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The ereancnee World Daily Magazine. Tucsday. September $. THE RE By The story of an I “find himself” until he 11 ty Rare Rertmare PRRORDING (NET A) ETE essen mt te = CHAPTER IV, (Contieued ) 188 HMaldwin, witting in the aw ally dive | M the covered wagon and , come out with « pair of Winchesters, Pausing only tong enough + the gunn ome after t over the Wagon wheel, be started back after the two other men, They were not Waiting to de carried to the wagon; they were up and running in @ wide pemicircle to reach their hope of ree treat unslain, If that inight be, It wee all very brutal and barbarous, no Goudt, but the Colonel's daughter Was Western born and bred, and she Gapped her hands and laughed in sheer enthusiagm when she saw Smith make a show of chasing the circling runner. Ho did not return to her until after he had pulled up the freshly driven @takes and thrown them away, and by that time the wagon, with the horses lashed to a keen gallop, was disappearing over the crest of the northera ridge. “That's one way to get rid of them, isn’t it” suid the emancipated bank man, jocorely, upon taking bis p, in the car to cramp it for the t “Was that something Ike the notion you had tn mind? “Mercy, neo she rejoined. And then: “Are you sure you are not hurt?” “Not worth mentioning,” he evaded, “Those duffers couldn't hurt anybody, 80 long as they couldn't get to their guns.” Smith was troubled by that haunt- ing sense of familiarity which was trying to tell him that this was not his first meeting with Col. Baldwin's @aughter, “But you might meet those men again,” she suggested. “That is the least of my troubles,” “I should have said you hadn't a trouble in the world,” ‘she asserted, meeting his gaze level-oyed. “That's all you know about it. What if I should tell you that you've been driving this morning with an escaped convict?” “I shoulda’t believe it,” she said calmly. Something in tho way she said tt, #ome little twist of the ilps or look of the eyes, touched the spring of com- Plete recognition and the familiarity vanished instantly, you ever lose a glove, Miss Baldwine 1 white kid with a little hole in one finger?” “Dox of them,” sho admitted; “and most of them had holes, I'm afraid, But what has that got to do with—anything?” “Nothing at all, of course,” he hastened to say, but mentally added: “ Baldwin,’ of course! What an ass I was not to remember the name! And now I've got the other half of it, too; it's ‘Corona.’ " CHAPTER V. MITH had his vote of thanks from Colonel Dexter Rald- win in person lute tn the bas afternoon of the day fol- lowing the summary evic- tion of the sham mine locators in the upper reservoir; presidential thanks for his prompt defense of the com- pany's interests, and a warm out- handing 8¢ fatherly gratitude for the rescue at the unloading side-track. The vote was passed in Williams's sheet-éron office at the dam, the col- onel having driven out to the camp for the express purpose; and the chicf of construction himself was not pres- ent. “You've loaded us up with a toler- ably heavy obligation, Smith—Corry's other and me,” was the way the col- Mol summed up in the personal field. "You'll havo to come out to the ranch Corry's mother have a hack ‘ Baldwin went on, “And now about’ thoue Wlaim-jumpera: 1 aup. pose you didn't know ny of them by they looked like a bunch of hired assassins,” said Smith, with a grin. me more of the inter- ference, isn't it?" The Colonel's square jaw into, the fighting angle. sich do you know about this mix-up of ours, Smith?” he nettled asia asked. ‘All that Williams could tell me in Mttle heart-to-beart talk we had him that there nigker In the 1 with ably big Wood-pile, didn't you?” “Thad alread athered that much “Well, it's so, W just about as helpless as a bunch of cattle in a aink-hole,” was the ranchman Presi- dent's confirmation of the camp guesses, “What In the name of the great horn spoon can we do—moro wo have done?” ¥ here are a number of things that aight be done,” sald Smith quietly. “Why are these Eastern capitalists pending their good money on a oto freeze out your little hand- of ranch owners, colonel? Surely a rovreele | se tee question FRANC stern mon justice in the rigged West. AL MAN ‘Tt Such Such Is Lite! »” IS LYNDE who did not became a fugitive fram “Why, we oi ur 1h & general weve Us ome t ewly alienated