses fhree miners holding it till"— must fieht fire with fre.” ; If it once passes the Assembly we're were off at full speed, the wheels Conover heard no more, but broke “Quite #0,” gasented Caled, goners, For he's got the State Sen- dashing @ cascade of mud _ blotches ain into @ run, heading for the en- not as original ae I'd ate where he wants it. An’ the Gov’- through the vehicle's lowered sash. clever chap Ifke j nore on his side, Owns a nice block “What's the matter?’ insisted “Do you mind gettin’ into with fire ts good finance, ‘when / of stock in Blacarda's comp'ny. So it Caine, as Conover huddled—inert, io Lucky JOHN | SJOHN, DON'T LET trouble?" he panted to the firgmam you tipped an engineer $600 to gut me all bangs on the Assembly.” bulky, wordless—in one corner; TWISH THAD A WIFE . de. “I'll ptand by you.” jelnyed in comin’ here I no | “You take it coolly—considering “whom are you to meet at the ata- IG BILL SEE TRIS Box «You're the boss,” replies the mam, kick. That was fair game, Ta af | yi stead to lose something like @ tion? 1 thought all the Assembly- LUISE THAT WHEN HE COMES Jaconicaily, putting on a fresh burst done the same tit reel, | jollars.”* men”"—— RED r speed th his em- I wouldn't a’ b “A man who can't keep his feet “I'm goin’ to catch the 9,32 to Gran- He ony Aten 0 Tees HIDING saree to keep up wi Sones seers ag A you ] warm an his head cool has about as ite if wa can make it,” growled Con- ‘OAT LL X-MAS “Good! I'm goin’ to steal that en- thing do it much show in finance as a tallow over, “Shut up an’ let me think, SHE HAS FoR NE. BILL ine. You uncouple her an’ scram- loso your fi dog chasin' an asbestos cat through Here!" _ en ~: Ne Til "tena to the crow.” “1 haven't your hola. nell,” observed Caleb, oracularly. "He — He shoved the tight-squeezed ball ‘they Teached the locomotive up tactics,” goes up with a puff and there ain't of yellow paper toward Caine, The The engineer had left perhaps '— any remains to look for, I'm not in jatter, as he took the telegram, noted eeKe a war sstretching his ” Caleb waved aatde the interpolation the Steelold deal to cure me of weak the sudden clammy chill of the Fight- yn the platform. His and wont on in th h " ° heart or that tired feelin’, I'm er’s hand and saw that his Ups were os pl an t ¢ ame heavy, emo: the window, tionless voloe, } i | te win, An’ I'm goin’ to." dry aa a fever-patient'’s. Never be- ng 8 . Conover, never “That was all fair, like Teaid. But “But the Assembly?” fore had Caine seen him nervous, and freaking fia irae, swung aboard fatiea. Then, what'd you @o> | “I'm not afraid of the Assembly. he turned with redoubled interest to the cab and threw open the throttle: ‘@ woman's name into the So long as I'm on hand myself, in the the unfolding of the crumpled de- Geepateh tellin’ me lobby, to hand out kicks or kisses, I'll gpatch, It bore a woman's signature she was dyt " callin’ for me, be able to kill the Starke bill. I've that of Desiree's aunt—and Caine, ‘That's ick I wouldn't play if my gone up to the Capital before on what fnarveling, ran his eyes over the body Nfe was hangin’ You used looked like a losin’ fight. An’ I've of the message: that ttle girl's name to me away. licked the obstinate one into shape, “Dey taken dangerously il! last You put up that filthy fob—an™ an’ scared some backbone into th® night, Delirious, Calls for you ing on. Th® anether man into your conf'dence. weak one, an’ put a little bank-note the time. Come if can, 1 fireman found himself \“ Told @ measly, tattlin’ tel’graph clerk ofl on the rusty ones—an’ swung ‘The banal wording, the crude pled from the cab straight into the grout her. ‘ain't good at ex- | enough of ‘em into line to give m@ pnrasing for the sake of saving ex- als vee of the engineer, who with & Sroka moeelf But eay! T wish T the votes I needed, 1 know this As- pense—every detall of the telegram yell had sprung aboard, The two coma got it through that shiny head | sembly pretty well. I know who to jarred upon Caine's fastidious taste, Ulasped lovingly in each other's arms, of yours what a rotten, low-down, | count on an’ who not to, I know who Rut a new thought made