y
THF EUG"NF CUARD
/ rail
Conyriiht.
¿•r
1902
CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XXV.
[INTER set in early and contin
ued late, which In the end was
a good thing for the year's cut.
____ I The season was capricious,
hanging for days at a time at tlie
brink of a thaw, only to stiffen again
into severe weather. This was try
ing on the nerves, for at each of these
fulse alarms the six camps fell into
a feverish haste to get the Job finished
before the breakup. It was really quite
extraordinary how much was accom
plished under the nagging spur of
weather conditions and the cruel Towel
ing of Thorpe.
The latter had now no thought be
yond his work, and that was the
thought of a madman. He bad been
stern and unyielding enough before,
goodness knows, but now he was terri
ble. Not for an instant was there a
resting spell. The veriest chore boy
talked. thought, dreamed, of nothing
but saw logs. Men whispered vaguely
of a record cut. The difficulties of
snow, accident, topography, were
swept aside like straws. Little time
was wasted and no opportunities. It
did not matter how smoothly affairs
happened to be running for the mo
ment; every advantage, even the small
est. was eagerly seized to advance the
work. A drop of live degrees during
the frequent warm spoils brought out
the sprinklers oven in the dead of
niglit. At night tlie men fell into tlieir
bunks like sand bags, and their
conscious thought, if indeed they
any at all. was of eagerness for
morrow. It was madness, but it
the n: o'.ness these men loved.
For .. «w to his old religion Thorpe
bad added a fanaticism, and over the
fanaticism was gradually creeping a
film of doubt. To the conscientious
energy which a sense of duty supplied
was added the tremendous kinetic
force of a love turned into other chan
nels. And in the wild nights while the
other men slept Thorpe's half crazed
brain was revolving over and over
again the words of the sentence he bad
heard from Hilda's lips, "There can be
nothing better than love.”
His actions, bis mind, his very soul,
vehemently denied the proposition. He
clung as ever to his high Puritanic
idea of man's purpose. But down d« p
in a very tiuy, sacred corner of his
heart a very small voice sometin s
made itself beard when other m« re
militant voices were still: “It may I
It may be.”
The last month of hauling was s'- o
one of snow. Each day a little fol
By and by the accumulation amoun 1
to much. Iu the woods where the w I
could uot get at it it lay deep ami > t
above the tops of bushes. Ou eitl r
side of the logging roads the snow pi.
so high as to form a kind of ramp;
When all this water in suspense shorn 1
begin to flow' and to seek its level
the water courses of the district t! e
logs would have plenty to float th« .1
at least.
So late did the cold weather last that,
even with the added plowing to do. the
alx camps beat all records. On the
banks at Camp One were 9,000,000
feet. The totals of all five amounted
to 33,000,000. About 10.000,000 of this
was on French creek, the remainder
on the main bank of the Ossawina-
mskee. Besides this, the firm up river.
Sadler & Smitb, had put up some 12.
000,000 more. The drive promised to
be quite an affair.
About the 15th of April attention be
came strained. Every day the mount
ing sun made heavy attacks on the
•now; every night the temperature
dropped below the freezing [Klint. The
river liegan to show more air boles, oc
casional open places. About the cen
ter the ice looked worn and soggy.
Some one saw a flock of geese high I d
the air. Then came rain.
One morning early Long Jim Pine
came into tlie men’s camp bearing a
huge chunk of tallow. This be held
■gainst the hot stove until its surface
bad softened, when he began to swab
liberal quantities of grease on his
■piked river shoes, which he fished out
from under bis bunk.
“She's cornin', boys,” be said,
He donned a pair of woolen trouser'
that had been chopped oft at the knee.
thick woolen ■docking’ and the river
•hoes, Then he tightened his broad
leather belt about bls heavy shirt.
cocked his little hat over bis ear and
walked over in the corner to select a
peavey from the lot the blacksmith had
just put in shape. A peuvey is like a
Cant book except that it Is pointe«! at
the end. Thus it ran be us « k ! either as
a I
Shear« r. imllarly attired and equipped,
appeared in ill“ doorway. The opening
i
n!” said b*
boys.
