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Toward the close of that summer's day it was the whim of that arch-man ager of theatricals whom men call Fate to stage an anticlinax in the midst of a vast and hilly expanse o desolate middle western countrY-a rude and rugged disk of earth whici boasted no human tenancy within a circle of its far-flang horizon and was bisected, not neatly, rather irregular ly, by the flowing double line of steel ribbons which marked the railroad's right of way over the old Santa FE trail So much for the stage: the light ef fects were provided exclusively by the crimson and purple and gold of a por tentous sunset; the properties em ployed were simply a special train and what is known as a light engine (mean Ing a locomotive unhandicapped b3 care); audience there was none, if one except the actors-who were one anc all far too deeply preoccupied with the interpretation of their several roles to be aware of the show. They were not many in number: perhaps half a dozen aboard the spe clal train-which was making away aE fast as It could run toward the glory of the sunset; as many more aboar the light engine. It was the engineer who started the trouble. After bringing his monstei to a full pause, he turned upon hi! passengers and-not without plausible excuse-violently indicted Mr. Alar Law for abuse of his and his fire man's trustfulness. This the said fire man (climbing forward over the ten der) vigorously applauded. They had been engaged, both gentle men asserted vigorously, for nothini more dangerous than a quick rui across the prairies, in furtherance o the unspecified plans of Mr. Alan Lay and his companion, Miss Judith Trine After starting out, they had wickedl: and maliciously been bribed by thi said Law to put on speed and catch u] with the special, in order that he migh rescue from the latter a young woman his bride-to-be and the sister of Mis Trine. But-and here was the grievance they hadn't bargained to be shot a with pistols. And precisely that oui rage had been put upon them duuin; and subsequent to the moment of re! cue. It was unhappy Mr. Barcus who pre cipitated the affair. This gentlema: was suffering from a severe sprain t his sense of decent pride. In the ser' ice of Miss Rose Trine and her bi trothed, Mr. Law, Barcus had blaci ened his face and hands to the huec ebony and had garmented himself i the garb of a Pullman porter, surrer see himnp.it to humiliatinglservic to those aboard the special, suffer3 their insolence and scorn without murmur, but with the tides of wrat mounting ever higher in his bosom. And now, when at length he ha won his freedom from that ignomin ous servitude, it was only to be swor at and vilified, as a comrmon nigge/%" railroad hands! 9 It was the fireman (to be iust) whi brought the row to a focus by a slighi lug reference to that 'shiftless an' misbegotten dinge." He repented quite promptly. Mr Barcus jumped for his throat with ne of His Arms Was Around Her Shoulder. bellow of rage. The brakeman leaped tr his shovel and brandished it threat eingly. Mr. Barcus made nothing of hat: he closed in without hesitation ad got the fireman by the throat, pro eeding to shake the breath out of his body with the greatest good will and ispatch. In the course of this enter ainment the fireman slipped on the ab platkhrm, trod on nothing, and went over backwards, taking Mr. Bar us with him to the ballast. At almost the same moment Mr. aw, attempting to restrain the engi ieer from going to the assistance of is fellow-worker, ducked in under a icious swing for his chin, grappled ith his foe, tripped him up-and went with his to the ground on the oppo site side of the locomotive from that ccupied by Mr. Barcus and the fire nan.- . For the next several seconds he was ery busy indeed keeping his face out f the ballast. The engineer was a tavy man, but active and infuriated. le fought like a demon unchained. It 0' H-ats .= of the Sam. Na&m )SEPH VANCE is from the cr 1redutis LOIS Joseph Vance even beginning to enjoy it when be heard a woman shriek. At the same instant revolvers began to pop. Mr. Law released his foe almost as quickly as he was released. Both rose as one man, to find Judith Trine be side them, a little smile of excitement playing round her lips as she looked up the track and watched the special slow down to a stcp-eeveral persons on the back platform plying busy trig ger-fingers all the while. As these last threw open the plat form gates and dropped to the ballast, still perforating the air with many bul lets, Mr. Law, Miss Judith Trine, and that late belligerent, the engineer, turned simultaneously and sought the rear of the tender. On the opposite side they found Rose Trine and Mr. Barcus standing uncertainly above the body of the fire man, who, It appeared, had stunned himself in falling and remained In sensible. The appearance of Law and Judith from behind the tender, closely pur sued by the engineer, who was in turn closely pursued by gentlemen with re volvers, stirred Barcus and