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1 # j * -j ?£ • : v ••*/•._ •'••*:.• -v • r*;^ •;* , *>* ' ,;7 ;. •• .• 'i'V" *V*'£ '; • synopsis. / « t * SftiWay Sinclair and his gang of wreck­ ers were called out to clear the railroad tracVs at Smoky Creek. McCloud, a young road superintendent, caught Sin­ clair and his men in the act of looting the wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded in­ nocence, declaring it only amounted to a •tnall sum--a treat for the men. McCloud , discharged the whole outfit and ordered tlie wreckage burned. McCloud became acquainted with Dicksie Dunning, a girl Of the west, who came to look at tha jrreck. She gave him a message for Sin­ clair. "Whispering" Gordon Smith told President Bucke off the railroad, of Mo- Cloud's brave fight against a gang af fuzftd xnlnsrs and that was the reason r lhs> superintendent's appointment to 9 high office. McCloud arranged to >ard at the boarding house of Mrs. Sin­ clair, the ex-foreman's deserted wife. Dicksie Dunning was the daughter of th« late Richard Dunning, who had died of a broken heart shortly after his wife's demise, wiUch occurred after one year of Married lire. Sinclair visited Marion Sin­ clair's shop and a fight between him and ltcCloud was narrowly averted. Brno" fl BANK H. SPEARMAN ILLUSTRATIONS ° BY ANDRE" QOWLE&, COPYRIGHT 1904 BY CKA» aC#18HCM*J J©"3 > -M-innm-j-jnruirinrj-uru-Lruu- i j~ rr--trinJirir n rr~ nnr rri'prTr~8Tirjr~-l~^rTffTT^fAYiL^^ takes all the money In the treasury, and not to stop till he cleans them out of the Rocky Mountains. J. S. B. -• f*. ;..§HAPTEI» X. •• At the Three Horsey "Clean them out of the Rocky moun­ tains; that is a pretty good contract," mused the man in McCloud's office on Sunday morning. He sat opposite Mc­ Cloud in Bucks' old easy chair and held in his hand Bucks' telegram. As he spoke he raised his eyebrows and settled back, but the unusual depth of the chair aud the shortness of his legs? left his chin helpless in his black tie, so that he was really no better off ex­ cept that he had changed one position of discomfort for another. A clerk opened the outer office door. "Mr. Dancing asks if he can see you, Mr. McCloud." "Tell him I am busy." Bill Dancing, close on Ml# dork's heels, spoke for himself. "I know It, Mr. McCloud, I know It!" he inter­ posed, urgently, "but let me speak to you just a moment." Hat in hand, Bill, because no one would knock him down to keep him out, pushed into the room. "I've got a plan," he urged, "In re­ gards to getting these hold-ups." "How are you, Bill?" exclaimed the man in the easy chair, jumping nastiiy to hit feet and shaking Dancing's hand. Then quite as hastily he sat down, crossed his knees violently, stared at the giant linemam, and ex­ claimed: "Let's have it!" Dancing looked at him Is silence and with some contempt. The train­ master had broken in on the superin­ tendent for a moment and the two were conferring In an undertone. "What might your name be, mister?" growled Dancing, addressing with some condescension the man la the easy chair. The man waved bis hand as if It were immaterial and answered with a single word': "F$»neUen! "How's that?" "Forgotten!" Dancing looked from one man to the other, but McCloud appeared pre^ occupied and his visitor seemed whol­ ly serious. "I don't want to take too much on myself--" Bill began, speak ing to McCloud. "You look ss If you could carry a fair-sized load, William, provided it bore the right label," suggested the visitor, entirely amiable. "--But nobody has felt worse over this thing and recent things-- "Recent things," echoed the ea*3* chair. "--happening to the division than I have. Now I know there's been trou­ ble on the division--** "I think you are putting it too strong there, Bill, but let it pass.' *•--there's been differences; misun­ derstandings and differences. So says to myself maybe something might be done to get everybody together and bury the differences, like this: Mur­ ray Sinclair is in town; he feels bad over this thing, like any railroad man would. ' He's a mountain man, quick as the quickest with a gun, a good trailer, rides like a fiend, and can catch a streak of sunshine traveling on a pass. Why not put him at the head of a party to run 'em down?" "Run 'em down," nodded the stranger. "Differences such as be or may be--" "May be--" "Being discussed when he brings 'em in dead or alive, and not before. That's what I Bald to Murray Sinclair, and