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^SERIAL L STORY m — STANTO N W IN S By E le a n o r M . In g r a m Author of “ Th e Game and the Candle.” “ The Flying Mercury.” etc. Illu stra tion.• by F re d e ric « U jp / r itflil Th e ro b o rg h lvu. T b « bofe « a M w rn U C uiujieil/ SYNOPSIS. A t th e bexln nln ff o f s re a t au to m o b ile race ttie m echan ician o f the M ercu ry . S ta n ton 's m achine, drops dead. S tram te youth, Jesse Flo yd , volu nteers, and Is a c cepted. In the rest du rin g the tw e n ty - fo u r hour ra ce Stanton m eets a stra n ger. M iss C arlisle, w ho Introduces h erself, T h e M ercu ry w ins race, Stan ton re ceives flow ers fr o m M iss C a rlisle, w h ich he I g nores, CHAPTER III. The Finish, and After. Morning arched Its golden hours across the still speeding cars, and melted slowly into noon. The weary drivers had settled to steady endur ance gaits, saving their energy and their machines for the more spectac ular work of afternoon and evening. At nine o'clock that night the race would end. The Mercury car had registered ninety miles more than the Duplex, both of them being many tens of miles In advance of the other competitors. At six In the morning Stanton had gor.e In for a brief rest. At eight he was back, and kept the wheel until one In the afternoon. Victory was in his hands If nothing happened to his car; an hour and a half lost In re pairs would transfer all his advantage to the Duplex. He was Jealously afraid to Intrust his machine to his assistant driver, and consequently merciless to his mechanician and him self. But Floyd made no complaint. At half-past one, all the cars were sent to their camps while an hour was spent In having the track hur- riedlv mended by gangs of workmen. The road-bed In places was furrowed like a plowed held by the hying wheels. Meanwhile the afternbon crowds flowed In, Ailing the stands to suffocation, massing on the prome nade. banking in a solid row of pri vate uutomoblles behind the screen. When at half-past two the racers were recalled to start anew, Stanton sharply scrutinized his mechanician before leaving the camp. “ I’m going to keep this car until the end of the race.” he announced, not unkindly. “ If you don’t think you can stand seven hours of it, say so; and I’ll have them And some one to re lieve you. They can rush Rupert here from up the Hudson by four or flve o’clock. If you get In for It. you’ll finish, if I have to tie you in your seat. I ’m driving to win." The scarlet of resentment flushed through Floyd's grime-streaked pallor. "You won't have to tie me,” he promised, white teeth catching hts lip. “ I'll not flinch. Go on." Stanton actually laughed, bending to his levers. “ I didn’t mean to tie you to keep you from running away, but to keep you from fainting and falling out,” he explained. “ Hut— ” The car bounded forward. The track had been filled In with wet mud from the Infield—on the first circuit the heavy Lozelle car skidded and went through the fence at the north turn. After that, nothing could have Induced Stanton to allow his machine In other hands. Hour after hour passed. The noisy music of the band crashed out mon otonously; the crowd swayed, mur muring. applauding, exclaiming, argus eyed and kaleidoscopic In color and motion. At sunset, when the Mercury made a trip Into camp for supplies, neither of Its men left their seats. The beam ing Mr. Green came to shower con gratulations upon Stanton, and with him the head of the Mercury Com pany, himself a former driver whose quiet appreciation had an expert's value. Stanton was leaning across the wheel, chatting with them, when his employer broke the thread of speech. "What Is the matter with your mechanician, Stanton?" he queried. Stanton turned, suddenly conscious of a light weight against his shoulder. With his movement, Floyd also start ed erect, their glances crossing. “ Nothing,” the driver briefly an swered to the other's question. "Tired, perhaps: he has been working. As you were saying—” But the glimpsed picture stayed with Stanton; the fatigued young face against his arm. the drowsy, heavy- lidded eyes flashing keenly awake, the Involuntary expression of angry shame at the moment's weakness. And he would sooner have tied Floyd In his seat, after that, than have added the flue Insult of offering to relieve Color and glow faded from ths sky; once more the