'T
M—WI U! .«.’«. '111.l
-J'« "41
¿«llways. paused at the slack water an«l ( tiavebeon overwhelmed, but the river Ing pool below. Two men tramp«
finally hit with a hollow and resound i man always mysteriously appeared at steadily backward and forward on tie
ing boom against the tail of the jam ' oue side or the other, nonchalant, urg booms, urging the
1«
A moment later they, too, up-ended.
ing the men to work before the logs means of long pike
th«
The crew were working desperately Bbould have ceased to move. History •Oction could seize
th.
Dowu in the heap somewhere two log- 1 stated that Shearer bad never lost s dam the push of
Wilt«?
Were crossed in such a manner us V man on the river simply and solely be fonavi them several miles down stream
lock the whole. They sought those logs. 1 rause he Invariably took the dangerous
when' the rest of Bryan Moloney's
Thirty feet above tb«> bed of the river tasks upon himself.
crew took tbe^i in charge.
By STEWART
six m 1 clam; >d tl„ ; aveys into the | In three days th«« railways were bro
Thus through the wide gate uearly
EDWARD
soft pine, jerking, pulling, lifting, slid ! ken. Now it became necessary to start three-quarters
of a million feet an
WHITE
Ing the great logs from tlieir places. ' the rear.
hour could
Thirty feet below, under the threaten-1 For this purpose Billy Camp, the last of the be run, and at length the
logs drifted into the wide
LdtvarJ Whht
ing face, six other men coolly picked cook, had loaded his cook stove, a quan dam pool.
out and set adrift, one by one, the tim-1 tity of provisions ami a supply of bed Dam Two, The rear had arrived at
ami Thorpe congratulated
tiers not inextricably imbedded. From ding aboard a scow. At either .>nd were
himself that one stage of his Journey
time to time th«* mass creaked, settled,' long sweeps to direct Its course. Tlie had been completed.
XH-eu u.. preur.-.iag.c. zuiun
perhaps eveu moved a foot or two, but' craft was perhaps forty' feet long, but
above the first roliv.ays will
always the practiced river men after1
Three, with Its two wide sluice» I » glanc« «.-.«lit more eagerly to their' rather narrow. In order that It might
CONTINUED
pass easily through the shoot of a dam.
through which a veritable flo«xl could! Work.
It was called the “wanlgnn.”
be loosened at will: then four miles far
Outlined against the sky, big Bryan | The huge, unwieldy craft from that
CURIOUS CULLINGS.
ther lay tlie rollway of Sadler & Smith, Moloney stood directing the work. II«'1
moment was to become possessed ot
the up river firm. au«l above them turn knew by the tenseness of the log he the
devil. Dowu the white water of
Recently in Machias. Me., the roof ot
bled over a forty five foot ledge t!.« stood on that behind the Jam power'
beautiful Biscoe falls. These first roll I had gathered sufficient to push tlie rapids It would bump, smashing obsti a house caught dr«' from sparks froa
ways of Thorpe's, spread In the broil«'I whole tangle down stream. Now be nately against bowlders, against tlie a burning chimney, and the unique
branches of the stream side it would method of tirin: g snowballs to put it
marsh flat below til«« dim. contain.««• I was offering it the chance.
about 8,<J00,C00. Tlie n st of tlie sen I Suddenly the six men below the Jam scrape, in the broad reaches it would out was giicces-« fully used.
son's cut was sca'tered for thirty mile ' scattered. Four of them Junipe«! light sulk, refusing to proceed, and when' The people of the United Smces
expediency demanded its pause it spend :.'!0.000.C' > a year in adulterated
along the bed of tlie river.
ly from one floating log to another In 1 would drag Billy Camp and his entire
-Already the fee cementing the log? I fhe zigzag to shore. The other two ran 1 crew at the rope's end. while they tried ( foods which :;re classed as having
together hail begun to weaken. Tlie 1. « the length of tbeir footing and. over-' vainly to snub It against successively “poisonous am! otherwise noxious In
had wrenched and tugged savagely a' I leaping an open of water, landed heav-1 uprooted trees and stumps. When at | gradients'* by t!:.' 4: ive niuent analyst
A physical examination of candidal“»
the locked timbers until they had. with 1 ily and firmly on the very euds of two ■ last the wunigan was moored fast for
a mighty effort, snapped asunder the I small floating logs. In this manner the I ' the night—usually a mile or so below1 for the police force at New Haven.