Murray Sinclair is ready for to take hold this minute and do what ho can if he's asked. I told him plain I could promise no promises; that, I says, lays with George McCloud. Was I right, was I wrong? If I was wrong, right me; if I was right, say so. All I want is harmony." The new man nodded approval. "Bully, Bill!" he exclaimed, heartily. "Mister," protested the lineman, with simple dignity, 'Td Just a little rather you wouldn't bully me nor Bill me." "All in good part, Bill, as you shall see; all in good part. Now before Mr. McCloud gives you his decision I want to be allowed a word. Your idea looks good to me. At first I may say it didn't. I am candid; I say It didnt. It looked like setting a dog to catch his own tail. Mind you, I don't say it can't be done. A dog can catch his own tail; they 'do do it," proclaimed the stranger in a low and emphatic undertone. "But," he added, moderat­ ing his utterance, "when they suo- ceed--who gets anything out of it but Jreek bridge was mysteriously burn* McCloud prepared to face the situation. President Bucks notified Smith that he had work ahead. McCloud worked for days and Anally got the division running In fairly good order. He overheard X>lck- sle criticising his methods, to Marlon Sinclair. CHAPTKR IX. Sweeping Orders. The burning of Smoky Creek bridge ^ras hardly off the minds of the moun­ tain men when a disaster of a differ- -fiit DGiL befell ilie inTtSiuu. lu the flat valley east of Sleepy Cat the main line springs between two ranges of mils with a dip and a long supported trade in each direction. At the point Of the dip there Is a switch from which a spur runs to a granite quarry. The track for two miles is straight and the switch-target and lights are Seen easily from either direction save at one particular moment of the day --a moment which is in the valley neither quite day nor quite night- Down this grade, a few woeks after the Smoky Creek fire, came a double- headed stock train from the Short Line with 40 cars of steers. The switch stood open; this much was afterward • abundantly proved. The train came down the grade very fast to gain speed for the hill ahead of it. The head engineman, too late, saw the open target. He applied the emergency air, threw his engine over, and whis­ tled the alarm. The mightiest efforts of a dozen engines would have been powerless to check the heavy train. On the quarry track stood three flat cars loaded with granite blocks for the abutment of the new Smoky Creek bridge. On a sanded track, rolling at SO miles an hour and screaming in the clutches of the burning brakes, the heavy engines struck the switch like an avalanche, reared upon the granite- laden flats, and with 40 loads of cattle plunged into the canyon below; not a car remained on the rails. The head brakeman, riding in the second cab, was instantly killed, and the engine crews, who jumped, were badly hurt. Ths 'tVuvIg operating uDparuucu« of the road was stirred. What made the affair more dreadful was that it had occurred on the time of Number Six, the east-bound passenger train, held that morning at Sleepy Cat by an en­ gine failure. Glover came to look into the matter. The testimony of all tended to one conclusion--that the quarry switch had been thrown at some time between 4:30 and 5 o'clock that morning. Inferences were many: Tramps during the early summer had been unusually troublesome and many of them had been rigorously handled by trainmen; robbery might have been a motive, as the express cars on train Number Six carried heavy specie ship­ ments from the coast. A third and more exciting event soon put the quarry wreck into the back­ ground. Ten days afterward an east- bound p&ssinger train was flagged in the night at Sugar Buttes, 12 miles •west of Sleepy Cat. When the heavy train slowed up, two men boarded the engine and with pistols compelled the engineman to cut off the express cars and pull them to the water-tank a mile east of the station. Three men there in waiting forced the express car, blow open the saf«t and the gang rode ?.