search-lights flared out around the track and transformed It to a silver ribbon, running between walls of ebony darkness except where the lamp-gemmed stands arose. A l ready newspapers were being cried announcing Stanton’s coming victory. Driving evenly, steadily, refusing all challenges to speed duels and at tempting none of his deadly tactics of the night before, Stanton piloted his car to the Inevitable result. At nine o’clock the flag dropped, and amid a hubbub of enthusiasm the Mercury crossed the line, winner. Later, when the triumphant tumult In the Mercury camp had somewhat subsided, Stanton walked over to where Floyd was leaning against a column of unused tires. “ You’ve had twenty-four hours of me,” he said abruptly. “ How did It strike you?” Floyd raised his candid gray eyes to the other's face, and In spite of ex haustion smiled with a glinting frank ness and humor. “ If you want me to tell you— ” he began. “ I have asked you." “ It struck me rather hard. But— I'd like you to like me as well as I do you.” “ I need a mechanician to race with me for the rest of the season," Stan ton gave brief Information. “ Do you want the position?” Floyd straightened: even In the un certain light the color could be seen to rise over bis face. "You’d take me; you?" “ Yes.” “ You know—oh, I can tune up a motor, I understand my work, but for road racing—you know I can't crank your car or change a tire without help.” Stanton smiled grimly. "I guess I am big enough to crank my own car," he quoted at him. “ You have your nerve, I can’t have a whin ing quitter to drive with me. I make you the offer; take or leave It. But remember, I am likely to break your neck.” ’’I'll chance that," answered Floyd, drawing a quick breath, and held out his slender hand. 'T il come." The pact was made. In after time, Stanton came to wonder at Its bald simplicity. The assistant manager overtook Floyd, a little later, when that young mechanician, at least superficially cleaner and wrapped In a long dust- coat, was leaving the training camp “ See here, Floyd; you are going to race with Stanton right along, he says." “ Yes, sir.” Mr. Green agitated his foreboding head. "You won't get along with him,” he of small conventionalities, and arr®. gantly took such diversion as the mo ment offered And should he play the game to which she Invited him, or decline It? Was It worth while? He was weary to exhaustion, but still he remained gaslng at the box of laurel. “ You can’t stand Stanton.” Mr. Green was warning Floyd, by way of farewell. And the mechanician was laughing. REBELS KILL SIXTY wreck Train Will) Dynamite and Then Attack Escort. CHAPTER IV. The Road to Massachusetts. Stanton and Floyd did not meet again for a fortnight. Their ways of life did not run parallel except when a race was due or taking place. The Mercury car bad gone back to the factory for a thorough overhauling, after the twenty-four-hour grind, and It would have aa soon occurred to Stanton to seek out his machine as his mechanician. Some drivers grow sentimentally attached to their cars, watching them fondly and Jealously; he did not, consistently and tempera mentally practical In outlook on the minor facts of life. It was In the railroad depot, the morning he started for Massachusetts, that Stanton saw his mechanician for the first time since the Beach victory. Floyd was seated on one of the wait ing-room benches, reading a magazine; In his gray suit and long overcoat, his head with Its clustering bronze curls bent over his book, he looked like a particularly delicate and pretty boy of eighteen, perhaps even a trifle ef feminate. Remembering that cry from the midst of the perilous strug gle with the Duplex: “ Cut him closer; he's weakening! Cut him close!" Stanton's Up curved In amused appre ciation as he crossed to the absorbed reader. "Good morning," he remarked. Floyd glanced up, then rose with tin exclamation and held out his hand, his ready color rising like a girl’s un der his fine, clear skin. “ Good morning: 1 didn't see you coming,” he responded. "No, you were reading. You are go ing— " “ To Lowell. The car Is aboard, you know." “ I did not know,” corrected Stan ton with Indifference. He was study ing the other curiously, striving to analyze his singular attractiveness and to find the reason why he, Stan ton, should feel pleasure at the pros pect of having this companion at his side; he, who had