■A CITT! K. J.

■2=r^ , ^af^' 1 s. , SScz ; l KwtVZ’ •"■*“ •.>—«—

hT >-»«»»' Mrr »t Portal city"

nmlOT. prr»,a,- of (h , Narcro,.. u.r ■* * ; >^»l Otf ««•»;, IkylJ. owhw, .*h »oUS UOMavr n»fr' k«l. Kkt«1 < >lv B;-..

AiP«*> le Ci-alwU-k s I

^ f«nhMl Ihnt T»ft>ell tri *“• In !'j office when Diugm blew He w«* -Ulrtn* Id «t <|w «rnlo

iryfnjt

tu'tai* - --- T«»«*r iwofir. Cprbit

tb* Hom

•.nm" oniei*. bikI thlD mu* the Tttm * * kncw.ihBt be really V-ai el.’Wrt — “

U ColVaair

8

*\> • fi’oc* !c IM.mukr. * horn Dunto* ho rant ajR' Jtnwnl* follow* an eroimrr of tl>. Rad Norco**. ;i a rani )-»rd. »h»r» ha orerhMwo * -plot r.mrder .-h*rrr He fructrala It and tharaby dtiro* eraU wraaurra At the home of 81>e! I a Macrae Uadis

•tranfa action* of a ro»: whoro be later recaiateee a> Howard iiroad of I'resident P-Jrlct. A arHaa of rredj. Impoaalht* to

Ifytnit to t»t X>UK Ouleh. :tw iferxm-mart wjre'jtatflon betwodfl rrt.lrtrta Ha. Mftd fnlled T- *H

CH APT PR XI—Continued.

JS5fe}ss,praJTj|: tm* thit • If ife e«Y «op r, ftu! 1'ncte iiuanm fciW have pinny of good rea- -«* o> afl rtPi Ilf*. a lock.'* ml MrrrtT '’ka* Mftktnff with CWrtfT. In i lie olnlm oJOcv. fhl» tnorn■ot. Oor Xom ^pd dbinege nrtoont fur the p**e month li auaifiblng

frigMXal r

“!l :a“ •rnd' tile tiosa (fiai^y. And then: Tpieu- weJre not itjoRPtlx-r a* bright ba He tr'rlit Iw Has ll never otwrred to yoi Hint we are haring for moch bad lock to imrrnnt o« la • barfing It all up to Hie chapter jf

bOc!deoi»“

Mr. Van Brirt blew hi* cbeeka ont «otll the slobby, cropped mustache Oria; led like iwrcup'.oe quilla. ~So jun're boao gafMt.g yoar point•r. too. war* you I" he threw iu. Me, Xoreros* dltlti t onswerfhe ques-

tbs. fUre-dly.

-fat Xarbeii os toe Job. and If he weeds help, iet him pick hit own jnen." be directed. “We want to know why (bai boJlder tumbled down ah.-ad of Number Seventeen, am] J want to aee TartMdl’s report on It. Keep at It night and day, Cpteu. Xbc Infection U getting Into the taats and fill and It's spread'ng like a sickness. If it tier-mice ptyeliologleal, vre shall have •it the trouble w« need.” "I know.” codded the superlntwiden!. ' t wer.i t hrocgb a siege of thst kind oo the (ireet Southwestern, one winter. It waa bcrrlble. Men who bad been running trains year in and y«W out, and never ‘mowing that they bad any nerves, went te pieces If you'd snap your augers mi them." ■"ihat'A It," sstd the boss. “Wc d^n't wset to fall Into that ditch. Things are quite had sno tirh. as they

•re. This ended It for the time Tne Petrnme Canyon wreck was picked up. the track ves cleared, and mice more «mr tralos wece tnovlrg on time, rfut anybody could aee that the entire S,..or' Line had i. cate of “nerves." r.irgr.n. Klrgan the euid-blooded, showed It one tftemoDn when I went over to bin ofBce to return a bunch -of bice-prfu’* swat In for the bus' approval. The big master-mechanic had a round-house foreman “on tbe carpet" and was harrying him like the dl.kera ,‘or letting au engine go out with one of tier truck safety cbalae beugin*

Ever since we had goor together on Jh. rescue run to Timber Mountain. Man and I bad tmen son of chummy, and rrtr tbe foremab had gooe away with his foot in his hand, I joshed Klrjar a little oboot the way be had tiammored «he ro-iKl-h«io*e tnor.. 'bad medicine." I t"id him. "ft's worrying the boss'*, too. Wbafe do-

ing it, Man*"

