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The Trey
A Novelized Veso Of the Mot"-'
By LOUIS JX
m~aae it Photopapi
conV~treftnu*
CHAPTER XXXI.
Light Engine.
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'