Rose to ac tion. Alan passed him at a round pace, pausing only long enough to seize Rose and drag her with him toward [ the special. Judith flung him a phrase of well-meant advice in passing: "Come along, you simpleton-unless you want to be shot down where you stand!" Mr. Barcus acted on that advice, as immediately as reseutfully. Judith . Trine was little before him at the . steps of the Pullman: Mr. Law had al . ready assisted Rose aboard. Mr. Bar cus ungraciously gave place to the . lady: his ingrained chivalry sorely strained by bullets that kicked among the ballast round his feet. 7 CHAPTER XXXIII. Pullman. "Come inside," Law suggested, "and introduce me to the brakeman. I pre sume I've got to fix things up with him-" 3 "If there's really any doubt in your mind as to that," Barcus said, rising, "I don't mind telling you you're right." t He paused as Alan entered the car . before him and was greeted by a storm of vituperation that fairly blistered the panels of'the Pullman. Mr. Seneca Trinle, helpless in his invalid chair, thus celebrated his introduction to the Syoung man whom he had never before seen whose life he had schemed to ake these many years. His heavy voice boomed and echoed through the car like the -sounding of a tocsin. 'Alan made no effort to respond, but a listened with his head critically to .- one side and an exasperating expres e sion of deep interest informing his countenance until Mr. Trine was s out reath and vitriol; when b the younger bowed with the slight est shade of kery in his manner dand waved a tole t hand t . "He has, no do us car?" ."his own private e .~ agreed, aping -Yssuh!" Bg'hi apparent caste and color. "Aif't dat de troof?" S"Take him away, then," Alan re quested wearily-"if you please." "Yas, suh!" Barcus replied, with nimble alacrity seizing the back of the wheeled chair and swinging It round for a spin up the length of the car. Before Trine had recovered enough to curse him properly, the door to his drawing room was closed and Barcus was ambling back down the aisle. .His grin of relish at this turning of the tables on the monomaniac proved, however, short-lived. It erased itself in a twinkling when Judith shouldered roughly past him, wearing a sullen and forbidding countenance, and flung herself into the drawing room with her father. The cause of her temper was not far to seek: at the far end of the car Alan was bending solicitously over the chair in which Rose was resting. One of his arms was around her shoulder. Her face was lifted confidently to his. Barcus mused morosely on his ap prehension of trouble a-brew, simmer ng over the waxing fire of that strange woman's jealousy. He didn't like the prospect at all. If only Alan and Rose hadn't been so desperately In love that they couldn't keep away from one another! If only Alan had been sen sible enough to outwit the woman and leave her behind when he started in pursuit of the special! If only there had not been that light engine in pur suit-as Barcus firmly believed It must be-loaded to the guards with Trine's unscrupulous hirelings! No telling when they might catch up! The fear of this last catastrophe worked together with his fears of Ju dith to render that night a sleepless one for Barcus. He spent it in a chair whence he could watch both the door to the compartment Judith had chosen for her own (formerly Marrophat's quarters) and the endless ribbons of steel that swept beneath the tracks. But nothing happened. He napped uneasily from time to time, waking with a start of fright, but always to find nothing amiss. Ever Judith stopped behind that closed door, and ever the track behind was innocent of the glare of a pursuing headlight. Nor did anything untoward mark the progress of the morning-unless, In deed. Judith's protracted sessions with her father behind the closed door of the drawing room were to be counted ominous. Ever since lunch-time the girl: had been closeted with her father; Barcus had been getting some well-earned and . sorely-needed rest in his quarters; Alan standing his watch on the obser vation platform, in company with Rose; and the train booming 4ong through an uncouth wilderness o arid mountains;Dbarren mesas, and eun smitten flats given over to the desolate genius of sagebrush. Whatever had been the tenor of the communication between father and daughter, Judith eventually emerged from: the drawing room in an ominous temper. Barcus, coming drowsily away from his compartment at the same time, was jarred wide awake by sight of the foreboding countenance she wore; and after a moment of doubt followed her back to the lounge at the rear of the car. He got there in time to see her at rigid standstill, staring steadfastly at the two figures so close together on the observation platform. But on his appearance Judith shook herself together, snatched up a magazine, and plunged wrathfully into an easy chair, burying her nose between the pages of the publication with every indication of deep interest in Its text. Mr. Barcus, however, had learned