“Maybe you can fell' he jwwM-:. “It’s a hoodoo—that * what ii U. He.en engine* in the shop- In the last i.<oe days, and three more that haven't

a tbe d»tch .vet. I wish

m nap him l:ito resigning. Then there' was Mrs. Shrtia. I son of smgwcfei she was boldl’g hhn sp <o the e-dt; every Ja> and every minute of the

day.

it was one ermine after he bad ticen ont to the majors for ji»i a little while, and had corne ba-k to tbe ofBre. that be sent for Mr. Van Britt, who was also working Me. There waa blood on the moon, and 1 saw It in the way tb< i>osa' ja-v wa* working. "Upton." he began, r.s sjort as piecrust. “have you tiaougUtofanywfy to break this wreck hood hi y*tf" Mr. Van Britt sat d vn and cros »d b_- ntikt Itllle legs. “If I had. I at: >uidn*t be losing sleep at the rate of live or six hour* u night.' tas rasped. ."There's one thing ihat we aren't tried, ' the boSs shot back. “We've ’neeh adver:tsicg tt r* bad lock, keeping onr own Suspicion* to or.rseTve* end lening the men t>e"eve wha* they pleased. We"! change ail tbai. i call your traibinen in ns fast as you con get at them. Tell them—from me. if you want to—that there Isti't any bnd luck about It; thrt tbe 'vnymles of this manageuimt are making an ocgsnlzrd rail on the property Itself for (he p'lrpewe o! putting us out of tbe fight. Tell them •he whole story. !f you wci to: how we're trying our beat to nuvke a spoon out of a spoiled born and bow there i*> an army of grafters and wreckers la thU state which is doing Its worst to koo h ns out of the box.

tor that fm cured

—r— a ihiu. darkniaa wltb a — ■A kratterlng brard a ad limp black Jr;,one of the m-arest-headed dlw m the 'Winch and the Tw* yoo'd say. to gei roitleil Jo Tet here W ws* nun. ned at the c .r-record taMe ip Comer, c atarlng-eyed, paUidfiiced wreck, with the aweai rt idlWg

part I'm lars, such aa they we>e. tng in r hushed voter as If he was afraid of brooking In on Tarte-K’a steady rattling of the key In the <>o«-

Gulch B'atton call. .

"Namber r our“—Pooa was the easiTlyer''—“is ^ra hours off her

Jukt about the time when tbe sus-

pense bad prowr so keen that It sremed aa If It couldn't he borne a second longer. Morris, who wa* sitting In at tbe office phone, called oni slmrply: “Long-distance nays -he has

Crow Gulch lumber camp!" Mr. Van Britt Jumped to take the

pii ioe. and we got one side of the talk-our aide— In abot-llke aentencea:

"Thatyna. Briiram’ At! right; this

I* Van Britt, at Portal City. Take ooe of i he Kul-m and ride for your Ufa down. U»e. gulch lo the station ! Get -tl.at? Slop .Number Five and make her take siding quick Report over your own wire whst you do. Hurry!”

•c -look, the rolwhlef van done. Dur pin bad crumpled dnnu into a mis*hape» bear on the floor and the sight '-r was enough to make your

Wood run cold.

You set. lie had put tlx rourale of Ihc pistol Into hi. mouth, and—but It'sno use: I rant tell obout It. amt ibe very thought of that tblnr fba! bad jnrt a minute before been a roan. 1} Inc there on the floor mukes me see black and want to keel over. What he had said about sending for an extra undertaker was right as right. With. Hie top of |,ls brad Mown of. the r devil didn't need anything u In this world except the bury'-ig. Somebody has said, mighty truthfully, that even a death In the family doesn't atop the come on routine; that the fkinga that have :c be done wilt grinding on. Just the seme, wbetlier all of u» live, or some of us die. DIsbrow had Jumped from tbe telephone at the crush of Dargin's snot, and for Jnst a second or so we all stood around the dead dispatcher, nobody making a

Th;n Mr. N’oreross came alive with a Jerk, telling Dlsbrow 10 get back on his job of calling out the wreck wagons and tbe relief train, and dlrect.ng Bobby Kclae to go to to- her ‘phone

By tbe time Mr. Van Britt got back I vnd call an undertaker come and

h, nrUUM. -u n«r u I j ^ ti ^

the train «Je*k. (lie bos* had

pencil out . and w»* figuring on Ber-

tram's time margin. It was oow teotwettu. and Five’s time at Crow Gulch was teo-elghieen. The Crow Gulch operator had just six mlnu.e* in wbtdi to get his mule and cover the rough

mlie down the gulch.

