Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 927) (1923 07 06)

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‘ee JULY 6, 1923 No. 927 aw ME 7 Cents ° A SIE - FORTUNE WEEKLY. s TORI OTHER STORIES ri The rascal grasped the boy and flung himself from the trestle. With a mighty roar the traia rushed over the spot both.had been occupying a moment before. Down plunged the young contractor and his foe toward the river below.

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: Wi Street, New York, N. Y. _ No. 927 x CHAPTER I.—The Railroad contract. _ “Well, Don,” said Gilford Winthrop, a bright- ed, earnest-looking lad of eighteen years, as his twin brother, Donald, entered the office of “John ‘Winthrop, General Contractor,” on Main street, - in the town of Lakeview, “does the contract stand?” There was a shade of anxiety in his voice, while his hazel eyes searched his brother’s face as if he would read the answer in his expressive features. ; 3 “Yes, Gil,” replied Don, in cheery tones, “every- @ is satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Prescott, chief engineer of the D. P. & G., assures 2e that the original bond is holding on the work, nd so far as the railroad company’s concerned, ther’s death will make no difference with re- spect to the contract.” . “Good!” exclaimed Gil, with sparking eyes. Andrew Newman was present, and he made ‘big fight to freeze us out. He said all manner _uncomplimentary things about you and I; it did not do him any good, just the same.” ’m glad the matter is settled, Don,” said Gil, an air of relief. ] n would get the inside track of us. He’s an and experienced contractor, you know. He ected to get this contract, in the first place, ‘was as mad as a hornet when it was awarded confidential foreman, who was under the nce of liquor at the time, swore that father would complete the work within the stipu- time. Do you think we may look for ewman crowd?” _quite possible they will try to annoy Bee can. We must be on our guard. It “up to us, Gil, to build the road. within the = limit, not only for the honor of the thing, o save forfeiture of the security bond, which are aware amounts to twenty per cent. of approximate cost of the contract. No ex- ior the non-fulfilment of the agreement with the railroad company.” over to the safe, took therefrom - a copy of the general speci- ‘building the line of road co wo boys sat down 0. a <0 - 4 “T was afraid that New-. Be * Latest Radio News Given on Pages 24 and 25 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY | kly—Subscription price, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry BE. Wolff, Publisher, Ine., 160 og aoe est o3a'8 Pee toe Entered - Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at : the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, JULY 6, 1923 Price 7 Cents FIGHTING FOR FAME = OR, THE LUCK OF A YOUNG CONTRACTOR By A SELF-MADE MAN table and, with a pile of memoranda prepared by their father before he died, they were soon engrossed in a study of the situation. ~ The late John Winthrop had contracted to - build a branch line for the D. P. & Q. railread from Lakeview to the main line at Glendale, .a distance of about twenty miles. As this was not the first Gompract of the kind he had under- taken, he was well provided with the necessary facilities for the prosecution of such work. His steam shovel outfit had a capacity of 2,500 cubie _ yards in ten hours, and it handled all kinds of material from the softest earth to shale rock, large boulders, tree stumps, etc., and performed all the work of loosening and loading. As the economical working of the shovel required that the material should be hauled away as fast as it was loaded, Mr. Winthrop had provided some thirty dirt cars, which, when the distance to the dump was short, were hauled by horses; other- wise they were made up in two trains and han- dled by a couple of narrow-gauge locomotives. The steam shovel was indispensable on the present job, as the survey carried the line through a spur of the foothills, where a cut of half a mile or more would have to be excavated. A short tunnel had to be cut through a cliff projecting into the lake. But by far the greater part of the roadbed would lie along a flat, com- The d ’ Pree that tig , paratively level district bordering on the lake, e day it was signed Jim Kelso, New- which gave its name to the town with which railroad connection was to be made. An arm of this body of water ran close into the spur of the hill where the principal excayation was te be made, and Mr. Winthrop counted on this as’ a great advantage to him, as the fifty-horse power non-condensing engine employed to oper- » ate the steam shovel used'so much water that the cost of water supply, which was a serious. matter to him when water was not readily obtainable, was reduced to a minimum. - John Winthrop had only one competitor for the railroad contract. This was Andrew New- man, a man by no means popular in that neigh- borhood, where he had done a-great deal of — road building for the county. Newman wanted this particular contract badly, and he tried his . level best to get it, making use of questionable “methods, But possession — He Ait: ~ e Y ee s

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es enabled Winthrop to underbid him, and Newman felt bitter toward his successful rival. had got things almost in shape for beginning _ the work, when one-morning he was found dead in his chair in his private office. The physician called in declared that he had died of heart failure. The case, therefore, did not go to the coroner, and in due time all that was mortal of John Winthrop was laid away in the town bury- ed ing-ground. : A few days after the funeral Newman called ‘on Mrs. Winthrop and made her an offer for the busimess and plant as it stood, which, of course, carried with it the railroad contract. The offer was not at all satisfactory. Besides, her two stalwart sons, Donald and Gilford, had .de- .termined to carry on their father’s business. They believed themselves fully competent to do so. Both had taken a three years’ course of civil engineering, and in addition thereto had two. years’ practical experience under their father’s eye. For Mr. Winthrop’s intention had been to eventually take his boys into partnership. With a valuable contract at their disposal, and all the necessary means at hand to carry out the work outlined, it would have been a foolish move I _ to dispose of the business, even at a fair price. And Mr. Newman’s offer could scarcely have been called a fair one. He believed the Win- throp business was at his mercy. ..For Don and Gil he had nothing but contaiipe, He looked on them merely as boys. Not for a moment did he believe they would attempt to carry out the contract for grading the twenty miles of road- bed between Lakeview and Glendale. unpleasntly surprised when he discovered that such was really their intention. “Ridiculous!” he exclaimed to his man Kelso, and his chief assistant, of course, agreed that the idea was preposterous. “T shall see the chief engineer of the D, P. & son Q. about it,” he said angrily. = And he did. He found Don Winthrop in con- = sultation with Mr. Prescott. He was admitted Bos to the conference, and he used every argument -. dn his power to convince the engineer that it would be folly to allow the Winthrop. estate to yt carry on the contract with two such boys as Don = and Gil in charge. But Mr. Prescott had the _ _- records of the young fellows before him, and he _ saw no reason why the contract should not stand. ay The, boys were fully prepared and apparently =i qualified to carry out the work, and the surety oo was good. So Andrew Newman was dis- -—-@ppointed in his effort to attain the object sought $e _ after. The contract was to stand, and he was out of it. We are sorry to say that the big a contractor used some very strong language to . Telieve his feelings after he left the engineer’s Office. If he had been disgruntled by losing the - ontract originally to John Winthrop, he was twice as much put out to be euchred by that _ gentleman’s sons. ait . “Pll get square with those cubs for daring to _ beard me to my face. So they think they can _ build this branch line, do they?” He laughed sardonically as he walked along _street toward his own offi hey think th ce, ey. half-x do the work on time, FIGHTING FOR FAME Winthrop’ He was - ‘do them two boys up ye’ve got ter get righ’ to he ae peg y 1 a jaa lailes WL out. Oh, yes; they'll do it. Not if Andrew New- — man knows it they won’t, and I guess he’ll keep track of what they do. I swore their father shouldn’t make a success of this work, and I ~ meant it. I guess he was a bigger proposition than they are.” i He stopped at a saloon to get a drink, a fre- | quent habit of his, and found his confidential — foreman, Jim Kelso, lined up with a couple of — cronies against the bar. Jim was not in the | least abashed when his boss surprised him in this position. Kelso had a habit of doing pretty — much as he pleased when his business was not rushing, and Andrew Newman’s affairs were somewhat slack just then. He had only one con- tract on hand. It was a matter of road-building on the other side of the lake, and Kelso’s as- sistant, Mike Mullen, was looking after that. — Newman called for a whisky, and, having drank — it, he motioned Kelso to follow him outside. i “The railroad contract has been transferred to — those boys in spite of everything I could do to — the contrary,” said Newman, gloweringly. <3 “Has it?” replied Kelso, with an unpleasant grin. « “They’ve got a cast-iron nerve to think theyll — be able to put such an undertaking through in anything like the time stipulated.” « z “Failure to do it ’ill cost ’em a pretty penny, I’m thinkin’,” said Kelso, with another of his cheer- _ ful grins. = “Then they will go under.” 2 . “Mebbe they will. But I reckon we ought to help ’em along in that direction.” . BS “They won’t need any asisstance. I’m willing — to bet a thousand dollars that they'll be all tangled up in less than a month.” ie “Don’t be so sure of that, Mr. Newman,” an- swered the foreman, with a sage wag of his head. “Them boys understand their business.” sane “Who says they do?” demanded the contractor angrily. ‘ ce _ “I say so. If ye want to know my opinion, it’s —— jest this: Them two lads are smarter’n chain lightnin’.” Se, “What are you giving me, Jim Kelso?” growled Mr. Newman, with a lowering brow. ‘? “Nothin’ what I can’t prove. If ye want down ter business. Ye don’t want ter take no — chances. They may have bitten off more’n they kin chew with this railroad job; but yell be kinder surprised, mark my words, to see the way they'll go at it. Them boys ain’t no kid- 5 dudes. You’d know it by this time if wieae any attention to ’em, which I guess ye haven’t.” This plain statement on the part of his fore-— man was news, and not pleasant news, to And Newman. He wanted to discredit it, for h spised everything that bore the name of rop; but he was keen enough to unders that there must be some ground for Kelso’s ged assertion. “Your word is pretty good, Jim, but I'd something more substantial in the way of haar oe : ne ou watch them boys after they get s' on this job of gradin’ and ye’ll have al evidence ye want,” said his eceste with a that carried a great deal of weight with it. — “Well,” grunted Newman, “I don’t ‘3

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> Erothers part, ville Carriage Works FIGHTING smart they are, I’m going to pickle them. I’m going to drive them out of business, in these parts, at any rate. I'll bust them higher than ‘a kite before I get through with them. They'll ¥egret the day they measured strength with Andrew Newman.” : “Now ye’re talkin’. And ye kin depend on me helpin’ ye do it. I’m down on=that fellow Don. He butted in ’tween my son Jerry and that there al of mine, who thinks’ cause she’s blind she i do as she pleases. But I reckon I won’t d no sich nonsense.” : “Where did you come to get hold of that girl, Jim? She isn’t your daughter.” . ’ “Never mind how I come to get her. I ain’t tellin’ everythin’ I know. She belongs to me, and that’s enough said,” retorted Kelso, doggedly. “Well, it’s none of my business. Your affairs are your own. So long as you stand by me I’m your friend. If you hate one of the Winthrop éubs, sc much the better. You'll take a greater Yelish in doing them up, and the worse they’re done up the most satisfied-I’ll feel.- Come into the office and we'll go over the matter and see how we'll go to work about, the thing.” And thus, while Don Winthrop and_ his brother were arranges the final details for start- ing the grading o the railroad right of way, Andrew Newman and his assistant Jim Kelso were putting their heads together three blocks away, laying plans to Wefeat the efforts of the two bright young fellows to carry the work to a successful end. : ~“ CHAPTER II.—Blind Nellie. ugh Don and Gil Winthrop were twins, and of course of the same age, Don took the lead in everything without hesitation, and his brother instinctively accorded him first place and was content to follow at his dictation. Gil was more like his mother, who was of a gentle, yielding disposition; while Don seemed to be the counter- part of his father, who had been a man of ac- tion, perseverance and uncommon energy. The boys had never had a quarrel in their lives, and’ the possibility of a serious disagreement between them seemed very remote indeed. So when the yailroad contract was fairly started, Don took the entire supervision of the job on his shoulders, and Gil was satisfied to pass -the larger portion into that stood in ‘to eat its wa spur of the foothills whic path*of the projected roadbed. A temporary track had been laid down for _ something like a mile and a half to the outskirts of Lakeview for the purpose of hauling the earth from the hills to a ten-acre plot of low, swampy This piece of land the Winthrop had purchased cheap, and proposed to réclaim it by raising it to a lével with the grade. On contracts for railroads, the railroads would ~ not allow the contractor to dispose of the ma- teria! = the company. 3 edition. This was a bit of speculation on Don’s cavated, where it would be expensive to The present instance is an ex- for he knew that the owners of the Green- , now located in the small Greenville, thirty miles distant, were * \ \ FOR FAME 3 looking for a convenient building site close to the new railway line, and he had made over- tures to them on the subject, with every prospect of completing the deal in time. Later on Don proposed to fill in a certain part of the lake shore within half a mile of the cut, which he and his brother had also acquired by purchase. On this made lad they proposed to build a summer hotel, with tennis ground, bath- ing pavilion and other modern improvements. It was a warm spring day, and everything was progressing favorably with the grading work of the new railroad line. Dan had three gangs at work. At ithe cut there were five Italian laborers under Joe Sinkey, the foreman. This gang was employed in shifting the steam shovel when necessary, taking up .and relaying the tracks for the cars, shifting loaded and unloaded cars, etc. Besides these men there was the en- gineer of the stationary engine, the fireman and the cranesman. The wages and other expenses of the outfit was about $150 per week. Besides, there were the engineers of the-two locomotives and a dumping gang at the other end of the track. The. third gang, which was the larrest, was working between the cut and the Lakeview terminal, along fairly level ground. Don was here, there any everywhere where work was in progress. After dinner on this particular day he was out at thé cut giving sundry instructions to his brother, who for the present was anchored at that locality. Then, feeling that he had a respite for a while, he strolled over the foothills towards the cliff abutting on the lake. This cliff had to be tunnneled at a certain point for the tracks to pass through. This was the most deli- cate and difficult part of the contract, but it was a piece of work that appealed to Don’s engineer- ing tastes. : He was really very enthusiastic over the pros- pect of successfully piercing that wall of rock. When Don reached the cliff he seated himself on a boulder in a nook among the rocks, and began to study the face of the projection’ which was to be pentrated by thé drills. He wondered how much labor .and how many pounds of dynamite would be required to. do the work properly with- in the lines of exeavation as indicated by the plans. > “It will be a nice piece of work,” he mused, as his eyes roved up and down the bare cliff. “Drill- ing and blasting must be conducted with all pos- sible care to prevent shattering the roof and sides beyond the section lines.” Undoubtediy this. was the most fascinating part of the contract for Don. Fifty feet above where he sat the cliff: projected in half-arch fashion over the surface of the lake. Up there it was covered with a struggling mass of early vegetation, which shone brightly green in the afternoon sunlight. A rough, irregular path- way pursued its sinuous course from the shore line to the top of the cliff. One hundred feet from the edge of that airy height Don could just make out the roof of Jim Kelso’s humble cottage. The only sign of life in that vicinity was the wisp of hazy-looking smoke, which floated straight up in the air from the red brick chimney at the back of the house. But as Don looked upward a sunbonnet came into view, and then by degrees the figure of a young girl in a chesk

