A Fool For Love

ous path of the strategist when she hande

rfunctory by the tone. "What a world of possibilities there is masquerading behind that

asier in a tough mining-camp

but

fton will go about it, bu

the deepest depth of the brown eyes that was sifting Mr. Ar

trow?" she asked, giving him the exact

y the time the lawyers are through drilling him in the tres

Oh, how deliciou

p against him and pick a quarrel with him.

heeded in Miss Virginia Carteret when her eyes wer

her cousin's arm again; and the secretary went

d have been fairly creditable in a past master of diplomacy. So, while the sympathetic part of her was crying out for a chance to talk Winton's threatened danger over with some one, she lent hersel

der to the superintendent. But she could not make the appeal without betraying Jastrow. She knew well enough that the secretary had no right to show her the telegrams; knew also that Mr. Somerville Darrah's first word would be a demand to know how

o Winton. But there were obstacles seemingly insuperable. She had not the faintest notion of how such a warning should be addressed; and again, the operator

to go in?" asked the Reverend Billy, when t

of it-ten steps and a turn," she confessed

t, and accordingly helped her over to t

heir construction camp, if you like,"

ome on wheels of the chief of construction and his assistant; a crooked siding with a gang of dark-skinned laborers at work unloading a car of steel. These in the immediate foreground; and a lit

t marked the boxed-up te

that little house-ten

Then he saw the wires and vent

ve a telegraph office," she com

e-one of their own. Under the circu

pe that a young man in a billy-cock hat and with a cigarette between his lips would

e. Do you think he would come over an

y's smile was of

? Wait here a minute an

t of the new line. There were armed guards here, too, as well as at the front, and one of them halted him at the picke

have thought of meeting you here?" said Adams, taking her hand a

that you and Mr. Winton have chosen a highly unc

pencil-other things besides maps and working profiles, I mean. Won't you come over and let me do the honors of the studio?"

d have angled for, but she was

tn't. I'm afraid Mr. Wi

for not being here to 'shoot up' the camp for you in pers

, shifting, not the decision, but the res

right-of-way fights were mere matters of business i

mpossible trio out of any attempted duet confidential? A willingness to see that Winton had fair play need not carry with it an open desertion to the en

o brave the consequences-all of them; so she took Calv

He explained the system under which the material was kept moving forward to the ever-advancing front; let her watch the rhythmic swing and slide of the rails from the car to the

wn her all the space-saving contrivances of the field

he wrong end of the day,-or it would be in Boston,-but our Chinaman won't know the differenc

some of Jack's sketches," he went on, finding a

e Mr. Winton won't

himself. He is peacock vain of his one small accompli

rejoinder, and they bega

n a pen-and-ink bearing evidence of more painstaking after-work. They were made on bits of m

ss of a friendly critic, "but they will serve to show you that I wasn't all kinds o

u," she retorted. "It is well past apology, d

penciled on the leaf of a memorandum, and Adams recognized it as the out

y when he was trying to make me understand the situation up her

paper held a very fair likeness of a face which Virginia's mirror had oftenest portrayed: a sketch setting

re is a good bit more of the artist in Jack than I have been giving him credit for. Don't you know, he must have got

dded: "Mr. Winton will probably never miss it. If he does, you will have to explain the best way you can." A

not yet accomplished, and Aunt Martha in her character of anxious chaperon was not to be forgotten. Also, Miss Carteret had a feeling that und

snow-blinding, out-of-door world, and Virginia gathe

ept that tent-place up there," she assert

at is our telegraph office. Would you care to see

ith charming and childlike wilfulness; so the three of them t

Adams explained the use and need of a "front"

u can come up here and talk to anybody y

service," amended Adams. "

ying the part of the capricious ingenue to the very upcast of

ssary additional inch and gave her a penc

n here admiring your d

d I couldn't stop her

t without asking her

it awfully long. Does i

pointed in Miss Virginia, and was inwardly wondering what piece of girlish frivo

t to get into any fre

nto trouble; by which

ade to keep you from r

ai

hat?" she asked sweetly, g

but the generous purpose of it struck him like a whip-blow when he came to the

word." Then, for the Reverend William's benefit: "Winton deserves all sorts of a snub

er charitable duty, Virginia was as anxious to get away as heart-th

ice-bridge; down and across and back to the Rosemary, where they found a perturbed chapero

an aside to her cousin. And so the incident of tea-drinking in the enemy's camp was