wertern half of ihe park? They eouliot porsitly build & dam of their tow wer down, and make It work, Then eer nein Win aman dewk will de the ink bottles The Lard they a lot of fence poste e kit and b'ilin’ of the dam, they well | to ue; if they don't it, Hit to them!" it, exnetly,” # quietly And fT should stake in the game is worth stiffest Mght you ean imake t Don't you ag with me? | Creat Jeb 1 should may sot! ejaculated the amatour trust fant nohe broke down the barriers thasterfully, "Tat settles it, Smith. | You out of it now, no q ve Kot to come over fr and help us. If Mmith hesitated it was only partly on his own acount, He was Thinking again of the young wom with the honest eyes when he sald “Do you know why TF turned Willams wh when he spoke to me the other ny? Mi Col, Dexter Baldwin hod his faults like other men, but they were not those of indirection “T reckon L do know, aon,” he sald, with large tolerance, 4“ ‘ame duck’ of some sort; you've made that pretty plain in your talks with Williams, haven't you? But Hartley ts ready are not a crooked » it iN that you're if wo want to shut way you won't loos ¢ 6 © Renides, : and what you did at the railroad crossing and onder in the hill Ve agreed to forget the yoster- day incidents,” the lame duck re- minded him quickly. Baldwin was too shrewd to try to pusb his advantage when there was, or neemed to be, a chance that the desired end was as good as half at- that's our lookout. down out t wate Th Go THERE FOR Dine et VIMY 01D You Ac ceer Tree INVITATION > \ \ ‘ / LAY CARDS N& JOHN >) tained, And it was a purely manful prompting that made him get up and thrust out his hand to the young fe low who Was trying to be as frank as he dared to be. | Put It there, John." he sald len ly. Nobody in the Timanyont going to pry into you an inch further than you care to let ‘em; and tf you get Into trouble by helping us, you can count on at least one backer who will stand by you until the cows come home. Now then, hunt up your coat, and we'll drive over to Hillcrest for a bite to «: The dinne r was strictly a family wy Nor De WH Dow'y 670 Tree Swe wis Haye f9 OO Ta A Or: TAUR ANT AND WE May AS WOU RAVE THE PRICE OF A Dinner = x < j By Maurice Ketten | TE Ta raroaroan no of ) WER Dinners \ V Ve Buri | \ one PUNK | WONT COST j b o AL ¢ '" ” AL A <i , aren s | e IT Wout HAVE BEEN CHEAPER To DINE IN A RESTAURANT A BN ly \\ a\\ ) wort SyAu } QO» 5 LETS } Anen “4 CES NOW | o ! HEY ARE Py 1 \ Wee PLAY CARDS $) \ ite +) | chats UP wits ty OR TALK 9 * | |Love We \ - aac i) ( BACKS ie | naa i} You Pay CARDS LIKE A CHUMP] her face, "he said, “This is my night “I've perhaps. the dinner tabl said mough; too much, Dut a littl while ago at nd again out there meal, with the great mahogany table In the grove, w you were walking shortened to make it convenleat for With mamma, you reminded me so four, There were cut glass and silver foretbly of a man whom I met just and snowy napery, and Smith for @ part of one evening about a was glad that the Colonel did 84" ago. most of the talking, Out of the past a thousand tentacles were reaching up to drag him back into the net of the conventional. By tho time the dessert came on, the transformation was compl i was J, Montague, the cotillon leader, who sat back in his chair and told amlablo little after-dinner stortes, ignoring the colonel’s heartinesses, and approving himseif in the eyes of his hy ‘as as a dinner guest of the true urban quality, Now und then ho surprised a look in tne younger wom- a s which was not wholly syin path ho thought; but the tempta- tion to show her that he was not at all the kind of man she had been taking him for was too strong to be resisted, Contrary the colonel diately after dinn to Smith's expectations, did not usurp him imme. A gorgeous sun- wet Was fla ver the western ‘Timanyoni. there Was tl for @ quict str 1a smoke under the silver-leated tonwoods with his hostess for a companion, He abandoned himsetf shamelessly to the J, Montague attitude, and the events crowding so thickly between the tramp-like fight from Lawrence- ville and the present were as tf they had not been, Smith was talking frivolously of thés dansants and dinner-parties and club meets; whereat the mother sintled and Mise Corona's Ip curled scornfully. “Do, for pity's sake, sit down!" she broke out, half petulantly, And when he had obeyed: “Well, you've spoiled it all, good