Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Aug 1916, p. 31

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EAT RAILROADS," COPYRIONT, 1915, BY FRANK M. SPEARMAN. SYNOPSIS. Helen daughter of Gen. Holmes, man, Is 'rescued imminent danger on a scenic rail by George , 8 newsboy. Grown ITE peor Helen saves Storm, - , her father, and his friends nelander, financier, and Robert promoter, from a threatened col- employed b rie off Sine s y Imes" survey plans of the the general and the Tidewater, Sally escape, er fa- estate badly involved by his death, §088 to work on the Tidewater. And though 'they dre ake trom en from opr a, m in loyed orm is gmployed Spike, befriended b in his turn saves her and the ~of-way contracts when Beagrue kid- her. Helen and Storm win for inhder & race against Beagrue for way. . NINTH INSTALLMENT : A CLOSE CALL Despite Seagrue's persistent opposi- tion, Rhinelander secured the right bt way to enable him to complete the ition cutoff, and unable to stop the Tidewater construction work, resolved.to try other methods fo defeat his rival, Helen Holmes was enjoying the laste of camp life that her trip to the front had brought. And after the ex- gltement had died down attending the festruction of Cassidy's house, she found herself amused and interested In Caddidy himself, who was busy t morning trying to restore a much- ered stove to service near the Wreck of his shack. Helen watched his dazed efforts until sympathy over- tame her, and excusing herself, she ked over to where Cassidy was gling to get a fire going. | Beagrue, who had been watching © scene from a distance, saw Helen the old fellow, and deemed. it his portunity to make tentative ade ces toward the collective enemy. untering over, accordingly, he joined elen at a moment in which she sent dy for water and was herself ching the fire starting in the Helen looked up in astonishment en she heard BSeagrue's greeting. deed; she resented his intrusion so mgly that she refused all commun- "You ought not to be too hard on Helen," he urged at length. "Any will fight for his life against ruin, t's all I've done. Everything I dave in the world is tied up in this Buperstition cutoff. But more than once I said to myself, I would willing- ly sacrifice it all to regain your friend- ship." He spoke slowly and looked so beat: en and worried as he lingered in the' penumbra of Helen's gaze that she be- him indignantly for, ; J conduct. i He took her stinging reproaches without resentment. "I admit," he ' , "my temper carries me too far, ne 1" echoed Helen. "A and fifty!" of 1 do get angry," confessed , "I lose my head. I stop at When it's' all over, nobody, for ft~-than I am. I have shamefully. I know that. And irts the most is that it should st me your friendship and my » 'While the talk thus begun the two going on in this fashion, Storm, Bad been experimenting with new jacks, noticed what Helen g doing: and that the man standing 'her was none other 'than Sea- "Bearcely able to believe his , the young constructionist called p Rhinelander to look. The latter 4. blmselt from Rig new me Shinem Jong enough to see what Storm had and putting another man in charge of the work, he hurried off, followed by Storm, over to Cassidy's Zone, They arrived together just in time to find Seagrue putting wood on Hel en's fire. He turned from his peace: ful role to greet Rhinelander, quite casually, with a good morning; Helen in good spirits, was stepping rapidly around preparing a meal. Rhineland er looked from one to the other in amazement, and striding forward, con- fronted Seagrue. "What does all this thing mean?" he demanded angrily. "What are you up to now, Seagrue?" Seagrue met the wrathful greeting composedly, His answer was amiable and unruffied. "We have been talking over old times, Uncle Amos." He in dicated Helen by the slightest nod. "I've told Helen, what you well know, that everything I have in the world has been tied up in this fight. But I've also told her I would sacrifice ev- ery bit of it to regain your good will and hers. I'm sorry for the lengths I've gone to. It's been a mistake. It doesn't reflect any credit on me, I know that. But can't we forget it? Forget everything, here and now, and work together, you and 1, for the fu- ture instead of trying to cut each-oth- er's throats? Why not combine our interests, uncle, and take a fresh start?" But Rhinelander, gentle though he was In disposition and forbearing to a degree that surprised his friends, was yet too old in the ways of the world to put his trust in assurances without deeds to back them. He re garded Seagrue firmly: "This fight," he said briefly, "was not one of our choosing, Seagrue. You forced us into it," he reminded his nephew. "We cannot compromise now when sure of success." Seagrue, whether hopeless, or dog- ged in his attitude, took the rebuke hard. He did not resent it but he looked down and out. So much so that Helen feit sorry. She even made occasion, as he stood gloomily watch- ing her, to go over to him and express her regret that Rhinelander did not]. Yeel, as she did, that it might be bet- ter for everybody to try to be friends once more, ; Storm, who had stood apart and was churning inside at the situation, now intervened: "Come over to