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STANTO N
W IN S
By
E le a n o r
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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
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Th e ro b o rg h
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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.