and hard. Yea- terday I thought you were a real man, but now you are doing your best to tell me that you were only sham- ming. UW tiently. Her laugh was mocking, “You are politely good-natured, for one thing; hut that wasn't what T meant, You ymmitted the unpardonable ein |, what am 1?" he asked pa- ling out to be just one of the nine, after all, If you knew the st little bit in the would know that we re hiwaya’ looking for the hundredth man," “Phat, and some other things,” he rejoined, euardedly. Then, with mal- too thought: “Is tt one of the rements that your centennial should have himself like a ata dinner tabla, and talk shop eat with his knife “You know that isn’t what T meant Manners don't make the man, It's what you talked about--the trumpery little ‘social things that you found your keenest pleasure in talking about, I don't know what has ever taken you out to a construction camp and persuaded you to wear khaki, Perhaps it was only what Colonel-daddy calls a ‘throw-back.’ T don't believe you ever did a day's hard work in your life before you came to the Timanyont.” It was growing dari by this time and (he stars were cr 15 out. Some one had turned th sits on in the room the windo\.» of which opened ‘upon the portico, and the young wom- an’e chair was eo placed that he ‘Tell me about him,” he urged. “I was coming back from school and I stopped over in « small town in the Middie West to visit some old friends of mamma's. There were young people in the family, and one evening they gave a lawn party for me, I met dozens of pleasant young more than I had ever rks and bookkeepers and rich farmers’ sons who had been to college.” “But the man of whom I am re- minding you?" “He was one of them, He drove over from some neighboring town in his natty little automobile and gave me fully an hour of his valuable time, Ho made tne perfectly furious!” “Poor you!" laughed Smith; but he Was thank/ul that the camp eunburn and his four weeks’ beard were safe- guarding his identity. "I hepe you didn't toll him so, He wee SSoyiy doing his level beet to give you a good time in the only definition of the term that the girls of his own set bad ever given him, But why the fury in his case in particul “Just bevause, I suppose. He was rather good looking, you know; and down underneath all the airy little {Hines he persisted in talking about 1t seemed as if T could now and then get tiny glimpses of something that might be @ real man, a strong man. I remember he told me he was a bank cashier and thet he danced. He was quite hopeless, of cour: Without being what you would call conceited, you could see that the crust was #o thick that nothing short of an earth. quake would ever break tt.” “But the earthquakes do come, once blue moon," he said, still smiling er. “Leta get it straight. You are not trying to tell me that you ob- Ject to decent clothes and good man- ners per so, are you? ‘Not at all: I like them both, But the hundredth man won't let either uv clothes or his manners wear him; he'll wear the CHAPTER VI. the morning following Smith's first dinner at Hill- | crest, a rather caustic collo- quy was in progresa be- tvcen the man whose name appeared in gilt lettering on the front windows of his Browster office and one of his Unoficlal assistants, Crawford Btan- ton, he of the window name, waa a man of many personalities, To sum- ev visitors with money to invest he was the genial promoter, and if there were suggestions of iron hardness in the sharp jaw and in the smoothly shaven face and @inty eyes, there was also a pleasant reminder of Eastern business methods and alertness in the Promoter's manner, But Lanterby, Uiting uneasily in the “confidential” chair at the desk end, knew another and inore biting slde of Mr. Stanton, as @ hired man will, Good Gad! Do you sit there on tell me that the three of them let that hobo of Williams's push them off the N map?” Stanton was demanding rau- cously, “What do you know about this fel- in , ‘ low Smith? Who fs he, and where did he come from?” Lanterby told all that was known of Smith, and had no difficulty in com- pressing it into a single sentence. Stanton leaned back tn his chalr and the lids of tho flinty eyes narrowed thoughtfully, “There's a lot more to it than that,” he said incisively at the end of the reflective pause. Then he added a curt order; “Make it your job to find out. Now go and find Shaw. want