camp, lelen.. That man doesn't mean a word 'of what he says. You're wasting time listening to him. Come along." She resented the positive way in 'which the words were spoken. Her manner when she answered revealed some of her impatience: "I'll come," she said, with a suggestion of curt- ness, "just as soon as I get through ere." : Rhinelander detected her resent- ment. He knew better than anyone in the world that the spirited girl could not be driven and could not even be coaxed too far. He beckoned to Storm. "Let's go," he suggested in an undertone. Storm seemed against the proposal. Rhinelander quietly urged it. "You can't do any good," he explained in a low tone. "I know what's best. Come with me." Storm, angry as a schoolboy, at what he deemed the folly of giving the slightest countenance to Seagrue, followed his friend reluctantly. But having averred she would not go, Helen, conscious herself now of the strain of the situation, turned to Sea- grue and told him she must be leav- ing. He extended his hand. "I'm sor- ry the trouble has gone so far," she sald hurriedly, as she shook hands with him to show she bore no irre movable ill will. "But I guess there's no help for the situation. at present." Seagrue watched her follow Rhine- lander and Storm, who waited for her on the edge of the camp. The three went on together towards Rhineland- er's outfit car still discussing the trou- blesome subject. Seagrue, however, realized he must do something, if not in one way in another, and he left Cassidy's -to send for a local attorney who had already acted for him in right-of-way matters. Te him, w he arrived, Seagrue explained his present predicament for an outlet. "What I must know is," he said, "whether the city of Las Vegas will grant our people a right of way along here through city preperty?" The attorney shook his head. "I don't think that can ever be put over." Seagrue was cold. "You've got to do it. There's no other way for us to get through. If you hold us up on it, we shall be compelled to abandon our line here." With this cannon cracker exploding under him, the attorney promised he would seé what could be done. "But | want you along with me," he declared, "to lay the case before the city Jthorities yourself." : > The two started for town together, Ip discontented groups and discussed their situation is 'being thrown so suddenly out of work. The pay- master handed Bill a check. It was for Spike. Bill yelled his name.. A man hard by pointed to Rhinelander's camp. "There's Spike," said the man, "over there at Rhinelander's." Bill's sharp eyes followed the ges ture. Spike at that moment was just leaving Rhinelander, Helen and Storm. Bill, a knave of more than ordinary discernment and one who hated Spike for his'share in the fight At Las Vegas, saw in the incident his chance to get even. He put the check aside and a moment later when Spike Appeared at the pay car, Bill was ready. Descending the car steps, Bill called to Spike as the latter came forward. Bill advanced to meet him. "What fo you mean, Spike," demanded Bill in oud and aggressive tomes, pitched 80 that everybody might hear, "by running over to Rhinelander's camp all the time? What are you up to now, Spike?" Spike was in the worst possible mood to be badgered by anybody. 'With a hot expletive he bade Bill mind his own business, and offered gratuitously to break his head. Bill turned to the men with a shout: "This is the duck," he cried, "that helped Rhinelander steal our right of way, boys. He's the guy that's thrown us all out of work. What do you 'know about that?" , Spike, in most opprobrious lan. guage, flatly gave Bill the lie. The men, most of whom were spoiling for a row, closed in to hear and devour the jheated argument that the two ene- mies engaged in. Accusations and de- mfals fell thick and fast; abuse fol- Jowed assertions; hard words and a 'deep-seated enmity raised the tempers of both men, and Bill, without further warning, swung and sent Spike with a terrific left-hander to the ground. Spike was no sooner down than up. He came back at Bill goaded to fury by the unprovoked attack. Men crowd- ed up. Their cries and shouts had al- ready attracted the attention of Storm and Helen who stood with Rhineland- er still discussing Spike. Storm was the first to perceive what was going: on in Seagrue's camp. "They're after Spike," he exclaimed "Look? Down he goes--that Bull necked Bill hit him. He's up aga. The whole bunch are Jumping him. later, was seated in front of a tent cleaning a lamp when Seagrue re turned still in company with the at toruey. Their sounding out of the city fathers had been unsuccessful and Seagrue handed his foreman a notice to post on the bulletin board: Work will be suspended on the Coast and Colorado cut-off until Las Vegas a right of way to allow this pany to reach thé Superstition mines. Spike, sauntering over, read the no tice. Seagrue's eye fell on him at that moment and a recollection of what he termed Spike's treachery came to his mind. He spoke to the convict rough- ly.. "I suppose you know that in help ing Rhinelander get those con you caused this trouble, Spike." Spike glanced at him with an angry shake of the head. "Rhinelander didn't need me to get the contracts. Helen Holmes is