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gown approached the edge of the cliff, standing there in the full glory of the sunshine. “Good gracious!” gasped Don. “That’s little ' blind Nellie, A step or two more and she will plunge to certain death among the rocks down here. How can I warn her?” and the boy stood up in great excitement. But his anxious solicitude for the girl was really thrown away. Nellie knew exactly where : she was, although to her eyes the world was a “2a blank. Her senses of touch and hearing were ; marvelous. She knew every foot of the ground and the exact contour of the landscape for miles around the Kelso cottage. The boy understood something about Nellie’s remarkable perceptive faculties, but for all that he was startled by her apparent peril. , “Nellie,” he shouted eagerly, “go back; you are ,~ on the very edge of the cliff The girl easily heard and recognized the voice : as it was wafted up to her. -She looked down = = him and smiled as though she really saw “What are you doing down there, Donald Win- throp?” she asked, taking off her bonnet and swinging it lazily to and fro by one of its strings. “I’m coming up-to talk to you a moment,” he he said, suiting the action to the word, for it made ~ him nervous to see her standing in so dangerous a spot. “No, please don’t,” she replied, in a tone: that brought a to a full pause all at once. “And why not?” asked Don impetuously, for since the day, three months before, when he had thrashed Jerry Kelso for striking her in the : face—a cowardly act that had made his blood boil at the time—he had often thought of the =: blind girl. Her unfortunate condition as the drudge of the Kelsos appealed to his chivalry, and he had looked forward to another meeting - with her as a matter of great pleasure. The girl turned toward the cottage before an- swering. Then she said: S *T’ll come down.” With the fearlessness of one ‘sure of her way, Nellie walked a dozen yards back along the edge of the cliff till she came to the beginning of the — roughly-hewn pathway, which she seemed to recognize without difficulty, and then started to descend the face of the rock. No one watching her movements, which were as light and graceful as a fawn, would for a single moment have sup- =i her to be blind. -Don too, impatient to await her coming, sprang forward to meet her, and the girl knew he was coming from the mo- ment he took his first step. ~ “Donald Winthrop, what an impetuous boy ~-yow are!” she exclaimed, with a winsome smile _ that lighted up as lovely a countenance as any painter could wish to transfer to canvas. A ‘sudden hg nt of air whistling about the cliff caught and blew out the unconfined tresses of her beautiful hair, = Ka oe sae formed it into a mass ef living, burnished go . 12?” laughed Don, as Po con- t her. “To_ FIGHTING FOR FAME : joss t know these ‘people. How can you know but the heavy rain of yester- Se day morning may have loosened a rock here and there?” “But I am always very careful where I trust my feet, Don Winthrop,” she said. “7 should judge by your movements that you — are not half as cgreful as you ought to be. “That’s because you don’t know me,” she an-— swered with a smile, as she placed her hand in ie. confidingly when she felt he was near to er. “You are truly a wonderful girl, Nellie,” said Don, with a sympathetic, almost tender, look — down into her sightless eyes. “Sure you have not always been blind?” “No,” she replied sadly. “I had a fall which — injured the optic nerve, so that I gradually lost ~ my sight a few years ago.” She suffered him to seat her on the boulder which he had just vacated, and she sat there in silence for a moment or two, with her face turn-— ed toward the lake, while he sat by her side and a the beautiful face in its frame of golden air “If Mother Kelso or Jerry should chance to- together I’m afraid there would be “You are sute we. see us trouble,” she said at length: are alone?” “Yes, Nelliey quite alone,” replied the boy, after a rapid glance around the lonesome spot. ae, “I am glad,” she continued in an eager voice. ‘I wanted so much to see you, Donald Winthrop. © You are building a railroad near here, are not—you and your brother?” “Yes, Nellie.” “And that is why you came here, to look around?” “Yes. to study the looks of the place.” “Mr. Andrew Newman—that’s the man Mr. road, “Yes,” answered Don, = surprised at her 7 Kelso works for—wanted to build this ro didn’t he?” remark. “I heard Mr. Kelso talking about it at the cottage. Mr. Newman—~is very angry because “you got the contract, and’—she grasped Don’s” hand, while a little shudder agitated pec afraid you'll have trouble over the work. Kelso frightened me with the threats he against you particularly.” “Why me in particular?” v3 “Because,” and the boy saw the tears stay in her blinded eyes, “he hates you bitterly. © says he means to get square with you for t: my part that day Jerry struck me. And 1 have never had the chance to thank you ciently for your courage in coming to my ass ance. But now I am sorry you did—so because Mr, Kelso is a harsh and unrea man, and I dread lest he do you an inj all on my account.” “Nonsense, Nellie! I can take care i I don’t fear Jim Kelso a tee bit. hear of Jerry ee no; you sciaenapes she said | ‘They ; I suppose— We are going to blast a tunnel through the base of this cliff by and by, and I came over 3 %

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keep a bright lookout against any of tricks,” answered Don, resolutely. — -* “JT hope you will,” she said, with evident anx- om > | iety, “for I am sure they mean you harm, Donald _ Winthrop. I heard Mr. Kelso say you had a 2s of men excavating the hill yonder,” and = Nellie waved her hand in the direction of the ~ eut, “He told Mother Kelso he meant to do something in that direction that would knock eh operations out for a while. You have an ES Ttalian there named Mike Rossi. You ought to is a very bad man. Kelso. He was sent : am eee obliged to you, Nellie, for this “warning,” said Don, gratefully. “I am looking for trouble from the Newman people, _but of course cannot tell in what shape it is likely to .. I shall have this Rossi spotted, and if we catch him up to any funny business Pl have him in. jail so quick that itl make his head BE an “Pm so glad of this chance to tell you these things,” said the blind girl, looking up in Don’s aa: “I should feel very miserable if any harm ie ed to—you.” . ‘ x d I am very ary as Ae oa heat ee yourself in my behalf,” replie e handsome acta “J wish I could do something I can’t understand why a irl looked at him appealingly. : rei me,” urged the boy, earnestly, “has this im Kelso any claim upon you?” 2 -“Yof must not ask me—indeed you must not! ‘she cried with a look of fear. ‘Are you a relative of his?” __ _*No,” she answered reluctantly. 3 ’ Then what possible hold can he have on you? ellie only bent her head, and Don could see “tears stealing down her cheeks.. The sym- he had all along felt for this gentle crea- I will be your friend. Nellie, I insist on Nell "= sprang up with a suppressed scream elung to Don’s arm, The boy turned quickly > E to find Jim Kelso standing within a few eet of them, regarding him with a look as black ndergust. ER Il].—The Fight at the Foot of the ignity that was D ith bi to say about have you r FIGHTING FOR FAME 5 he added fiercely, turning to Nellie. “If I ketch you talkin’ to this chap agin it won’t be good for ye—understand?” Sel ee > Don Winthrop,” said Nellie, giving him her hand, which trembled visibly in his grasp. + d-by, Nellie,” Don answered, without mak- ing any attempt to detain her, which he judged would have brought down on her gentle head the anger of her tyrants. The blind’ girl turned slowly away and began the ascent of the cliff, passing within arm’s length of Kelso. Don watched the man like a hawk, fearing he would strike the girl. Had he done so, and his €yes seemed to indicate such an intention, there would have been trouble: Don was in no mood to stand for such an exhibition of brutality. But Jim Kelso allowed Nellie to pass him unharmed. It is posible he scented danger in the young en- gineer’s face and preferred not to provoke a quarrel, strong and rugged as hé undoubtedly” was. Evidently the man was not looking for a personal encounter at that moment. “Now you kin go,” he said, turning a malevo- lent look on the boy. o> “Can I?” replied Don, with a short laugh, which in its way was a sort of danger ‘signal. “Since when have you constituted yourself the arbiter of my movements?” . “None of your blamed business! I don’t want ye hangin’ ’round here chinnin’ to that there gal; do you understand?” .- : “TI wasn’t aware that you had any control over this ground,” replied Don sarcastically. ; “IT have control over that gal, and I won't 7 stand for a gent like you puttin’ any nonsense into her head—that’s what I mean. You struck my son Jerry three wéeks ago because he gave the gal a tap on the cheek for talkin’ sassy to him, and I want ye to understand that I don’t eare for ye to repeat it,” and Kelso nodded his head in a significant manner. “I struck your son because he was behaving like a brute and refused to desist when I asked him to. He’s big and husky enough to defend himself without calling on you.” That was quite true, although Jerry Kelso was but seventeen; but, like most bullies, he w a rank coward, and Don knew it. : “What was that gal sayin’ to ye when I came up?” asked Kelso, suddenly changing the sub- ject. ° “Why do you want to know?” replied Don, look- ing him squarely in the eye. - “’Cause I reckon it’s my business to know,” answer the foreman doggedly. “Well, you won’t learn from me.” “Then I’ll make her tell me,” said Kelso, with an ugly scowl. “And suppose she won’t—what then?” “Don’t you worry; I'll find a way to open her mouth,” he said significantly. 2 “Look here, Jim Kelso,” said Don, walki squarely up te him; “do you know what I thin of you?” * let me hear of you laying the hand. on that girl. I mean it. For as as —~ =e

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Ss there is a heaven above I'll teach you a lesson won’t forget as long as you live.” “You'll do what?” roared the foreman, doub- ling up his brawny fist. : i “T'll take it out of your hide, if that’s plain enough English.” “Why, I kin eat you up, you soft-faced dude!” ejaculated Kelso furiously. “Do ye ‘see thet arm?” and he rolled up the sleeve of his red flannel shirt, exposing a great, hairy arm, which bristled with muscle and sinew, “If I hit ye with that you’d be a fit subject for the coroner, d’ye understand?” f Jim Kelso thought this display of his strength would. intimidate Don Winthrop he was greatly mistaken. “T see you’ve been drinking,” said Don, coolly, “and I prefer not to have any trouble with you, b “What if I have been drinkin’? Thet’s my ’ bizness. If I go up yonder an’ kick the head off’n that gal if she won’t open her face when I ask her a question, that’s my bizness, too,” snarled the foreman, squirting a steam of tobac- co juice within an inch of the young engineer’s __sHoe. “You'll find out that I’ll make it my business if I hear of you doing any harm to her. Why, nobody but a brute. would raise his hand against any woman, let alone-a little blind girl like Nellie.” “Yah!” snarled Kelso, showing his tobacco- stained teeth like a famished hyena. mind to smash your face for you.” “T’ve dealt with brutes like you before, so I wouldn’t, advise you to try it,” said the boy, with exasperating coolness. “Blame you!” cried the man, flaring up like a flash of gunpowder and thrusting his rough fist within an inch of Don’s face, “if ye git me goin’ Y'll wipe the earth with ye till there won’t be enough left of ye to make a respectable funeral.” “Take your hand away!” cried Don sharply, without moving a muscle. The ruffian half complied, and then, as though ashamed of his action, he suddenly slapped the . boy across the mouth, making the remark: “Take that for——” But he got no farther. With a spring Don planted his fist squarely between the man’s eyes, and the fellow fell back in a heap among the rocks. In a momest he sat up and looked around hen, with an oath, he to annihilate boy, who was as cool as an iceberg, ducked with quickness, and as Kelso’s fist shot “. “yh “l’ve a h : h ~ tage with a blind rush and swing of his arms-— st into empty air, ing him partly off his ao Eas ngs and hit him a eviaginn Mage nan. had no further interest.in the pro FIGHTING FOR FAME : under the left ear, sending the brawny fellow staggering away. No one but an adept at the- game of sparring could have handled the mus-} cular foreman with the ease and precision the young engineer displayed. . “Ye kin fight, kin ye!” gritted Jim Kelso, now thoroughly aroused to the work cut out for him. “Let me hit ye one blow, an’ I’ll knock ft all out of you quicker’n greased lightnin’.” This time he came at the boy with more cau- tion; but his blows were parried with wonderful skill, and he got a couple of smashes in the face, either of which would have floored an ordinary man. But in his case they merely stopped him for a’moment. In the mix-up which followed- Don received one glancing blow, while he pum- meled his opponent right and left in the face and chest. Kelso, now bleeding from a cut on mouth, looked like a savage as he advanced again, this time fully determined to have his re- venge for the punishment he had received. “V’ll have no*mercy on ye if I once git ye into my clutches!” he snarled, with a grim ferocity — would boded ill for the boy unless he could keep the ruffian off. a Don again cleverly ducked a straight one aim- ed at his head. Biff! He opened a second cut on Kelso’s lip. With an oath the foreman re- covered himself quickly and dealt the boy a stag- gering blow on the chest that sent him back a. yard or two. a py “Yah! Now I have ye!” roared the ruffian’ with a triumphant grin, following up his advan- But Don was not where Kelso thought he was. Smash! Crash! The lad’s hard knuckles rattled ~ his jaws again, and the foreman turned fairly ~ livid with disappointed rage. For the next five — minutes the young engineer| seemed to hit the rascal where he pleased without receiving a scratch in return, though the fellow tried his prettiest to land a knockout, and took his pun- ishment in grim silence. Kelso’s countenance was battered and bloody by this time, but this Was no new experience for hini. He was as fit to continue the fight as if he had never been struck. Don, too, was in prime condition. He | scarcely seemed to be breathing out of the or- — dinary, in spite of his recent exertions. But his — blood was thoroughly up by this time. He also aot ag that. he had a hard proposition on iiee ands. ; Ae “Pye fooled with him long enough,” he ts 5 tered under his breath. “It’s time I pol = him off if I’m ever going to do it.” —- - With this resolve he now'assumed the ag- gressive and went at Kelso like a young ¢ ne. This change in tactics astonished and confounded the foreman, whose deferise was feeble and im- effective. He was staggered by the swings, cuts and hooks, which seemed to strike him like lightning flashes.. Kelso, in his blind fury, tried to land an effective blow, but not one seemed to reach. Smash! This time Don caught him lumb in the left eye. Thud! The boy's le! ruised his flat nose. Biff! Straight from. th shoulder Don landed on the point of the rascal jaw. \This was what he had been aimin; Jim Kelso went down like an ox under the s hammer. It was a clean knockout, and a“