him, and I want him right now. The hard-faced man who looked as if he might be a broken down gambler unjointed his leg-hold upon the tilted chair and went out; and @ few min- utes later another of Stanton's payroll He was a young fel- men drifted in. low passed readily clot id out of @ job, which was what he roally was. " gnapped Stanton, when the incomer had taken the chair lately va- cated by Lanterby. “I shadowed the Colonel, as you told me to,” said the young man. “When T inquired around I found that the Colonel was shut up in Will- jams's office with fellow named Smith. They were finishing up what- ever they'd been talking about when 1 got @ place to listen in; but I heard enough to make moe suspect that some- thing new had broken loose, Just as they wero getting ready to quit, the Colonel was saying: “That settles {t, Smith; you've got to come over into I didn't catch the name of the place— ‘and help us.’ There was more of it, but they had opened the door and I had to skin out.” ‘Again the gontieman with the sharp {: ned took time for narrow-eyed reflec- on. “You'll have to switch over from the Colonel to this fellow Smith for the present, Sha he decided at length. “Lanterby is supposed to be on that part of the job, but oe's aliu- gether too coarse handed. I want to know who Smith is, and where he hails from, and how he comes to be butting in, LanterBy sa'd ut first, and saya yet, that he is Just a common hobo tumbling in from the outside. It's pretty evident that Lanterby bus another guess coming. You look hin UP and do tt quick.’ Tt was 10 o'clock when Shaw left the real estate office tn the Hones House block. Half an hour earller Smith had come to town with the Colonel in the roadster, and the two had shut themselves up in the Col- onel's town office in the Rarker which was two aqui the street from the Hophra Summoned promptly, Martin, hookkeeper, had brought in his statements and balance the new officer, who was out a title, had struck out his plan of campalgn. Building, down mortization’ te the word, Col- was Smith's prompt verdict after he had gone over Martin's sum, maries. “The best way to get at it now ts to wipe the slate clean and begin over again.” Smith had the plan at his fingers’ ends. With the daring of all the per- {ls bad come a fresh access of fight- ing fitness that made him feel an if he could cope with anything. “We must close up the company’s affairs and then reorcan!ze promptly and, with just am little noise as may be, form another compiny —which we will call Timanyonl tiigh Line--and let it take over the old outfit, stock, Mabilities, and assets entire. You say your present capital ek is one hun. fred thousand dollars; i» it all pald “Every dollar of it except a little for a few shares of treasury stock that we've been holding for emer- sencies.’ ‘Thia new company that I am speaking of will be capitalized at, say, an even half million. To th present holders of Timanyont Ditc we'll give the new stock for the old, share for share, with a bonus of twenty-five shares of the new stock for every twenty-five shares of the old surrendered and exchanged. This will be practically giving the present shareholders two for one.” “At two to one for the amortization of the old company we shall still have gomething like $300,000 treasury stock upon which to reallze for the new capital needed, and that will be amply sufficient to complete the dam and the ditches and to provide a fighting fund, Now then, tell me this: How near can we come to placing that treasury stook right here in Timan- yon! Park? In other words, can the money be had here at any price?” “I see,” said the Colonel, who was indeed seeing many things that his simple hearted philosophy had never dreamed of, and then be answered the direct question. ‘There is plenty of money right here in the Timany- onis; not all of It in Brewster, per- haps, but in the country among the {a and Little Butte inine owners, emelter men, and the better class of ranchmen, Take Dick Maxwell, the railroad superintendent—he's a miner on the side, you know-—he could put ten or twenty thousand more into it without turning @ hair, and so could some of the others, Smith nodded, He was getting his nd wind now, and the race prom- to be a keen Joy. to be they would have hown,' you think?” he suggested. ‘All right; we'll proceed to show m. Now we can come down to present necessities. We've