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5 I Hi- EUGENE GUAni How He Landed The Sporting World, A SERVING MAID IT IS THE FACE It was in Rome and at the seasou of ôk Prize Topics of the Moment Among Olive Horton was a nursery maid, j the year when the old wu . 1 city Is [Original.] f c <• m Trail Cceyrifhl. 1902. by By STEWART EDWARD WHITE +4 I n St ft* art • j 44 :--:-4+4444+4444+444- 4+ ’- :■ .44-4+444+44-:-4-+4-4- CHAI’TER XXXVII. HE train of the South Shore rail road shot Its way across the I broad reaches of the northern peninsula. Thorpe welcomed the smell of the northland. He became almost eager, explaining, indicating to the girl at bis (ide. "There is the Canada balsam,” be cried. "Do vou remember bow I showed it to you first? And yonder the spruce. How stuck up your teeth were when you tried to chew the gum before it had been heated! Do you remember? Look, look there! It’s a white pine! Isn’t it a grand tree? It’s the finest tree in the forest, by my way of thinking, so tall, so straight, so feathery anil so digni fied. See. Hilda, look quick! There’s an old logging road all filled with raspber ry vines. We’d find lots of partridges there, and perhaps a bear. Wouldn’t you like to walk down it about sunset?” "Yes. Harry.” “I wonder what we’re stopping for. Seems to me they are stopping at every Squirrel’s trail. Oh. this must be ey. Yes. it is. Queer little place, it, but sort of attractive? Good like our town. You have never seen Carpenter, have you? Location’s fine anyway, and to me it’s sort of pictur esque. You’ll like Mrs. Hathaway. She’s a buxom, motherly woman who runs the boarding bouse for eighty men and still finds time to mend my clothes for me. And you’ll like Solly. Solly’s the tug captain, a mighty good fellow, true as a gun barrel. We’ll have him take us out some still day. We’ll be there in a few minutes now. See the cranberry marshes. Sometimes there's a good deal of pine on little islands scattered over It, but it's very hard to log unless you get a good winter. We bad just such a proposition when I worked for Radway. Oh, you'll like Railway. He’s as good as gold. Helen!” “Yes.” replied his sister. “I want you to know Radway. He's the num who gave me my start” "All right, Harry,” laughed Helen. “1’11 meet anybody or anything from bears to India, “I know n.i 1.. an, too—Geezlgut. nn OJibway. Wo called him Injun Charley, j He was my first friend in the north woods. He helped me get my timber. This spring he killed a man—a good Job. too—and is hiding now. I wish I knew where he is. But we’ll see him some day. He’ll come back when the thing blows over. See! See!” "What?” they nil asked, breathless. “It’s gone. Over beyond the hills there I caught a glimpse of Superior.” “You are ridiculous. Harry.” protest ed Helen Thorpe laughingly. “I never saw you so. You are a regular boy.” “Do you like boys?” he asked gravely of Hilda. “Adore them!” she cried. “All right; I don’t care,” he answered his sister in triumph. The air brakes began to make them selves felt, and shortly the train came to a grinding stop. “What station is this?” Thorpe asked i the colored porter. ’’Shlngleville, sah,” the latter replied. “I thought so. Wallace, when did their mill burn, anyway? I haven't heard about it.” “Last spring, about the time you went down.” “Is that so? How did it happen?” “They claim incendiarism.” parried Wallace cautiously. Thome pondered n moment, then laughed. ”1 am in the mixed attitude of the small boy." he observed, "who Isn't wicked enough to wish anybody’s property destroyed, but who wishes that if there is a fire, to be where be can see it. I am sorry those fellows had to lose their mill, but it was a good thing for us. The man who set 1’ . t lire did us a good turn. If It hadn't been for the burning of their mill they would have made a stronger fight against us in the stock market.” Wallace and Hilda exchanged glances. The girl was long since aware of the inside history of those days. “YouTl have to tell them that,” she whispered over the back of her seat. “It will please them.” “Our station is next!” cried Thorpe, "and it’s only a little ways, Come. get ready!” They all crowded into the narrow passageway near the door, for the train barely paused. “All right, sah," Bald the porter, •winging down bis little step. Tbcspe ran down to help the ladles He was ut.irly taken from his feet by Big Juuko and Anderson deposited their burden on the raised platform of the office steps. Thorpe turned and fronted the crowd. At once pandemonium broke loose, as though the previous performance bad been nothing but a low voiced rehear sal. "Ob. aren’t you proud of him?” gasp- • Hilda, squeezing Helen's arm with a nttle sob. In n moment Wallace Carpenter, bis Countenance glowing with prld" and pleasure. luted the platform and ■tood be«fde bis friend, while Morton and the two young ladles stopped half way up the steps. At once the racket ceased. Every One stood at attention. “Mr. Thorpe.” Wallace began, “at the request of your friends here. I have • most pleasant duty to fulfill They '4—>< 44r have asked me 10 tell you liow glad they are to see you. That Is surely un necessary. They have also asked me to congratulate you on having won the fight with our rivals.” "You done ’em good!