bonds of their hibernation. Now a nar ' force of the jump rushed the little tim I the spot planned—Billy Camp pushed Conn., showed that two candidates laid
row lane of black rushing water' bers eud-on through the water. The I back his battered old brown derby hat.1 stuck cardboards on their heels ci
pierced the rollways to boil and eddy In ' two men. maintaining marvelously I the badge of bis office, with a sigh of then pulled on their stockings to rem «1
the consequent Jam three miles below. 1 their balance, were thus ferried to I relief, To be sure, he and his men had j the requisite height.
Just for the fun of the thing, a
To the foremen Thorpe assigned tlieir 1 within leaping distance of the other still to cut wood, construct cooking
North Danville (N. II.) housewife t'.«««
tasks.
shore.
and camp fires, pitch tents, snip browse
“Moloney,” said he to the big Irish- [ In the meantime a barely perceptible' and prepare supper for seventy men. ' other day tried her hand nt Ice cutting.
man. “take your crew and break tliat motion was communicating itself from ' but the Lard work of tlie day was She dl«l so well that her husband of
fered tier n eeut a cake, and slie work
jam. Then scatter your men down to1 one particle to another through the cen-' over.
1 ed the livelong day, earning SI cents.
within a mile of the pond at Dam Two 1 ter of the jam. The men redoubled tlieir I
and see that the river runs clear. You 1 exertions. A sharp crack exploded Im-' Along either bunk, among the bush-
Tlie clerk of a parish in England
can tent for a day or so at West Bend 1 mediately underneath. There could no1 es, on sand burs mid in trees, hundreds when reading the third chapter of Dan
uml
hundreds
of
logs
laid
been
strand
or some other point about half way1 longer exist any doubt as to the motion.1
iel. wherein the names of Shadracli.
ed when the main drive passed. Those
although it was as yet sluggish, glacial.1 logs the rear crew were engaged iu re Meshack and Abe.’.nego are three
times repeated, after speaking them
Then in silen«?e a log shifted—in silence 1 storing to the current.
and slowly, but with irresistible force. I And. as a man lmd to be able to ride once, called them. during (lie remain
Jimmy Powers quietly stepped over it' any kind of log In any water, to propel der of the chapter, “the aforesaid gon
just as it menaced Ills leg. Other logs 1 that log by jumping on it, by rolling it tlemen.”
In aft directions up-ended. The jam 1 squirrel fashion with tlie feet, by punt
GOWN GOSSIP.
crew were forced continually to alter1 ing it as one would a canoe, to be skill
tbeir positions, riding the changing tim-1 ful in pushing, prying and poling oth
Long handled parasols are promised
bars bent kneed, as a circus rider treads j er logs from the quarter deck of the
considerable vogue this season.
bls four galloping horses.
same cranky craft: as he must be pre
In ribbons melon shades, resembling
Then all at once down by the face I pared at any and all times to Jump
something crashed, The entire stream waist d«K'p iuto the river, to work in the interior of a muskmelon, are much
became alive, It hissed and roaretft It ice water hours at a stretch; as lie was favored.
shrieked and grumbled. At first slow- called upon to break the most danger
Linen belts with small gun metal
ly. then more rapidly, the very fore- ous jams on the river, representing, as clasps will be worn as much this year
front of the center melted inward and they did, the accumulation which tlie as they were last
forward and downward until it caught jam crew had left behind them, it was
Veils with ribbon edge and others
the fierce rush of the freshet and shot naturally considered the height of glo showing a single thread of gold are
out from under the jam. Far up I ry to belong to the rear crew. Here I among the season's leaders.
stream, bristling and formidable, the were the best of the Fighting Forty,
If we are to judge by the quantity
tons of logs, grinding savagely to- i men with a reputation as “white watet I and the beauty of the sash ribbons of
getlier, swept forwarj).
fered in the shops there is to be a re
.birlers,” mon afraid of nothing.