the one that beat you, Seagrue." The remark did not help to soothe Seagrue's irritation. He kept after Spike dll the harder. "If you eross me again," he sald, threateningly, "I'll hand you over to some high voltage my friend." The wrangle was going from bad te worse when Bill came In with Sea grue's'coat. The latter, putting, it on tonk his hat, directed Lug to post the bulletin, beckoned to the attorney and jaccompanied by him and Bill, started for the station to catch the main line local then due. When the train pulled! in Seagrue and the attorney boarded it. Bill started back for camp. Spike, left alone, went into his tent. {He sat some momentsthinking. Then he rose and from a corner got out the suit of clothes, carefully put away, that Helen had bought for him in Las 'Vegas. The least he could do, he felt, was to take this over to Rhineland- er's camp and return it to her with such lame explanation as he could in- vent to cover the occasion. He found Helen alone. She regard- ed him strangely as he approached. Spike would rather have faced a sher- iff than to face her on such an er-| rand. He shufiiéd toward her ill at ease and her silence did not help to allay his embarrassment. "I know you bought the clothes for | me," he muttered, "because I helped You get the contracts. I hated to turn back the way.l.did to Seagrue's camp, | Lia ao Plunged Over the 'Bridge to the Bottom of the Arroyo. I hate to bring these back to you [But the way I'm fixed I can't double cross Seagrue." i Helen saw he was greatly humiliat ee And she was mystified a little by {his words. "Spike," she said, kindly, ["the clothes are nothing. But what have I done to you that you should treat me in the way you did?" | Spike shuffled on his feet and swung his head uneasily. "Not a thing in {the world," was all he could say. , "Why have you acted in this way?" she demanded. "I bought you a ticket to the city--you promised to go--why didn't you?" He labored in continued confusion to explain. Hae tried to tell her Sea- grue had done many things for him; he told her he owed Seagrue a lot of money and-he had no hepe of ever paying him back except by work, and that he didn't feelche ought to break away now. Storm and Rhinelander came uplat that moment. They greeted Spike. He avoided their eyes as much as pos- sible and returned thefr greeting in a shame-faced way. Helen answered the surprise that overspread the faces of Storm and Rhinelander. "It's no won- der he's ashamed to speak to you," she sald severely. "You would hardly be, lieve it, I know; but the fact is he has turned over to Seagrue again." The two men looked at Spike with undisguised contempt. Their attitude made him desperate. "Oh, 1 know what you think of me," he said with a reckless swing of his head. "I can't help it. I can't explain. It would take me from now till the middie of next week, if I tried--dnd then you'd think ess of me than you do how. Never be kind to me again. It's hopeless for me--but I can't help it," The three watched him shuffle away. Rhinelander shook his head. "There's a mystery somewhere in it. I can't make it out. Some day we'll know." "Well, in any case, I-certainly don't want these clothes," declared Helen, g at the bundle Spike had left ber hands. "They're no use in the world to me." A laborer was passing. "Hepe, you--" she said to the man, - this syit. If it Ats you," she add from his surprise, "it's yours." "At Seagrue's camp, Bill and the pay- master were handing checks out to the men. The latter stood about the car , before the man could recover" They'll kill that fellow. Well," he mused, as the clamor grew am Spike, | fighting desperately to keep from be- ing surrounded, went down again. '"I suppose he's no great loss." "But," man murdered before our eyes. I won't stand it. self if nobody else will." Undismayed by the undertaking, Helen, followed by Rhinelander trying to stop her, hurried toward Seagrue's camp. Storm, with more forethought, 'hastily got together such of his men a8 were within hearing, and yelling in his turn to Helen to wait, started after her and Rhinelander. Fast as the men ran, none could overtake her fly- ing feet. She dashed into the thick of the fight ahead of everybody and seizing Spike, pushed back his assail- ants. They stopped an instant from sheer amazement at seeing a lovely girl, _Seemingly fallen from the sky, in the 'middle of a hot scrimmage. Rhinelander rushed to her side. "Hands off," he cried, putting Spike behind him. "Shame! Twenty to one!