*’ “Can’t down the old fellow !” muttered joyova voices. "But.” said Wallace, "1 t ■ !< that I first have a story to tell on 1 my own ac- count. "At the time the Jam broke this spring we owed the men here for a "Men,” 'cried Tliorpe. year’s work. At that time 1 considered their demand for wages ill timed and grasping. I wish to apologize. After the money was paid them, instead of scattering, they set to work under Jack Radway. They have worked long hours all summer. They have invested every cent of their year's earnings iu supplies and tools, and now they are prepared to show you in the company's booms 3.000.090 feet of logs rescued by their grit and hard labor from total loss.” At this point the speaker was Inter rupted. “Saw off!" "Shut up!” "Give us n rest!” growled the audience. “Three million feet ain’t worth talkin’ about!” “Y’ou make me tired!” “Say your little say the way you oughter!” “Found par ty nigh two millions pocketed on Mare’s Island, or we wouldn’t ’a’ had that much!” “Fool’s undertaking, anyhow!” "Men,” tried Thorpe, “I have been very fortunate. From failure success has come. But never have I been more fortunate than in my friends. The firm Is now on its feet. It could afford to lose three times the logs it lost this year”— He paused and scanned their faces. "But.” he continued suddenly, “it can not now or ever can afford to lose what those 3.000,000 feet represent — the friends ft has made. I can pay you back the money you have spent and the time you have put in”— Again b< looked them over, and then for the first time since they had known him his face lighted up with a rare and tender smile of affection. "But, comrades. I shall not offer to do It. The gift is ac cepted In the spirit with which it wn« offered”— He got no further. The air was rent with sound. Even the members of his own party cheered. From every direc tion the crowd surged inward. The women and Morton were forced up the platform to Thom". The latter mo tinned for silen«- "Now. boys, we have done it.” said he. “and so will go back to work. Fron now on you are my comrades in the fight." His eyes were dim. his breast heaved his voice shook. Hilda was weening from excitement. Through the tear- she mw them all looking at their lend er. and In the worn, bard faces glowed the affection and admiration of a dog for its master. Something there wa especially touching tn this, for strong men rarely show it She felt a great wave of excitement sweep over her. Instantly she was standing by Thorpe. “Ohl” she cried, atretching her arms out to them passionately. "Ob, I love you, I love you alii” THE K1W. The Qnaksr Wationnla. i i The Philadelphia National Baseball club's “winter uf discontent” has been “made glorious by the sun” of prosp tire good fortune. With the tress': replenished by a 10 per cent ass<- - ment on the stockholders, cheerful l.i paid; with the ground Improvemen under way at is unable cost, with splendid scbei' •>. with the valsa! Kid Gleason . j.'ly permanently cured, and with a competent manager and pretty got d team, it looks as ¡1 President Potter’s tribulations wen about over. The only clouds now ho. ering over the club are the dame suits, which. It is safe to predict, will not go against the clnh With those suits out of the way Prescient Pot < will not spare money in securing a first class winning team. « full of strangers from every part of Had it not been for the dress of a the globe. Horsemen and Pugilists, [Original.] servant, no one would ever have taken | The rush of visitors made little dif Bob Collins ami Jack Dutton were Jockey Robbins. her to be one. She was relined look- | ference to Paul iiizeni, the wood carv shipmates and friends on the schooner Ing. and there was something In her er, except tbut it brought him now and Sheridan. They had courted the same girl. Dutton had won. This Jockey Walter F. Robbins is the lat manner that also bespoke refinement. agaiu a private order. would have made them enemies hud