The six men and Bryan Moloney,
Every morning the crews were divid v tv ill ef this fashion on an extensive
who, it will be remembered, were on ed into two sections under Kcrlie and scale.
top, worked until the last tnoitunt. Jack Hyland, Each crew bad charge
We are growing so fastidious that
When the logs began to cave under of one side of the river. Scotty Par ( real lace blouses are worn almost as
them so rapidly that even the expert sons exercised a general supervisory commonly as collars and handk>
efs
river mon found difficulty in “staying eye over both crews. Shearer ami were of okl. Nothing but real la
il-
on top” the foreman set the example Thorpe traveled back and forth tlie lars is worn by careful dress«
.»ew
of hunting safety.
I length of the drive, riding the logs York I'ost.
“She ‘pulls.’ boys!" be yelled.
down stream, but taking to a partly
Then in a manner wonderful to be i submerged pole trail when ascending
CURRENT COh JENT.
hold. through tlie smother of foam anti tlie current. On the surface of the
Sprany boldly and confidently ten feet spray, through tlie crash and yell of river tn the clear water floated two
In five years you wouldn't knew It
timbers, through the leap of destruc long, graceful boats called bateaux. had ever happened.—Baltimore Amer
utrabjht downward.
tloig
the
drivers
zigzagged
calmly
mil
down, and after that you had better
These were in charge of expert boat ican.
camp at the dam. Just as soon as you surely to tlie shore.
men. They carried In racks a great I When the newspapers call a man
All
but
Jimmy
Powers,
get logs enough iu the pond start to
supply of pike poles, peaveys, axes, ! a pyromaniac people are driven to tlie
sluicing them through the dam. Yon tense nnd eager on the crumbling fa« «« rope and dynamite for use In various slang of firebug. Philadelphia Ledger.
won't ueed mor* than four men tilers of the Jam. Almost immediately tie emergencies.
Radium, you may have observed, is
it you keep a good bead. You can saw what he wanted and without
Intense rivalry existed as to which now guaranteed to do all those things
pause
sprang
boldly
and
confidently
keep your gates open five or six Loors.
crew “sucked” the farthest down the that liquid air was going' to do a few
ten feet straight downward, to alight stream in the course of the day. There j years ngo. Washington i'ost.
And, Moloney”—
with accuracy on a single log floating was no need to urge the men. Some '
“Yes, sir.”
Probably Mr. Wyndham is correct in
-“I want you to t>e careful not to free in the current. And then in the stood upon the logs, pushing mightily I Lis calculation that th«* Irish questl« i
very
glory
and
chaos
of
the
jam
itself
sluice too long. There is a bar jwst
with the long pike poles. From one c an scarcely be settled In fifty ye. i
below the dam. and if you try t« he was swept down stream.
eml of the rear to tlie other shouts, It belongs to tlie |>erpetual izotioi
After
a
moment
the
constant
nccel-
sluice with the water too low you'll
calls, warnings and jokes flew back class. Boston Herald.
center and jam there as sure as shoet- «ration in speed checked, then com- and forth. Once or twice a vast roar
When Russia accuses England «
menced
perceptibly
to
slacken.
At
Ing.”
of Homeric laughter went up as soma toadying to the United States it mu -i
Bryan Moloney turned on his barf once tlie rest of the crew began to rid«« unfortunate slipped and soused into «1« ek a number of fashionable Brito
and began to pick bis way down down stream. Each struck the calks tlie water. When the current slacked who have fancied all these years th
stream over the solidly banked toga. of Ids river boots strongly into a log and the logs hesitated in tlieir run the it was the other way.—Washlngt«
Without waiting the command a dozen anti on such unstable vehicles floated entire crew hastened, bobbing from star.
men followed him. The little group miles with the'eurrent. From time to log to log. down river to see about It.
bobbed away irregularly into the <U» »luie. as Bryan Moloney indicated, one Then they broke the Jam. standing
THE MOVING WORLD.
tance. springing lightly from one tim of them went ashore. There, usually surely on tlie edge of tbe^reat dark
ber to tlie other, holding their quaintly *t a bend of the stream where the ness. while the ice water sucked In
A Swiss watchmaker bus Invent«
fashioned peaveys in the manner of a likelihood of jamming was great, they and out of their shoes.