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_ “Well, he’s got his medicine at last,” said the stalwart youn ey aes calmly wiping the blood . from his Tee ng uckles while he looked down “And it serves you well right, you brute! Let me hear of you touching a hair of Nellie’s bright little head and % rH yo leave a feature on your ugly face for “your wife to recognize you by! Thus speaking, Don turned on his heel and ed CHAPTER IV.—An Alarm Over the Telephone. it,” replied the boy, grimly. . Gil looked surprised, but said nothing further on the subject. : . _ + “The shovel seems to be doing its duty well,” said Don, after watching the machine and its work for a few minutes. “Yes, it’s a dandy, all right. By the way, e came near having an accident soon after you me that would have delayed us for a ‘ow was that.” : me of the fishplates on the track here work- 0: and, oddly enough, the spikes that Id have been placed in to hold that particular were found to be missing. The locomotive id have been derailed when she’started ahead ‘the loaded cars had not Sinkey fortunately ed the trouble in time.” . eitex didn’t strike you that this this might have done designedly by one of the Italians when section of track was relaid this morning, Gil looked at his brother in a startled way. “What put “Why, of course seek he said. t idea into your head?” helieve there’s a man named Mike Rossi z-in this gang, isn’t there?” said Don, his brother intently. Sinkey empleyed him a day or two place one of the Italians who left rather y and without giving notice.” y well. You want to have Rossi closely from this out.” ; you suspect——” began Gil. ave information to the effect that he was here by Newman to do as much damage to could without getting caught at it.” ’t he better be discharged at once?” » I have an object in keeping him. Of marse he doesn’t know that we’re on to him, and it is probable that we shall be able to spot at some of his funny business. It is more y that he is responsible for the loosen- fishplate and the absence. of the Teche > ral ee SS FIGHTING FOR FAME 7 going down to inspect what Al Boggs and his men are doing.” Soon after work stopped for the day Gil walked into the office on Main street, and found his brother clicking a letter off on the typewriter. “Gee! Vm tired, all right,” said the boy, throw- ing himself on one of the leather-covered chairs with a sigh of satisfaction. “Nothing fresh to report, I suppose?” said Don, without stopping the deft movement of his fingers, which were now puffed and swellen after the fight under the shadow of the cliff. “No. Sinkey has got a man he can trust to keep tab on Rossi’s movements during the day, while Mike Doyle, our watchman, will have an eye out for him after dark.” - “That’s right,” nodded the real head of the firm, as he drew the finished letter out of the ma- chine and glanced over it before affixing his signature. “To-morrow is our first pay-day on the work, and I’m bound to say I feel encouraged with the way the job is progressing,” said Gil, with a lazy smile. : ; “Yes, everything is running-nicely,” admitted Don, as he folded the letter and enclosed it in the addressed envelope. “By the way, here is a letter from the carriage company. One of: their representatives will be over to-morrow to inspect the site I have offered them.” “It will be some time before it’s filled in.” “That doesn’t cut any ice. They want to see how far-it is from the proposed freigh: yard. Then the vice-president is going to interview the general manager of the D. P. & Q. with feference to the laying down of a spur track into the property. They want te ship direct from the new factory to the cars.” “I guess they’ll get what they want if their business justifies it.” “Well, I understand it’s the biggest carriage works in the State.” “We ought to make a deal if it goes through.” “I can’t see any reason why it shouldn’t go through. It’s an ideal spot for their business.” “It was. a bright idea of yours to buy that ground, which did not look to be good for any- thing. Newman won’t he pleased to hear of this little coup.” : : : “Newman won’t be pleased with a good man: things before we got through with the railroa contract,” said Don grimly. “I’m sure he calculates on doing us up. He was standing at the door of his office as I came good thing out of that along, and he favored me with one of his sar-' castic smiles that mean a heap in their way. I heard he is preparing to put in a bid on the new sewer authorized at a recent meeting of the town council.” “He’s welcome to it. He needs the work, if he can get it. All I ask of him is to keep his hands off our affairs. If he should have any trick brought him to him he’s likely to find self behind bars. I’m going to e caution to head off any crooked dirty

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“Si at - a. tae oy _ the new line an Whereupon Don told his brother the whole story of his meeting with blind Nellie, her warn- ing of premeditated foul play on the part of the Newman crowd, Kelso’s unexpected appear- ance on the scene, and what led up to the row. “Such fellows as he are the scum of the earth,” Said Gil, “and I hope you knocked some sense into his thick head.” “l’m afraid he’s a hopeless case. You can’t make a silk purse out of a swine’s ear. He'll never be any different than what he is, though he may haul in his horns more frequently than has been his custom.” ~ “He looks to me as if he possessed a certain low cunning which "finds its best opportunity in the dark.” “He certainly won’t tackle either one of us hereafter in the open. His proper habitat is the State prison, and it’s a wender to me he hasn’t fetched up there long before this.” “He'll get there, if in the meantime he doesn’t do something that’ll put his head inside a noose.” “Do you know, Gil, that I can’t get that blind girl out of my head? Strange, isn’t it, that as long as she’s lived-down yonder with the Kelsos I should only have-seen her but once before yes- - terday, and both eccasions resulted in a muss with a member of that family.” “Why, I’ve never seen her at all. They keep her pretty close, I guess.” “There’s some mystery in it, you can take my word for it,” remarked Don, nodding his head sagely. “What sort of a girl is she?” asked his brother curiously. “What sort?” replied Don. “Any description I might give wouldn’t do her justice. You know once on a time, long ago, you and I used to speculate on the personality of the angels as we saw them in religious pictures, They seemed to be largely of the feminine gender, as I remember it. Well, Nellie is as close a realization of what an angel is, or ought to be, as I could express the idea.” : “You excite my ‘curiosity, Don. I will cer- tainly have to catch sight of her and see if we can on that point as we do on most every- hing else,” smiled Gil. d _ “Ym afraid you won’t find that an easy mat- ter. The Kelsos have us marked. Besides, they'll be skittish lest the girl may hear something of the schemes wet propose to put in force against find means of putting us on our guard against them.” — rae: ‘and he felt very much relieved to e ieie seek my “have orders | ag ty ‘ FIGHTING FOR FAME “What’s that?” he exclaimed a moment later, — in some excitement. : “Well, do the best you can. I'll be right out,” and he hung up the receiver. “What’s the matter?” asked Gil. “One of the buildings out at the cut has caught fire,” replied Don hurriedly, “and Phil Mead thinks it’s liable to prove serious.” Don seized his hat and was half way across the street to the stable where he kept his horse. x LS aa CHAPTER V.—More Trouble, Te AS PR eet, A few minutes Jater Don was dashing down — the street on his way to the scene of the reported _ trouble. Ag soon as he cleared the town he made i 7 out a quantity of smoke rising into the air from © the direction of the cut. He put his horse to his best pace and rapidly covered the three miles _ which intervened. Ae “If this is a trick of the enemy,” he muttered between his clenched lips, “there’s’ going to be trouble for some one.” se Before Don had gone half the distance the smoke, which had been quite heavy at first, be- gan to clear away. As there was no sign of — flames the boy began to feel encouraged. “I guess Mead and the Italians have managed — to gain control of the fire in time to save the building.” a And such he found to‘be the fact when he reached the ground, ‘ “The laborers were at their supper when noticed a suspicious-looking glare through on the upper windows of the place where the ae bunk,” explained Mead, the man in‘ charge aaa the stationary engine. “I. hurried upstairs ee found one of the closets all ablaze’ and the fire ~ breaking out through the roof. I pitched the ~ three hand extinguishers that hung against the | 4 wall into the closet; but there was something wrong with two of them, for only one broke, and that had but a momentary effect on the fire. I then rushed for the metal entinguisher down- stairs, routing out the men and forming the into a bucket brigade on the way. As ‘matters looked decidedly shaky, I thought I’d try and — reach you over the private wire if I could. ET am glad to say that the big extinguisher and the — laborers, who hustled for all they were worth, put us out of danger before matters got bey control. You'd better go up and look at There’s a hole in the roof as big as the h ©! a small tank, and you might back a freight ea into the upper northeast corner of the build if the hole were on the ground floor.” Don looked the damage over, and saw could be easily and quickl put to rights a find trouble was no worse. He telephoned the to his brother, and asked him to arrange to a couple of carpenters and necessary mat out at the cut the first thing in the mo. Then he asked Mead if he had any suspicio to how the fire started. __ See SA sir; I ars say as I have.” same question ee & Mike 4 =

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} FIGHTING = e but I can’t be in half a og When the alarm was given I noticed he was eat- _ img supper with the rest of the Italians, so I _ don’t think-he had anything to do with the fire.” _ “Well, it’s very singular,” remarked Don. “I _ €xamined the remains of the closet thoroughly, and there seems to be a strong smell of kerosene _ mixed with the odor of burned wood. Now, there should not be any kerosene out here.” “Not a drop, sir. As ye are aware, we use signal oil altogether for the lamps, and sure that __ kas a different smell from kerosene.” _ “Evidently a deliberate attempt has been made to destroy building,” said the young engineer, knitting his brows. “You'll have to Keep a brighter lookout than ever. Remember to report at once the slightest suspicious movement on the part of that man Rossi. But don’t let him get the idea that he’s watched.” : “cam right, sir; ye kin depend on me.” - Pon then returned to Lakeview. That night Mike Doyle found an empty can, which had un- doubtedly recently held kerosene oil, in a clump ef bushes fifty feet from the laborers’ quarters, and he reported the fact to Gil Winthrop when obtain at the cut in the morning, showing can. f oe dozen places at once. P Spear origin,” said Gil. “But it is a poor to detect the rascal who brought it out here.” neces. Most contractors would probably have ‘rid of the Italian on general principles, but had an idea that if he caught the fellow in -erooked work he might be able to frighten into a confession,. which would implicate er was behind the man, thus striking an ve blow at the conspirators who were work- against him in the dark. Gi paid off the men at the proper time. There re thirty-six -Italians in the different gangs, about the time he had finished all of them t in te supper as usual. Without the slight- suspicion that anything out of the ordinary brewing, the boy started back to town. H at up the horse and buggy and ioined his x at the office preparatory to going home dinner. They had their hats on and were ¢ out of the door, when the-telephone jingled. , as usual, answered the call. The news that over the wire from Mike Doyle was that laborer on the job had taken his bag and ‘as soon as the crowd had finished their By Jove,” exclaimed Don, in a tone of dis- Bogs isn’t enough to make a man madt Lappens just at the moment I was g to.-put on an extra spurt.” *s up now, Don?” asked Gil, from the ble,” responded his bother. happened to the machinery?” asked “Tt_certainly points strongly to the fire being * FOR FAME 9 “All of our laborers have deserted us in a body.” “The dickens you say!” replied Gil. “That’s the news Doyle sends over the ’phone.” “Then we're at a complete standsti'l,” _ __ “That’s about the size of it. Of course. this is Newman’s work, and it seems to be pretty evi-, dent Rossi has engineered the break-up. Some strong inducement must have been offered the men to quit. We have treated them well, and I haven’t heard a squeal from them since they went to work for us.” “We'll have to advertise for new men, of course,” said Gil, with a frown. “We'll have to get them somehow. It’s Incky - I engeged twenty extra men yesterday from Pittsburg. ‘They were for the fourth gang I in- tended to put to work beyond the cut. I sent Joe Sinkey on to-night to meet them at Glendale. He will have a couple of wagons and fetch them over the first thing in the morning. This will give us a lift; otherwise we should have come to a dead stop.” “TI forgot all about the new men,” said Gil, brightening up. “Newman won’t have such a laugh on us, after ali.” : “Sit down a moment. I’m going to cal] up Pittsburg on the long-distance ‘phone and order another batch of laborers, if they are to be got offhand. If not, I'll connect with that Italian paper in New York and put in another advertise- ment.” _ “Pd give something to know what Newman is going to do with the crowd he took away from us to-night. I haven’t heard that he’s started any ffesh job.” “He might put them to work on the road across the lake,” suggested Don, while waiting for the connection to be made with Pittsburg, “and so » hurry the job along.” “Well, Ill bet this low-down trick will cost him something in the way of a bonus. He’ll have to make good whatever inducements Rossi held out to them, else you'll see them trooping back and begging to be taken on again.” Ten minutes later Don hung up the receiver with a’sigh of satisfaction. “Zotorello has promised to sénd on thirty-five additional laborers at once,” he said to his brother; “so we shall not lose so very much over this wholesale desertion.” “Glad to hear it. I was afraid I wouldn’t have any appetite for my dinner,” said Gil, with a cheerful smile. “On the whole, I’m glad wee rid of Rossi. He’s one of the slickest s I ever came across, and I never felt that things , 4 were exactly safe while he was about.” “He hasn’t done so much harm, when you come to look at it.” > “He was watched too closel¥ for that.” _ “I dare say he got on to that fact, and the ms card he worked to-night was about the only safe > trick he dared spring on us.” raed that has practically failed of the desired result.”. ; , “We shall know better about that in the morn- aes a