the lesson of bitter experience to the effect that the outward bearing of Miss Judith Trine was no sure index to her inward humor-unless, that is, it might be taken to indicate the di rect contrary of its semblance; though even this was no reliable rule. Reminding himself of this, he there fore invented a morbid interest in an other magazine-round the edge of which he kept a wary eye upon the young woman. For all her exasperation, Judith con tained herself longer than might have been expected. Her continued show of placidity, indeed, lulled Barcus into F a dangerous feeling of security. Per suaded that she meant to behave, he gradually ceased to watch her as nar rowly as at first, and lost himself in a morose reverie whose subject was the seemingly permanent mourning Into which he had plunged his face and Struck the Caboose With a Crai hands for the purposes of his mas querade-staining them a shade of ebony upon which soap and water anc scrubbing had no effect whatever. And he had Invented a most excruciating method of revenging himself upon the druggist who had taken advantage o his confidence and sold him the in eradiable dye-when he was roused b: the sudden flight of a magazine across the car, missing his head by a bare two inches, and the bang of a chal overturned by Judith as she jumped up and flung herself furiously toward the door. Just what had happened on the ob servation platform Barcue didn't know but he could readily believe that the caress. He overhauled Judith none too soon. In another moment she would have had her sister by the throat-If her purpose had not been to throw Rose bodily overboard, as Barcus suspected. Happily, he was as quick on~ his feet as Judith on hers; and almost before he had grasped the situation, he had grasped her-had seized her a drawn them forcibly behind he at the same time swinging her r and endeavoring to propel her back through the doorway. It was a man-size job. For the ensu ing five minutes he had his hands full of violently resentful and superbly able-bodied young woman. Only with the greatest difficulty did he succeed In wrestling her up the aisle and to the door of her compartment, where an even more furious resistance for some additional minutes prefaced the ultimate closing of the door upon the maddened Judith. Even then he might not draw a free breath: there was no way of locking that door from the out. side; and he dared not leave go the handle, lest the girl again fly out and renew the battle. Waving aside Alan's proffer of as sistance, he acidly advised that gen tleman to return to his post of duty and not let his infatuation blind him to what might at any moment loom up on the track behind them, Barcus stoutly held the door against the girl's attempt to pull it open and through another period when she occupied her. self with kicking its panels as If hope ful of breaking a way out. A long pause followed. He heard no sounds from within. And wearying, he won dered what the devil she was up to. Then her voice penetrated the barrier, Its accents calm and not unamiable: "Mr. Barcus!" "Hello!" he replied, startled. "What is It, Miss Judith?" "Please let me out." "Not much." "Oh-please!" Struck by the fact that she hadn't lost her temper on hearing his refusal, he hesitated. It was very true that he couldn't stay there forever, holding on to that knob, Emancipation Day in Pickens Mr. Editor:-lease allow us place in your valuable paper tc spread this significent piece of news. On J anuasy 1st 1914, at Grif fin Ebenezer Baptist church the negroes of Pickens and sur roundings met there to celebrate their fifty second natal year of freedom and progress in this county- The program for the great occasion was replete with five minutes addresses from rmr "Will you be good If I let you out? "Perfectly." "No more shenanigan?" "I promise." "Word of honor?" "If my word of honor means any- C thing to you-you have it." "Well . . .!" he said dubiously. in the same humor he turned and re leased the knob; promptly Judith i opened it wide and swept out into the i corridor, her mood now one of really 1 fetching mockery. "Thank you so much!" she laughed into his face of discomfiture; and drop ping him an ironic curtsy,'she turned forward and swung into the drawing room occupied by Trine. "Wonder what she put that on for?" he speculated, with reference to the ankle-long Pullman wrapper which Ju- 1 dith had seen fit to don during her period of captivity. "Heaven knows it's hot enough without wearing more clothing than decency demands . . . But you never can tell about a wom an . . . .I bet a dollar I've made a blithering ass of myself-letting her loose at all!" He took liis doubts aft, communi cating them to Alan and Rose. And his long conference with Alan and Rose on the observation platform j afforded Judith ample opportunity in which undetected to suborn the train crew to treachery. Whether she did or not, this is what happened in the course of the next hour: the special was forced to take a siding to make way for the California limited, east-bound; and when this had passed, the engine of the special coughed apologetically and pulled swiftly out, leaving the Pullman stalled on the siding. From the rear of the tender the brakeman and fireman waved affecting farewells to the indignant faces of ....... .... ..... A Like the Explosion of a Cannon. Alan and Barcus when they showed in the front doorway. CHAPTER XXXIV. Hand Car. "Well!" Mr. Barcus broke a silence whose eloquence may not be translatted in print-"can you beat it?" "Not with this outfit," Alan admit Ited gloomily. "But-damn it!