an electric watoli which will go f<
ropedancer's balancing pole. At th» took their stands. When accessary they
Behind the rear Big Junko poled Ids fifteen years without being rewound.
lowermost limit of tlie rollways each ran out over the face of the river to bateau backward and forward explod
Formetai is a new chemical cur
man pried a log into the water and. separate a congestion likely to cause ing dynamite. Many of the bottom
standing gracefully erect on this un trouble. Tlie rest of the time they tiers of logs in the rollways had been bination of metals Invented to me«
the need of automobile builders for
stable craft, floated out down the cur smoked tlieir pipes.
frozen down, nnd Big Junko bad to
Ail night long the logs slipped down i loosen them from the bed of the material which will withstand sever
rent to the scene of bis dangerous la
the moonlit current, silently, swiftly. | stream. He was a big man, this, as twists and will not corrode.
bor.
yet
without baste. From the whole I his nickname indicates!, built of many
The sinking of shafts through w.
“Kerite.” went on Thorpe, "your
crew can break rollways with the rest tength of the river rang the hollow I awkwardnesses. Ills cheek bones were ground has recently been successful;
until we get
;et the river fairly filled, and boom, boom, boom, of tlmfti rs striking high, his nose flat, his lips thick and accomplished by the aid of artiflcl i
I slabbery. He sported a wide, fero- freezing. The ground is hardened ! «
then you can move on down stream as one against the other.
I
The drive was on.
fast as you are needed. Scotty, you
cions straggling mustacljg and long this manner to prevent a sudden In
I eyebrows, under which—glennu'd little rush of water.
will have the rear. Tim and I will
With tlie assistance of the latest ma
CHATTER XXVI.'
boss the river."
fierce eyes. Ills forehead sloped back
I
At once the signal was giveu to El I
N the meantime the main bo'.v like a beast's, but was always hidden chines a piece of leather can be trans
lis, the dam watcher. Ellis and his
of tlie crew under Thorpe and by a disreputable felt hat. Big Junko formed into a pair of boots In thirty
assistants thereupon liegan to pry with
his foremen were briskly tum did not know much and had the pas four minutes, In which time it passes
loug iron bnrs at the ratchets of the
bling tlie logs into the current. sions of a wild animal, but he was a through the hands of sixty three per
heavy gates. The chore boy bent at The men bad continually to keep alert, reckless river man and devoteil to sons and through fifteen machines.
tentively over the ratchet pin. liftinc for at any moment they were cal! : Thorpe, Just now lie exploded dynn-
it delicately to permit another inch of upon to exercise tlieir best judgment mite.
COLLEGE AND SCHOOL,
raise, dropping It accurately to enable and quickness to keep from being ca
The sticks of powder were piled
the men at the bars to seize a fr»sli rled downward with the rush of th« amidships. Big Junko crouch«] over I Of the public school teachers in the
purchase. The river's roar dee
deepened logs Not Infrequently a frownin. tiieiu. Inserting the fuses and caps,. United States 27 per cent are men.
Through the wide sluiceways a tori
In English schools three hours a week
sheer wall of forty feet would hesltu
clo-Mig the openings with soap, finally
foamed and tu;(iL!«'<l. Immediately f ou tin« brink of pluuge. Then Shear«
««aiding them nnd dropping them into are given to needlework; In New York
spread throi.; g'a the brush on cither
him if proved bls right to the title <
t!water alongside, where they irnnic •chools but one.
,1
to the limits <>( tlie freshet bai
Dr. Simeon Pell of Rosedale, Kan.
river man.
dlately sank. Then a few strokes of .1
iln't t
■il for
then ga
Shearer w.re ealks nearly an it.
short paddle took him barely out of has given the University of Kansas
«Ig»
uneasy
1 fl J’S.
tn length, lie had been known to r !« danger. H«- huddle«! down in bls craft, <25,000 In Missouri lands.
ttw lo
I
the <l:ir!
ten mil« s without shifting bis feet o:> s waiting. One, two. three seconds passed.