never formed friend ships as most men did. Floyd laughed, his grey eyes mis chievous. “ Well, I know. W e've been working all the week at the machine, and we’ve got her ticking like a watch. You don't bother about that— I suppose you Many Passengers Also Slain-W ound ed Are M urdered-D ead Are Burned In Wreckage. Mexico C ity— More than 60 persons were killed and many were wounded in an attack by Zapatistas on a pas senger train between this city and Cuernavaca, Morelos. Sunday. The Zapatistas, said to have num bered 500, placed a mine under the railroad track, which exploded as the locomotive passed over it. The over turned engine hardly had settled when the Zapatistas sprang up from all sides and poured a murderous tire into the train. The first object o f their attack was a second-class coach in which were riding a federal m ilitary escort, with a captain and two lieutenants. The C LO U D B U R S T H ITS GRAIN BELT Walla Walla Region Suffers Damaging Rain Storm Walla Walla, Wash.— From out o f the Blue mountains a storm traveling approximately 55 miles per hour broke over Walla Walla valley Saturday night about 6:45 and paralyzed all traffic in the city, uprooted trees, damaged wheat and fruit crops and blew over buildings, among others three warehouses. The storm was the most severe kn >wn here in recent years, and though no one will hazard a guess as to the amount o f damage done, it will amount up into the four figures, it is feared. Reports from the storm-swept zone are very meager as yet, tele phone lines being down in a great many instances. The only hopeful news was that the vast wheat region known as the Eu reka Flat escaped, no rain falling there at all. Harvest here is in full swing and a great deal o f the wheat is threshed and stacked in the field. A ll wheat wet w ill not pass a No. 1 inspection. The Puget Sound warehouse at Sud berry and one at Thiel, on the North ern Pacific, were blown down and grain fields are washed out near Thiel. The storm almost assumed the propor tions o f a cloudburst. JAPANESE RULER WHO LIES GRAVELY ILL, AND MEM BERS OF ROYAL FAMILY. Current Events oí Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Event* Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. General Pedro Ivonet, the last o f the Cuban insurgent leaders, has been killed. Oregon Agriculture college at Cor vallis has issued a bulletin on “ camp cookery.” Henry Poebler, who established one o f the first trading posts in Minne sota, is dead. Woodrow Wilson has named a com mittee o f 14 members who w ill have charge o f his campaign. Railroad engineers who operate the Mallet type of compound locomotives on Eastern railroads, demand $7 per day. Six women, one o f them the w ife o f a prominent physician, were ar rested in a raid on an Oakland,* Cal., poolroom. American athletes returning from Stockholm stopped off at Copenhagen, Denmark, and won moBt o f the eventa in a local tournament. A genuine oil war is on in Spokane between Rothschild and Rockefeller interests, and it is believed it will spread over the entire country. Premier Asquith was greeted on his arrival in Ireland by a hatchet thrown at him by a suffragette, and an at tempt was made to burn the theater where he is to speak. The cruiser Marblehead cut Bhort her visit to the Seattle Potlatch, and is believed to have taken offense at doubt expressed by a Seattle newspa per as to her target scores. A N ew York stenographer at the meeting of the National Commercial Teachers’ federation in Spokane, broke the world’s record by writing an average o f 115 words a minute for one hour. A cloudburst struck the town o f Mazuma. Nevada, overturning the principal hotel and destroying every building in the place. Fifteen bodies have been recovered and it is certain at least five more are in the wreck age. Prospects o f a huge wheat crop are sending the priceB down in the Chi cago markets. One aviator was killed at Paris and one at Sebastopol Tuesday. A l l o t E, K M P E H O H I.E F T , P R IN C E S S M A T S U H IT O — B K I.O W , E M I - H E S * n o m K O — S A D E — I l IG H T . C R O W N P R I N C E Y O S H IH I T O . federals got out o f the car aa quickly as possible to answer the fire o f the assailants, but their efforts were fu tile. The command, with the excep tion of five wounded and two who es caped, were killed. Thirty passengers in the second- class coaches were