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10 FIGHTING ans was in Glendale. It was to the effect that he had been arrested on the charge of disorderly con- duct just as the train came in, and was locked up—evidently a put-up job to corral the new laborers and spirit them away. “Well, that’s tough,” remarked Don, tossing the-dispatch over to his brother. “It’s. plain I'll -have to go to Glendale.” : ’ CHAPTER VI.—Blocking the Enemy. = Don Winthrop took the morning boat down the lake. arriving at Glendale about ten o’clock. He found Sinkey had just been discharged for lack of evidence. At the railroad station not one of the imported laborers from Pittsburg was in sight. “How did it happen?” asked the young en- gineer of his foreman. *“T hardly know myself,” explained Sinkey. “I reached here last evening about nine with the wagons, and put up at the Glendale House. I was called at 4.30 and had the wagons here wait- ing for the train due at 5.45. I heard the whis- tle of the locomotive at Parson’s bridge, and Y walked forward to while I supposed the smoker would pull up, when without warning I was , -suddenly surrounded by at least- a dozen men, and found myself hustled off the platform and down the street, the center of what appeared to : be a free fight. Somebody fetched an officer, and : the crowd scattered like magic. The policeman < arrested me, in spite of my ungent protest, and 3 I was locked up. The magistrate discharged me Aig as soon as I was brought before him and had stated my side of the case. He also réprimanded the office for making the arrest. There is not any doubt in my mind that the Newman crowd found out we expected the Italians, and put up the job to euchre us out of them. Don was evidently of the same opinion. His _ eyes flashed and he set his jaws together with a snap. . “Newman has scored a couple of points on me, but I’ll give him all the fight he wants before I + get through with him. If the imagines that he ean stop me on this railroad contract and prevent me finishing it on time he’s got another think 4 n a7. : “His crowd have got away with the men, all right,” said Sinkey, dejectedly. . ~ “Y’m going to find out where they’ve gone,” an- = swered Don, in a determined tone. “I don’t pre to stand for it if I can help it.” ~ _ He questioned the two drivers who had come over from Lakeview with Joe Sinkey. They were hanging around the station awaiting develop- - “Quite a crowd of men got off on the platform FOR FAME “In what direction?” asked Don. “That way,” and the driver waved his hand toward the north end of the lake. The young engineer thought a moment; then he got busy. 4 2 . “You’re acquainted in Glendale,” he said to the ~ foreman. “I suppose you could drum up half a dozen stout chaps who wouldn’t mind a little — strenuous exercise if well naid for it?” = “T can get ’em in ten minutes,” replied Sinkey. ~ “Do so, then.” WitHin a quarter of an hour Joe returned with - seven stalwart fellows. He lined them up be- © fore his boss, who made them an offer for their services, and explained to them what might be — expected of them in an emergency. They ac-_ cepted Don’s proposition with alacrity. q ‘Get aboard these wagons, then,” ordered the boys tersely. : They obeyed like a lot of young colts. Don joined the driver of the leading vehicle and — directed him to move down the road beside the track at a lively gait. el “They have four hours the start of us, and will — probably have reached their destination before — we can catch up with them. All the same, there — will be something doing if I can locate them, even — if I have to go into the midst of the enemy’s — camp,” said he. aS A long, dusty ride of two hours followed, with — nothing to vary the monotony of the trip. Then — a sudden turn in the road brought them unex- — pectely into the presence of a score of Italian — aborers squatted in the shade of a line of trees. ~ knot ~ Five men, not Italians, were gathered in a a little. distance away, talking and s : while a whisky flask passed from mouth to mouth. - tr pia the five were feeling uncommonly — ood. : “Those are our men for a nickel!” said Don, turning in his seat and shouting back to. Sinke: “They look like the fellows I saw on the pla form,” nodded the driver: “But I am not sg for all Italians look alike to me.” an - All hands prepared for action, and as the © wagons drew up before the outfit under the trees Sinkey’s boys tumbled out into the roa and awaited order. : Ses: “Hello! What’s all this mean?” demanded the — leader of the party, as Don stepped down from his perch beside the driver. 7 He knew well enough what it meant with asking, but of course he and his associates prepared to resist the efforts of the young gineer to recover his imported laborers. — “I came after these men,” replied Don, c “and I’m going to take them back to Glen with me.” ; “You are like fun!” returned the man, solently. : ee j “Well, you heard what I said,” said Don, fire in his eyes. “These Italians came down to work on the railroad. I hired them in ] bungh. You and your pals were sent to G! dale to steal them away, and you succeeded, a a ona = + I Rog qtr recover the eaceably, if I can—by force if n “You can’t bulldoze me in that fashion!” ed the leader of the opposition. : _ Then he rushed to the = I to. men in thei SESS El vs i

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‘The foreigners were all on their feet, jabbering like a tree full of monkeys. They stared awk- _ wardly about, not in the least comprehending the situation. Sinkey ordered the laborers to get into the wagons, and some of them started _ to obey. Evidently they were tired of walking, ~ and a ride had its allurements. More followed, in spite of the protests of the opposition, and things seemed to be going Don’s way. This angered the Irishman who was the emissary of Andrew Newman, and he snddenly struck Sinkey and knocked him down. Joe jumped to his feet and went for him. The others came up to help _- their companion.. Don’s seven supporters headed ~ them off, and a general mix-up ensued, to the ' amusement of the laborers, all of whom had now ' obtained points of vantage on the wagons. The _ serap was not long for duration, for the Newman crowd was. clearly outgeneralled and outnum- bered. “You haven’t heard the last of this!” roared the’man who headed the opposition bunch, shak- img his fist at Don Winthrop when his adherents gave up the fight. _-_—sC “It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways,” < a the boy, sententiously. “I know you’re ‘Mike Mullen, Andrew Newman’s foreman on the road work, and I want you to tell your boss that if he continues to look for trouble in our direc- tion he’ll get into it, right up to his neck.” __ With these words he mounted beside the driver is: <-of first team. _ . “Yah!” snarled Mullen, picking up a stone and _ making a motion to fling it at the voung en- __. gineer. f . : Den was down in an instant. He walked _. straight up to the fellow, and looking him in the -__-__ ~-“Maybe you’ve heard how I treated your friend - Jim Kelso last week. That’s how. I deal with ‘scum of your sort. Do you understand? Put down that stone, or I won’t leave a whole bone in your body!” Mullen drew back, thoroughly cowed. He had not heard anything about Kelso being knocked out Don. Jim was not such a fool as to ix the news about, But Newman’s con- fidential foreman bore signs, too evident tobe mi en, of having been through a serious scrap _ with somebody; and Mullen had heard more than one say that Don Winthrop was a scientific slug- ger of no mean order. ere he would have called one of his own set a liar on the spot, he cepted the boy’s statement without question. this young engineer could whip Jim Kelso, he new than to invite a scrap’on his own ecount. So he turned on his heel with a smoth- red oath, and motioning to his companions, the ‘erowd started off down the road. CHAPTER VII.—Struck Down. was ed next morning at the cut, ina Leal way, all along the line. Don had : advised that thirty-five laborers sh en route for Lakeview. This .to take no chances with FIGHTING | FOR FAME — 11 he expected to connect with the train carrying the Italians. On reaching Fairfax he found he had nearly an hour to wait for the train on which he had been advised that the Italians would come. He noticed a man in a light suit talking to the station agent. He was not a pleasant-looking man, and in the light of what had happened to his other consignment of laborers, Don suspected that the fellow was there for no good purpose, probably to intercept the gang of Italians he was waiting for himself. Whether or not that was his mission, the boy determined to keep an eye out for trouble. After taking a good look at the man, so he’d know him again, Don decided to kill time by inspecting the steel trestle-work bridge which spanned the river on the outskirts of the town. He had heard that it was a mighty well-built bridge, just wide enough to carry a double track, and as he was interested in every- thing connected with the building of railroad lines, he was glad of the present chance to look it over. ; So he started off along the tracks toward the river. The stranger, who had been covertly watching him, broke d#way from the agent and followed him. Don did not observe this action of his, for he was not expecting anything of the kind. The man did not to overtake him, but kept a certain distance between them, as if he merely wished to find out why the boy was walk- ing out toward the bridge. Don did not look behind, and in fifteen minutes reached the bridge. After carefully inspecting that end of it, he walked out on the rails, not aware that an ex- press, which did not stop at Fairfax, was due to pass the bridge in a few minutes. Although there was no reason why he need be run down, even if caught on the middle of the bridge, as he could step to the other track if he was walking’ on the ties over which the express would dash, still it was no pleasant thing to be exposed to the wind and suction of a train going’ at a fifty-mile elip. When he started across the trestle the stranger began to close up the space between them. Don had reached the middle of the bridge when he saw the man coming. He recognized him as the party he had seen at the station, “I wonder if he’s up to any mischief?” thought the boy. ; He stopped to let the chap go by, but instead of doing so the fellow halted beside him. Your name is Don Winthrop?” he said, abruptly. “Yes,” replied the young contractor. You have come to Fairfax to meet a bunch of Italians you expect from Pittsburgh?” “How do you know that?” said Don. “That’s my business. You won’t meet them.” “No? Who will stop me?” “I will,” replied the man just as the shrill whistle of the express sounded a short way off. » The whistle startled Don and he turned around. rascal grabbed the boy and flung himself from the trestle. With a es roar the train d been-occupying a rushed over the spot both

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12 - carried him under the bridge and out of sight. Don lost no time in swinging himself upon the brace, and stradding it. He looked for the man and saw him buffeting with the river a hundred feet away. He was swimming for the opposite bank, with every chance of reaching it. It was easy for Don to climb up to the rails, and pay- ing no further attention to the fellow he started back for the station. He saw no more of him. Half an hour later the Pittsburgh train stopped ge at Fairfax. Don boarded it and found the Ital- ians in the smoking-car. Don alternated between the platform and a seat near the door. He had to keep on the watch, as the train, which was a local, made frequent stops. He could not tell but another agent of Andrew Newman might make his appearance at any moment and try to coax the laborers to light out for parts unknown. 5 However, nothing of that kind occurred during the run to Glendale, and so Don got his men aboard the steamer and up to Lakeview all right. And now work progressed with more rapidity than ever before. During the ensuing month great progress was made at the cut and along “1S new gang was put to werk under a man named Farrell. They were grading the line between the upper end of the.spur of the hill and the 2 cliff where the tunnel was to be bored. Every- Lp thing was running smoothly, and Don had begun to hope that Newman had finally concluded to keep his hands off. “Nothing like handling men of his stamp with- out gloves,” he said to his brother one day, when - he felt in a particularly happy frame of mind over the situation. - “That’s right,” agreed Gil, with a boyish grin. “Mr. Harley seems perfectly satisfied with the work as far as it has-gone,” said Don, in a con- tended tone. ‘ Mr. Harley was the engineer in charge of the D. P. & Q., and he had just been over that part of ES line under construction. Don had all his _ carts at work, either clearing the land between the right-of-way boundaries or carting the waste excavation taken out above where the shovel was employed in the cut. Trees and brush had to be cut close to the surface of the ground and then ‘burned or otherwise disposed of. The excavated soil was taken down to the lake and dumped in - the spot where the boys proposed to build their summer hotel. ; _ “Next week,” Don went on, “I’ll have the drills down here, and we'll make a beginning on the ‘eliff rock.” Ree: ig _ Gil nodded as the idea struck him favorably. _ He liked to see things humming at all points. “How about the factory people and the car- _ viage site? We are filling in the ground fast now, and it is beginning to look something like a plot. I thought the vice-president was coming over this morning?” : - “Didn’t I mention the fact to you? No? Well, was at the office at eleven o’clock, according to yintment. He handed me a check for $500 nd took a sixty-day option on the property. It’s ; cally a sale. We paid only $800 for the x th ood. Our profit will be over “not have held it over four a ES b ut Te Ay eos the road between that point and Lakeview. A | FIGHTING FOR FAME “All things come to those who have long heads —meaning you, for I never would have thought of that scheme.” : ““Well, it’s all in the firm, Gil,” replied Don, patting his brother affectionately on the back, “By the way, have you managed to catch sight of Nellie yet?” Gil shook his head. “No; I was on the top of the cliff this morning, within a stone’s throw of the Kelso cottage, but she was not to be seen.” “I guessed as much,” said his brother, stroking his chin thoughtfully. “But I must say I am disappointed. I wanted to hear how she was doing. I don’t trust Jim Kelso for a red cent. He’s capable of a whole lot of villainy.” : “A woman, whom I judged to be Mrs. Kelso, piped me off, all right. She’s got a face that would turn milk sour on sight.” “I dare say she’s well worthy of Jim. It makes my blood boil to think that poor girl is under the thumb of such a couple—not to speak of Jerry, who is capable of browbeating the life — out of: her.” : “It certainly is a shame,” admitted Gil; “but I don’t-see that we have any right to interfere.” _ “Well, I’ve got some directions to give Farrell,” said Don, preparing to mount his horse. “I’}] see you on my way back.” : “You had better hurry, then, for it looks like rain.” 4 . “Pooh! A little water won’t hurt me,” langhed the boy, as he gave his animal the rein. : There was a trail running around the spur of_the hill through which the cut was being ex- cavated. This came close to the margin of the lake at one spot, and then made a detour along — the base of the hills in the direction of the cliff. — Don cantered along without paying any atten- tion to the ominous appearance of the heavens, which threatened a good shower, if not worse. To say the truth, he was thinking of blind Nellie. He was wondering how things were going with her since the day he knocked Jim Kelso out under — the cliff. The boy was far more interested in the __ beautiful and unfortunate girl than’ he was will- ing to admit to himself. As he approached the curve in the trail near the lake it began to rain a bit. This aroused him, and he urged his animal — to a more rapid pace. The clouds seemed to be closing in on the landscape, which took on a ce particularly dreary aspect. There was nothing to be seen but the leaden-colored water on the side. The brush-covered hills were on the othe 5: the white face of the cliff coming into view in the distance. Don observed a stout boat —s = close to the shore, and was somewhat surprised _ to see it there. The rain continued to fall at — intervals until he came up with Farrell and his gang. A string of carts were plodding to and coming back from the lake shore. Farrell came up as soon as he saw him. =: “Let me have your plan,” said Don, alighting from his horse. : . The foreman took it from his pocket. = “There’s going to be some change here,” the boy, indicating the spot on the blue “Mr. Harley was speaking to me about it ago. wee aprieeg pad little pre insted ere. tL course. > me “to have been

