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rj*^ <pBrf*V*Z0«r r\ jUiA&ezn&BCkV ' CH7CV&C?- QWWAJT A TAI£ OT THE BUTUDEK3 _ QF THE W&9X. r& A v-ffi ^wW^ryp'y ̂ J»^r//ay j<jij^>^M^»Artnnor>niiWT<ir>nf>onnriry-ir>rww»Af inrw^ummf >r>rw i<• SYNOPSIS. Th« story opens during a trip of the •'Overland Mail" through the Rocky mountains, while efforts are being made to build up the country. "Uncle Billy" Dodge, stage driver, Alfred Vincent, a young man, and Phineaa Cadwallader, In­ troduced. They come across the re­ mains of a massacre. C H ARTE rTTr--Continued. "Anthony 'himself taught her; he was a teacheh once. Sho was aa peart as chain lightning; and he had oodles of hooks. "Anthony went flat broke to few yeahs back; lost everything, including his grip. Some friend put in a word for him with the old man, and he came oveh hyah to hold up this station." "Is he going to keep her here al­ ways?" "No, that's fretting Mm. He told roe on the quiet Jie was fixing to take her inside and put her to school this yeah in San Francisco." % "How old is she?" "She's young enough. Say, -young felleh!" Uncle Billy turned sharply, and his words were stern. "Likely she ain't cut afteh the pattern o' crinoline yo're used to; but she's fast colohs all right. And if--we may see mo' like--like what's back yondeh--I want to stake you right now to stand by Stella Anthony." "You can count on me." The words were curt, but something In their utterance satisfied the driver. "Jimlny! The barn's fbne!" Uncle Billy exclaimed as the stage drew near a square stone house, loop-holed like a battle ship, with tiny points of light shining through. A heavy bar rattled to the floor in­ side, the one door opened cautiously, %and a woman appeared holding a can­ dle in her upllgted hand. She was tall and straight, her figure youthful In spite of unusual size; but the flaring flame, gleaming down over her breeze-tossed hair, cast aging shad­ ows on her face; and Alfred saw the candle-stick shake. "It that you, Uncle Billy?" The -voice was steady, yet Alfred caught its note of terror. "Yes, honey." Relief and tender­ ness blended in the answer. "The Indians--did you get through without any trouble?" "Yes, without trouble, now that I see my little gal's safe." He was quickly on the ground, his arms around her. "Ob, Uncle Billy, father's--oh, I don't know where he is! The barn's burned, the stock gone, and Gid and I've.fought 'em all--" Her voice broke, and she hid her face on his shoulder. tired to his chair, his eye the busier since hands must be idle. He looked about, upon the bar in the Corner, its glittering glass and one kerosene lamp the only brightness in the gloomy room; upon the dark, weapon-hung walls, and the significant loop-holes that gleamed small and black against the starlit night without Bare floors, rude home-made furniture --It was life more , primitive than Al­ fred could possibly have imagined ten days before. One object removed it from sav­ agery, Stella's small cane rocking- chair. It queened the barbarous room, an ombn of coming civilization. From the chair to Stella herself Alfred's eye wandered, noting her incongruous dress, a rich lavendei- silk skirt, once boasting .a tra in, though now cut half- shoe short, disclosing costly French boots, one tor., at the side. Her linen waist was jewel-clasped at the white neck and belted with a zone of quartz crystals clear as diamonds. Her comb, banded with delicate pink coral, held in place a coronet of glinting golden- brown braids, adorning but not dis­ guising the shapeliness of her perfect- . of her words he followed1 her to the door, where she stood look­ ing out. "Curly Joe's brought some stock," she said, glancing over her shoulder as he came near, "some they had a chance to buy I heard him say. It's in the nick of time for us." She stepped back to the table and poured another cup or coffee. "Have this fresl), cup, sir. You're not needed --now." Alfred seated himself and she went to the kitchen, leaving him to ponder the adverb of time so significantly spoken. Stella did not return, though Al­ fred finished his coffee and waited, the minutes dragging with his inac­ tion, until the searchers returned. Stella heard them and hastened to the door, peering into the darkness. A whispered parley kept her waiting. At last Uncle Billy stepped into the light. Stella gave him a quick look, read the answer to her mute question and fled. Alfred saw her white, set face as she passed. Duty and love are weapons that at- fliction at her worst "is compelled to respect Alone Stella fought her quick battle for composure; and when she brought in supper for the two men her face was less stricken than Uncle Billy's. He went to her, took her hands in his own, lifted his re­ luctant «yes to her. ' "Honey, you-- you must go--In an houh, less time if possible--" She met his look bravely, her voice unfaltering, though words came lame­ ly. "But father--I cannot leave him. Where--where is he?" "Child, we burled him--Gid and me. We did it--good, and I mapped the place, so you can find--but not any Injufc. And, honey, yon must--must get ready quick." Stella's head drooped. Alfred saw moment she faced him, smiling reso­ lutely, though Alfred saw unheeded tears cm her cheek. 