The teachers of three French public
If
■eemed
toe <0 » ■ ill that he could ,ar»y .1 Then a hollow uvó.o shook the roani. ■chool« ; In Normandy report that 75
toward
ity. For coo! nerve y A clod of water sprang up. strangely per ce nt of the girls In them take
Without
1
of tiiuL
was un< T:ee!k»(1.
beautiful. After a ino nirnt tLe gr at brandy In tbeir coffee ut bre ikfast
of the
"I don' t • ' yon boys here any I
br«isrn logs r« e SU<1<1<* nly to the «nr-
r
goF.” L p s i ! <jointly.
face fr m ■ low. one 1ifter the other
Careful!) Br<>UKlit L'p.
Brj an
Wlion 1 • a ■ n had all withdrawn ' « Ilk«' leviathans of the d.ppp.
“Wet e you carefully brought up, my
wit ikC'ii < .a«. . niiy under the front f
Thorpo nnd Tirn Sn<*nror nearly al lad?" t isked the
¡chant of the ap
strF
thp roilvray. g! inclng with practli
wayn «dept In a «log ti •nt at the rear pllcant for n sitnation.
eje at i. «• [ j udicular wall of 1
though occasiona
“Phi sp . sir. yes. >lr; 1 came up In
tl i
a man pries Ja
night at Da tu Tv
Jere Bryan M«i the eie vator, sir.” said the respectful
Fr
■d his poarey a «! for,«T nnd h's cr<
NV already .
youth.
— .. . .,■■■■■ ,
tu ■-•i" 1 -•
through 1 he ,
gaged In slulclng thè li
! \
_ • - .
Hut:
Making Snr«.
shoot.
th- r-.
* ru nnd rrosbing tim
Gritty George—I hope dat bowl of
The affair was i
' enough. Ixing
•Jowl;
t>
an< 1 tlie spot on which tlie river booms arnnged In tliic form of
coffee won't stimulate yer to go to 1
u at
ways.
1 -
1 wa« buried beneath open V guide«! tl io drf’m tfi th«* slnlrp work. Sandy Pikes—No, pardi I asked
nj.i
f,j__
' U.
'«••t of solid green wood, lo gate, thrnngb wl ilrh a smooth apron Je Indy to put loaf sugar In ft—Phlla
Thorpe it »••• t •<! that Shearer mu*
noil in »ip odd*. d«l;.hl* Bulletin.
lively !”
n
W
I
A PIECE Of SCARF
(Original.)
Marina was a Mexican girl, with the
usual black hair and eyes of Mexia»ns.
She was only sixteen, but at sixteen
many girls of the tropics are as old as
glris of twenty in tlie north. Marina
was but a poor mail's daughter, with
very little education. One evening a
stranger stopped at her father’s cabin.
He was a young man with fair hair
■ ml blue eyes and above al! a winning
■mile. He asked Marina If he might
have oue of her flowers growing la a
be«l beside the door and when he dk! so
smiled at her. That was the last of
Marina's peace of mind. Edwin Coop
er, the stranger, a young civil engi
neer on the railroad l>elng built through
the valley below, had plucked her heart
as easily as he had plucked her flower.
But there Is danger in picking hearts
in those tropical gardens. It is like
touching one of the beautiful insects
of the country. Marina did not sting
Cooler, but one Narvaez, a dirty little
Mexican, who had seen the engineer's
smile and how it went to a heart that
he had in vain tried to appropriate, was
made his enemy, and such enemies,
who Invariably strike in the dnrk, are
to be dreaded. When Cooper went the
next day he had cut an end from a
faded many colored scarf Marina wore.
She followed him to the gate, chatter
Ing as she went, and the Inst th*n«;
Cooper said to her was, "See, I will
wear your souvenir In my buttonhole.”
