A Fool For Love

kies,-and the Chicago and Alton's fast train, dripping from the rush through the wet

nted cigarette, stood aloof from the hurrying throngs on the platform, look

at his watch. "We are over an hour late now.

moker shoo

won't make any particular difference. The western connections all wait for the Limited

e unburned half of his cigarette

ied through the Tech because he insisted that I should have a profession; and now I am going in for field work with you in a howling wi

and the firm, smooth-shaven jaw to the square fingertips of the strong hands, and his smile was of good-natured contempt. "As you say, it is an outrage on fil

wn the outbound track to a coupling with the Transcontinental Limited. Adams stepped back and let

outfit. That cooks our last chance of makin

vy little puffs of snowy hair peeping out under her dainty widow's cap. Another was small and blue-eyed, with wavy masses of flaxen hair caught u

of health and strength and beauty: clear-skinned, brown-eyed-a very goddess fresh from the bat

d goddesses were concerned. Yet he had a pang-of disappointment or pointless jealousy, or something akin to both-when Adams lifted his hat to this

sensible man should. After a bit he was able to laugh at the "sudden attack," as he phrased it, but later, when he and Adams were settled for the day-long run in the Den

n?" he said, when Adams had ta

ian modified

her a number of times at the houses of mutual frien

Bostonian," said

ret of the Carterets; Virginia-born-br

ing the slang for no reason that

d villainies, and his clean-shaven

t sight, I suppose, as she does most m

is 'no

ingly, and puffed aw

if you were about to have a fit? But it is just as I tell you: it's no go. She isn't the marry

off!" grow

rise out of him. Moreover, she comes of old Cavalier stock with an English earldom at the back of it, and she is ino

to a Colonial governor on his father's side, and to assert that he did not know his grandfather's

iss Carteret is of the sang azur. The man who marries her will have

was mockingly

ve been a novelist. Give you a spike and a cross-tie and you'd infer a whole railroad. But

r in fact of the Colorado and Grand River road: the 'Rajah,' they call him. He is a relati

the widow's cap: is she

and Miss Virginia's aunt. She

ge on the Kansas side of the river. When he spoke again it was

try colonel,' a born leader who has fought his way to the front. If the Quartz Creek row is anything more than a stiff bluff on the part of the C. G.

lf-hearted attempt to galvanize a

d. "Have I enlisted for a soldier when I thought I was only going into pea

here is Carbonate," he explained. "At present the Utah is running into Carbonate this way over the rails of the C. G. R. on

o hold," said

mber the C. G. R. people gave th

tiously. "Still I don't see why there should be a

e shut out of Carbonate business, which is all that keeps that part of their line alive. If they want

tifling a yawn. "They are

route through the mountains is up Quartz Creek Canyon, and the canyon

ee why there sho

onopoly of all the carrying trade of the camp. By consequence it can force every shipper in the district to make iron-cla

savvy the burro: that's the proper phra

heaven and earth to obstruct us in the canyon. If they can delay the work a little longer, the weather will do the rest. With the firs

ted anothe

r the life of me I can't understand what these obst

ut the first move was peaceable enough. They got an injunction from the

body wanted to do," said A

d Winton. "The canyon is a narrow gorge-a mere s

ppose we took an appeal and asked

handed down; and in the meantime we go on building railroad, incurring all the penalties for contempt

ion rest while he a

ago some one told me you were going to South America

me this. Chief of Construction Evarts, in charge of the work in Quartz Creek Canyon, said what you sa

and buttone

e ossifying exile," he remarked. And then: "I am going back into the Ros

than the invitation warranted; a