ve gt to keep the work going—and it up to the Imit; we ought to double William's foree at once—put on a night shift to work by electric light. I took the Iberty of telephoning Williams from Hillcrest this mornin; wh © you were reading your news. r. I told him to wire advertise. ments for more labor to the news papers in Denver, offering wages high enough to make the thing look attractive” ane Colonel winked twice and awal- ed hard he aaid leaning across » “you've sure got your with you, Do you know what wesent bank balance happens I was just coming to that,” sald the reorganizer, emiling easily. ow much fs tt “Jt 19 under $5,000, and a good part of that is owing to the cement peo- ple!" “Never mind; don't get nervous,” was the reassuring rejoinder, We are going to make it bigger in a few Inutes, LT hope, Who ts your banker ‘Dave Kingle of the Brewster City National.” “Tell me @ little something about Mr. Kinzie before we go down to #e4 him; Just brief him for me as @ man, T mean, ‘The Colonel was shaking hie head slowly. “Ho's what you might call a twenty. ton optimist, Dave is; aolid, litte slow and sure, but the biggest boomer in the West, if you ean get him started—believes in the resources of the country and all that. But you can’t borrow money from him without security, if that's what you're aiming to do," “Can't. wet" emiled the re, man, banks and bankers. “Let's You never know until you try, and even then you're “not dead certain. ‘Tako me around and rduce me to this Mr. David Kinale—and, hc on; it may be as well to give me a handle of some sort before we begin to talk money with other people. What are you going to call me in thie new scheme of things The big M sarees laugh was a hearty guffaw. “Gosh all Friday! the way it's starting out you're the whole works, Smith! Just name your own name, and w cinch it for you.” “You may introduce me to Kinzle as your acting financial secretary, if you like. Now one more question; what is Kingle's attitude toward Timanyont Ditch?” “At first it wae all Kinds of friend- ly; he is a stockholder in a amall way and he's heart and soul for anything that promises to build up the country, as I told you. But after a while he began to cool down a Iittle, and now well, I don't know: I hate to think it of Dave, but T'm afraid he's lean- ing the other way, toward these Kast- ern fellows. Little things he has let fall, and this last deal in which he tried to cover Stanton's tracks tn the stock-buying from Gardner and Bol ing; they all point that way.” "That Is natural too,” said Smith, whone point of v always obscured in any battle of busin “The big company would bo a better customer for the bank than your | tle one could ever hope to be, IT guess that's all for the present. If you're ready, we'll go down and face the music. ‘Take me to the Brewster City National and introduce me to ‘Mr, Kingle; then you can stand by and watoh the wheels go round.” oe © © © © q When they were safely out of the bank and half a square away from it, Dexter Haldwin pushed his hat back and mopped his forehead. ‘They say @ man can't eweat at this altitude,” he remarked. “I'm here to tell you, Smith, that I've lost ten pounds tn the last ten minutes. Where in tho name of the Jumping Jehoshaphat did pou get your nerve, boy? You stand to love an even hundred and fifty dol- ler bill on this deal; don't you know hi “How so?" asked the plunger. “I'd have bet you that much Againat the old campaign hat you're wearing that you couldn't ‘touch’ Dave Kinzi¢ for $20--let alone twenty thousand—in a onth of Sundays! You made him belleve we'd got oul- side backing from somewhere. AS jfidn’t say anything ike that, did t 0; but you opened the door and he walked in.” “That's all right: I'm not respon- sible for Mr. Kinzie's tmagination. Wo were obliged to have a little advertis- ing capital; we couldn't turn a wheel without {t. Now that we have it, we'll wet busy, We've got to furnish a new suite of offices, install a bigger office force, incorporate Timanyon! High Line, and open its stock subscription books, all practically while the band plays. Time is the one thing we can't waste. Fut me in touch with a good business Iawyer and I'll start the legal machinery. Then you can get into your car and go around and interview your crowd, man by man. T want to know exactly where we stand with the old stockholders before we make any move jn