him turn, tn- Q rolled, swearing, into a roadside mud Crawly cur you are! No, don’t put on | to buy, who to bully an’ who to prom- ulous, upon Conover, puddle—and the locomotive was off. no heroics! I'm doin’ the talkin’ now. | ise, If I sent up any one else he'd » awfuily, awfully sorry to hear Conover, at the throttle, laughed 1) the fake tel’gram you used the make a fizalc of the thing, But, suid he, “But—but of course aloud in keen delight an he glanced nickname youre naaed ee: cate | comehow, in all my business deals [ vn't think of leaving everything eyes at the gray akles and rain-rotted | But Conover had vantshed—swal- score later, So long. My engine’s other alde of it for you, Want te back at the engineless train, the Rood You used the knowledge that I'd find if I'm on the ground my self Tj » State House to-day @nd"—— fields as his train sped toward Gran- lowed up in the recesses of the dark ready.” come? Speak up quick!” bedrageied figures and the crowd austie from here to hell if T could be ean make folks do what I want. You — «state House?” muttered Conover, ite, He had a curious numbness in station, Desiree looked after him, Clambering aboard the locomotive “If—if it's not safe’ hesitated that came running excitedly @lon€ 66 use to her, You used all that as j aw how that was to-day at the club. qully, iG his head, A dumb nausea gripped round-eyed, cab the moment the last oiler scut- the man. “Thin is the heaviest en- the platform. . means to get me away from your l¢ Vd been away an’ you or any one = *pon't you understand?” cried him, For the first time in his life h “IT eometimes think,” she confided tled to safety from underneath the gine on the road and"—— “This old rattler ain't a patoh OD snttical dogfight to-day. An’ how 41 else representin’ me, I'd ‘a’ been Caine, gripping the dazed, limp glant could not think consecutively. All his to the silver handle of her umbrella, vheels, Conover lighted a “Get out of here, then!" yelled the one we left behind,” he chuckled, you get your knowl of her nick» kieked out of the Arareek so far that py the shoulder and trying to shake mind and body seemed to centre “that Caleb will never quite grow rand, with @ grim smile, Conover: ejecting him bodily from “but she ecema able to make some Nore at bout patges ie By tor haw ae v anded in another State. But him back to his senses, “Don't you around one hideous truth: Desiree up!" leaned back to enjoy the whirlwind the cab. The engineer missed the @peed, for all that, Gee! but I'll have 16 a4 was my own kid? Hey? Yow I swung ‘em. An‘ I'l swing ‘em at the ynderstand the Steeloid fight will be Shevlin was terribly {U, Perhaps dy- - fight through the rain, He was hap- step and tumbled prone in a blas» my hands full eguarin’ myself with oot ie white you waa callin’ on i Capital. It'li be a narrow squeak, but on in an hour or so? You can’t de~ ing, She wanted him, And he was CHAPTER IV. pler than he had been in weeks, Not phemous heap to the wet track aide. the Pres'dent ot this road! I'm I'dle Shite you wee takin’ her ve ben j In do it.” sert us and run off to Granite ke not there, : only through the quick lifting of the Conover did not waste a second look to hear some fine language an’ MAY- y., neq that kind of trick in “In sation, wordt if bead aeeae this,” * ne tee Lg ted snawn watt mow spat The Battle. oY had, 80 are ee Bae at him, oe epee ae the rivers be have * Blog Ue eae hens, tes! God! I didn’t think there wae = j in person, the day the ho your hands off me,” mum- an imagination, Yet, during rom the joy of a hard against threw off t ‘ake. 8 promise, too. * hreathin® you can Kill it, Otherwise not, Sup- bled Coneves ettishiy, “Lord, how the century-long train ride, the pres- HE red-haired man was heavy odds. In apite of his cheery had ed his term as engineer dur- it'd a’ held us up half an hour or Hor ware. bese Soule an tite | pose you're sick, or"—— T hate to be pawed! Can't that driver sure on his brain lifted a bit from i} fighting. tone toward Caine, he knew it was ing his upward flight through the more to wait for that measly local to 4° be done by « ‘gentleman,’ One | ck!" scoffed