- {Where's your manhood?" Without pausing to consider this ir- relevant question, the mob started in to hammer Spike and Rhinelander both. It was then that George Storm's preparedness was vindicated. He fought his way into the ring, followed by a dozen huskies, who beat back Seagrue's men till Storm was enabled to pull Spike away--his men hblding the line back of him. , But this diversion was good only for a moment, and Storm--not unused to riots and fighting--knew better than his companions the necessity of further instant dispositions. ° Helen had kept close to her friends. "We've got to get him out of here quick," exclaimed Storm to her. "They'll tear him limb from limb if they get him again. Helen," he cried. "Back the outfit cars down the cut-off for us, will you, as quick as the Lord will let you? We'll hustle him inside one." Helen ran. . Rhinelander and Storm, picking up Spike, now almost uncon- scious, dragged him, fast as they "could, from the scene, their men cov- 'ering their retreat and giving ground [only as they were forced to by sheer' weight of numbers. Fighting . stub bornly step by step i this way, Storm cried Helen, "we can't see a | m pl i 1y- | 1 20 help bi 1 | whole strength against and Rhinelander their bur- den in front of the protésting line-- which threatened every moment to give way under the flerce assaults-- got Spike to the cutoff track. Helen had reached the engine cab and was ready to pull out"the cars. Together the two men threw Spike bodily into the open door of the last car. Climb ing aboard after Rhinelander, Storm signaled to Helen in the cab, She opened. the throttle, and just as Seagrue's angry men reached the car, Storm slammed the door shut and Helen moved the string hastily down the track. The incident would have been closed, with the hind outfit car mak- ing rapidly towards safety, had not tracts, the wholly unexpected happened to upset. Storm's plan. That very day Rhinelander's linemen had set in half a dozen telegraph poles and the an- chor wire of one of these placed near the tragk, caught, as the d last car sped past, on the step. The pole swayed violently. For a moment Rhinelander's men, watching, hoped it might clear. - But crashing suddenly forward, it fell between the last two cars, struck the coupling heavily and sprung the knuckle. Helen, watching from the cab, saw what happened. She hastily applied the air and feeling they were now far enough away to be safe from the an- gry men, did not worry about the ac- cident until she perceived as she brought the train to a stop that the outfit car, last in the #tring, had be- come detached from the train and was running away. Inside this Rhinelander and Storm were working on Spike. He opened | his eyes after a time and they told him he was safe, not suspecting them- 'selves that their car was now running wild and down a long grade, to the main line. Indeed, they felt so relieved at Spike'd return to consciousness that several | moments passed before signs of the | accident recorded themselves Storm's experienced ear. The car was running too far.and too fast and springing to the door he pulled it open | to see what Helen was doing in the cab, | "We're running away," he cried to | Rhinelander, who joined him. Storm sprang for the side ladder. Helen was alive to the new danger | to her friends. But how to help them | taxed, for an instant, her ingenuity. | To chase them with the engine, as | they were headed for the main line, | night end in a more serious disaster than now seemed imminent. The main | line passenger train was almost due at Baird and the thought of this fact was first in Helen's mind. Near where | she stood was Seagrue"s motor car, the one her abductors had used only a few days before. She ran to this and springing into the seat, turned over the engine, accelerated as fast as she dare, and was off in pursuit of the | runaway. She was sure she must pass Arden station before she possibly could catch the wild car and pulling the cushion from the seat beside her, scribbed hastily across it with a piece of chalk: Runaway car from cut-off on main line. Stop passenger at ' Baird. With this in her hands as she tore | past Arden station, she rose to her feet, balanced herself with an effort and flung the cushion with all the force she could summon through the operator's window. y On the deck of the runaway car Storm had seized the brake. With a violent twist he brought the chain up taut and mindful of tha energy needed to check the disastrous momen- tum they were attaining, threw his © wheel. He might have saved his compan- fons and himself even then, had not the chain, weakened by rust, snapped under the tremendous strain put on ft. The deck became impossible and to avoid being shot off it, Storm climbed | down the swaying ladder again into the car. Alone, Storm would not have | given his peril a thought. He could drop off a car step or from a cab gang- | way with either moving twice as fast, with entire safety to himself. But Sifke, though conscious, was desper- | ately groggy; "in fact, helpless. He had proved his reckless skill more than once and unhurt could have fol- lowed Storm in any leap the railroad man dare venture. He lay now as little able to help himself as a baby. Casting all this up in his mind, the young railroader decided there was but one man's thing for him to do and that was to stay with his companions whether all lost their lives or not. At Arden station the astonished op- | erator had just time to dodge Helen's flying motor car cushion as it smashed through the window. It land: bd on the floor. The chalk scrawl on the top caught his. eye. In the dispatchers' office the chief was sitting at his deck .and a dispatch- | er was on his trick at the jnstrument. | He answered Arden instantly, took the startling message, walked hurried- I¥ over to the chief and handed it to | Sim: H. C. W. Runaway car from cut-off on main line. Stop passenger at Baird. --L. "The dispatcher sprang to his train sheets and back with