%ay half an fcoyr later loaded with gold coin and currency. Had a stick of dynamite been ex­ ploded under the Wickiup there could not have been more excitement at Medicine Bend. Within three hours after tb? news reached the town a posse under Sheriff Van Horn, with a car load Of horseflesh and 14 guns, was stared for Sugar Buttes. The trail led fir-rth and the pursuers rode until nearl? nightfall. Th^y crossed Dutch flat fnd rode single file into a wooded can Von, where they came Exclaimed. Fogarty SMITH WANTS HER LETTER PUBLISHED M upon traces V a camp-fire. Van Horn, (the dog?" Bill Dancing, somewhat . leading, Jucfped from his horse and thrust his hind into the ashes; they were still wt'rm, and he shouted to his men to ride UD. As he called out, a rlflecracked from the box-elder trees ahead of him. The sheriff fell, shot through the head, and a deputy spring­ ing from his saddle to pick him up was shot in precisely the same way; the posse, thrown Into a«;pajric, did not Are a single shot, and for an hour dared not ride back for the bodies. After dark they got the two dead men and at midnight rode with them into Sleepy Cat. When the news reached McClovd ho was talking with Bucks over the wires. Bucks had got into headquarters at the river late that night, and was get­ ting details from McCloud of the Sugar Buttes robbery when the superinten­ dent sent him the news of the killing of Van Horn and ihe deputy. In the answer that Bucks sent came a name new to the wires nf the mountain di­ vision and rarely s%en even in special correspondence, but Hughle Morrison, who took the message/ never forgot that name. Hughie handed the moo- sage to McCloud and stood by while the superintendent read: Whispering Smith Is due la Cheysnne |o-tnorrow. Meet him at the Wiaklup nday morning; he has full authority, have told kia te these feUaws, U It m : clouded and not deeming it well to be drawn into any damaging admissions, looked around for a cigar, and not see­ ing one, looked solemnly at the new Solomon and stroked his beard. "That is how it looked to me at first," con­ cluded the orator; "hut, I say now it looks good to me, and as a stranger I may say I favor it." Dancing tried to look mxconeeroed and seemed disposed to bo friendly. "What might bo your line of busi­ ness ?" "Real estate. I am from Chicago. I sold everything that was for sale in Chicago and came here to stake out the Spanish Sinks and the Great Salt lake--yes. It's drying up and there's an immense opportunity for claims along the shore. Fve boon looking into it." "into the claims or Into the lake?" asked McCloud. "Into botji; and, Mr. M*£loud, I want to say I faror Mr. Dancing's Idea, that's all. Right wrongs no man. Let Bill see Sinclair and see what they can figure out." And hav­ ing rpokea, the stranger sank back and tried to look comfortable. *T11 talk with you later Bill." said McCloud, briefly. "Meantime, Bill, see Sinclair ai port," suggested the stranger. it "It's as good as done," announced! Dancing, taking up his hat, "and, Mr. McCloud, might I have a little advance for cigars and things?" "Cigars and ammunition--of course. See Sykes, William, see Sykes; if the office Is closed go to his house--and see what will happen to you--" added the visitor in an aside, "and tell him to telephone up to Mr. McCloud for in­ struction," he concluded, unceremon­ iously. "Now why do you want to start Bill on a fool business like that?" asked McCloud, as Bill Dancing took long steps from the room toward the office of Sykes, the cashier. "He didn't know me to-day, but he will to-morrow." said the stranger, re­ flectively. "Gods, what I've seen that man go through in the days of the giants! Why, George, this will keep the boys talking, and they have to do something. Spend the money; the company is making it too fast any­ way; they moved 22,000 cars one day last week. Personally I'm glad to have a little fun out of it; it will be hell pure and undeflled long before we get through. This will be an easy way of letting Sinclair know I am here. Bill will report me confidentially to him as a suspicious personage." To the astonishment of Sykes, the superintendent confirmed over the tel­ ephone Dancing's statement that he was to draw some expense money. Bill asked for $25. Sykes offered him two, and Bill with some indignation ac­ cepted five. He spent all of this in trying to find Sinclair, and on the strength of his story to the boys bor­ rowed five dollars more to prosecute the search. At ten o'clock that night he ran into Sinclair playing cafih in the big rooms above the Three Horses. The Three Horses still rears its hospitable two-story front in Fort street, the only one of the Medicine Bend gambling houses that goes back to the days of '67; and it is the boast of its owners that Blnce the key was thrown away, 39 years ago, its doors have never been closed, night