public, Can you do that?” Baldwin lifted his hat and shoved his fingers through his hair. “I reckon I can; there are on!: er seventy of ‘em. And Bob sixty Btillings jand Williams was working day and iNT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOV THE SCIENTIFIC GUNMAN By ARTHUR B. REEVE A Crag Kenedy” dory, the firet fa seria d which wilh ditad the eaphoita of tha “sientifie delectiae.” An thia ha pita himaelf against @ master criminal whore methods are aa scientific as hia own. } ts your lawyer od per ena rin | Come ere duce you CHAPTER VII. OM & full fortnight efter the ninary vielt to the National k Suith was easily the aw unty. Betabileni vhra House ' turned page spr thine log and vith ® aaraph Ly ly fourteen day period new Moos wei cupied on the seo- of the Hrewster City Na- ‘ding, Btllings, most emf. of corporation counsel cured (he new chart books of Timan: been opened, wi ved an the CHAPTER VIII. Ak pl a ge deg le nd At the de been « doubled rie Hight plant had been tnw » the ole night shifts both in the quarries on the forma 1 Hnanelal manager, th doubled ye efforta to put ihe was bran tlons. Afte & few of hia principal stockholdern he had instructed Stillings to inetude the words Light" in the cataloguing of the new com) “ poasible and probable charter activt tle, and by the end of the fortnight the foundations of & power-house were go low the dam, and negotiat already on foot with the Brewster apf be eneil look- ing toward the eal io OUr- on, rent to the city for fig ie rane other purposes. Notwithstanding all the demands rily be short. Though his o Timanyon! High Line had ne thoroughly, He waa r to be Bre and sions about oat ability to lose them, in @ land where time and apace BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAYS EVENING WORLD As be wan replacing it ts the drawers sagie bese-tne an tip ane ef and read the underrunning T the fresh newepaper re minder that hie eudden bound SESS Se ene & & sound and footing. In the nature of things felt that his own shrift must necessa- imme- diate public was comparatively emalk: the more or lets Marre fdentitios, im the have been wired ena and rallroaded pretty well out of exist- when he had worked over the draft of the ity ordinance which wae to author- made upon him an the chief energiser ¢ ‘ in the, Working Reid, Smith had oa 6 Pe cae the anting o: is financial anchor securely to windward his first ci es saeee? home with a selected list by “Look here, re everécing y he Sas wi erie fda ind! ts 6 o'clock, .man!—quitting-time. “ stock was printed cener week of this grinding and for delivery through Kin- ai bank, an tronclad pool of the majority of the original Timanyont Ditch stock had been organised, and Smith had sold to Maxwell, Gtarbuck, me and other local capitaliate a auMfcient nig amount of the new treasury stock to sive him a@ fighting chance; this, with @ promise of more if it should be needed. The stock-selling ca: triumph, and though he nize it as euch, {t mai est step yet taken in the march of the ¢| metamorphosis, As the cashier in Dunham's bank Smith had been mere- ly a high-grado clerk, There had been no occasion for the be gary ese of the precious quality of tnitiat! and he had hardly known the mean. pahiggnll potedl oe ae ae going to let you off this After, diane algn was @ portico to smok jelhed a few minutes later, b; fra \dwin. tg thors cont and hat Ley Keon! on S id hog-tie yor H meat at whidh ate little and was well content to sat- the hunger of his soul by the road of the eye, Smith went ote to you'll be hunting a quiet cot in Maarell we bel Wee’ beens ic ee wi il we ‘ou it short with a rent No, yy Teoiter Poatnat You poor, broken-dowa Sameon, ing of the word, But now there Jas Ps he Nal acemed to be no limit to the new pow- 2g @t,me be your Dell mand ers of accomplishment. comfortabl said it only halt With the new life 4 the ambition had come a sturdy to hold himself aloof from entang! ments of every sort. That Corona Baldwin was going to prove an en- tangloment he was wise enough to foreseo from the moment in which he had Identified her with the vitalis. mocking, and he forgave the casm wi porch chaire and made him bury welf luxuriously in them, jon she arranged some of the hammock pillows tn the easiest of the ‘Still holding the idea, brought over from that afternoon of the name questioning, that had in some Ine y un woman whose glove