-we've got to." I"Profanity-even yours ' won't make tils Pullman x ' an engine.". "All the same, we can like bumps on a log, wait gang of thugs to 'rail up engine and cut our- blesse --Mr. Law answered this able contentluu 'wly witl Then, stepping out on\ the forward platform of the Pullmant WP cast a hopeless eye over the landscape. 's . . Raw, rugged hills hemmed in the right of way, hills whose vast flanks were covered with dense thickets of mesquite, chapparal, sagebrush and cacti, the haunt of owls and rattle s and-solitude. No way of es that pocket in the hills oth * y the railroad Itself. He lowered his gaze to the tracks and siding-and started sharply. *"Eh-what now?" Barcus inquired with interest. I"Some thoughtful body has left an old hand car over there In the ditch," IAlan replied. "Maybe it isn't beyond service-" "With me supplying the horsepower, I suppose!" "Horse isn't the word," Alan cor rected meticulously; and escaped the other's wrath by dropping down to the ballast and trotting over to the ditch, Iwhere the hand car lay. I"Looks as If It might work," he an nounced. "Come along and lend me a hand." "Half a minute," Barcus answered, dodging suddenly back Into the car. When he reappeared, after some five minutes, Rose accompanied him, and Barcus was smiling as brilliantly as though nothing whatever was wrong with his world. "Sorry to keep you waiting, old top," he explained; "but I was smitten with an Inspiration. There didn't seem to be any sense in letting the amiable Judith loose upon this fair land, so I found a coil of wire in the porter's closet and wired the handle of the drawing room door fast to the bars across the aisle, It'll take her some time to get out, now, without assist ance." Ten minutes more had passed before the two grimy and perspiring gentle men succeeded in placing the hand car upon the tracks. "It's a swell little hand car," Bar. cus observed grimly: "no wonder they threw it away." "What's the difference how it looks, as long as it will go?" lows Order with its sacred be ginning and love for humanity. Adeer Griffin made a big place for Free-Masons and strongly impressed that this was one of the leading fraternal bodies in the world, while Daisy E. Jones I described the Ruthites as a very I necessary a ux i la ry to the Knights of Pythias order. The 1 music under the management of Daisy E. Jones for this splen- I did event was exquisite. The solos sung by W. M. Rosemond t "But will it?" isarcun Somewhere far back )comotive hooted m "It's got to!" Alan tose aboard. "If we f sight before they get "Don't worry," B that's a freight whist1 "Maybe yo4 n distin rh st e eight from that o engef train-I don't say you ca >ut I'll take no chances on your judg ent being good. Hop aboard here if ou're coming with us!" Slowly the hand car stirred on its rease-hungry and complaining axles; lowly it gathered momentum and urged noisily up the track as Alan md Barcus, on opposite sides of the iandlebar, alternately rose and fell yack; slowly it mounted the slight rade to the bend In the track, rounded t, lost sight of the stalled Pullman m the siding and began to move more wiftly on a moderate down grade. Behind it the thunder of an ap roaching train grew momentarily In rolume, lending color to the theory of dr. Barcus that what they had heard iad been the whistle of a freighter -ather than of the light engine. But ust as Alan was' about to advocate eaving the tracks and taking the hand ar with them, to clear the way for the :rain, its rumble began to diminish, rew less and beautifully less, and was ;tilled. "What do you make of that?" Alan anted across the racking bar. "The obvious," Barcus returned. 'The freight has taken the siding to ait for some other through train to ass. We'll have to look sharp and be ready to jump." --- The grade bediffie a trace mo steep; the .eir moved with less reluc tance. "Let go," Alan advised: lown the balance of this i. we'd better save our stren. But they bad barely rega: breath and mopped the bireaming sweat away from their eyes when a second whistle, of a different tone, startled both back to their task. Catching the eye of Barcus Alan nodded despiiringly. "Afraid it's all up with us now," he groaned; "that sounded precisely like the whistle of the light engine." "Sure it did!" Barcus agreed. "It wouldn't be us if we had any better luck. The saints be praised for this grade!" For all its age and decrepitude the hand car made a very