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-FIGHTING - late sp¥ing rains, and we have to provide for that _. by running the embankment a yard or. so to the ~ right. See?” 4 ; “T understand, sir.” F Don spent three-quarters of an hour with A a by which time it was beginning to grow dar’ : “Yl be out here some time in the morning,” - said the young engineer, as he rode off, taking the __ trail back the way he came. : ; = The rain, which had held off during his stay with the upper gang, now began to come down in earnest. along at a good pace. =~ =the: at the point nearest to the lake he sud- ~~ denly shied, almost throwing the boy. a - “Whoa, Prince!” he exclaimed, _. **What’s the matter, old boy?” __ seized the horse by the bridle. Two Italians ap- = eg on the other side and grabbed hold of Don. — . . “Hello! What’s this?” he exclaimed, striking at one with his short whip. ~*~ : _ Something very like a big stone struck him on the head from behind, and he fell forward on his horse’s neck unconscious. ~ Don was pulled out of the saddle and bound. He was carried to the water’s edge and lifted into a boat which immediately started up the lake. He was taken to a small island in the centre of the lake. Don by this time had gained his senses and saw the predicament he was in. Don knew that the island was owned by Andrew Newman, and ‘that there were stone quarries on it. He recog- si Jim Kelso and an Italian by the name of ony Gulla among his captors. Jerry Kelso was ‘one of the party also. Don was conducted to a _shanty belonging to one of the quarries and taken " inside, when he was told to seat hitnself on a I, with Jim Kelso opposite him. Don clearly that Jim was bossing the job. might as well tell you that Norman hasn’t any hand in these proceedings,” began Jim Kelso, » seating himself on the corner of the table and_ eyeing his victim with undisguised satisfaction. ‘I’m glad to hear it,” said Don Winthrop. “I’d te to think that a man in his position would rade himself as to connive with such scum parself and your crowd in such a dirty 4 “Don’t fool yerself. He’s got it in for ye good hard for stealing that railroad contract away him. But this here affair is a personal mat- between ye an’ me, that’s all. The boss woin’t no kick if he should happen to find out _ disposed of ye. Though I don’t reckon he'll d out. is conveyed a sinister thieat, and Don himself. soothingly. - Then somebody sprang out of the gloom and. FOR FAME 13 “I intend to have satisfaction for the seore I owe ye,” answered Kelso, with savage earnest- ness. “I didn’t give you any more than you deserved,” said the boy, fearlessly. “Yah!” snarled the ruffian, impatiently. “You did what no man ever done before—ye put me down and out with that blamed science of yours. I hate ye for it, and I mean to do ye up in a way that'll settle all arguments on the subject here- after.” “ “You mean you’ve brought me over here to take it out of me with my hands tied so I can’t defend myself. It’s what I might expect from such as you.” “No, I don’t mean no sich thing. I mean to make ye sweat in another way. Ye’ll have jest long enough to say yer prayers before ye’re wiped out for. good an’ all—do ye understand?” “Do you intend to murder me?” “Ke kin call it what ye like—I call it a short shift inter the next world,” and the foreman glared vindictively at him. “I suppose you know the consequences of such a crime?” said the boy, as coolly as could be ex- pected under the circumstances. “I don’t keer nothin’ about no consequences. I don’t reckon there'll be any. None of us is goin’ to lay his hands on ye. An accident will happen, that’s all.” “An accident?” repeated the boy. “That’s what. You’re in the disused quarry on Jumbo Island. When the men knocked off work to-day there was one can of nitro-glycerine left in the,dynamite safe. I’m goin’ to fetch that over here as company for ye after we leave. If it should happen to take a notion to go off by itself. why, ye’d go off with*it, thet’s all,” and the rascal grinned sardonically. Don thought he saw through the fiendish scheme, and it made him shudder. It was as cold-blooded a crime as could well be imagined. “So ye see the conséquences ye spoke about don’t amount to nothin’. Ye’ll be missed, thet’s all, The papers’ll have an account about an ex- plosion at the quarry on Jumbo Island that blowed a shack of a house to little bits. Newman will come over and look the matter up to see who’s ter blame. And I reckon thet’s all there'll be to it.” ' _“And -you’re going to take my life this way simply because I whipped you in a fair, stand-up fight?” and the boy’s lips curled contemptuously. _ “Yes, and because ye’ve been tryin’ to get the inside track with that there gal of mine, Nellie. She ain’t the same as she was afore she come to know ye. Ye’ve changed her—do ye understand —and that’s one good reason why I intend to be rid of ye,” and Jim Kelso showed his teeth with all the ferocity of a wild beast. “You’re a coward and a cur, Jim Kelso. Mark my words, the day will come when you'll wish that this night’s work was blotted from your memory.” - “Don’t ye believe it, Mr. Winthrop. I shan’t v

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FIGHTING mounted the table, drove the hook into the ceil- ing, and then tried it to see if it was firm. “Fetch me a good-sized rock,” he said to his - son, as he passed the cord over the hook. Jerry went outside and hunted up one which weighed about forty pounds. Jim tied one end of the cord securely about it, pulled it up to the ceiling, and securing the other end of the cord to a hook in the wail an inch or so above a small shelf, left the stone to dangle in the air. Don watched this performance with some curiosity. What did it mean?” Kelso then held a whispered confab with the Italians. Then the three came over to the young engineer, seized him and bound him down on top of the table. While they were _ doing this Jerry brought in a flat stone and - ylaeed it directly under the rock which! hung above. The table with the prisoner was turned on its side, and Don’s body brought\close to the flat stone. All hands then léft the building, and when the sounds of their footsteps died away in the distance there was absolute silence in and around the shanty, the rain having ceased en- tirely. Don turned his gaze at the hanging rock, then down at the flat rock, and then at the -. end of the cord, alongside of which Keiso had placed the three-inch piece of candle. Whatever infernal arrangement this was he could not un- - derstand it. If it was intended that the rock should fall in some way he could not see what damage that would do, beyond ‘giving him a Shake-up. Was this, after all, some practical joke ‘on Jim Kelso’s part? “Did he imagine such a clumsy contrivance would create a mysterious - fear in the young contractor’s breast? Don al- ' most smiled at such an idea. But hark! He Re pe: heard, footsteps again outside. Presently Jim Kelso entered the building/ carrying with the utmost care a can which“the boy instantly rec- - ognized as a receptacle for nitro-glycerine. In- stantiy the meaning of all these preparations ‘ flashed through his brain, and the blood fairly’ congealed around his heart: The devilisH’ in- _ genuity of the man was appaling. He placed _ the can softly on the floor, and after a glance at the candle on the shelf he spoke. -- “Ye’ve been long enough in the business ter - use the weight of that hangin’ stone to snap it short : _ ter tell an eddicated feller like ye what’ll take place when the rock hits the can of nitro-glyc- or ou're a fiend!” eried Don, the sweat gather- ing in big drops on his forehead. ! “I. see ye’re beginnin’ ter wilt already,” snick- ; t’s where you’re mistaken, Jim Kelso. lave but you'll never be able to ms that I took water have to die, —* " _ was out in all its glory. At this moment it was y light. FOR FAME | 3 _ “That’s a lie, and you know it! You never intended to give me half a chance.” : “That’s right, drat ye, I didn’t. I hate ye so that I’d like to brain ye with a rock, if this was- > n’t more certain and ’ll leave no trace behind.” : The foreman, fairly livid with passion, shook his clenched fist at the pinioned boy. “And now good-night to ye. through ticket ter perdition, ,checks,” : Thus speaking, Jim Kelso cautiously placed the — can of nitro-glycerine on the flat rock, and then quickly retreated to the door. ae “Better begin’ sayin’ yer prayers, Mr. Winth- _ rop,” he said, sneeringly, as he stood with one foot on'the sill. “There ain’t more’n*half an at inch of candle between ye and ther nitro-glye- erine.” : aa _Then he vanished into the darkness and the night, and Don heard the crunching of his thick boots on the gravel grow fainter and fainter, till * at_last the sound grew fainter and fainter, till Den Winthrop, the young contractor, was left alone, with death! ; Here’s yer with ‘no stop-over CHAPTER IX.—Saved by Love. “Must I die like this?” groaned Don, as he strained unavailingly at the rope which held him with the grip of a vise to the table. ; Then his eyes rested with a kind of fascination upon the sealed can of nitro-glycerine which — stood within a foot of his face. ‘The contents of that can would easily blow the building and everything it contained to small fragments. And, | Don began to wonder if, after all, that would not be an easy death. ers “T'll never know what hit me, at any rate. It will be all over in a flash.” i bey Just the same, the very idea of such a death © was truly horrible. It aroused him to make acts fresh effort to free himself, which proved just as ineffectual as the other. Jim Kelso and the — Italians had done their work only too well. Al- ready ten minutes of the fateful half hour es- _ timated by Kelso as representing his span of life had passed away. , Don glanced at the candle. on the shelf, which was leaning slightly against the cord, and saw with a shudder that the fame had drawn perceptibly nearer the strands, the severance cf which meant the end of all things, as far as he was concerned. Outside the ‘clouds. had gone into the northwest and the full moon rising above the summit of the quarry, and i rays began to shine in at the open window, bath. ing the boy’s -head and shoulders in a flood of — Suddenly Don thought he heard the so: of a light footstep without. The tension of ‘the, = situation had made his hearing unusually acute. — He listened with a-desperate with a thrill of hope. The sound was rep ee this time nearer. The silence had hitherto be so profound that there could be no mistake that something or some one was moving the quarry. ing all his energies, ° pie ry : shouted: - . “Helpt |

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FIGHTING gra and then the slight noise of something striking against the outside of the building. - “Help! Help!” repeated the young engineer, with a fearful glance up at the burning candle and the cord on which his life hung. _~* Almost instantly a shadow cut off the ray of _ moonlight shining in at the door, and a soft voice ~ which the boy readily recognized called out: -*“Don Winthrop, are you in there?” _ “Heavens!” gasped Don. “It is Nellie!” _“Don—Don Winthrop!” ~ “Quick, Nellie!” cried the boy, almost sharply. “Ig you would save my life, come to me here. _ Follow the sound of my voice.” _ The blind girl entered the room and came to- ward him as straight asa die. Don watched every step she took with the greatest of anxiety. “Stop where you are!” he called peremotorily. . The girl stopped as ordered. “Advance gne step more,” he said quickly. She obeyed. “Kneel down!” he ordered. She did so. “Stretch out your right hand slowly—that’s right. Move it to the left till you feel a can *s standing.there. Grasp it by the handle and draw it toward you gently. For heaven’s sake, don’t let it jar against that rock, or even the of the floor—it contains nitro-glycerine.” “T know it,” said the girl, calmly taking hold of Nellie, with a precision that was truly mar- lous, carried the can of deadly explosive outside the shanty and then returned. The candle was now flickering close to the cord. “Put your left hand on the wall, Nellie,” -di- ‘ected the young contractor. “Now walk quickly ongetill I say ‘stop.’” She followed his order to the letter, and came -a halt within reach of the shelf. “Raise your hand higher, and you will feel a . Right. Remove the candle you find there.” > flame blew across the cord as she took the sae candle away. * “Now come here,” he said, and she obeyed him, olding the lighted candle in her hand. “I am securely tied at a table which has been med on its side. Unless you have a knife yust burn the cord which holds me to the ve not a knife,” she said, as she extended waged hand and felt for the rope, which m passed a number of times around Don’s “y y hands are tied separately,” he said. , é ‘more ri e > TO brought the candle’s fiame to FOR FAME 18 into her face. It was as pale as marble and her eyes were closed. : : “Great Scott!” he exclaimed. “She has fainted!” CHAPTER X.—Sealed Lips. Springing to his feet and taking Nellie in his arms, Don hurried outside. He soon found a pool of rain- water, with which he began to bathe the girl’s face copiously, while he alternately chafed her hands and wrists. This rude method of bringing an unconscious person to their senses fortunately speedily prevailed in this instance, ~ and Nellie opened her eyes. = Winthrop,” she murmured. “Yes, Nellie!” “You are safe, are you not?” she said, eagerly. “Yes, thanks to you. Now you must tell me how you came to be here on Jumbo Island, a mile from the cliff where you live. 1 cannot understand how a blind girl like you could reach this spot all by yourself. And it looks to me as if you knew I was in trouble, and that you — came over to aid me.” “Yes,”she said, with a shudder. “I had reason to believe your life was in danger. I overheard Mr. Kelso and two Italians, named Gulla and Rossi, plan to cut you off this afternoon when you came out to the men you have at the side of the hill where you’re making the cut.. Your move- ments have been watched for days. They had a boat in waiting to take you to the island after dark. I heard Mr. Kelso tell the others how he meant to rig the nitro-glycerine trap so as to add acute torture to your last hours, while at the same time this would remove every trace of the terrible crime they contemplated.” “The scoundrel!” muttered Don. “No one could ever guess what I have suffered since this awful scheme impressed itself upon: my mind, I was locked in my room—indeed. I have not been allowed to leave the house since that afternoon Mr. Kelso discovered us together at the foot of the cliff.” “Did the rascal dare ill-treat you on his return to the cottage that day?” “He swore at and threatened me, and ordered Mother Kelso to lock me up and never let me out of her sight when I was not in mv room.” “Thank goodness, he’s abused you for the last — time. This job will place him, as well as his con- federates, including his precious son, where they won’t be able to trouble the community for some time to some. Go on, Nellie.” : “This afternoon was selected because it was gloomy and threatened rain. Mr. Kelso said it~ +

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ps for me to get out of the room by way of the door. Even had I been able to do that, I should have been caught by Mother Kelso. At last I could stand the strain no longer. I opened the window and managed to push myself through, dropping = to the ground. I then made my way to the foot = of the cliff, clambered over the rocks on the edge ; of the lake, and ran as fast as I could to the ‘ house of Widow Meiggs, who lives on the lake shore nearly a mile from the cliff. I knew she owned a boat and was friendly to me. She readily agreed to let her son row me over to this . island when I explained that it was of the ut- ree most importance. The chance that Mr. Kelso and i his companions were perhaps on the island at the . moment of our arrival was a risk I had to face. Ex I could only depend on Willie’s \watchfulness % and my own sense of hearing. Willie guided me : to the quarries. I tried this one first, leaving ~him at the entrance to watch.” “T shudder to think that you might have come just in time to share my fate. Do you realize the awful risk you ran to save me? Do you un- derstand that the matter of ten minutes would have made all the difference in the world? Such courage aS you, a mere girl, and blind at that, have exhibited fairly staggers me. And I am almost a stranger to you.” “No, not a stranger,” she said, placing her hand on his arm. “Don’t say that,” she added, with an earnestness almost mournful in its in- tensity. “Have you not brought all this trouble on yourself because you interfered in my behalf? I would rather have died here with you than not have made this effort to defeat the terrible pur- pose of those wicked men.” “Nellie,” said Don, with great emotion, “what you have done for me to-night is quite beyond 4 me ever to repay. You have won my lifelong” a3 gratitude, as well as that of my mother and may brother, You shall come to my mother’s house _ and live with us.” — “T cannot,” she cried, with a little cry of de- = spair. ; “Cannot! What do you mean? Don’t -you mel. know that this attempted crime on the part of at Jim Kelso will land both him and his son in the State prison for a long term? As to Mother “Kelso, as you call her, you surely would not wish to return and experience further abuse at her hands?” ——- Nellie buried her face in her hands and sobbed bitterly. % *T must go Don looked at her in astonishment. “Look here, Nellie! what’s at the bottom of your connection with these Kelsos?”, : “Please don’t ask me,” she replied, pleadingly. “But I want to know,” he insisted. “If ever a girl needed a good friend and protector I think do at this moment. You have just saved my - life, and the least I can do in return is to save you from the influences which have hitherto ~ su ded you. With Jim Kelso and his son out of the way, what have you to fear? Mrs. Kelso could not make you return to her against foeA your will. My mother, my brother and myself ~~ will pr you against any harm or trouble if ee ey make your home with us in the x a FIGHTING FOR FAME ‘and, not hearing the explosion, he may return pack,” she said, piteously. “I telephone to the office, for he knew his bro “I am very grateful to you, Don Winthrop,” she answered. “It would make me very happy if I could accept your offer; but——” “But what?” asked the young engineer im- patiently as she paused. “I cannot. I must go back to Mother Kelso, — no matter what happens to Mr. Kelso.” She raised her tear-dimmed eyes, which had no sign of blindness in them, to his face, and her lips quivered. - - “I must not,” she answered, in a tone which left him no hope of unraveling through her se- cret which he could not fathom. “Nellie, you cannot guess how this answer of yours pains me,” he said, sadly. i She took his hands confidingly in hers. “Do not be angry with me,” she pleaded. “I have a good reason for my silence. Another’s life depends on it.” “Another’s life?” repeated the boy, in sur- y, S¥eac Oned Tea than all el es. ne Ove dearer n all else i i world—my father.” s ——— She bowed her head in her hands and the tears flowell freely. 4 “There; do not question me further. Let us — go from here. Mr. Kelso may be on the watch te see what is the-matter. Should he do so and es {us on the island we could hardly escape im. “Don’t fear for me, Nellie. Now that my hands _ are free I warrant you that Jim Kelso and his cowardly Italians would think twice befo tack- st ling me. He had a lesson himself that he hasn’t — fongotten.” # At the entrance to the quarry they. found young Meggs, who was thirteen years old, seated upon a rock with his face cocked toward the beach. They embarked in the boy’s boat, and — in twenty minutes Nellie and Don were landed — at bg foot of the cliff, while the boy rowed home- ward, ; } _ “I hate to part with you, dear little girl,” said — Don. “But, depend on it, I will see you soon again. I will never feel satisfied until I have rescued you from the clutches of the Kelsos.” Then, yielding to a sudden impulse, he took he ae ee aig Si hands See kissed hér lips. - e utter a little cry, and springing away, disappeared in the darkness. bs CHAPTER XI.—The Face of Jim Kelso. . With a sigh Don Winthrop turned his steps toward Lakeview. ‘ “I wonder what those raseals did with my — horse?” he muttered. “Well, they’ve put their — foot in it this time, and I guess Andrew Newman — will have to look up another foreman, I will put Jim Kelso through to the limit. If he doen’s get toyene ‘ae = aoe for ae otteet a my e, greatly appointed, e deserves a life sentence.” |, — ae He struck the and folléwed it with a i ised soon to land him atthe cut where the Ia. borers’ houses were. Here he would be able