he ed way discovered hie true identity, © i alread Associated tn hia thoughts with ev- Smith was watching narrowly, fer atep in the business battle, Seance signals when er, Sine Corona’s fourth visit to th handsome suite of offices over the Brewster City National chanced to fall upon a *eaturday. Her father, President of the new company, as he had been of tho old, hi vate oMce of bis own, but Miss Corona soon drifted out to the railed-off end of the larger room, where the finan- celal secretary had his She had seated herself the chair reserved for inquiring — investors, There was a iittle interval of «lov am oothhng silence, and thi like a flash out of a clear sky, she gaia across the desk-end at him ai Will you forgive me if T a porfectly ridiculous question But you could never be Delilah, could you? 8 it get. Foeatiog ot.” ‘was no guile in the slate- “You mean that you dida’ come?” “No; not that. un me. But there are reasona—why I ebouldn’ Bore. “Il know I haven't earned the to ask you any of the whys,” adh ca said at the end of a Hie pause. ther iit terval Bal “You say it just a it 1s, I hed to at wean to T have wanted to cone every time your father has reasone— "t be Be r4 ‘ertainly, Other people ask them — There was ano! every day.” then sie ae suppose “Ie—ts your name really and traly You couldn't tell me—or anybody— John Smith could you?’ en anitielt” “she have begun in Tmanyont High e J ees wees 1 left home I thought 1 tan initial, and I don’t murderer. inariiy Tm not‘ashamed of "Ob!" she breathed; “You eay you ‘thought.’ 4 Yes; use it ordinarih the plain ‘John, “don't know why you should be, ommented, half absently, he And then: Smitha’ do and ao “It happened not to be. The didn't die. that I didn’t try to kill bim; but at thought, ‘John M muppose “I can tell you enough eo that you will understand why [ may not be permitted to go on and finish what I Line. wasa then. Wasn't it I suppose I might say that there are In the United States? would hardly be true, At the mo- ‘On, 1 n't know; a million or so, ment, I didn’t care. Have you ever T guess.” felt that way?—you know what | “L should think you would be rather mean, just utterly bling and reckless of that,” she told him, But ar to consequences?” he tried to make her say why 1d be glad, she talked potnt- edly of other things apd presently went back to her father's office. Tn a moment of idle eurlosity on the Saturday forenoon she bad looked Into the year-old diary to find the forgotten name of the man of whom mith was still persistently remind- ne her, It was there in all Its glory: J. Montague Smith. Could possible? but, no; John Smith, father’s Jolin Smith, had come to the conatruction camp as a hobo, and that was not possible, not even thinkable, of the tan she had met, None the nad, 1t WAS A second attack of the {dle cufriosity that had moved her to go to town with her father on the Saturday afternoon of questionings. After the other members of the office force had taken their departy Smith went to his rooms in the hotel a fow minutes later to change for dinner. Having been restocking his wardrobe to better fit his new stato and standing as the financtal head of TMmanyont High Line, he found the Mnen drawer in bis dresa- ing case overflowing, Opening an- ether, he began to arrange the over- flow methodically, The empty drawer was lined with @ newspaper, and he took the paper out to fold it afresh. In the act he saw that it was a of the Chicago Tribune some w ’ glad h after another he “though she with the troubl was going to call on her the night he night the thing happened, swered doggedly; nothing to do Ing the door-bell.Y “You haven't told her where are?" “No; but meep about that. Indeed, I'm not she's not losing She isn't that sure that Sheriff, if | should write her. Again the silence came When the low voloe came again the hammock it was troubled, “You are disappointing me, taking tt sentiment on your part.” Smith was laughing he sald, thing you can think of, and then (ie Be Con the heart out of it, and—but, holi "You haven't told me all Los it,” itant an- had je, he ten't still waiting for me you any kind, she wouldn't turn the letter over to the * from You are taking It very lightly, and apparently you neither know nor care very much how the woman may be Perhaps there waan't any Heatly, “Tf you $ could only know Verda Richlander,” “Imagine the most beautiful take