killed and many were wounded. In the first-class coach no one was killed, but one was dangerously wounded and may die. The conductor, an American named Aller, is not expected to live. A fte r the train had been Bwept by fire, the Zapatistas rushed on their stricken victims and began k illing the wound ed. A priest, unhurt, pleaded with DeLoa, the rebel leader, to stop the slaughter and it ceased. A fte r sacking the express and bag gage cars the rebels poured oil on the cars and, putting the bodies o f the dead into them, set fire to the train. When the relie f train arrived there was nothing but debris and a few per sons, moBt o f whom were hurt, to tell the tale. The train between Matamoras and Publa, in the state o f Puebla, was fired upon and windows in the car was were shattered, but so far as known no one was hurt. Stanton Was Leaning Across asserted darkly. “ No one does. He. he Is-—you'll see. But you won’t leave us on the edge of a race, will you? We are entered at Massachu setts, for week after next; you'll turn up on time, no matter what he does In between?" "Surely, sir. I would not leave any one without notice, of course.” "Plenty of notice, Floyd. For you can't stand Stanton.” Stanton at that moment was In his tent, contemplating with cynical spec ulation a florist’s box of fragrant green leaves lying on a chair. There was no card with these, but they were sprays of laurel. In fancy he saw the message that had accompanied the orchids, the delicately engraved let h im . ters: Valerie Atherton Carlisle. Did “ Ready," some one called; the work she take him for a matinee Idol, he men scattered In every direction, and scoffed; or, what did she want? Some thing. she wanted something of him. the Mercury was off once more. Only amusement, probably. "Car cornin’,” warned the mechani What? cian. as they shot from the paddock He had not grown to manhood In NeWr entrance on to the track "Duplex York city without learning that men and women In a certain set alleged ahead.” Floyd was hlmaeir again, watchfully their extreme wealth as a license, which freed them from the restraint businesslike, nonchalantly fearless. the Wheel Chatting With Them. don't have to. It's up to us. But If you will take her out on the track to morrow, I'll tune her up to the last notch.” Suddenly Stanton put his Anger on the thing he sought, one thing that made this mechanician dilferent; and voiced his thought before considering wisdom. "You're a different class. Floyd,” he stated abruptly. "You're no workman, nor descendant of workmen.” Floyd stared, startled at the brusk Irrelevance, then melted Into a straight, direct smile as he met the keen gaze. (TO B S C O N T IN U E D .) Leaning Tower's Secret. The Leaning Tower of Pisa Is In no danger of falling. For over eight hun dred years It has been Inclined to one side, but It Is said to be as sate to day aa wben It was built. This Is be cause the workmen found It settling to one side while they were erecting It, so the tower was made accord- Ingly. Duluth Votes for Dances. Duluth, Minn.— The proposition to make the public school buildings in Duluth social centers and to allow dancing in them was carried at a hotly contested school election.' The wo men’ s clubs o f the city were arrayed in favor o f the proposition against the combined efforts o f the clergymen, the women winning by a large majority. The campaign waged by the women was so vigorous that the leaders were warned on the day before election that they were violating the provisions o f the corrupt practices law. Smugglers Are Thwarted. El Paso, T e x .— Victor Ochoa, o rig inal Mexican revolutionist against President Diaz 20 years t ip . was ar rested here by the American federal authorities and charged with a viola tion o f the neutrality law*. Ochoa it alleged to have been implicate I in the arrival here several days ago o f a con signment o f 140.000 rounds o f ammu nition and several cases o f rifles, pre sumably intended for the Mexican rebels. He failed to furnish bond. Escaped Convict Caught. San Francisco— Charles Shrode, con vict No. 6395 in the Colorado state prison, who eluded his guards, stole a horse and made good his escape five y ea n ago, was identified here by the Bertillon system and confessed his identity. G IG AN TIC O IL WAR L O O M ). Lorimer has decided to go hack to Chicago and go to work. He may seek re-election. President