or day, except once for two hours during the funeral of Dave Hawk. Bill Dancing drew Sinclair from his game and told him of the talk with McCloud, touch­ ing it up with natural enthusiasm. The brldgeman took the news in high good humor and slapped Dancing on the back. "Did you see him alone, Bill?" asked Sinclair, with interest. "Come over here, come along. I want you to meet a good friend. Here, Har­ vey, shake hands with Bill Dancing. Bill, this is old Harvey Du Sang, meanest man in the mountains to his enemies and the whitest to his friends ---eh, Harvey?" Harvey seemed uncommunicative Studying his hand, he asked in a sour way whether it was a jackpot, and upon being told that it was not, pushed forward some chips and looked stu pidly up--though Harvey was by no means stupid. "Proud to know you, sir," said Bill, bending frankly as he put out his hand. "Proud to know any friend of Murray Sinclair's. What might be your business?" Again Du Sang appeared abstracted He looked up at the giant lineman who, in spite of his own size and strength, could have crushed him be­ tween his fingers, and hitched his chair a little, but got no further to­ ward an answer and paid no attention whatever to Bill's extended hand. "Cow business, Bill," interposed Sin­ clair. "Where? Why, up near the park, Bill, up near the park. Bill is an old friend of mine, Harvey. Shake hands with George Seagrue, Bill, and you know Henry Karg--and old Stormy Gorman--well, I guess you know him, too," exclaimed Sinclair, introducing the other players. "Look here a min­ ute, Harvey." Harvey, much against his inclina­ tion, was drawn from the table and re­ tired with Sinclair and Dancing to an empty corner, where Dancing told his story again. At the conclusion of it Harvey rather snorted. Sinclair asked questions. "Was anybody else there when you saw McCloud, Bill?" "One man," answered Bill, impres­ sively. „u , "whor gfc, ^ "A stranger to jne|*S 'I , "A stranger! Whit did he took llker - , ' 'Slender man and kind of odd ^talk­ ing, with a sandy mustache." "Hear his name?" "He told me his name, but it* skipped me, I declare. He's kind of dark-complected like." "Stranger, eh?" mused Du 8ang; his eyes were wandering over the room. "Slender man," repeated Bill, "but I didn't take much notice ot him. Said he was in the real estate business." "In the real estate business? And did he sit there while you talked this over with the college guy?" muttered Du Sang. f "He is all right, boys, and he said you'd know his njune if I could speak it," declared Bill. "Look anything like that man stand­ ing with his hands In his pockets over there by the wheel?" asked Du Sang, turning his back carefully on a new comer as he made the suggestion. "Where--there? No! Yes, hold on that's the man there now! Hold on, now!" urged Bill, struggling with "the excitement of ten hours and ten dol­ lars in one day. "His name sounded like Fogarty." As Dancing spoke, Sinclair's eyes riveted on the new face at the other Side of the gambling room. "Fogarty, hell!" he exclaimed, starting. "Stand right still, Du Sang; don't look around. That man is Whispering Smith." CHAPTER XI. Parley. It was recalled one evening not long ago at the Wickiup that the affair with Sinclair had all taken place within a period of two years, and that practical­ ly all of the actors in the event had been together and in friendly relation on a Thanksgiving day at the Dunning ranch uut kQ very long before the trou­ ble began. Dicksie Dunning was away at school at the time, and Lance Dun­ ning was celebrating with a riding and shooting fest and a barbecue. The whole country had been invited. Bucks was in the mountains on an in­ spection trip, and Bill Dancing drove him with a party of railroad men over from Medicine Bend. The mountain men for 150 miles around were out. Gene and Bob Johnson, from Oroville and the Peace river, had come with their friends. From WilliamB Cache there was not only a big delegation-- more of one than was really desirable --but it was led by old John Rebstock himself. When the invitation is gen­ eral, lines cannot be too closely drawn. Not only was Lance Dunning some­ thing of a sport himself, but on the Long Range it is part of a stockman's creed to be on good terms with his neighbors. At a Thanksgiving day bar­ becue not even a mountain sheriff would ask questions. Among the railroad people were George McCloud, Anderson, the assis­ tant superintendent, Farrell Kennedy, chief