Cooper had no mioner departed than
Narvaez, who had been present the
evening before— indeed he hail beet«
hanging aboiU Marina most of the tkn«-
—entered and upbraided her for her
conduct toward the stranger. This •on
duct had been without excuse, for Ma
rina was betrothed to Narvaez, fhe
had consented to be his wife not be
cause she loved him, but because he
was the first man site had met aftiee
«he emerged from childhood. Sh« did
not seem to be at all ashamed of litiv
Ing been led aside so easily. She odd
Narvaez In patois Spanisli that hs was
a miserable specimen of bnmnnlty •nd
the stranger was a god. Narvaez was
so beside himself with rage that he
was tempted to run a knife into Jier.
but was too much infatuated crith her
to do so. He resolved that be woulil
tali«1 revenge oil the Americano.
Cooper continued to wear the bit of
scarf In ids buttonhole. Wbetbev hr
didn't bare time to talc« !♦ a’M ;.l
whether he expected tbai lie nughl
meet tile little girl from w’. im h« got
it and «lesi»ed to lot her see that hr
valued it. no one knows. Several of
his associates asked him wliat it meant
was It tlie badge of 11 society. 11 dec
oration—what was It? But !•>• only re
plied tliat he had got it from a girl.
One day Cooper was carrying a theod
olite, which lie occasionally so* up
on three legs, looked tlirotn.li it ttt a
rod on which was a slide and made
some figures in ids notebook, He
found It n tedious prove . ami One*
while be »ent Ills rodsman foru«i»d a
long distance he snt down on the Brass
to wait. There was no on............«hem.
and lie sat enjoying tlie solitude >«u<l
listening to tin« birds. Sudd • ity .1
huge stone came down on IP - 11« id and
crashed Ills skull. The t> ! h ;:« m . jiot
hearing or seeing anything from him
for some .time, finally w nt back to
find out wliat was the matter. CSbpcr
was dead.
There was no clew to tlie murderer.
Cooper's valuables had not been taken;
nt least none was missed, nnd no one
could understand bow any person •wulii
have had any interest iu iuu:during
him. Not long after th«« trag«««Iy Nnr
vnez renewed ills attentions to MnvLn i,
who. so far ns he could s««e. hod for
gotten the hniidsome strangi««'.
"When shall we be mai,.. dl” sal«’
the little Mexican one day to Martnn.
“I'll tell you.” she rcpllctl. “We will
be marriisl when you bring me ihv bit
ot my scarf I gave the engineer.”
“I bring you the bit of scarft Mow
could I get it?”
"You must find It. Perhaps he left
It among bls clothing. You might steal
It”
“I will not do such
“Then I will not marry you.”
From that time Marina would have
nothing to «lo with him. At lata one
day he brought her tlie souvenir. Then
she named a day for the w<«<1<1fng.
On that day while Narvaez was put
ting on a new suit of clothes he had
bought at a store for his marriajje be
was arrested and carried Inf«,»» the
Judge. There were present a numCvr of
the men employed on ralir«' id «<1 infrac
tion, and sitting in a conspi« nous pface,
wearing on her bosoiu tin- bit of arf
which she had made th«« pri« <■ ot her
cons«'nt, was Marina. Narvaez looki«d
It her in astonishment. yb > retarned
his look with a enl<| blooded «tar«.
Narvaez wi>« «erased of the r«rvdcr
of Cooper, nnd Marina was >.ili»d to
tlie stand. She told bei . m >. giving
an account of Cooper's visit and the
giving Llm the bit of waif, « !.i>g her
testimony In tlds wise:
"I knew, «nnor judg". ••
h«d kill«'«! the ABtorira"'« 1«
not make him be punished w
proof. I knew the Am «i
wewr rny si •;irf, for he
1 '
1 )l‘.
When I 11« a ' «1 that it vr
‘ * id on
him I suv; < ted Narr • ' • *• .’9 n
trophy. I pnetend d no’ ’n
Nsr
Vnoz of th- murder, λ *t t'
ho
must Ste-il tl: for m • fro ■'
no’u clothe«. At last b. 1
>
me.”
It dt«l Mt into long •
v«oz of the tminier Ju ' be
’•
1
led sw«y h
from n tabi e nnd befo;
prevented hinriod It at the Hri he b »O
■uppoae.1 !.-
to in > H
wH tneb 11 O^becx -ig 1
beratn«' »he Amori«-, n<>
Fot
tonate!/ he mis- «1 lier.
LEVTW r
ON.