it est pupil of the Crescent City Jockey She seemed to have little In common One day a stranger passed the little pot been for a remarkable sense of club's kindergarten for riders who will with her fellow servants, who, though workshop and was attracted by a large, Justice, an absence of meanness, on the make a bid for eastern patronage and they were uot admitted to her friend unfinished panel that leaned against ship, never turned against her. Real the side of the window, ami. glancing part of Collins. money this season. He will ride on “Here is my hand. Jack," he said the New York tracks, but Just who his superiority is always sooner or later ! ut the workmanship, he noticed the when he learned of bis friend's suc employer will be has not been definite recognized, and Olive Horton came to I worker within. cess. "I’m no dog lp a manger, and ly decided upon. He has had two of be regarded by them ns of a higbrr . l'aul lifted his head and met the gaz I wish you Joy. Whatever she wants fers—one from James R. Keene and class. Most of them boiler ed that she I er's eyes, and the stranger smiled and was tlie daughter of suin'- gentleman lam glad that she shall have,” the other from Tom Healy, the trainer who had broken down financially. I hurried on. Bitt aftM that be passed Collins was first, Dutton second, mate. for R. T. Wilson, Jr. the corner constantly, and l'aul got What put a finishing touch to their Boon after the Dutton marriage the Robbins is third on the winning list sense of their on u inferiority was the to look for his honest, cheery face and Sheridan started on her outward trip, of riders at the New Orleans track. He kind blue eyes. He »as au old man reached port without adventure and has bad great success with Doc discovery that Olive kept singular look- , and English, every bit of him. when the year 1903 was nearing its Street's horses, which are nil leased Ing books in her closet, which she : At last oue day he knocked at the brought out and studied after her ! low door, and Paul admitted him. end started back for America, the crew charges were asleep. expecting to spend the Christmas holi “Could you execute a little order for Elliott White, a nephew of Olive’s days at home. But December is liable me?" be asked. "I waut to surprise employer, on returning from a trip to be a tempestuous month, and the abroad, visited his aunt, and one morn my little granddaughter with oue of ship encountered one gale after an ing, while recounting his travels. Olive your beautiful crucifixes.” other. Then began a run of bad luck "Certainly.” Paul answered. "It will came into the room. Site guve but one fur the crew. Two seamen were ■ at Elliott, but bls eyes became give me great pleasure, but I am very washed overboard, one died of heart n.-vu upon her and followed her till busy, and you must allow me some disease, one fell from the rigging to she left tlie room. He tried to resume j time." the deck and was killed, while his "1 want it for au Easter gift.” the thread of his recital, but In vain. mate, who was aloft with him, fell Paul calculated. “Yes. I think I can His tongue would not describe what j into the boillug ocean and was let you have it.” had been driven from his thoughts. drowned. The captain, who stood on ”1 am hindering you, I fear,” the oli| Since the girl was a servant he had deck for hours soaked In ice water, man said, "but 1 have peeped at your the good taste not to show the interest died of pneumonia. This closed the she had created in him. The truth was work so often through the window, death list, leaving Collins In command, that that silent figure which had en and that was so unsatisfactory. You Dutton and two ordinary seamen to tered the room had taken out with It are a great artist!” work the vessel. "Do you find me so?” he said in his all there was of value in ills nature. Ono day they met a derelict. It bad foreign way. “That panel will sell for What camo of this Is only what ' been cut nearly In two by auother ship comes iu sueli cases. Elliott White’s 4 francs, and I shall get 1. Great art and would h,[ve certainly gone down aunt one day was surprised at hearing ists are paid better than that, signor!” had it not been loaded with cotton. "Why don’t you demand a Just val a fragment of dialogue between her Collins saw the advantage of getting ue?" nephew and her servant. her Into port and made preparations “The fever! It never leaves me,” he I “Oh, why should 1 care? If they to take her in low. Dutton and the gave me 1,000 francs it would be the Baid. two seamen protested, on the ground same—I should only work on and on. “I have