There was nothing to do but wait, and tbe waiting was savage. TarheU had a nerve of Iron, but I could aee his hand shake a* It lay on the g! aslopped table. The boss was cool enough outwardly, but I knew that In his brain the- was a in art-breaking

get Dargin's body. Tarbell turned hack to Hie train e’esk to keep things .rom getting Into a worse tangle than they already were In. and to wait for tbe dreadful news, and the boas stood

ny him.

This second wait promised to b» the worst of all. Ine collision was due to happen miles from the nearest wire station; the news, when we should get It would prnbablv be carried back

On get it. Curgin was going to make ought .0 hare had her orders somewhere west of Bauxite Junction, and EWe.uugw in Imvr got. her* nt. Bania Onegin says he simply forgot the the 'Flyer' was running late: that 'be was atill ont and had a ‘meet' to n-uke

somewhere wltfl Five."

Brief a» Hurt' a' 'outtor waa, it was riaqr enough for anybody who knew tbe rood and the schedulr*. ^ regular meeting-point for the two senger trains was at a point well e* ,t >f Portal City, instead of west, and so. of course, would not couceCa tbe Desert DirikSon crew jf either train, since all crews were ctinage*! at Portal Chy. From Benia to Bacxlte Junction. aotne thirty odd mites, there waa only one telegraph atatlon. namely, that at tbe Crow Gulch lumber camp sev-n miles beyond tbe Timber Mountain “T” and the gravel pit where fre stolen iOlfl had teen abandoned. Unluckily, Crow Guirh was only a day station, tb* tity grjies being handled by a young mao who wa* h«lf In tbe pay of tbe railroad :.od half tn that of tbe sow-mf'l company. Tbis young man slept et the ciifl comp.

> fast passenger

trains rushing together In the* night among the hills with no hint of rraroIng to help th.-m save themselves. Van Britt couldn't keep still. He had Ids hands jammed in the side pockets of ».ls coot and was pacing hark ami forth In the little spate lietweei; t; train cleat and the counter railing. At the differ ,i tables in the roo ihc sounders wen- clicking away i if nothing wt-re happening or due to happen, and above the tpatierhig din and clatter you could hear the escape ment of the big standard-time clojg on the wall. bUotneripc ooi the secnods that might mean life or death or three hundred fnnocem peo-

ple.

“If..you give the force aoroetMng j »» * h » ck gulch, tangible to lay hold of. It wMl work ! The!T ' rw fhance in a H.outhe neede-.i miracle. Ir Is only the I that ** R0,,M ^ t)o> ^ mysterious that terrtfier Uailroad etr.- I ril,lroftd «'»«> «! «ro o'clock at ployes. at a whole, are perfectly In- 1 TrM lh » t tbouaandib telllgeot hum*n beings, open lo con- wa ‘ niHI-ng the vlctlou. The management which doesn't , t ro ^ 0u,rtl t » u - lf nTP tnakproflt by that fact Is lame. If you do *"* hpr ,lmp - ^ * w ' rWl » «bo it this end apiieal to the loyalty qf the ■' ,n • lr “*’ ' r •“*—

make a private Hve out of every man In the train aervl—. and ivcry one of them keen to be the first to catch the —reckera. Lou ran add a bit ui a reward for ihat. If you like, and I'll p.y It of tny o». hank accramt." For a full .minute our raptive millionaire didn't 15 a .vottl. Then he grinned like e good-natured little Chine?" »od. “Who gave you this Idea of taking the pay-roll Into ycur confidence. Grakn»r he asked softly. Tor the first .:jw tfr tbe kecks and months Pd b?« lowmc him. the boes dodged; dodged Just like any «>f as might. Tv* been talking ;o Major Kenirir.," he raid. “He Is a wise old man. Upton, awl he hears a good many things that don't get printed In the new>paper*." I could see that this excuse didn't fool Mr. Van Brlit for a single Install:. and there was a look In his eye that I couldn't quit* understand. Neitiicr iould I make Jiacb out of what

he said

"Well go Into tint a little deeper day. Graham—after this epi'ep-

half-wav between Timber Mountain “Y" and Crov.- Gu'ch. And Four, the “Flyer." bad Just feft Bauxite-with no orders whatever. Which meant that tbe two trains would come together

somewhere near Sand Creek. Mr. Vcn Britt was as good a wire

man a:, anybody on th. line, bet It was tue boas who took things In hand.