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eh i Me. FIGHTING must be anxious over his lengthened and unac- countable absence. : *T’ll bet Gil has a party out searching for me, and if they ran across the horse—well, I’ll soon be able to set the dear boy’s mind at ease.” He presently passed the spot where he had been overpowered by the villains. When he arrived at the cut he found some- thing doing. Mike Doyle, the watchman, was the first to see him approaching. “Upon my word, Mr. Winthrop! Where have you been all this time? Your horse walked in here about five o’clock when the rain was coming - down at a smart rate. Your brother sent out _ every blessed one of the Italians to look for ye, _ thinking something had gone wrong, but not a sign of ye could they discover between here and _ the cliff. When the hands knocked off and came in Sinkey and Boggs each headed a searching ,) if "ht ald pear Sia hi ial ooh d Siu . sa an te finding a clue to your whereabouts. Faith, ye look as if ye’d been having a rough time of it.” ' “T had a bit of adventure, that’s all,” said D carelessly. “Is my brother out here?” : He’s in the office with Boggs and L ve cee, Sinkey.” The office to which Mike Doyle referred was a -nished with a table, at which Gil sat when he _ paid the laborers off. A couple of chairs and _ the telephone completed the furnishings. Don _ walked in as cool and collected as if nothing out _» of the ordinary had occurred. His unexpected (8 ce was as surprising as it was wel- come, and Gil naturally wanted to know right away what had happened to him. : “Pil tell you all about it on the way back,” Don replied. “Have cur horses brought up, will ~ you, Sinkey?” - It was nine by the clock, and the twenty odd Italians who had been out with the two fore- mei beating up the hills for a trace of the young - boss were now eating their supper. From his brother Don kept nothing back. He told Gil ‘the whole story from start to finish. “Good heavens, Don! You had a close call,” said Gil, with a thrill of horror. “And you real- Ty mean to say that the blind girl saved your fe?” he added, in astonishment. _ “She most certainly did.” _ “And where has she gone? Surely not back to the Kelso cottage after that?” F __ “She did go back. Nothing I could say was of any avail to influence her!/to the contrary. ‘Her actions are an enigma to me, almost.” “What do you mean by ‘alrhos’t 2” “Well, she gave me a slight hint ‘on the sub- ject, though it necessarily is ingomprehensible oe. And Don told his brother of Nellie’s single admission on the subject. “That scoundrel seems to have some terrible hold on the girl,” said Gil. “After we land him in_ jail we may perhaps find out what it is.” Don was not very sanguine that the man’s pture would afford the desired result. Mother o seemed to exercise the same power of nidation a Nellie. However, he hoped the best, fully resolved to probe thé mystery root, On reaching Lakeview Don immedi- - yee SB _- * tee Ch Sah ¥ party, and they came back an hour ago without. FOR FAME 17 ately sought the chief of the local police and put the matter before him. It was such a serious affair that several officers were at once sent out to arrest Jim and Jerry, as well as the two. Italians, Gulla and Rossi, on sight. The young - contractors then went home, expecting to hear in the morning that the villains had been landed in jail. But they were disappointed. The of- ficers scoured the country roundabout, the au- thorities of the adjacent towns and villages were notified to be on the lookout for the fugitives, and finally the police of several cities within a certain radius were communicated with. But in the end nothing came of it. The two Kelsos, Tony Gulla and Mike Rossi had vanished as com- pletely as though the earth had swallowed them up. - Don hired two men to keep constant watch on the Kelso cottage on the cliff, night and day, with orders to notify him of every movement happening in that quarter. His chief object was to prevent the spiriting away of the blind girl Nellie, which he feared might be contemplated. Whether Mrs. Kelso discovered or suspected that she was under survelliance we cannot say, but she made no attempt to leave the locality. Nellie, however, was never seen out of doors. As days went by work on the railroad progressed rapidly. Don had all the men he could use with advantage, and he was perfectly satisfied with the results achieved. Drilling and blasting was under way at the base of the cliff, and at this point the young contractor spent a large part of his time. He made several, attempts to get into communication with Nellie, but his efforts failed. She was too vigilantly guarded for that. Mrs. Kelso maintained a scornful and defiant attitude. How she managed to get her supplies no one could tell, for she was never absent from the cot- tage herself, and no one was seen to go there. By the middle of summer the cut was finished and the steam shovel put out of commission. The grading of the line was practically finished to the satisfaction of the railroad company from the outskirts of Lakeview to the mouth of the tunnel, which was now two-thirds completed. ~ The large force of laborers thus released was transferred to the other side of the cliff, where they had plain sailing almost all the way to Glendale; The filled-in site accepted by the car- riage manufactory had been paid for, and the young contractors had made a clear profit of $4,000 on this speculation. ‘The site they had purchased for a summer hotel was rapidly being put into shape for the foundation, and Don ex- pected to have the carpenters at work within the next thirty days. Plans for this building had long since been drawn up, and Don had re- cently advertised a two years’ lease of the pro. - jected establishment. The building would be ready for occupancy the following spring. - 4 “I received an answer to our advertisément this morning from a well-known Chicago-hote) — man,” said Don to his brother one morning early > in July. “He’s coming down to inspect the loca- =a tion and go over the plans.” Me Then the two brothers, who had been standing outside the unfinished tunnel, separated, Gil ree turning to the bore, while Don started to skirt ~~ the base of the cliff, where it was laved by the — - ae

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18 waters of the lake, in order to reach the scene of the railroad beyond the tunnel. As the lake was perfectly placid that afternoon it was an easy matter to step from rock to rock and thus gain the other side of the precipitous wall. When half way around Don paused and wiped the perspiration from his brow. It was decidedly hot in the sun, and there was scarcely any breeze stirring. The surface of the water was as un- ruffled as the face of a mirror, glittering in the sunshine like a plate of burnished gold. As the boy stood there taking in the sweep of the water- scrape, there suddenly came a whiz through the air, as a big rock, apparently dislodged from above, descended obliquely toward his head. Fortunately, its aim was not true, and it passed an inch above the young engineer’s shoulder, striking him a glancing blow on the head. This, however, was sufficient .to stagger him and cut a jagged scalp wound. Recovering his balance, Don glanced up at-the face of the rock mechan- ically, and there more than half way up, peering down at him with a look of calm ferocity, was the repulsive countenance of Jim Kelso, on Winthrop was thunderstruck. He dashed _ across the rocks and reappeared at the mouth of __ the tunnel just as his brother and Sinkey came _. walking out. Gil was surprised at the blood on . Don’s face, and the latter related in a hurried e manner how it happened. Sinkey was instantly despatched to get his men together and scout around the top of the cliff to catch Jim Kelso. Don and Gil did the same. But Kelso was not found. Then the Kelso cottage was searched by the police, whom Don had notified, but nothing re- sulted except the fact that Nellie was also miss- ing from the cottage. Then one night as Don and Gil were inspecting an excavation which had been made for the grading of the railroad whom should . they see but Andrew Newman and Jim” Kelso 2 seated on a tree stump in the midst of a tangle of bushes. They had a lighted lantern by the ie light of which the two boys were enabled to rec- Rs: _ ognize them. ss -. They were in consultation and both boys heard A z enough of it to learn of the villainous nature of __ the two conspirators. Jim Kelso promised for the sum of $5,000 to put through a plot that would _ settle the aspirations of the contractors for all t to come. Shortly after this Kelso led An- drew Newman from the scene of the confab. The - plot was to steel the dynamite belonging to the young contractors and blow up the tunnel, and it was to be done that night. CHAPTER XII.—The Car of Death. +There was evidently an outlet at the back of the age for in that direction Jim Kelso piloted his late seoxe®, and the two men almost _im- mediately disap d from view. Don Win- throp drew his head and turned to his brother, who had been leaning against him during the entire interview. ; “You heard all they said, didn’t you, Gil?” J ope in a guarded tone. : Every word, but I did not catch sight of either m, What are we going to do, to defeat of villainy? It’s lucky we came out in te & PS Se ae P e FIGHTING FOR FAME “Tt was providential, Gil,” replied his brother, solemnly. “Whatever plans that scoundrel has * for accomplishing his purpose, they seem to be well matured from the way he talked. His con- fidence staggers me. You may be sure he is not alone in this. Those two Italinas and his son Jerry are with him hand and glove. How they have managed to elude the police, who have been over every foot of this ground, astonishes me. That they have managed’ to live three months under cover hereabouts shows that they have allies on the outside. Now that we are fore- warned as to their intentions we must round them up before they can carry their dastardly scheme into execution. After that we will attend to Mr. Newman, who has made himself an ac- cessory before the fact, and to that extent he will come within the meshes of the law. Now, Gil, you get back to the cut as soon as you can, rouse up a dozen of the Italians you can trust in this emergency and get them over to the neigh- borhood at-onve. Keep well in the backgroun until I join you, or you see the chance to get the drop on these rascals. I’ll see what I can do to nip the scheme in the bud.” : Gil pressed his brother’s hand and hurried away on his mission, while Don cautiously en- tered the pocket of the gully and walked in the direction taken by Kelso and Andrew Newman. The dynamite used in blasting the tunnel was stored on the hillside in a hut a quarter of a mile from the tunnel. Two watchmen in turn, | guarded the place night and day. Don guessed ~~ that Jim Kelso intended to get possession of the dynamite stored in the hut and use it to wreck : the tunnel. He determined to prevent this at any hazard. So when he made his way out of the series of gullies in the hills he directed his steps _ towards the hut. He found the watchman on the _ alert. The man naturally was surprised to see him there at that hour. : “Jennings,” said Don, when he came up, “an _ attempt is to be made to-night by a gang of rascals—Jim Kelso, his son Jerry, and the two Italians, Gulla and Rossi—who have been con- cealed in this vicinity ever since the quarry affair, — ‘to steal the dynamite we have on hand and use it to wreck the tunnel. I want you to run down and bring the tunnel watchman back with you. The three of us ought to be able to stand them — off with our revolvers.” ~ ce “All right, sir,” replied the watchman, and he started down the declivity to carry out his orders, - Don stood in the shadow of thé doorway and —_ waited. Five minutes passed slowly away, then ten minutes, and still no sign of the two watch- men. : : : “It’s time those two fellows were here,” mut- tered Don, bom seme ge i Unseen by the boy, two shadows crept upon the hut from behind. They parted at the back of the building, where it was encased in its mound of earth, and each glided up on-opposite __ sides. Only one stepped out in front, and the _ young engineer saw the figure at once. ~ “Who’s there?” he demanded, with his right hand on his revolver. o> Y ra “Don’t move, or I'll drill a hole Fe through ye Don bit his