told you to go away from me Aye, signor, 1 love uiy urt! Do you that they had enough to do to get and stay till you are cured.” themselves in. short banded as they know, the petal of that rose took me “And you?” were, without towing a derelict which one whole week to bring to perfec “ I shall never be cured, but I will might sink at any moment. In vain tion r not be your wife. My respect for my Collins pleaded with them, holding up “I ean imagine it. It Is superb! But self may not be strong enough to hold I like your faces best. Those angels the promise of prize money and as me, but my love for you will never on that shield”— suring them that the cotton would permit me to drag you down to my keep the derejiet afloat. They flatly “Ah, but they do not satisfy me. My level.” refused to be further handicapped. angel's face I have not attempted yet, “You are better educated than halt but I have seen it. I go to benediction “Very well. Jack,” said Collins. “You the girls, who only learn as parrots at St. Mark's every night to watch it take the Sheridan in, and 1’11 go aboard learn. I am sure you came of gentle and carve it on my soul, and one day the derelict and stay there till I get parents. There has been a financial I shall produce it.” plcki-d up by acme vessel with a full crush in your family, and when it came crew.” The old man took his departure, but you bravely began at the Isittom and be came again anil again, making each Neither the hope of reward nor the you will rise to the top.” shame of leaving their captain in a po time some excuse to speak about the “That is not so. If it were I would crucifix, and gradually he won Paul’s sition they considered almost certain Yorso CORBETT rUNCKINO THE HAO. death could Induce any one of the crew [Young Corbett, the wonderful little Den own it to you.” confidence, and the carver told him his A step in the hall ended the dialogue. story. to give in. So Collins, taking plenty ver featherweight fighter, Is a splendid bag puncher. He believes the exercise The aunt and mistress went away of provisions, went aboard the derelict, He belonged by birth to the old Ital- be most valuable and always indulges troubled, but she never mentioned and the Sheridan sailed for home. The to : lan aristocracy, but Ills boyhood had In It while In training for a fight. Young what she had heard to the lovers or weather moderated, and the lone mari Corbett recently wrote a book on bag , been passed in troublous times, and ner managed to get up a sail that gave punching, and In It he displayed a won any one else. his family had had to fly from the derful knowledge of the scientific side of Olive was taken ill, and a doctor ! country. Gradually he had worked his the hulk some headway. Then he got the sport.] was called to attend her. When lie I way back to his native Italy, the seat up another and another and, aided by the ship’s instruments, put her head thoroughbreds belonging to James R. went downstairs after his first visit he of all art and beauty, and there be had toward home. Every day he hoped he Keene. Through this lad’s clever lmn found Elliott White in the library. settled down to Ills life's dre ims. would meet a vessel, and every day he dllng these horses have won $14,2tis Elliott had been waiting for him with That night in St. Mark’s at benedic was disappointed. There came another nearly $3,000 more than any other sta feverish anxiety. tion, when he knelt gazing nt Ills an “ Well, doctor? ” storm that blew him far to the east hie sjcured during the winter. gel’s face, a sudden warm glow stole The doctor looked at him searching through bls frame. His angel bad It was this success and ability In the ward. After that there was a long ly. He had heard those words too spell of good wegther, and about the saddle that caused Mr. Keeno, through j turned her face »nd met his eyes, and middle of January he sailed his prize an agent, to ask Robbins his terms for often in other cases of anxiety not to 1 she had flushed with emotion, und lie his services during the summer know that the young man was the realized it win the loveliness of a liv into the harbor of New London. His first question Was, “Has the Sher months. The lad wired that he would girl’s lover. ing woman; no ethereal spirit, as lie “Strange.” said the doctor, looking had almost grown to believe. idan arrived?” and when he learned accept a $1,000 retaining fee, with the that she had not he was troubled. He additional $25 and $10 winning and at Elliott with a faraway expression. His old friend wondered nt his “But, doctor, tell me—is it a bad change, and at last Paul told