“There is a long-distance telephone

to the Crow Gulch saw-mill; have you

tried timtr he bork^l at Taybell.'

Tbe trig young fellow

who rook-d

vmfltr

Britt'd Are the Whole Jumpy J tic nrts.V has been fought off This J

| Idea—which you .•oufera l«n . yaur j

irt, Tartwii w

• rtroblem. gUletly. B£>fl

r talk about It. and

a* though firing wa* | owe—is a pretty shrewd on* and-1 a dove of nerv ; ah.mldn't womier if It wraclfi work.

•f we can get tt In motion before l»e hoodoo breaks u* wide open. And. as you mi) the evuaatlon is Justlfla'.ile, even If wr can't prove up agwlost the Hatch outfit. That turaeo-o.cr rati hi PetrbBte Canyon, for example, wigh:

have been help“d a'ong ny "

Ii was Kelso. Mr. Van Krltt's *le«-

onasbed In with the tnter-

; quit

-Wilted

. up iu all the

He was in hi* I Ju*: got Up from his typend he rushed In with his ra a lei bis eyes like saucer*.

the dip*

In horrible snspense tbe six n'qtea pulled themselves out to an « rally for thaf little bum h of us In tbe dlaimtcnur's office who could do nothing but wait. On the stroke of I?u-eigh-teen. tbe time when Five was due at Crow Gulch on her schedule. Tartieil luoed his relay to catch the first faint 'applngv from tbe distant day-station. Another ronuder vas silent. There hope lo the delay, and Morris

vetted It.

“He's there,, and he's too talk to us.” he suggonted, in a hushed voice; and Dlshrorr. the car-record uiab.added: "Xhafa tt; It'd take minute or fwo to get them ’.n on ibe

stdlns."

Tbe second minute passed, and then a third, and yet there was no word from Bertram. "Call him." snapped th» buss to Tarbell. hut before the ex oow-boy’s ha nil could re*ch the key. the sounder begun to rattle ont a string of dot* and dashes: ragged Mors* tt waa. but we cou!J all read It only loo p’alnly. “Too latr—male threw me and I had to crawl nrd drag a came leg— Five, p-.ased full speed at ten-nine-teen—I couldn't make It" the boss' hand* shat up a. though the finger nulls would cut Into

the palms.

"That ends u.“ be said, with a soil

11*. • , '“ai euu» u. ce saia. who a so: 1

lit, . t.a !-« | ot „„„

then to Tarbell: “You may as well call Kirjan and tell him to order out the wrecking train. Then have Per-

"I Couldn't Gat Rid of tk* 1 He Wat Ustaning.”

' b* ]

1 BriH. "Dur- • e*- In for a

on*, they said—glanced np and nodded: “The call's in.' he responded: “ Vontru!' says she can’t ral** anybody." For the next three or tour minuiea tb* lenato?. waa something fierce. 1 be bo** and Mr Van BrtU nung over > re train deal, and Tarbell kept uj' tl ' Uim -lent clatter at the key. I ho i on eye •m Durgin. He was «HR bunched up hi the record-man s chair, an i to oil ( piwuranrew had eoue xtcoe-bilnd crazy. Yet 1 couldn't get rid of th*