'If you and Gid will eat a little sap­ per I'll gtet ready right away. I'll be --I'll be good." The words trembled off into a sob that was touchingly childlike. "You go right to Jake Bennett." the driver said as he finished his coffee a little later. "He's on the railroad at the 'Front,^ whereveh that is. You tell him I sent you. Bennett is ens of Superintendent Gregory's foremen, a AS FROM THE DEAD HUSBAND. LOST FOR FOUND AT LAST. YEARS Rmarkable Case of Sudden Failure of Memory, and of Its Equally Sud­ den Recovery in Presence of Loved One. v CHAPTER II. Hail and Farewell. Quickly Stella controlled herself and was going about the station duties with a quiet calmness that surprised Alfred. "We've a little barley in her, for­ tunately, and some blankets for the mules; but the hay's gone. You'll have to unhitch* for a few minutes, won't you, Uncle Billy? They can't double without a little rest, can they?" "Yes, but not for long. We've got to he at Maloney's in time to send help back hyah befo' day. The red devils ain't through hyah; there's whisky left, and brandy, I see, and--" "Not so much. Uncle Billy. I burned all the brandy to ipake bullets-- melted all the pewter stuff; too." "Well, I sweah! I didn't reckon yo' fatheh'd ever be short on ammuni­ tion." "It's ordered long ago, but the agent hasn't sent it Father*!! come soon-- 1 hope. It's too bad that you must lielp with the team, Uncle Billy." "That's no matteh. The only thing Is to feed and get away as soon as I «an. Wbere'd yo' fatheh go?" "He took some stock up to the meadows this morning; he should have been back before noon, and--'* She stopped abruptly and turned away. The driver paled and looked quickly toward a tall young man busy at one of the lockers. He caught the driver's wordless question and nodded signif­ icantly. Stella, facing away from them, was placing dishes on the table. "I'll have supper for you soon," she said present­ ly. "We didn't dare begin to cook before for fear--for fear--" "All right, Stella. These passengehs, Mr. Vincent and Mr. Cadwalladeh, will •eat; but Gid an' I'll go and look up the old man first" Stella flashed him a grateful look before nodding to the strangers, the only acknowledgment of the introduc­ tion she took time for. She lighted a lantern and set it near the door; brought a whisky flask from behind the bar, and some white cloth, and placed both besidefcthe lantern. Alfred sickened at the broken sen­ tences, sinister pauses, and still more sinister preparations; yet intently watched the hurrying workers. "Gid, take out the barley and feed 'em double measure. I'll help you blanket 'em in a mifiute." Gideon shouldered the barley just as Stella pulled a pile of heavy blan­ kets from a shelf. Alfred started for­ ward to help ber, and feit himself bending under a load that she had lifted with ease. Til take them, stranger." Gideon had dropped the barley and stepped quickly to Stella's side. Alfred turned, startled at that which his sensitive ear heard in the voice. He met a pair of black, burning eyes in a swarthy face not yet divorced from boyishness, though full manhood spoke from the straight figure and sinewy movements. Alfred needed no inter­ preter for that jealous look, needed no one to tell him of the instant hostility that lurked in the darkling eye, and found quick response in his own heart He relinquished the blankets ai|d re- "You'd Hardly Trust Me If f Accepted Othsr Terms." squareh man--his wife's even squareh --he'll deal you a straight game, little one. There's Sally B.. too, she's white, and can motheh a whole brood like yon and not let one chick get a cold toe." "And I'll follow as soon as I can slip this," Gideon added, his glance sweep­ ing the ihado^Speopled room. "I'm coming myself, honey. I'm coming to be near you, and to watch that Sacramento four tackle the big­ gest job of building since Babel." Uncle Billy rose and went out Soon all was ready. Stella waited* by her trunk for the coach to siring round. "Oh, Gideon, how can I leave you?" she sobbed as he came to her side. "But I wouldn't go unless you stayed." "All aboard, honey!" called the driver's kind voice from the dark. "Salt Lake City In ten hours!" Gideon caught her in an embrace she long remembered. Jt was not fare­ well, but appropriation. "Good-bye, Moppett" he whispered, "I'll come soon." Stella Felt His Solicitous Though Unspoken Interest. ly poised head. And from all this misplaced elegance a short red calico apron screamed at the eye with the ar­ rogance of a boor in power. Calmly unconscious of Alfred's scru1- tiny, Stella