fair pace at the urge of the two who rose and sagged again without respite on either side the handlebar; and the grade was hap. pily long, turning and twisting like a snake through the hills. A little grace was granted them, moreover, through the circumstance (as they 'fterward discovered) that the ht ngine had stopped at the sidin Ough to couple up Trine's Paa-thu cally ceasing to be a light engine, and becoming a special. It was fully a quarter of an hour be fore the growing rumble of the latter warned the trio on the hand car,.just as it gained the end of the grade and addressed itself to a level though tor tuous stretch of track. And at this point discovery of the switch of a spur line that shot off southward into the hills *:I" d . n - e snoulder .e next bend when the special took the switch without pause and the roar of its progress, shut off by an inter vening mountain, was suddenly stilled tO a murmur. MAbeven so, therq..was neith for the v, ,ry nor naich excu selfcongratu - the rumble special was not atg lost t - ig when the thunder of -ht replaced and drowned it out. Of a sudden, releasing the handle bar, Alan stood up and signed to Bar cus to imitate his example. "Well-?" this last panted, when he had obeyed. , "Jump off-leave the hand car where t is-they'll have to stop to clear It off the track." "And then?" "I'll buy a lift from them if It. takes my lt dollar in the world," Alan promie. "It's our only hope. We can't keep up this heartbreaking busi ness forever-and it can't be long be !ore Trine and Marrophat discover their mistake!" CH APTER XXXV. Caboose. For once, In a way, It fell out pre-. isely as Mr. Law had planned and prayed. Constrained to pull up in order to re move the obstruction from the track, the train crew of the freight choked own its collective wrath on being pre sented with a sum of money. In the hopes of further largesse it lent Its common ear to Alan's well-worn tale, which had so frequently proved useful n similar emergencies, of an eloping couple pursued by an unreasoningly vindictive parent; and had its hopes rewarded by the price Alan bargained to pay in exchange for exclusive use of the caboose as far as the next town. So that it was not .more than ten minutes before Rose was settled to rest in such comfort as the caboose af orded, while Alan and Barcus sat within its doorway and smoked. Neither he nor any other aboard the freight suspected for an Instant that, n the box car next forward of the ca boose, a woman in man's clothing lay perdue, now and again chuickling hich he must earn by-farnest,1 onest endeavor, and his duty vas to win and retain the favor md love of his white neighbor Ld strive daily to be of indis ensable help and service to his grand old republic. I. J. Allgood the faithful nember and officer of Ebe ieezer Baptist chureh in .his elicitous strains made the citi :en body welcome and at E commemorate the r talf century of e? light, follow windows, indiCatinga single speci.1, beyond a doubt. Without hesitation, since was not running at speed, she out to the ballast, wheele about, caught the handbar of the box car as it ped herself up bet It ad A trifle later summit of the grade an more smoothly. & Climbing to the top of .the.s, she peered keenly through th..oam' ing, which was not yet so dense tZat she might not discern two beadi Judith Uncoupling the C truding from the window .' t -spe cial's engine, one on either-sd At a venture she snatched. coat and waved it wildly in the An arm answered the signs one window of the pursui tive. * Marrophat, of course! She turned and peeredA - freight was approaherCo spanned a wlde And. sha -~ 7 Bo much the better! Dropping down again. -we cars, she set herself to-solve theiron Iem of uncoupling the caboose. In this slid was succeadl ~ the laat car Irolled out on 4. -- out upon the ties'and eIT. alight Already the last of the~r~' whisking off the trestl. far unconscious of thefrJO4 2i solid earth: the distanlce great; they could noto.mosic t With commo i.th gully, then ooked.at each c ~er i eyes by common 4ipa h on announced in a e t fee ot more" Alan rep : "Can yo.. ho th weight of the o of us for a a.i n ute?" Barcus shrugged: "I ca ta might as well-even If!I c.:" While speaking, he was himself between the ties. "All right," he annone ru Wth aword to Rose,1~ D.~i down beside Barcus, shr ---~ to the body of the letter, an eflrnbe down over him until he wisugon solely by the grasp of his two on Barcus' ankles. - Instantly Rose followed ping like a snake down over t~ men till she b on Alan's iinkled, then hold and droped the distance-to th9' feet, landing without in . m:an open sjwerhead the xza tling onward like some struck the caboose with a ~ the explosion of a cannn a~ upon itself like athig o 9 -L That It had been coii more solid stuff was a ptdved by the shower of ti 1 ters'and broken Iron that ~ ~' the heads of the fugitives - For all that, the gods them~for their c:u without a s-aim (ContidNext Retired Among the culprits hal. more police was a - meai edg'