him. feared she had been caught in the last losing mounts. case? ” Thia offer had scarcely been sent storm and lost “I am In love,” be cried restlessly, “I’m afraid it is.” But there was a different kind of whoa Robbins received a telegram "anil I must—I will possess her.” “For heaven’s sake, don't tell me buoyancy in cotlun that Collins had not from Healy asking him not to close “But, my friend, I thought"— calculated upon. The day he made with any other horseman before he there is no hope!” “Yl's, that Is true. I only see her In “There is hope,” Baid the doctor, Btlll church. We have never spoken.” port cotton was quoted at IT cents a had heard from R. T. Wilson, Jr. I>ound, and his prize was worth nearly Healy said that the young millionaire looking at Elliott with the same singu "Most wonderful!” the old man mut twice what it would have brought or horseman was out of the city and that lar expression. "Why are you so in tered to himself as he walked home. dinarily. Collins succeeded In having he would try to secure some proposi terested ?” “But I wish it hadn't happened. 1—I "Doctor, I am in torture. I am wild. have been so slow. I ought to have the price fixed by the admiralty court tion from him looking toward Rob- I can tell you, a physician, to whom brought him to see Ellean before. Now at 19’i cents, nearly the highest price bins' services. All this occurred but recently, Since many a Becret is laid bare, that I, a It Is too late. Ab, and they were so during the boom. When it was all then no further moves have been made gentleman, love this servant maid. If suited—both so pure, so beautiful, so over he went to see Mrs. Dalton. “Jennie,” be said, “whether you are toward the employment of Robbins. she dies I shall go mad; If she lives 1 idea lie!” to have your husband back I don’t In ail probability he will ride for Mr. shall go mad, for- I can't marry her.” “Grandpa,” Ellean snld to him one know. At any rate, you will be com Wilson this summer. “No, you can’t marry u servant un evening it was Easter eve—sitting ut Bobbins has had two years' experi less you want to make your life'Wiei-s. bls feet In her white gown and resting fortable for the rest of your life. His ence in the saddle on tbs western But be of good cheer. 1 do not promise her beautiful arm at ross his knees, ahnre of th< prize money”— “His share? I thought it all belong tracks and Is considered a first class that she shall live, but I promise that “grandpa, I wunt to confess to you. I rider, as he has nice bands and Is an If you marry her you will marry n am In love.” ed to you." “No; it belongs to me and Jack and excellent Judge of pace. His particu lady.” "Eh? Eh? What's this?” the two seamen who discovered it. It lar forte is riding In front of the field i Elliott stood staring, his expression "Nothing, dear, for It Is nothing! It was agree«. that they should stay He can ride at ninety-five pounds. plainly asking, “What do you mean?” Is only a face—a face that haunts me aboard the Sheridan while I"— But the doctor did not choose to ex night ami day—that—that—oh, yon Physicians state that “Philadelphia plain Just then and, seizing bis hat, cannot understand, but my soul goes Something In the man's halting man ner convinced her that be was making Jack" O’Brien, who recently fought broke away. out to that face!” Tommy Ryan for the middleweight up a story. Ten days later the servant was out “A gentleman to see you, sir. I have championship. Is endangering his life of danger One morning when the asked him Into the salon. A foreigner, “Bob,” she said, “you are not speak by his continued activity. He has doctor called he brought with him a I think, sir—Signor Ritz—Ritz”— ing the truth.” “Anyway. Jennie, I’ll only take my fought so many battles during the last lady who went to Olive's room, where “I know. That will do. Excuse m* ■bare of the prize money, a total of two years that a well known medical she stayed a long while. Elliott was a minute, nay dear.” $120.000. Whatever the seamen's man says that unless he takes a rest in the house and wondered what it all Paul was standing at bis full height share Is shall go to them, and Jack’s he will drop dead of heart disease meant. When the lady went aWay gazing into the fire, and the red glow within a year or two. Another spe the doctor came downstairs with her, share goes to you.” lit up bis distinguished features, and “Bob,” she said, looking at him im I cialist, however, has assured him that and the two stood for awhile talking the old man, looking upon him, reallz«sl bls heart Is sound and all he need in the hall, but all that Elliott ceuld what a splendid man he was, and he pressively, uer bosom heaving. "I won't have a cent of it You brought In the worry about Is a slight disorder tn his hear was the lady asking, "How soon wished Ellean could have seen him vessel. I have talked about the mat stomach. The next doctor who comes can I take her home?” When the vis thus. ter with those who know, and they say along will be claiming that O'Brien Is itor bad gone the doctor went Into the "How kind of you to bring the cruci that finding a prize is nothing, but suffering from enlargement of the library, where he found Elliott. fix yourself, my dear friend. 