was coming and going, preparing the late supper. The team, unhitched but not unhar­ nessed, was fed, blanketed and tied to the coach wheels In front of the door; and Uncle Billy stepped inside and addressed Vincent and Cadwallader. "I reckon you two fellehs will have to take turns gyarding that team while we're gone, if you'd care to get away from hyah with yo' own hair on. Fiah two shots, wait a minute and flah one, if yo're molested." Gideon came in with an armful of wood. Alfred saw him answer the driver's unspoken call, saw both leave the house without looking at Stella, though her apprehensive eyes followed them through the door into the night. The simple supper of lucon, bis­ cuits, potatoes, beans and uried-apple pie was on the table, Stella pushed up a short bench and beckoned to Alfred. He rose and shook his head. "No, I'll let Mr. Cadwallader eat first" his said, and took his gun and disap­ peared. "Cracky, this is good!" Phineas ex­ claimed as he looked over the table. "Milk, by the eternal!" "Yes, but it's our last, I guess. They got the cow. I--" She stopped abrupt­ ly and left the room. Phineas was at heart a coward, yet he strove to hide It under bravado; and he took his turn in the darkness with a half merry, half contemptuous badinage that was sufficiently deceiv­ ing. Alfred ate sparingly, silently, his mind intent on impending tragedy. "Your hand is hurt, sir," Stella said as she placed the hot tacon before him. Without more words she cut the meat and buttered his biscuit It was done quickly, incidentally. She did not falter, her face was calm. Yet when she came with old linen and home-made lotions to dress the angry burn her touch upon Alfred's hand was icy cold. The dressing was barely finished when Phineas' challenge was heard, and a white man's voice replied. "That's Curly Joe, from Maloney's," Stella said. "Sit still and finish your supper," she added, as Alfred started to his feet "It's not Indians; you ,'t be needed." >• her throat throb, her hands tighten convulsively on Uncle Billy's. "But the station, and the company's property--I mustn't leave that till--" She lifted her face; her lips twitched pitifully. "Gid, you tell her you ain't a boy --yo're a man, and brave enough to stay hyah and keep the station till they send some one from Maloney's." "Yes, Stella, you must go. Uncle Bill's the boss. Ill stay, as he says, till the station's manned again; then I'll follow you to--to wherever you go --always." Stella gazed alternately at her two advisers, dumbly striving to adjust her grief-stricken mind to this hard exi­ gency. "Oh, Gideon, I caa't let you stay alone! I--" Uncle Billy laid a tender hand on her arm. "Honey! Can't you buck up to the game just a mite? Wouldn't yo' paw tell you to?" She nodded and turned aside. Both men looked at her intently, one with a passionately yearning gaze. In a CHAPTER 111. Alfred Promises Allegiance. Alfred studied Gov. Stanford's face keenly while the latter re-read Mr. Huntington's letter. It said in part: "For three'years I have closely observed this young man and found him, I believe, peculiarly adapted to business of a delicate na­ ture, for which we shall have growing need. He is older than he looks and wiser - than his age. His character does not altogether show in his face, and few would suspect such a slender youth of his capacity for the affairs you may require of him." Alfred was gratified at what he saw in the governor's eyes as he looked up from the letter. "Young man, because of Mr. Hunt ington's strong letter we're going to trust you »beyond your years. It will be a varied and difficult task. Do you think you will be equal to It?" "All that I can do, sir, is to promise my best effort and ask you to try me." "Can you take hectoring good na- turedly?" asked Mr. Crocker. "You can't go far on such a shape aa you have out west here; there's too much Harvard college and ballroom in it." The governor spoke at once. "I be­ lieve Vincent will safely weather re­ marks concerning his shape; bell be in cities most of the time, anyway." "It's not nice work we're putting you to, Vincent," he continued. "You'll have to meet craft with craft, scheme with scheme- And some of Cad- wallader's schemes -- they're the schemes of the men behind him, yet they don't sweeten in his hands--are far from savory. But we'll not ask you to do anything for us that's 1ms than honest." "That's only safe, sir. You'd hardly trust me If I accepted other terms." "Here's our cipher. Use it as sparingly as possible. No man can make a cipher some other man can't read." "Unless he changes It often enough," Alfred added Instantly. The governor smiled antiturned to the superintendent "I guess he'll do, Crocker." His face relaxed, and Al­ fred caught a glimpse of the genial, hearty citizen who won men to his enterprises through his faith--faith in both enterprises and men. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The first scene of this drama be­ gan in July, 1898. Then it was that the Liverpool papers announced: "Mr. John Curry, a gentleman well-known In shipping circles, has disappeared In moat mysterious circumstances." Such are the cold-blooded announce­ ments of the press that conceal a world of romance. Fortunately the usual inference of money troubles could be easily refuted. Thus the dis­ appearance of John Curry became a still greater mystery in that no cause could be assigned for it Meanwhile, at his home, - a y^iie mourned for her husband. Was he dead, or was he still alive? The lat­ ter thought seemed scarcely conceiv­ able, but it was not without possibil­ ity. Yet, if her husband, were Indeed living, why had he thus brought sor­ row to her so cruelly and unexpect­ edly? Thus his widow, for such at times she felt she must be, at others that she could not be, mourned and at the same time by advertisements in al­ most every paper Bought to glean some news of her lost husband. Yet none was forthcoming. Months went by and then a year. Mrs. Curry decided to leave Liverpool and to join her sister, who was living in New York city. Having sold her husband's business and invested the proceeds, she set sail for America. Years passed on; somehow the con­ viction that her husband was dead, in­ stead of being strengthened by the laptte of time, diminished. In its place there arose, at first dimly, a cherished hope that something must have oc­ curred to him that prevented his com­ ing back to her for some time. Visions crept up before her eyes of his return on© day, and she felt a keen delight in the thought that the money which she had invested had increased even more than if -it had been in her husband's former busi­ ness. What a joy It would be to tell him of this should he come back. Indirectly it was an interest In good works that brought to pass what follows. It happened on Christmas day, more than eight years since the terrible July day that was so vividly imprinted on her mind. Mrs. Curry and her sister had arranged to dis­ tribute presents to poor children • at a charity bazar. They entered a tram car. Suddenly her alster heard a cry: "My husband," and turning quickly she saw that Mrs. Curry had flust fainted, whilst the conductor, with one hand clasped to his forehead, reeled back into a vacant seat In a few moments he sefemed to recover him­ self, and in words choked with emo­ tion, exclaimed: "Ellen--my wife." When later John Curry told his story, he had little to relate beyond JUST MERE PIECE OF STRING The Important Part It Japsnese Life. Plays in Writing frOm Japan, an American says: "You must come here to ap> preciate some of the quaint customs and usages which contact with other peoples has not yet driven out. To read about them gives you only a poor Idea. For instance, did you ever know what an important thing a piece of 8trlngis here? The children, workmen Idlers, servants,^ all carry pieces of string for use in case of emergency. "With us the emergency would arise only when a parcel had to be done up, but the Jap uses his piece of string as a first aid to the injured, to^ repair a rent in his clothing, to fix a broken- down Jinrikisha, to mend* tools, te take measurements and, in fact, tiki, v *s,ik is his universal tool chest. "The queerest use to which it Is 5*. according to my way of thinking, i. when a police offlcej, arrests a man, ties a bit of string about the arrested man's wrist and then leads him by the loose end of the thin hempen fetter to the lockup. You ask: 'Why doesn't thf Jap crook break the String and find a gateway?' He could, but he would not. That's where his respect for the law comes in, and the bit of string holds the man as securely as though he were manacled by our own humane chilled steel, nickel-plated aad snap-locked method." Vibrations of the 8ea. "Marine seiches," or "vibrations of the sea," are pulsations usually having periods of 15 to 20 minutes, though varying in different localities, and they occur on coasts in addition to the waves of short duration due to wind and those caused by the regular ebb and flow of the tide. They have brought out various theories. A recent stufly has beeh made by Prof. Gio­ vanni Platania at Catania, Sicily, and he concludes that the principal cause is air waves or variations of atmos­ pheric pressure. The Result of Modern Education. I am not afraid of a race of fools; am afraid of a race of rickety human encyclopaedlettes, who are a nuisance to everyone and a health drawback.-- G. H. R. Dabb* M. Dy in Fry's Maga­ zine. 