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| “Throw up your hands!” commanded the ex- _- foreman, peremptorily. = determined to take a desperate risk. ' Making a feint to obey the ‘order, he drew his - own revolver, and like a flash had it pointed allie 4 at the scoundrel. His intention had been to fire at once, and it would have gone hard ’ with Kelso, but at the moment he pressed the S “sao his arms were suddenly caught from be- a hind and the bullet went wide of its mark. it “Who have ye got here, anyhow?” growled 4 “He doesn’t look like the watchman.” | © It was clear he had recognized Don in the dark. * Tony Gulla, who had been kneeling on the boy’s back while he was tying his hands, turned the ey "* prisoner over and thrust his ugly countenance ’ close down to the young contractor’s face. | + “Gotta de match, boss? Betta one dol’ we got- _ ta _da prize pack.” re Kelso found a match and lit it. He held it _ ~ down toward the face of his prisoner and started - back with an oath. “Donald Winthrop!” “Whata I say?” grinned thé Italian. “We eatcha da boss of da job. Gooda haul. No ex- Two more shadows came out of the gloom in ’ front. A squeaking sound followed them. They proved to be Jerry Kelso and Mike Rossi drag- a hand car. The procession came to a stop a few feet awry. of perspiration from his forehead. _ Betche ie. wat Fin bound and , ife we did. e le em bound an sabees they wouldn’t get hurt by the ex- ; We brought up some tools to break ~ open ghe door of the hut with. I guess you kin that part of the job better’n the rest of us.” ear strikes at the end of the route I reckon there ‘ somethin’ doin’.” 2 ) — The ruffian’s words sent a chill of horror to " Don’s heart. He felt that he was doomed to a horrible death. The help that he knew was com- would arrive too late to save him or avert the Siescrophe he had planned to prevent. Gulla and Rossi | y rate, he seemed-to be safe enough trip. . FIGHTING FOR FAME. twinkling and flitting about. 19 and slipped away from their hands. Then it vanished into the gloom of the night, and the four villains waited with strained attention for the explosion they looked for to follow. CHAPTER XIII.—Conclusion. Half way down the wheels: revolved so fast that the hum of their revolution struck on Don’s ears with rising distinctness. It was the requiem of death. Apparently nothing could save him now. Like a flitting shadow it passed the star- tled gaze of a dozen men, headed by Gil, who had just arrived on the scene. “What’s that?” exclaimed Gil to Mike Doyle the night watchman at the cut, whom he had fetched along. “Sure, it’s a handear running wild, sir!” “A handcar. x A-crash and a tremendous explosion eut the words out of his mouth. The face of ‘the cliff was lit up for a moment by the glare, and then darkness,~ more intense than ever, settled about the scene. “Great heavens!” exclaimed Gil. “We're too late. They have dynamited the tunnel!” The crowd of Italians, preceded by the boy and the watchman, made a rush for the mouth of the tunnel. Within twenty feet of it Doyle tripped upon a yielding obstruction in his path, and went floundering on his hands and knees. “What the dickens ” he began, as he re- covered himself and felt of thefobiect. “Why, it’s a man, as I’m a Christian!” “Is that you, Doyle,” said a voice, ard the figure seemed struggling to sit up. “By all the bles#d saints,.it’s never you, Mr. Winthrop, is it, sor?” “It isn’t anybody else, Mike,” replied the re- cumbent object. “Cut me loose if you’ve a knife handy.” ; “Gee whiz! What’s the matter with ye?” “My hands are bound behind my back.” “Faith, that’s rough’ And how did ye come this way?” asked Doyle, as he knelt beside his boss and fished in his pocket for the jackknife he always carried. “It’s the work of Jim Kelso and. his. pals,” ‘an- swered Don, who had escaped from the handcar and certain destruction in the most remarkable manner. “I’m pretty badly shaken up. You'll hardly believe: me when I say I was bound to a handear loaded with dynamite and sent down the grade to what was apparently.my death. Thank heavens, I have.escaped; but I am afraid the scoundrel has succeeded in destroying our work in the tunne!.” : : In another moment they were at the mouth of the tunnel, where several lanterns were now More lantertis were tc be seen around the corner of the cliff, where most of the men seemed to be gathered. “Why, how’s this?” exclaimed Don, in the ut- ame amazement. “The tunnel seems to be all right. ; RSure it is!” echoeil the'voice ¢f Mike Doyle. “Beta you life,” said am-wnder-foreman named - ——— Wats ots oe = be oh fine — A. a i ee ee

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20 ~ Zottarelli, coming up with his lantern. “Every- ‘ting all right, boss. Noa blowa up here. Looka down yon’. Taka da face offa da cliff. Grata big smash.” A drizzling rain set in about this time, which, with the intense darkness of the night, put a stop to any further investigation of the damage ‘done to the cliff. The two watchmen were dis- covered bound and gagged half way up the hill- side, when a section of the party, headed by Don, started toward the hut. They did not have any expectation of seeing any trace of Jim Kelso and his crowd, however. Those scoundrels had fled immediately after the explosion of the dynamite. é They did not go far away, as Jim Kelso was not . tad repared to shake the dust of the neighbor- : from his feet. As many more were guard- a? ing the tunnel, though he made no attempt to : go in that direction. Soon after daybreak on the , following morning Don and Gil were on_ the SS ground where the explosion had occurred, making an examination of the huge break in the cliff. The young engineer mounted the jagged fissure ~% with proper caution. The opening in question appeared to be the beginning of a subterranean Z passage leading into the heart of the cliff. Curi- * osity compelled Don to enter it and to- follow = its course, to see where it would wind up. He penetrated the passage for a distance he thought to be about one hundred yards, when he unex- pecraly emerged into a cavern-like room. ighted lantern hung from a hook stuck into the wall. By the dim light thus afforded Don saw there was a table, two stools, and a cot in the place. Upon the cot, attired as Don had last seen her, lay Nellie, the blind girl, asleep. . “Great Scott!” he exclaimed, thoroughly aston- ished by his discovery. “Nellie—in this under- ground hole! What can it mean?” She sprang to her feet and extended both of her hands to him. ~ “Surely something must have happened, else _ you could not have gained access to this place, which is directly under the cottage.” “Yes, little girl, something has happened. Kelso ied to destroy our tunnel with dynamite last night; but his plan miscarried, and instead the end of the cliff is badly scattered, Surely you ‘must have felt the shock of the explosion?” + “J did. It awakened me from my sleep. But - I could not understand what it meant.” “The falling away of the rock disclosed an opening, which I discovered this morning. I ~ found it led into a kind of passage and, curious to see where it went, I followed its course until I reached this cavern-like room and found you “asleep on that cot. There; that’s the whole = » : 3 - “Then you can save my father!” she exclaimed, “in a fever of sudden excitement, seizing the young engineer by the arm. “You will save him, will you not, for my sake?” _ “Your father! What do you mean? Where he?” cried Don in astonishment. - “He is there, behind those boards,” and she ed toward a section of the cavern-like room h Don, for the first time, noticed was par-. off from the rest of the place. “He has there for years.” ; the contractor, in - ‘ - FIGHTING FOR FAME | LOST TREASURE; or, THE N FOUNG EXPLORER AS |. 7 Sige Sg, eae " <s x 2 7 “Yes,” she answered brokenly. “We were both trapped here long ago by Mr. Kelso, who wanted 5 to get possession of an invention of my father’s— an automatic coupler for freight cars which he had had patented. Mr. Kelso swore my father should never see the light of day again until he assigned his rights to him, and this my father has steadfastly refused to do. I was seldom pepied to see him, but made to work for Mrs. elso as a’servant; and the threat was held over my head that if I ever breathed a word about — my father’s presence here his death would in- : stantly follow.” i “The scoundrel!” said Don, clenching his fists. “As long as my father was in his power I was silent; but now that I see a way for his escape . I fear the Kelsos no longer, for I feel you are ' my friend—that you will protect my father from that man once he is away from the place.” Don had Nellie’s father, whose name he ascer- tained to be Edward Moore, removed from the : underground cavern to his mother’s home, and Nellie, of course, went there with him. Both — received a kindly welcome from Mrs. Winthrop, whose sympathies were naturally attracted to the beautiful little blind girl. Mrs. Kelso was — immediately arrested at the cotage on the in- formation furnished by Don Winthrop, and late that afternoon Jim Kelso, his son, and the two Italians were cornered in the woods fifteen miles _ from Lakeview and taken prisoners. They were — afterward tried on the charge of attempted mur- der at the quarry on Jumbo Island, Jim Kelso getting twenty years, the Italians fifteen years apiece, and Jerry seven years. With the exit of © the Kelso gang from the scene there was no fur- ther trouble encountered by the Winthrop broth- __ ers with the railroad contract, and the work was satisfactory completed within the contract limit. The two young contractors later on obtained _ the contract for building the trolley road from Lakeview to Greenville. They encountered no — opposition from Andrew Newman, because that gentleman had just been tried and sentenced to— five years’ imprisonment for complicity in the tunnel outrage. The boys’ profit on the D, P. & Q. branch line was something like $40,000 in all, — and they made about half as much on the trelley contract. The summer hotel was duly crest aaa on the selected site alongside of the beautiful — lake, and proved to be a winner, the three years’ lease arranged with the Chicago hotel man bring-— ing them in $10,000 per year. The young con- — tractors have greatly extended the business by their father, and Don is now about to close a — deal for building a railroad in Mexico. Sure He will be married in a few weeks to Nellie Moore, the little girl who saved his life in such a wonderful way on Jumbo Island. She is no longer blind. Money was no object to Don where she was concerned, and a great oculist su in restoring her sight. ith everything before — them to make life happy, we bid farewell to the young contractors of Lakeview, who fought for — fame and won it. ‘SS Next week’s issue will contain “SEEK) iG. ee

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_ ° = THUNDERBOLT’S PRANKS A severe electric storm in Easton,Md., played ‘Some queer pranks in the farmhouse of Charles Adamson while he and Lis wife were chasing - chickens to shelter. A bolt entered by the front door, moved the parlor furniture out into the _ kitchen, pushed all che kitchen furniture out through the back door and then went upstairs and tossed the bedroom furniture out through the windows. " = A SALESROOM PRISON So many robberies have recently been com- mitted in New York, below the so-called “dead ine,’ that much of the diamond buying is done in 1 private offices whose doors close with an ominous click. When the goods have been ex- amined, the salesman communicates with the out- ‘Side office with a buzzer, and the door is opened from the outside, for the beautiful private office Was to all intents and purposes a cell. GAS FOR RATTLESNAKES _ Mustard gas, phosgene and chlorine, deadly ac- companiments of war, will be turned upon large dens of rattlesnakes in the vicinity of San Mar- s, Tex., within the next few weeks. Th # announcement was made by Major George alloran,.chemical warfare officer of the 8th BOYS, DO YOU LIKE are from four to six short stories of news of police cases. Get a Copy, es f ZZ Colored Covers, Fine Illustrations — 64 Pages Read It and See How Interesting the Stories Are! PRICE 10 CENTS If you cannot procure a copy from your newsdealer send us the price (ten cents) nd we will mail you one postage free. Address 2 E WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., 166 W. 23d St., New York City | a, 2 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ~ ae CURRENT NEWS Corps Area, Fort Sam Houston, who will direct the use of gases. The experiment is to be made by special order of the Chief of Chemical Warfare, Washington. TEST COAT OF MAIL While the Danish Ambassador and other high officials looked on in breathless suspense, expert pistol shots peppered a Berlin policeman at will without harming him in the least. The affair was a test of the new coats of mail which have been adopted for all Berlin policemen because of the increase in crime and frequent attacks upon policemen by criminals. - ’ The policeman target declared that he experi- enced only a slight shock from the bullets. The chain mail is so light that it can be worn at all times without discomfort. CHOKES WHILE LACING SHOES The steamship United States of the Scandinavy- ian American line brought the body of Max Lange, 42, a salesman of 100 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, N. Y., who had strangled to death on the way over while unlacing his shoes. Dr. Han- son, the ship’s surgeon, said he believed that Lange, while bending over was seized with a fit, which caused his tight collar to choke him to death before he could straighten up. Lange had been visiting his mother in Denmark. DETECTIVE STORIES? You Should Read ““NIYSTERY MAGAZINE”. It contains the snappiest and liveliest stories you ever read. Euch number begins _ with a rousing detective novelette, filled with pep from start to finish. Then there ice adventure with good plots and interesting situations. All these stories are written by the same authors who write for the higher priced magazines. Don’t miss the articles about crime detection, yarns of the under- _ world and special items relating to ghostly happenings, peculiar events « nd current

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es ae \ Wrecked On The Desert or THE ADVENTURES OF TWO BOY PROSPECTORS R= By GASTON GARNE & CHAPTER I—(Continued). “He—I—let me rest a few minutes, boys. Tl ay —pull—up—again——_ I-——— 4 His eyes closed and he seemed to sleep. Bf “Say, that’s great,” whispered Jack. “Are you ang “game to try it with me, Art, if I'll put up the 3 stake?” 4 = “Why, I think so,” replied Arthur, doubtfully. ‘ 3 “Jt would be running a terrible risk, though. Lots s down there.” ef prospectors have lost their ‘li If he has a “He'll have to be more definite. map I suppose it will tell all.” “You don’t think he was wandering in his mind, do you? You know he was a while ago.” “Seemed to tell a pretty straight story, Art.” “Well, so he did: I’d like to go. If you should decide to undertake it I certainly shan’t let you go alone.” . They continued to talk for fully half an hour. Jack related several stories of what he had read of conditions in the Ralston desert and the suf- ferings of those who had crossed it. “He seems to breathe more faintly than ever,” . Arthur !suddenly remarked. “I can’t hear a ” sound, Jack knelt beside the mattress and listened: Heavens! I believe he’s gone!” he cried, lay- yy ~ ing a hand on the old man’s forehead. ~~ It was even so! 5 Old Ben Budd would never tell any more about his friend Adams’ wonderful find—his spirit had fied to the great beyond. The boys buried him under a big maple tree ly returned. A careful search of his clothing ‘revealed no map nor anything else of value. It looked as if nothing was destined to come of the great desert . gold scheme on which J ack Fennister had set his heart. “Just my luck,” he growled. “It isn’t that I need money, but I am wild to get in right on some big thing in the ene | line. I wanted to , be a géld king and to have all the papers talking - about it, but I suppose it was not to be.” - The day after the burial of old Ben Budd Jack began to talk again of pulling up stakes. ; “We're only wasting our time here,” he de- . “If the old man spoke the truth and real- = be: 3 id take $60,000 out of that hole, then it is in- _ ‘ore chimney and we might the top of an oré¢ r ; to China and never strike it rich FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY back of his old shack to which he had so strange- _ dries one’s throat to a terrible extent. 1s — they had been accustomed to bathe, stripped and plunged in. : : : The water is very cold in this part of the Pa- cific and these plunges of the boys were but short affairs. . a Jack was out in five minutes and was rubbing — himself down with a hard crash towel when suddenly he spied a dark object further along on — the beach. “What do you suppose that is, Art?” he ex- claimed, as he pointed to it. “Looks like some old grip,” replied Arthur. — “More of the wreckage of the Queen, I suppose.” “Likely. When I’m dressed I propose to in- vestigate.” 3 He did so, and a much worn leather grip it proved to be. : ‘ “Any mark on it?” called Arther. “Well, there is,” replied Jack. B. B., if you please.” “Ben Budd!” “Now don’t raise my hopes, boy.” “Open it and see.” > “Tl bring it up there. gether.” ana The grip was not locked, merely secured by a catch; opened, various articles of a man’s ward- robe were revealed, and among them was a small pocket Bible. nt a aoe turned to the fiy leaf, and sure enough read: ; “Ben Budd. His book. 1867. tp - “And the map!” cried Arthur. : Besides all this there was a distance table and bast fe notes concerning landmarks, one of wh read: = “Locate first the mountain marked ‘Crov Camel’; the resemblance is too strong to be looked. This found, proceed due east fou miles and you strike Dry Lake. It will be essary to carry a good supply of water, fo is positively none to be had within fifty m To be caught without it means death, for plain is deep with alkali, which, breath sens ay oe oo" (To i “2