1 see you chest If he keeps up his winning gait "I have something to tell you,” he have it.” bringing it In is everything.” over the kind of company he fights. said to the young man. “Nineteen years “But, Jennie”— With a cry of wonder, delight and O’Brien has a wonderful muscular ago I assisted at the birth of n girl, amazement he seized It in bls ponds “Walt! If Jack Is spared to confirm development. The Quaker City boxer your story and says it was agreed that I the child of wealthy parents. There and touched the angel's face that stood he and two men should remain aboard when stripped ready for the fray is a was a malformation of the right clavi out nt the top of the cross. physfcnl marvel. His arm, neck and cle—I shoulder Made- that I had a food ship while you alone were to "It Is Ellean!" Then, recovering him take the chances ou a derelict, all shar shoulder muscles stand out like whip not seen before. 1 never forget ax- self, he grasped tin' artist’s hand. ’ I ing In the prize money, you can pay cords. In this respect O’Brien is in a ceptlonal cases, and when putting a cannot thunk you—it Is all so marvel class by himself. He has all of the hot appliance to the shoulder of the ous-hut come with me. Let her thank his share to him.” This ended the conference for th' other boxers ou.cUssed when It comes i girl upstairs I knew she was one of you—your angel, you know." time 1 “Ing. One day a steamer cam to muscles. Even Jim Jeffries has not my medical children. This much 1 Paul followed the old inn n to El- Rt liberty tn toll you without re- leuu's room in a dream umi stood rt into p- rt, and it was telegraphed all the perfect muscular development O'Brien possesses. ve iJ ing a ! '-ce;''-t. Tl ' the ti n hold gazing at the irl. whs * ,' over the land that she had picked up Ordinarily the muscle« of the fighter the child whs a foundling I may al; a boat with the name "Sheridan" pnlnt came toward them aa If. af r ali, aha ed on the stern, containing the boil les are little in evidence. When relaxed Bll.V. Ent Io ■*v ' * *-a me to be could n»t be flesh and bloo< . rweal. t l ough ! of three men. They proved to be the they are «circely seen. Fighters do fourifllin i c: . “Ellean, my child! W hat • It?" n tba’ she w„ born hi SLerloan's crew, but the story of the not believe t.ut u hea.y mue ular de m..y She was tottering toward I ■ r grnnd- velopment is necessary. Jeffries and «dy *l»o ! ,.s Just go v father, “lhat tnntl” she <1 '<11. -if vesst Vs less never was told- Corbett have muscles that are suppl", I k I k It is yet t o early for developments Is the face the face I liar« loved se power and str« • "th. Fltzsfm- j shoulder blade iron long!"- London News. as to the accept 'nee of Jack Dutton's yet h / n-s nearer to O'Brien tn his Bions •bare of th" prize money by bls widow, bl a M ■ ! tt White as ny rani . 1, I. r slight, i , trouble but her observing friends do not hesl muscular di ■ elopmint thin any of the foi '11 Then Rhe Smiled. ers. N twlthit nding the the p< .on of whom it la u .--rt. and ta'j to predict that at the expiration other fighter». “I'll bet ruy boots It isn’t i 0.“ of a year fr <m the finding of the Sheri- development of his body muscles, si," w i c to have It 01» .-a 1 up It was an elegant e<p «ion for Her liu band will not cone nt. a young lady, but It ian*s boet load of den 1 she win accept O’Brien possesses great speed. He Is on ery ent her widow’« «hare and Bob ColHn“' not muscle bound. He can land a ter lie evasiti' ri it the most important phntfe. rifle blow with as much speed aa any link In the chain of his life's happiness share, with Bob Collins thrown In. “Rut that would l>e such a -y small They furthermore declare that Mrs of the topnotch boxers. Mrs. White Is one of tlie prominent wager,” he urged. Few fighters have tough* more be*, women io the city of ber residence. Dutton will a -«- the principal part e* Then she smiled sweetly «n Nt* tins tbaa O’Brie*. uTlze. BUCHANAN HUNL MARY ALICE BARKER —Detroit Free Press.