T a ft sent a message o f congratulation to the American ath letes at Stockholm. Rothschild Millions to Fight Rocke England’s protest against the pro feller—Spokane is Center. posed Panama bill finds considerable Spokane— A big fight looms between support in the senate. Two Klamath fishermen claim a rival oil companies in Spokane and the trout weighing 11 pounds jumped into Inland Empire. their boat on Lake Ewauna. The Indian Oil company, a Roths child corporation, is making arrange P O R TLA N D M AR K E TS. ments to enter the local field in com Fresh Fruits— Cherries, 2(8)10c per petition with the Standard Oil com pany, the True’s Oil company and the pound; apples, old, $1.6003 per box; Pure Oil company. The True’ B Oil new, $1.50(ii)1.75; peaches, 66075c; company is a local concern which has currants, $1.50(8)1.75; plums, 90c@ $1.75(82; apricots, built up a large trade in the city and $1.25; pears, adjoining country, notwithstanding $1.25; grapes, $2.50 per crate. Berries — Raspberries, $1.60 per competition afforded by the Standard crate; loganberries, $1.26(8)1.60; Oil company. W ith the coming o f the Pure Oil black caps, $1.60. Melons — Cantaloupes, $2.75 crate; company, o f Minneapolis, prices are being gradually dropped with a view watermelons, l @ l } c per pound. Vegetables — Artichokes, 66(8)75c o f making it difficult to sell oil at a profit. The Indian Oil company has per dozen; beans, 8§i9c; per pound; already started what promises to be cabbage, l(g )lic ; cauliflower, $1.26 come a large distributing plant in the per dozen; celery, $506 per crate; east end o f Spokane. The operations corn, 30c per dozen; cucumbers, $1 are being directed from San Francis per box; eggplant, 26c per pound; co, it is understood, and an apparently head lettuce, 12c dozen; peas, 88,9c unlimited sum o f Holland capital is pound; peppers, 120/15c; radishes, 15020c dozen; spinach, 4(8)5c pound; available. garlic, 8(8)10c; carrots, $1.76 sack; turnips, $1.25. Woman Wants Home Life. Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur Pasadena, Cal. — Mrs. Margaret banks, old, $1(8)1.25 per hundred; Hamilton, w ife o f former superinten new, per pound, l£(8)l}c. dent o f schools and prominent in wo Onions— California red, $1.26 sack; man's organizations, refused the invi yellow, $1.60. tation to become a candidate for the Wheat— Track prices: Rlueatem, 88 legislature on the Prohibition ticket. (889c; club, 84(8" 85c; red Russian, 84 “ My first duty is to my home,” said (885c; valley, 84(8.85c; 40-fold, 84(8)- Mrs. Hamilton. “ I would rather wash 85c. dishes, darn stockings, cook, sweep Hay— Timothy, $14(8916.60; alfal and do fam ily washing, or any other fa. $1.25; clover, $10; oats and work that falls to a mother's lot, than vetch. $12; grain hay, $9. deprive my children o f association., Millstuffs — Bran, $25.50 ton; and influences o f a mother by being shorts, $26; middlings, $32. elected to the state legislature.’ ’ Com— Whole, $39; cracked, $40 ton. Oats— No. 1 white, $34035 ton. General Ivonet Kilted. Eggs— Case count, 24c; candled, Havana— General Pedro Ivonet, the 25c; extras, 27c. last o f the leaders o f the recent Cuban Butter— Oregon creamery, cubes, or uprising to remain under arms, was solid pack, 28c pound; prints, 29c. surrounded and killed by government Pork— Fancy, 10010}c pound. troops at the Nombre de Dios planta Veal— Fancy, 13(8 I3 )c pound. tion, near Santiago. General Ivonet Poultry— Hens, 12|c pound; broil with General Evaristo Estenoz, took ers. 17(S)17Jc; ducks, young, 10 @ U c; the field in Orienfe province with geese, 10(8 l i e ; turkeys, live, 18e; about 1500 men last May as a protest dressed, 24(8)25c. against the Morro law, which provides Cattle -Choice steers, $6.7607; that there shall be no recognition o f good, $606.50; medium, $5.7506; political parties on radical lines. choice cows. $6.7506 26; good, ¡$6.60 (8 5.75; medium, $50560; choice Place With Taft Declined. calves. $7(8 8.25; good heavy calves, Washington, D. C.— Granville W. 10: bulls, $3.5006.10; [stags. Mooney, ex speaker o f the Ohio as $4.75(8 6. sembly, has declined the post o f as Hogs — Light, $80 8.35; heavy, sistant secretary to President Taft, $6.2507. to succeed Sherman P. Allen, o f Ver Sheep— Yearlings, $304.26; weth mont. who was nominated for assist ers, $3.9004.50; ewes, $303.76; ant secretary o f the treasury. lambs, $4.6006.60.