of the special service, and his right-hand man, Bob Scott. In espe­ cial, Sinclair's presence at the barbe­ cue wag recalled. He had some cronies with him from among his up-country following, and was introducing his new bridge foreman, Karg, afterward known as Flat Nose, and George Sea­ grue, the Montana cowboy. Sinclair fraternised that day with the Williams Cache men, and It was remarked even then that though a railroad man he ap­ peared somewhat outside the railroad circle. When the shooting matches were announced a brown-eyed railroad man was asked to enter. He had been out of the mountains for some time and was a comparative stranger in the gathering, but the Wil­ liams Csche men hwi not for­ gotten him; Rebstock, especially, wanted to Bee him shoot. While much of the time out of the mountains on railroad business, he was known to be closely in Bucks' counsels, and as to the mountains themselves,, he was re­ puted to know them better than Bucks or Glover himself knew them. This was Whispering Smith; but, beyond a low-voiced greeting or an expression of surprise at meeting an old ac­ quaintance, he avoided talk. When urged to shoot he resisted all persua­ sion and backed up his refusal by showing a bruise on his trigger finger. He declined oven to act as judge la the contest, suggesting the sheriff, Ed Banks, for that office. McCloud did not meet the host, Lance Dunning, that day nor since the day of the barbecue had Du Sang or Sinclair seen Whispering Smith until the night Du Sang spotted him near the wheel in the Three Horses. Du Sang at once drew out of his game and left the room. Sinclair in the meantime had undertaken a quarrel­ some Interview with Whispering Smith. "I supposed you knew I was here," said Smith to him, amiably. "Of course I don't travel in a private car or carry a billboard on my back, but I haven't been hiding." "The last time we talked," returned Sinclair, measuring words carefully, "you were going to stay out of the mountains." I should have been glad to, Murray. Affairs are In such shape on the di­ vision now that somebody had to come, so they sent for me." The two men were sitting at a table. Whispering Smith was cutting and leisurely mixing a pack of cards. "Well, so far as I'm concerned, Tm out of it," Sinclair went on after a pause, "but, however that may be, if you're back here looking for trouble there's no reason, I guess, why you can't find it." "That's not it I'm not here looking tor trouble; I'm here to fix this thing up. What do you want?" Not a thing." I'm willing to do anything fair and right,v declared Whispering Smith, raising his voice a little above the hum of the rooms. "Fair and right is an old song." _ , "And a good one to sing in this country Just now. I'll do anything 1 can to adjust any grievance, Murray. What do you want?" Sinclair for a moment was silent, and his answer made plain his unwill­ ingness to speak at all. "There never would have been a grievance if I'd been treated like a white man." His eyes burned sullenly. "I've been treated like a dog." •That is not it." "That is it," declared Sinclair, sav-' agely, "and they'll find it's it." "Murray, I want to say only this-- only this to make things clear. Bucks feels that he's been treated worse than a dog." "Then let him put me back where I belong." "It's a little late for that, Murray; a little late," said Smith, gently. "Shouldn't you rather take good money and get off the division? Mind you, I say good money, Murray--and peace." Sinclair answered without the slight­ est hesitation: "Not while that man McCloudJs -here." Whispering Smith smiled. 'Tve got iio authority io kill McCloud." 'There are plenty of men in the mountains that don't need any." "But let's start fair," urged Whis­ pering Smith, softly. He leaned for­ ward with one linger extended in con­ fidence. "Don't let us have any mis­ understanding on the start. Let Mc­ Cloud alone. If he is killed--now I'm speaking fair and open and making no threats, but I know how it Will come out--there will be nothing but killing here for six months. We Will make just that memorandum on Mc­ Cloud. Now about the main queatibn. Every sensible man in the world wants something." "I know men that have been going a long time 'without what they wanted." Smith flushed and nodded. "You needn't have said that, but no matter. Every sensible man wants something, Murray. This is a big country. There's a World's Fair running somewhere all the time in it. Why not travel a lit­ tle? What do you want?" "I want my job, or I want a new superintendent here." "Just exactly the two things, and, by heavens! the only two, I can't man­ age. Come once more and I'll meet you.