Caleb, in lotty acorn, y faster'n a hearse? T'll miss time to time and he could see the Just now he waa fight- probiamarical whether or not his various grades of railroad achiev . hit a awitch, Ever steal an engine 1) OY rareek governors." } : CHAPTER Ill. “Brace up. man! What ails you? [ bled hot pillow; the white face the complex system of the rival. But !t was a chance well Just. wondering how I'll look in pe A PE “Well,” he queried, with really lke this, Have you Whence the glow and life had been ©. G. & X. rafiroad vibrated under Worth the taking, His anxlety for ‘The wheels caught the track and striped clothes.” cae ee * reat, ‘Of metal sprang into. “You'll be all right, ‘Take that from, me. tt, means promotion. collen “" yt at's all. ff our trip. las Pt Anere Ray ONS Se. ee ea Thats wvou're ible to be Pres'den bring, auit—and +4 ‘enarled Caleb, glowesing of the C.G. f& X. at this rate. Say, 5 en Sh in’ name will great hock at him through the open win. [L wonder when this engine took on be iy Bad = r eeneons t you wouldn't Water last! Look an’ see. the Be spaper reports of ry { m sorry I wan forced to use | { | The Steclotd fignt stricken; the delirium-hoarse voice his blows, A dozen rapid-fire orders Desiree banished, the Fighter turned tho great maos of HE following Monday morn- comes up in the Assembly to-day. calling ever calling —for him, had rent as many tation oMotala Dattie before Mme | “at f 'h® motion. Ing found Caleb at tho Your fortune and mine Hank oT way, wo aironmoniy the dag before: ane Scuttling to posta of duty. Already The engine thundered over the Capital ready and waiting yourgeit, that unless you're at the had gone driving with after telegraph wires were sizzling; and Miles of sodden land, the cab for the battle which lay be- State House we'll lose, You can’t get church, She had been him employees miles away were hustling GOW" awash with rain, | fore him, He had arrived to Granite and back before the ees- about a country visit ahe was going tn consequence, to fulfil thelr mas Rui eweyiay De Ua RY from its own dow, “If there wa ht, with sion closes, If’—— to _make—to. yes, @he was to reckless speed, the twisting of sharp hy a measly thirty-dollai from Granite late Sunday night, w! “T'm not comin’ back,” said Caleb, have started y. This noon, And ‘e™@ behests. The fastest engine on curves more than once hurling Caleb «tation roustabout.” Caine and with one or two personal 4, ‘utter weariness. "She's—Dey’8 on the eame drive—what was it she the C. G, & X. was getting up steam, |!cadlong trom Die seat. Past long Settling into h Conov othe seteaon lines of alde-tracked freight and pas. nape followers on whose timely afd he sick. ‘Dangerously il,’ th ‘gr had worn? It had gone prettily with A dozen frantic machinists with oil senger trains they whizee@, Every “alt his red brows and peered for- Switch?” she’s callin’ all the time for yes, what was. iow from’ experience he ght S00. AN Ae et ne ae ee erat Ta wonkegeh SASh wrenches and. hammers were ifs alony the fine here ite ure ward imrouah the. downpaur And *.i"\hougnt of nat Count. ss daye there had been a to be in her house by noon, Maybe little lights in them, What color were "Warming over and under the huge ‘len of cars hustled off the main line Could not afford the time he had lost, they? And what waa it Caine had locomotive making her ready for a !¥ Caleb's commands. Tho entire mo’ ake it up every notch of peed ceaseless downpour of rain. Conover before.” 1 1” pleaded h ; C. G. and X. system was for the tine and Caine draped in long waterproof “look, here, 0! jd man told her they held—oh, yee—'prisoned record trip. In the few minutes that > must be crowded on. There wae a pate, ntood at the entrance of their Caine, “Of course, I'm sorrier about laughter, Waa A queer sort of remained before his special could tirce Wie fiat, its ruler might trevel ferce exhilaration tn Caleb's alert Caleb Conover Runs Away. {y0.