kins make up a relief t ale while you're calling the doctors. Van Britt, you go and no'lfy the hospital over your owa office wire. Have my private car put Into the relief, and see to tt that It has all the necessary *U|iplle«. And you'd better notify the undertakers, too." Great Joasli! but It waa horrible— for ns to be hustling around and making urrangei-ieuts for the funeral while Hie people who were to be gathered up and Uurled were still swinging ■•on* live and well, half of them in the crookl-igs among tn* Timber Mounj tain fum-hilG and th- other half .-omennvr,- m tbe desert stretches bei low Mami Creek Tarbell had sent Dishrow to the phone to call Klrgcn. and Mr. Vi 1 Britt wa* trruing away to go to h j own office, when the chair iu tbe cc j ner by tl.e car-record ta'jle feM or.. 1 backwards with a crash and Durgin j came Staggering ucrus* the room. He I WoJ 'hiring straight ahead of him ».* if he had gone blind, and the sweat *4* rauning down Ids face to awe itself 'u the straggllrg beard. When he spoke Lis voice seepir.l to come from awa off somewhere, and be .vas still staring' at the tnank wall fc.-yo.-Mi the cf-unter-raKItiR-Dld I—did I liear somelnxlv say you're aendinv for the uou>*rtaKer»-" he choketl. with r. dry rattle In las throat; acd then, without waiting for an answer: “While you're at it you'd bet»*r get one tor me . . . there's the money to pay him." auii he towed a thick roll of bank bilia wrapped amend wltt a rubber I>an1, over te Tarbell at tb* train desk N‘atura!ly. she little grand-stai.d play with the batik ro'l made a oner.iloc. and that is why the muffled crash of

with a

There Waa an Even Theusand Dollars.

to Bauxite Junction by the pusher -Dgine which lunl gone out to Jr to overtake the “Flyer." But. even In that case it might be an agoHiing hour or more before w» could bear

anything.

In a little while Dlsbrow had clicked his call to Klrgan. and when tbe undertaker's wagon came to gather up what waa left of tbe dead '"tpstcher. tl»e car-ivcord man was hurriedly writing off bis !Ut of doctors, and Mr. Van Britt had gone down to superintend the making up of tbe relief train. True to bla theory, which, among other things, laid down the broad principle Ihat the pnbllc had a right to tie given all tbe facta In a railroad disaster. Mr. Norcross was , ost relllnr me to jjll up the Mounalnecr office, wiles' Tamil, calmly Inking time reports upon ibe train sheet, flung down hit pen and snatched his key to Tireak" the chattering

sounder.

Mr. Van Britt had come up-stairs ngslu. and be ar.d tbe bon were both standing over Tarbell when the “G-S' break cleared tbe wire. Instantly there came a qolefc call. “G-S" “G-S" fallowed by the signature. “B-J“ for Bauxite Junction. Tarbell answered, and tliep we all heard what Bauxite had to say: “Posher overtook Number Four three mile* west of Sand Creek and has brought her hack here. What orders

for berr

Somebody groaned. “Ob. thank God!“ and Mr. Van Britt dropped Into a chair as If he bad been hit by a cannon ball. Only the bos' kept his head, calling out shandy to Dlsbrow to break off on tbe doctors' list and to hurry and stop Kirgon from getting away

with the 'wrecking train.

When It wa* all over, and TarheU had been given cNarge of the dls- 1 pet.-hlnc while a hurry tali wa* sent out for the night relief man. Donohue, to com-- down and take the train desk. 'here -.vas a little committee meeting in the general manager'* office, with tbe boss In the chair, and Mr. Van Britt sitting In for the other member. “Of course, you're drawn your own conclusloii* Upton.” the bos* l-egcn. witen he had asked me to shut the

door.

7 gur** so." was the grave ic-

jolnder. - - - -

plain that Dorglo was hired to do It. I the d.H»r Whst be.'iiuie of the money?" I "Jobuny.'

thing shorn Durgin? Was be a married mar*"- • nt Mr. Van Britt shook hi* head. "Ha l*ad been married, but he anti III* wife tJlrni-t live together. He had no rrialides.benu.r knew Iflm In Hie southwest two yejrs ago. He'd had domestic trouble of some kind, sod dldnt mix or mingle mtitfii with the other men. But he was a good diapatclier. and two month* ago. when we had an opuilng here, i sent for him." “You think there I* n- doubt hot that -he wa* liritu-l to put tlunw train* _ .oxelher :oulght?“ “None in the ieast—only I wish wa had a llrtle betler proot of It." . Wltere did he liver' “He boarded at Mr*. Chandler's, hat on Cross street. Morrir hoard* there, too, I hrilere.* The bow. tamed to me. .“Jimmie go and get Morrl*." I carried tbe rail and brought Mcr* rfs back with me. He wit* a‘ cheer, ol red headed fellow, and everybody t'keo

hlu.

