A Fool For Love

e sullen shock of the explosion set

e to look upon the ruin wrought by the landslide while t

lorless voice behind her; and she had an uncomfortabl

d upon hi

accident, M

anything else?" h

there was an expl

n. "I understand the sheriff is her

was a platitude: "Everythi

neither," s

ear, Miss Carteret: you are one of us, you know, and you mustn't be d

t had not occurred to her that Jastrow's motive in showing

said, with the faintest possible emphasis on the courtesy prefix; and with th

th his news of the catastrophe, and the camp was alive with men clustering like b

er, Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up t

e of the sort that rises the higher for reverses. But at the instant she remembered the s

e and the Reverend William were at the window, watching the stirring indu

e, I want our side to win; but it seems

ting a crisp explanation from Virginia in which s

d Billy sho

he law-of business; but they

ustling out fiercely to a conference with his Myrmidon

he windows of the Rosemary, and they heard Sheri

and don't get rattled. Now, th

rend Bil

going to do?"

ton a tip if it's the

eflapped hat and leather breeches was climbing swiftly to the level of the new line, cautiously waving a handkerchief as a peace to

o?" said

n the window, please.

ment. For the moment the rifles of the track force we

e pick-and-shovel melee, urgi

take another play-day in Ca

alive to the possibilitie

the tools were flung aside, and the track fo

. Branagan, you take the other half and go down till you can cross-fire with Mulcahey. Aim low, both of

you going to resist? That

ed to the wa

fteen down out of the way: you

. And then to the water-boy, who was acting quartermaster: "Give me a

in?" said Biggin to

s level. You've done enough alr

eter cheerfully, casting himself flat

and earth dam formed by the landslide, the window went up in the Rosemary

eckert, and we shall resist force with force.

solitary figure where a few minutes before th

y was an order, bu

en we want; cover

hies or the passions, a picked-up sheriff's posse is not

side to Winton. "Them professional veniry c

nded by two hundred rifles to right and left. The attempt was a humiliating failure. B

profanity. Whereupon Mr. Peter Biggin rose up and sent a bullet t

he drawled, "but no

s a person who could be argued wit

wn!" he

n lau

n. Come up, and you may read

nton's signal the track-layers came

d up courage to go to the window, which she h

calmly as if the morning meal were the only m

artet by the advent of Mrs. Carteret, who had neither seen nor h

ginia was the only one of the four who remained at tab

win without calling in these

im smile came and wen

orrid men with their guns' were on top of that

win in some other way," Vir

is plate aside and

ndehstand, we can't let the Utah finish this

d. But Mr. Winton seems

us with some one else-any one else. That

he advanced it without examining

king for wages, is

oney, at that. Hi

rom the other people? Mr. Callowell

n his chair and rega

it?" sh

an's-ah-sense of propo'tion was put togetheh. But your plan has

he assented, not without dubiety. "T

gin by having him heah to dinneh this evening, hi

ts way by the hands of the private-car porter to Winton, lab

d Mr. Morton P. Adams, and he will be pleased if they will

for

, December