°your hea cellent coolness, “what cre you } bout it? Of course you can i recover, me “AN right for the rest of the run,” TO ated tho fireman, on hla return. til} believe them tit suppose they teleraph ahead in dealing with a man like you—but and run into an open I fat! to axe what redress you “You'll see presently,” replied But they leb, with po trace of Tareas te sult ‘ont. In the first place, they won't voice, “That's why I'm here. I'm Take smmashin' a good engine, In_the totin’ this into court, What good hecond--hell! Ain't I Caleb Con- would your measly damage money do me? An’ I'm not goin’ to tell your + © © «© «© © ¢ — friends of tt with the hope they'd turn over?” . Misa Shevlin than I can aay. But phrase, But she seemed to like it.” % y Y ‘ou Ol J hotel, looking, out on the flooded Mise i'have the best possible medi- " Why hadn't the old fool who built hustled iene tine wink usenet traversed them, Nght eyes, as ho got himeslt to Re stioan man, dripping wet, mud- You out of welety. Fm wate! to pume Pe y ot GRE, othe. Te eringe cal care, And you can't help her by the engine made one that could travel sition, wen thane Pc probed Ne : ie ath pe fae t been crouching on the tender, now ared, grimy ‘na a coal heaver— 11 hie can be punished. ‘The ‘ae ey wer is - make it, with any sort of luck, 4 r inte hree at ~ hat was to Dear them to the State Fuming of, ithe, [n= ae 2 taster thea efenccary Gigtance telephone to Caine, | I can be gure of speed on the other Sorked bie way Merward, tte the iis Gee ses unites nk Hke you could be made louse. Caine glance’ v" oy Pay a 4 In line! "—— rs ine out ¢ 4 watch, his armor of habitual bored State House to-day. eee CA ‘The exprese—thanks to. Caleb's mouth,’ he lounged above the trans- Toward the latest of many brown |, "Hello!" grunted Conover, crossly. Meee evar ted asked Bla~ Tndifference worn perilously thin. Con~ the atx o'clock trate for Grange OS traok-clearing telegram—rolied into Mitter on hie desk, ‘Lill be off in three wooden atations they flashed. The “l'd forgot you. 1 s'poae T kot to a tat Galen Conover 284 carda, @ shadow of uneasiness show= over, on the other hand, showed no ot wy] ty ‘sdgert us mow! If Bla. Granite station a full half-hour ahead Minutes. So listen hard, for you are engineer threw a lever, The wheela slow up while you jump.” hg of Tayaterious wires—and the 'N& through his rage, more emotion than if he were on his man “4 the Starke bill threugh the of time, Long before the cars came lable to have @ wakeful day before shrieked ear-splitting protest as “if 1 was a jumper, sir," replied the PUNE Of Wines Uae hie more |) ft mean T've come here to give you way to luncheon, As Caine's hand, for carda gets to a lurehing halt under the sheds YOu. Ive gave onderp to alde-track they gripped aid shaved the rails in areman, quittiy, "Ta have gotten off Joubtfut satellites In the Leistature ‘te biggest thrashin’ you ever got “the tenth Line, crept sowned Nie waren ae eatees =e des Gon Sonera, with ai an old-time rail- crete 30) bad So o & varvean the fi of the brake'’s cluteh, at the atation.” Sere ntiee ulously stiffened The An’ now's tag time i begin. ecket the Fighter remarked: “Don N= road man's deftness, had awung off a intyre Junction. a “ t' ” . : the fel wate Bt Ce) Rb ae ‘at the slow forward mo- peeten save you the trouble of 10ek- over, ahitting nie DR Body to move the moving train and nad” slanted Ive us room for a sixty-Aive-mlle- wrathfuliy, Ulet ee eee ee eon nOver rInned, eee tad tetrke and hie colt b's body, sprang furiously in’ aon, by tellin’ you the startlin’ out of reach of the appealing hand. gown the platform atarun. Through 4n-hour trip as far as the Junction. «station agent's flagging ua, sir, "oe we Live past that bridge," he leagues, who had Ww Fighter. Ho was a strong news that it's just about thirty sec- “What—what d'ye s’pore yt i +4 bevies of departing passengers he After that I'll be off the C.G. & X. with the danger signal,” replied the Pe me Pa anes Byidag. ey se aeperaiion end » laree and well built, But he onds later'n it was when you took matter with her? She was al BMt clove a rough, unapologetic way, ‘racks and Til have to take mY engineer, leaning out into the rain to } pass'nger engineer. Steady, Biacarda to frenay by a us well have tried to stop the gat your matah petite. ras VORs peaterasy Spee Train