-' "No!" Sinclair rose t*> his feet. "No --damn your money! This is my home. The high country is my coun­ try; it's where my friends are." "It's filled with your friends; I know that. But don't put your trust in you* friends. They will stay by you, I know; but once in a long while there will be a false friend, Murray, one that will sell you--remember that" "1 stay." Whispering Smith looked up in ad­ miration. "I know you're game. It isn't necessary for me to say that to you. But think of the fight you are going into against this company. You can worry them; you've done it. But a bronco might as well try to buck a locomotive as for one man or six or 600 to win out in the way you are play­ ing." "I will look out for my friends; others--" Sinclair hitched his belt and paused, but Whispering Smith, cutting and running the cards, gave no heed. His eyes were fixed on the green cloth under his fingers. "Others--*' repeated Sinclair. "Others?" echoed Whispering Smith, good-naturedly. "May look- out for themselves" "Of course, of oourse! Well, it thle is the end of it, I'm sorry." "You will bs^ sorry if you mix la a quarrel that Is none of yours." "Why, Murray, I never had a faar> rel with a man in my life." 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Sinclair eyed him sidewlse. Smith' moiBtened his lips and when he replied spoke slowly: "There is no need of dragging any al­ lusion to her Into it. For that matter, I told Bucks he should have sent any man but me. If I'm in the way, Sin­ clair, if my presenee here is all that stands in the way, I'll go back and stay back as before, and send any one else you like or Bucks likes. Are you willing to say that I stand in the way of a settlement?" Sinclair sat down and put his hands on the table. "No; your matter and mine is another affair. All I want be­ tween you and me is fair and Whispering Smith's eyes weri < the cards. "You've always had It* "Then keep away from he*„w "Don't tell me what to do." "Then don't tell me." ("I'm < not telling you. Yon wiH do as you' please; so will I. I Wl here because Marion asked me ta. I am here now because I have Win sent here. It is in the course o! my busi­ ness. I have my living tt earn and my friends to protect. 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On an income of $2,400 a year he pays 1298. For Blood Poisoning. When it Is found that blood poison­ ing has set in, or when it is- feared, use the following: To the juice of half a lemon add one teaspoonful of sugar and half a teaspoonful of water. Take hot at a dose and repeat every SO minutes for the first three hours, after that every two hours. A cure will usually ho effected In a day. The Longest Word. What is believed to te the longest word to be found in afty dictionary- one that leaves even German aad Dutch hopelessly out Of It--may ba turned up in Liddell and Scott's lexi­ con by those who cal read Oreel characters. Those who cannot may be content to know &at this word which begins "lepaddtemachoseiach* galeo," proceeds la like manner through 78 syllables, and counts 170 letters in all. Of course, no ancient Greek ever used such a word as this In ordinary conversation. 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Seattle. Waah. 198 The James MHHkin University D«c»tur CoUeg« sod Industrial Scboai, m Christian College offeatig full CUw»ik'ai aad Technical Course*. Five fiue, nrw Imitating*, lncludlu^ l»<iie«' dormitory; ail with n»ldw» equipmeut. Co-educattooal. superior (Mlttf) expenses low: 1,063 students l«u>t j ear. Iw CaUliif «ldr«M JL B. TAYLOt, healfctf. EX)K SA1.E--146 an acre, half its « hitflily liupiuinl fl*r AND stock FARM. UK*»I.H1 UD IfNtiiiu FA NLLWM, Kansiii MV acivs in alfalfa, baiaMM IRLGUUM sub-irnifauxl Will cajJMl prtoe. Write (or booklet. J. B. Cook.4 Op«ra Block. Denver. Colo radix Revision. "Now," said the distinguished rep resentatlTe, "we hare arranged the tariff precisely as it should b« oad al you hare to do is to say 'Anea* "No." answered the ator. "not nosr io buiiJ ruitruad So. «k"r >ucr*>le tracks alter tssueU July 0th. MW0. The is of 1 highest merit. !>tat*i capital to b« in.yi- . •. Mi' dress American (,ouowl« Tntck Oo-> jtiinrrr ste>. 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