them to the chief who dictated the only possible an- twer: > Passenger | left Baird four minutes ago. It was too late to avoid a collision, They could only await the issue. With Arden station left far behind, ; Helen, making the utmost possible ppeed In Seagrue's machine, scanned e track ahead for a glimpse of the car. Resolved 1% abe wea at any oost to A glance told him the story. | ¢ _PAGE NINETEEN ---- - hE yo J chine on the right of way and on' the track itself in her determined effort. When she caught sight of the rum: away, no one was to be seen upon it, but she knew Rhinelander and Storm were inside and as she began to over haul the chase, she sounded her horn' insistently. The tw men, leaving Spike, who in the face of the common danger had pulled himself partly to gether, looked out of the side door. To their amazement they saw at their heels Helen 'bumping violently along in 's machine. She signaled them excitedly. She tried to shout to them but could not make a word heard above the deafeiing noises. Rhinelander and Storm did make out, however, that she wanted them to go to the top of the car and the two men | "I EELLRER NEW BEING" *"FRUIT-A-TIVES" Brought The Joy Of __Tiselth After Twa Years $ : ADAM climbed the side ladder again. Helen, still close behind, 'Seribbled a note, folded it hurriedly, took off a | shoe, stuck the note inside and with ; | { "well, 85 St. 8t., Montreal. April 4th. "For over two years I was sick and miserible. I suffored from constant Headaches, and kad Palpitation of the Heart so badly that I feared I'would die. | There seemed to be a lump ia my | Stomach and the Constipation was dreadful, I suffered from Pein in the Back and Kidney Disease, Iwas treated by a physician for a year fad a half and he did me no rood at all. I tried "" Fruit-a-tives as a last resort. After using three boxes, I was greatly improved and twelvé boxes made me Now I ean work all day and there "are no Headaches, no Palpitation, no Heart Trouble, no Constipation, no Pain or Kidney Trouble and / feel like a new being--and it was "Fruit-a-tives'" | that gave me back my health', ¢ | | | | d | | | | to | | Threw His Whole Weight on the! Brake, careful aim, threw it up on top of the | car. The men secured the shoe and | | read the note: | Passenger due--Must ditch car--Jump. Rhinelander and Storm looked at | each other and looked down the line. | | The smoke of the passenger train rose | | on the horizon. There was nothing to | | do but what Helen directed. They | | thought of Spike below, but Helen was | calling to them and without further | delay the two men jumped one after { the other down into the machine. They told Helen of Spike's plight, She nodded as if the difficilty were no more than a detail, slued the ma- chine frem between the rails, drove around the outfit car, slowed along- | side it and all three shouted. Spike, | | hearing his name, listened and sat up. | He saw the machine outside the door | and crawled forward but he was un- {equal to a leap. Rhinelander and Storm urged him to make every ef- fort. He-got to his feet and did the best he could toward a jump. The {| men together half caught and half | pulled him into the machine. With | | the three aboard, Helen sped on ahead | { of the runaway. | Storm had decided what to do, "I'll | drop off the hind end, Helen," he ex- | claimed, "and derail the car." | She caught his idea. "Quick!" she | cried. "No time to lose." Storm rolled over the back of the | machine and dropped to the ground. A bridge spanned an arroyo just ahead. Running forward, Storm caught up such loose rocks as he could reach and placed them along the trapk. Helen, choosing a negotiable poikt, turned her machine courageously off | the right of way and steered it safely | down the embankment. The outfit car | struck the rocks Storm had thrown on the track. It feeled, plunged wildly | into the air and shot headlong over | the bridge into the bottom of the ar- | royo. | In the distance the oncoming pas- | senger train was whistling for a cross- { ing close ahead. Storm running back | | to the track, cleared it hurriedly of the | obstructions, The engineer of the | train, scenting trouble, tried to check | his train, but it was too late and | Storm, to save himself, dropped down | between the ties and hung thers til | the heavy train hurtled past. No en- | | gine driver was ever more relieved {than the man in the p cab, | {when he saw himself safely across. | He stopped his train. From the foot | of the bridge, Helen, Spike and Rhine- | | lander were making i the | | top and were with Storm when the | crew and passengers came back. The i engineman angrily told the conductor the trouble. But after Storm's brief | story, he was as grateful as he had been, indignant. The conductor, knowing the anxiety | among the dispatchers, urged his pas- sengers on board and the train has- tened on. The moment it pulled into Arden the conductor gave the details | to the operator and the latter wired | headquarters. . ! { In the dispatchers' office it was the chief himself who jumped to the in strument when he heard the Arden call. It was fhe chief who took the message telling how Helen and Storm had saved the train. 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