leaves In f0UF Station hands leaped nimbly aside jiances of gettin’ the right of way. gecost a cared, shirt-sleeved man - * Nerien_of the most glaring fillbuster i ut worry? We're in lots of time, minutes, an’ "——~ and gazed in gaping amaze after their uess a couple oO! grams ran towa 3 hand, \ t 4 ut even the Conover fac- jeb's attack, Torna we get there when the As- Caine, broke in on the Fighter's hurrying President, Past. the plat. sent will loosen things up on the Wine ran toward them, fag in han » locomotive was at top speed twctics, But even the fon verti Makin pains to guard the heavy eembly's called to order it's all we speech with @ Anal plea for sanity. form, through the vaulted waiting Other road, Remember, I'm a! com- “6 o0 ove. pulled the engineer to one £200 Ore Around a ou ves bots, bh ay left-hande Blacarda drove fuil care, I've dono evrything that can He had an almost uncanny feeling at room toward the street beyond, and, '° fant as steam will carry me. 4 arihe ae tee listing far to wide, straig " oat Ave trutes.” Calne {te his fa Caleb was upon his foe, be done, All I'm goin’ to the lobby his own proximity to this demoral- at the outer door— Since you say the Starke Dill ain't th ean Rae nia ous head rom ghead, through the gray murk, rose In ano) her flv intnutes.” Caine nackwar rose the toom Caleb ‘o jack thove able statesmen jzed hulk of what had until now been “Caleb!” come up yet, there's a show of my ‘ho cab window, just as the panting the treatied bridge—a blur of brown was expiiit YONG AYE Den rven the ¢ with a lightning sue- for te , Station agent came up. t Ired-fe ate Nothing could hav pk TD When Blaoarda starts to stam- the strongest man of his world. Ho Conover halted, dumbfounded, shak- £¢ttin’ there ‘on time, after all, I . Ish-red, spanning a hundred-foot late. Nothir f short-arm biowe thal tats “What d'ye mean by stoppin’ us?" drop, at whose bottom boiled y : rangements ow the shaking, muttering, vay Juat ‘phoned Bourke, the Assembly- a : Taubani® ences wn Blacarda’ ard 4 ‘ench pi Lee td goin’ to vote Or need being who in'a trice had Hee ae eae cea hese tie man from my district, to hold the demanded the Fighter, white frotted water, cut here and “Another five minuteal, kee 1 with ful Verde anon 3 our way. An’, as I figger out, we'll tossed away both their hopes of for- eves bulging, staring down at—De- °TOWd together as well ag he can till “Trackwalker reports — bridge ~~ re by black lumphead boulders. Conover, turning from his | work. 1 body. ‘To escape the meret- xu that Starke bill by two votes. tune, Yet Calne would not yield. 6 Sheviin. I land. What? No, don’t you bother mile above-—unsafe—from washout!" ow to 10 Miles an Hour!" read “Son, this ain't tho fire nor yet hr] of fists, Blacarda ducked and nat. Many, But there's four or “If you'll only stay Just long enough “''wwnat’ on’ earth are you doing O°e!, that. He knows how to keep puffed the agent. . the patch of signboard at the bridge's millionth time that a difrence of | five Assemblymen that need my fath- for the Btarke bill to be voted OM.” hore? she marvelled. “You said you {Pe bill back for a while, anyhow, “He does, hey?" sneered Conover, lead, At either aide of the railroad five minutes | naa I pened Nis ie r shook him off as though | iy eye on ‘em when the bill comes be implored. "You can have @ #pé- were to be at Capital till to-morrow, Motion to ‘adjourn'a always in order, “An' why in blazes didn't you tele- embankment stood knots of country a cocked ha ow, gend S 1 i n cont a Gre = Otherwise they'll sure bolt, I cial to take you back. Or, call up her Isn't # the equenchiest, trickliest day He'll hop up an’ move to adjourn graph the next station below?’ folk, idiy watching the condemned to me, Te needa a little more be- ut ee krow ‘em. While Tm there I'm like doctor on the long-distance telephone you ever saw? If I hadn't promised °Y TY, five minutes and then demand = “I_ was just going to, sir,” faltered framework. guilin’. | An rn ere 0 give e into. Bac : frien@ Napoleon; worth 40,000 before you start and find out if her over and ever so solemnly to go out * poll on the vote. Good, o! the agent, “but as there wasn’t any At sixty miles an hour the loc: him. (hase, now! ae tne ae 7 and hurled him forward Or, 40,000 dollars, if you like it {liness is really dangerous. Perhap@ to Jean’s on the eleven-fort: rai joned fil’busterin’, That, an’ train due for half an hour’ tive swept into the straighta have time to we bef e the yor Sail. ‘Aa he relonnaee | men. that way, I've fot my grip on her aunt” “Good Lora!” y ——— other cunnin’ Httle stunts that I've ‘Is the bridge atill standin’”” de» 4 scattering ciorus of cries Conover did not 0 moi h as Troms heer ancck ernie the reins. Don't you fret.” “@he's callin’ for me,” reiterated 1+ was a4 though all the engines on taught him, ts Hable *0 daar wees manded Conover, ie Py me from a dozen lips as the et sreunla, a af Assomviy Oi: iy trpact Copovere, Mit aan fheard something just now." said Caleb, in the same dead tones. “I tne C.G.& X. wore letting off steam Pome Preity much ta the Assembly A (She SERS SAT: alan ROT ne came up for balloting, but sat smok- oiasioes to (hk aeaeene B over papers in t Caine, “Something that it will sur- thought about the long-distance at once, And, with the ajaculation, the ing and glan . Thad it from the ‘phone, But there's no time for that fool not to pu through him to think. I'm do- rumble of whi ng over pi in tne aes a ee thet eur oe rer ity Sanne an ‘Sit of the carr he jumped and ier Faorety: slam Of Sie mighty a whole wood-ind-steel structure—a pair 1, hie handsome, ¢ face enetiogs ats prove rua A meen ie Hawn Oy ree creeks, Caine Seae s fie pera at Syety 64 she Gased up st him with | ere fram the group of panic. phantly, “Pho bill's defe ny Tard i ne rabid Jungle ceenpeny be rr ruatte ‘nthe #20 ete) on @ card and Res eaed 08 one Gide “le your hat) The True Yuletide Spirit Jerricken idlers now & furlong bes two, vote, Congratulations” Deas ity teat aa gan t! this morning. And he pala the handed to Caine. ‘ett a ahost a sorry I forget!" he laughed, was never brought out so beantifully in any other story as in Koy of the driving wheels ong told wp from his desk, “what's a i \_thereby In ail proba pea dote thirty, mien from here. hig old nuthority, rhave that talearam ae hand ‘aed lapping her vigor A CHRISTMAS CAROL | hat the ‘fimay Bridgeway was suo- citement? 1 told you Iasi t as i ite, tking fou would Dave, been stalled ‘Share 00s, OF, 18 a wich, hn ome Ay | ously fo bi 94 unge Tain-ooated shoul | A | eenaed by solid roadbed benea 6 tat 'd win by two vate a row Me, inating too late to be of any use. The tracks for me when we a . der with the other. “1 came all the| gir * waked G tin Ree ae re tit tantint - onath, te ‘deembly would have met and"—— G, & X, ling, an' let ue ina Nalt-hour way back to Granite to tell you I'm | By Charles Dickens lanetidaht to he Brean” Wherbls’ Biacarda ous Snover away from | “an' stampeded.” Gnished Caleb, earlier. Do as I say, Don't bother tickled to death to see you lookin’| sould be read or reread by every one at the present || “I've just been too near to death = J passed him in the corridor on the But his utmoag stolidiy. “An’ the Starke bill me! I've no time to fool with the se well. An'—an'—to tell you I'm/] geason. So The Hvening World is going to reprint it complete during to feel like lying.” returned the man, back to the hotel. Why muscular was as nothing to Would've gone through aa we'd @ magely Glesintd Gaal sews" =, Ain to. Dent Blacante yet! Christinas week, in a sickly attempt at humor, “Bo it’ask? You're done with him {hat of the giant who was atill wreak been Wicked. Quite so. Taare wy 4 “Caleb Conover!” she gasped. ‘Read it for your own sake and for the sake of those whose Chriat- ||1 might as well own up that for @ OF tase ae bitte oo, , my Plans, the last minute, For an hour and @ half Caleb Con- “What do you ‘hink you are talking|] mas you may be led to make happler by reading it. second ero T could hear a few harps "Done with him? echoed Con- mass bene: m. @ame bere last night,’ ever stared with unsesing, glased about? Are ys} — twanging. My beart’s still gome- ors, “Why man, I ain't begun with (fo Be Continued.) _ «til \ i ‘ ” va nt eetemeltnte