"It Isn't a ‘awnt-box' sevskm Vcerts." raid the boss, quietly, wher wv came In and the relief operator cal down, •on ot half wcared. oa tb- edge of a chair. “We wrant to hnov. comething it ore about Durgin. He roomed at your place, didn't be?' Morris admitted It. hut raid he'd never been v»ry chummy wit,, tie dls pateber; that Durgin waan't chummy with anybody Then the bras went *(might to the point, as fc usnslly

did.

“You were present and saw all Ural happened tn the other room. Tan ye* 1 Ml n* anything about thst twneyr pointing to the pile if HHia on my de*k-. Billy Morris wriggled hlraseh' tut* 1 little hetisr chair-hold. “NotMhff* hat would he worth telling. If thiog' hadn't turned out Ju-t a» Ihe/ fcafi*.* '.it returned. “But now I gneas I know l, left Mr* OiandlerW this evening about eleven o'clock to come on doty and Durgin wa* Jnst abend of- tote Some icflow—a man In a snuff-" ored ovcrccat and with a soft lint pulled down ao Ihci I couldn't aee hi* fare-v Mopped Durgin on the st(!;wnlk. sad they to'-ked together “I didn’t hear what was aald. bnt I osw the overcoatetl man pas* something t^ Durgin and saw Durgin pu - whatever il. v-a Into hi* pocket. Then the other m. ... dodged and went ■’way. and did It so quirk, fhar.I .tfldni: fee w hich nay he wen. or what became of him Durgin must have run after' be left the corner, for I didn't see anything more of t'-n until I got to the office.' “He was there when yon came ioT' It, was Mr. Norcross who wanted to know. ■‘Yea. He had his coat off and wa* at work ’Or the train sheet. I don't think Durgin left his chair, or said anything to anybody until he jumped op and began to walk the floor, taking on and saying that he'd put Four end Five together 00 the single track.” There was silence for a little time, and when tbe boss saw. “Do you think you would recognise the mao In the snuff-colored overcoat. IX you should see him again?" “Yea, I might; If jie bad on the same coat and hat." “That will do. then. Keep this thing to: yourself, and If tbe newspaper people come after yon. send them to Mr. Van Britt or to roe.” After Morris had gooe. Mr. Van Britt shook his head sort of savagely. “It's b—I. Graham I" he ripped out. honoring 10 bis feet ana beginning t« tramp up and down the room. “To think that these devils would lake the chance of murdering a lot of totally Innocent tieople to gain their end! What are you going to do about It?" “I don't know yet Upton; but I am going to do soroeHiIng. ThU state ot affairs can’t go on. The almplwt thing is for me to throw up The JolT and let the Short Line drop back Into the old rut. I'm not sure that H wouldn't save a good many Uvea In the end If I should do It. And yet It •eetn* such a cowardly thing to dole resign under fire." Mr. V*n Britt had hi* hand on tbe door-knob, and what be said mode me warm to my finger-tips. “We're all .•landing by >o«. Grabarn; ail. you understand—tn -lie last man and the lari ditch. And you'nf not going to pitch It up; you're go* Ing to stay until you have tbrowu lira harpoon Into iliev hlgb-hlnderx. deaf ».p to the hitching*. That - * my pro. phecy. The trouble's over for tonight, and you'd better go op to the hotel and torn In. Tte-re la another day coming, or If there isn't. It won t make any difference to any of u*. u»~4nlght."

Had About Glvan Up Hope.

A certain Dor room mother had occasion to scold ner five year-old son. the tad taking ;ne call-down very much lo heart. After the operation waa completed, son disappeared, ills fallore to reappear mused the mother to worry and *he l-egan looking about to locale the culprit, in the bnthraom

fTOld It i* only too j the roc do ••.'tu. Hiere he wa* with : „ MwHT

brother bcfl-j him

t te everybody. When we turned I Mr. I

It here.” said the ho** and —... ...

he took the Llood money hark-roll j -.cry. very Ud from bin pocket and removed the rub- ‘o.- thi* fmrlly

• baud. "Count It, Jimmie." lie or- away, luu rt, •ed. pns-ing It to me. son-of-a-sun." ran through the hunch It waa That w*» « twentlcv and fifties, and there war Soon mere was even thoosand doiiars ! *onnie was at* Ti’at tr the frlre of 9 man’’ life" ' of the things hi d Mr. Vcn Britt, sohr. iy. and men I *«•? Still, 1;

Tot.