'M, Mrs. Curry Had fust Fainted. what had happened during the last eight years. It seemed Jhat suddenly he was bereft of all thought He knew nothing of his past life, not even that he had been married, until he met his wife on that Christmas day in the tram car. In a flash every­ thing came back to him, and hd re­ membered that he had been something more in the past than a tram con­ ductor. The happiness of the wife to whom her husband had been so miraculously restored was only equaled by the Joy of the husband himself. Atlantis Theory *- GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS RAISE QUESTION OF IT8 TRUTH. New Discoveries Which Indlcstq That the Ancient lalsnd Was Connect­ ed North and 8outh, Not East and West. The o|0 Atlantis theory that dilu- viaii man crossed from the eastern to the western world on dry land and that land later sinking below the level of the present Atlantic ocean has been questioned by scientists of the United States government who have discov­ ered ruins and remains which sup­ port a new theory that the ancient Island was connected north and south and not east and west. The two Incidents bearing on the matter of an Atlantis occurred in January. The first was the submission of a report to the bureau of ethnology by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes after he had spent months studying the origin of the first inhabitants of the island of Porto Rico. The second was the mys terlous and complete disappearance of certain large islands off the coast of Yucatan. Yucatan has been credit­ ed with having been the original dis­ tributing point from which primitive peoples .migrated Into South America and into Mexico. This sinking of large tracts of land in a night lends color to the theory that taere once existed an immense continent where the Atlantic now iB and that with the washing away of this continent and the subsequent collection of its com­ position to east and west the greater part of Europe and North America were formed. According to the ancients from whom we have our first intimation of the existence of Atlantis, there once existed in the Atlantic ocean, opposite Mt Atlas, a great island adorned with every beauty and possessed of a numerous population. Its princes were powerful and they invaded Europe and Africa where they were victorious un­ til finally they were defeated by the Athenians and their allies. After this, mythology saysf, the in. habitants of Atlantis degenerated in­ to impiety and the great island was, in consequence, Swallowed up in a day and night. Dr. Fewkes, who was assigned short­ ly after the acquisition of the island of Porto Rico by the United States, to study the ethnology of the island and who spent several seasons there, has formed a new opinion altogether and declares that the theory that the early people of that island and the adjoining isiandfi came from Yu­ catan and that the early Yucatanese were immigrants from the Island of Atlantis, is quite wrong. He says that the early Porto Rlcans came from South America with which the Islands were once connected. Referring directly to the theory of Atlantis Dr. Fewkes says In his re­ port: "It is pertinent in the consider­ ation of the peopling of the West In­ dies to give weight to the possibility that profound geological changes in the contours of the islands may have taken place since man first colonized them. Have the lesser Antilles been geologically connected with South America in times so recent that man may have migrated to them dry-shod, or was Cuba continuous with North America at the time when the former received its first human inhabitants? "Those who have Investigated the subject claim great age for the re­ mains of man In these regions. Cli­ matic conditions, such as existed, for instance, in the glacial period, may have rendered the greater part of North America unfit for human occu­ pation, but man may have lived in the West Indies when the whole north­ ern part of North America was un­ inhabitable and the Antilles were con­ tinuous land from north to south." Thus the government assails the theory of Atlantis by insertlhg the words "north to south," which former­ ly read "east to west." This is a shaft at the theory held by learned men of note that Yucatan was the original distributing point at this side of the globe and that while the Yucatanese came from Atlantis the people of Atlantis came from Egypt. Other scientists reversed this order and had the Egyptians originate in Yucatan. A KENTUCKY CASS. That Interest Alt Women. ( Mrs. Delia Meanes, 328 EL Front St, Maysville, Ky., says: "Seven years ago I began to notice sharp pais in the kidneys and a bear­ ing down sensation through the hips, dull headache and dizzy spells. Dropsy appeared, and my f e e t a n d a n k l e a swelled so I could not get my shoes on. I was in misery, and had despaired of ever getting cured when I decided to try Doan's Kidney Pills. One box helped me so much that I kept oa until en­ tirely cured." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a frfflfi. Fostei^Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ^ LEAP YEAR, AGAIN. Heavy Lady--Algy, for four years I have waited for this chance. 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