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= CARRIES WOLF IN ARMS | Carrying a live sixty-five pound female timber _- wolf under his arm, Big Joe Laflamme of Goga- - ma, Ontario, walked into the local zoo recently -_ and delivered the animal to the keepers. 7 He explained that last winter he found the body _ of-a deer partially eaten, and had set a trap in the carcass. _ “When I returned,” he said, “I found the deer and the trap where they had been dragged along in the snow. That wolf had done it. She had - dragged half the deer for about half a mile. Then _ the backbone of the deer to which the trap was mile. Finally the trap became tangled between the bushes and held the wolf. ~ : _. “I threw some harness on her, took off the trap and soon had her pulling in my dog team.” NAVY FLYERS Sd SURVEY ~* ‘Two navy seaplanes will make an extensive sur- of Alaskan territory from the air this sum- mer, ascertajning particularly data on air-bases and general coast line conditions. The seaplanes will be attached to the commission, headed by ‘Rear Admiral Chase. They left San Diego, May 25, and will base on the Cuyama during their op- ‘erations in Alaskan waters. It is expected that information of value to con- ‘servation and development projects will be ob- ained from the air concerning a territory and ain that is otherwise almost inaccessible. Pho- ~ tographic maps ill be made and information will gathered which will be of great value to the and Geodetic Survey and the Alaskan Coal + “gales e plan is to establish triangulation points on aranoof Island by aerial photography which may ‘used to plot in the territory from one coast to other. According to officials of the Coast and eodetic Survey this work would require months mountain climbing unless performed by fliers. . survey of the Alaskan oil fields and seal ds will also be made. The planes that have selected for this duty are new service DT edo and bombing planes and will be piloted ieutenants M. B. Brix and J. H. Stevens. NATIVE METHOD OF DEALING WITH : - <.. SPIRITS ny attempts to‘communicate with the spirit | are dealt with summarily by the leaders » the natives in the Belgian Congo, accord- the story recently told by Alexander Mill, a Baptist missionary, who arrived e steamship Columbia, accompanied by his » and young daughter. The Mills have been ie Congo since 1911, working among some 70,- _natives in one of the wildest corners of native discovers that a friend or a ting in a strange manner-and can- cause the matter e tribe or villa - Be, ouncil FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE fastened, had broken and she dragged that for a TO MAKE ALASKAN - and decide that their fellow tribesman shall be purged of the devils and spirits. They brew a deverage from poison roots and force the suspect to drink it. This cures the native of any further communication with either the spirit or the earth- ly tribesmen here.’ ’ _ “If the native protests, he is charged with be- ing a coward, and as this is the worst charge that’ can be made against a native, he usually drinks the cup without further ado. Many times I have seized the cup and thrown its contents to the ground, as it is against the Belgian law to ad- minister the poison, The natives who give the cup are guilty of murder under the law. This has cut down the practice of the ceremony con- siderably, but it still persists in secret.” Mrs. Mill told of her Sunday school class of young native women who arrive for their lessons attired as nature made them. “They have no sense of prudery,” she said, “and in fact are cleaner in thought and action than many who wear broadcloth and satin. They simply don’t want to be hampered with clothes in that climate and are not embarrassed by the lack of garments as a is the custom there. We have come to ac- cept it.” ————oololTleleleee <= :ZZ” “Mystery Magazine” SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY — LATEST ISSUEs —_ 127 WHEN CROOKS CONSPIRE, by Harold F. pod. aski. 2 123 THE MYSTERY oF Ta lg ent aren tap vain see o } DETECTIVE AN 3 : : 130° TH TAN Sa ee : 30- ) HAND IN THR DARK. hy Chas. F. 0 : 131 THE TRAIL OF THE "B, iscige Bete ae son-Howard. pests -Ss ee Srems ie 132 THE WOMAN FROM NOWHERE, by Jack Beche olt. 133 THR TIME DETECTIVE. by Frank Bl'gh 124 ‘THR WHISPPRING-ROOM.. Ry Beniah Poynter, =~ 135 ONE CLUE MISSING, by Chas. F. Oursler. : The Famous Detective Story Out Today in 136 Is THE DOOM OF THE DAMNED By JOE BURKE HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisker, Inc. ; 166 West 23d Street, New York City — “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Four Stories of the Best on the Screen -~ Elegant Half-tone Scenes from Plays — iota Articles About Prominent Peo] 3s of Actors and Actresses in

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See eT A Pitts, y aap RADIO STATION HEARD 11,000 MILES Announcement was made in Hartford, Conn., recently, that an amateur wireless station had suce in transmitting signals approximately half way around the world, establishing a new long distance record. A ship Spetetes reports he heard the station operated by E. W. Rouse at Galveston when he - was 100 miles southeast of Ceylon in the Indian ocean, a distance of 11,000 miles. Het dd the Ay adie A 1 ENS > at ae NEW WAVE LENGTHS CAUSE TROUBLE Broadcasting is undergoing a revolution. Dur- ing the past few weeks there have been all sorts of changes in broadcasting. There have been more than a score of new stations opened. Many QF e 7 ic Se ¥ be new studios. and several have changed their transmitting apparatus, says “Whit” in the Bos- ton Post. Now comes the new change of wave bands for almost every broadcast station in the coun- _ try. Without doubt changes will be a great bene- fit when the listening public gets thoroughly ac- quainted with the various station — but for the present the change, coming so suddenly, has left many fans unable to tune in their pet sta- tions. Fans will now be required to do considerable “fishing” to get stations they desire, and once they get the stations care should be taken: to list the exact positien on their dials so that the sta- tion can be readily picked up again when wanted. nee alee Tigran pai NEW RADIO STATION 3 Faith in the permanence gf radio broadcasting x is demonstrated by the announcement of the Gen- __ eral Electric Company that the first plant to be constructed exclusively for popular broadcasting will be erected in Oakland, Cal., to house the large Pacific Coast station of that company. ; ork will be started this month on a two- story studio building, the antenna towers and the -power-house. Workmen are already assembling the radio equipment, It is expected that the - new station will be in the air within six months. The transmitting set will be similar to that which is now_heard almost night from WGY, Schenectady, N. -Y. It is probable that an y studio, connected with the transmitting ernment of the station by telephone lines, will be located in San Francisco. The Pacific Coast station of the General Elec- tric Company will utilize remote control to broad- east church services and musical entertainments from San Francisco and Oakland. The Pacific y ph & Telephone Company has offered to de land wire connection for this type of a > : ee i x & -FRANCE’S RADIO STATIONS ___ While the United States has been carrying on eee ae wireless iresta tad oe FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING RADIO NEWS of the older and established stations have opened ‘again, and letters were plain. / vere erm been hard at work developing its commercial wireless business through private enterprise. To- ; day France has the largest, most. efficient and most powerful wireless equipment in Europe. — : Unlike England, France took the opportunity =a during the war of developing this new means 4 of communication. % To-day the French Government has four high- 4 power stations. Most Americans are familiar 5 with the great Eiffel Tower which rears its steel __ framework into the Paris sky-line like a giant — finger and snatches radio messages from around = the world. It is in continuous contact with Ar- lington, near Washington, and all the other great American stations. Next in importance comes the station. at 4 Nantes, which is allocated to the French Navy; 4 the station at Lyons, which was erected during : - the war and is used by the Post Office for com- munications to America, Africa, Europe and the French colonies; and the great Lafayette sta- tion, near Bordeaux, which was built by the =. American Navy and later acquired by the French Government. The Lafayette tower sends daily communica- tions to Madagascar, Martinique and Saigon. The Government service consists of news, propaganda and. official communications. The chief wireless installation in France is now that of Ste. Assise and consists of two sta- : tions, one for European traffic and one for world communication. = ee EARLY RADIO AMATEUR WORK a One of the earliest feats of amateur radio has been brought to light by the discovery of a clip- e ping.from a Minneapolis newspaper dated A a = 6, 1902. It was found in the effects of D. : Nichol, an executive of one of-the large Be corporations in New York. It reads in part: — “While experimenting with wireless telegraph; Friday evening D. McNichol, general ree agent of the Soo road, was startled by recei messages from some one who was also ex > menting with the system. re “The message was often broken, but lettees: and words come through so distinctly as to satis- fy Mr. McNichol that he was at one end of a very satisfactory test. There was nothin e tinct at first, and Mr: McNichol conclude some ordinary electrical influence had caused it. But a few minutes later the instrument licked — Later there was more connection to the letters, until words could — be spelled. The word ‘after’ was the first one 7 that came complete. “Mr. McNichol became thoroughly aroused, he immediately made the instrument as as possible. He placed carbon filings between Bes silver plates of his coherer, but had hardly. do this before the message ceased. Mr. McNichol is band to believe that 4 ee the mes _sent off

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- It is known that this wave will affect bells and - lights. The person might have had a bell, light and transformer in the room, and by using a re- flector turned the wave alternately upon all three. - his would account for Mr. McNichol receiving ~ only an occasional word. Mr. McNichol says that _ the message might have been sent from anywhere _ within a radius of twenty-five miles.” __ Tt may be doubtful if Mr. McNichol can qualify as the first radio amateur on the strength of this clipping, but he certainly has established his claim to membership in the Old Timers’ Asso- a ‘ciation. One thing is certain: reporters held their int theories of radio matters in those days, even as at the present time. A REFILLABLE “B” BATTERY The usual vacuum tube-employed in radio re- ception requires the use of two batteries for its neration. There is the storage battery, which supplies current for the filament, and there is the -“B” or plate battery, which furnishes energy for the plate circuit. The “B” battery should have ca viottage of 22% for detector tubes, and 45 to 100 for amplifier tubes. Generally, a “B” bat- - tery comprises a number of small dry cells con- nected together and encased in a cardboard con- tainer, thoroughl sealed in to insure perfect con- nections and to keep out moisture. z ‘Now the great drawback with the usual type of “B” battery is that all the cells are not nec- - essarily employed. If the battery_is being used vith = a detector tube, only 16 or 18 volts may be = and two, three or four cells may not ° be used. Yet after a while the majority of the cells are exhausted, and the unused cells must be discarded along with the dead cells for the rea- son that they are all cast enbloc, to use a good automobile expression. a “ : "To obviate this waste, there has been invented an ingenious container which takes the usual unit cells now employed for flashlamps. The con- newhas square compartments which take the ; cells, while brass springs or strips on the ‘Hottom of the container and also on a fiber cover which fits over the cells, make the necessary ies se engeasema. A wooden cover, finished off match the rest of the container, is placed on ‘of the fiber connection board and is held in lace by its nickeled strap which engages with vs at the ends of the case. The cover slides ‘place without the ‘use of tools. The bat- ~ tery thus assembled is a most efficient one. No . solder being employed for connections, there is no : ey of imperfect connections or the presence “goldering paste that might cause leaks. ‘rthermore, the cells are thoroughly insulated from the other. Hence there are no trouble- noises incurred through the use-of this re- ble battery. eS ER SS ay RELIEF BY RADIO iship West. Cahous, lying in anchor harbor about nine miles from the help about 3 o’clock one = coreg eset Fe eee. Pome FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY the crew had fallen into the hold and had been. 25 seriously injured. ‘The captain of the ship sent a wireless broadcast asking for help. The call was picked up, says the Public Health Service, in describing the incident,-not in Baltimore, but at Cape May, N. J., about 100 miles eastward. As Cape May was separated from the ship by parts of New Jersey and Delaware and by the Eastern Shore of Maryland, no direct help from’ there was possible. “But the operator was on the job,” continues an announcement by the service. “Promptly he consulted the long distance list in the Baltimore ~ telephone directory and called up the residence of the Public Health Service surgeon in charge of the Marine Hospital in Baltimore—100 miles to the west. The surgeon, roused from sleep to re- ceive the-message, asked him to radio certain emergency treatment to the West Cahous and to direct’ the captain to send a boat to a certain pier in Baltimore where he would find a surgeon waiting to go out to the ship with him and so, _in the middle of the night, in less than an hour, a wireless-controlled, sea-going ambulance carry- ing a Public Health Service officer reached the side of the injured sailor and brought him later to the hospital.” In connection with seamen’s right to free radio medical service, it is pointed out that some mas- ters of ships may not as yet have been fully informed, so Sungeon General Hugh S. Cum- mings has directed that posters giving full in- formation be forwarded to all vessels of the American Merchant Marine. This medical service is really a sort of subsidy to merchant ships and sailors. _A century and a quarter ago, when Congress established the Public Health Service, under the title of the Marine Hospital Service, it directed it to render medical aid to every Ameri- can seaman who applied for it, and that for this each seaman should pay 20 cents a month. This was in 1798; in 1870 the tax was doubled, but- in 1888 it was abolished, and since then all such aid has been rendered free. Even the expense of calling’ the service by radio from away out at sea is borne by the radio companies without expense to ship or sailor. The forthcoming poster reads: “The United States Public Health Service pro- vides hospital care and out-patient treatment for _ sick and disabled seamen. Hospitals with modern equipment, skilled physicians, specialists, den- tists and trained nurses are open to all persons employed on documented American vessels, and to the Coast Guard, lighthouse keepers and cér- tain others who help to keep the flag on the seas. An, ambulance will go to the dock at any time upon telephonic ‘call from a ship’s officer, “As you are proud of a good ship take pride alsg in keeping your own body healthy. Most i ies are due to carelessness. Most diseases can be prevented, Prompt care of small in- juries may save a limb. Early treatment for di- sease may save a life or prevent months of lil- ness. Learn to keep well. Pamphlets on tuber- culosis venereal diseases and other common di- seases are sent on uest by the Surgeon Gen- eral, United States Public Health Service, Wash- . ington, D. C. A book, ‘The Ship’s Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea,’ will . Se oti be sent <g of the vessel.” pais. =

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26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, JULY 6, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS 1923 Bingle Copies........... veces Postagé Free 7 Conta Que Copy Three Months..... an * 90 Cente One Copy Six Months...... “ Sd $1.75 Que Cepy One Year.......... - “ 8.50 ada, $4.00; Fereign, $4.56, HOW TO SEND MONEY — At Money Order, Check or Regis iz risk send P. O, ter; remittances Way are at you ) Bee other A ostage mps the same as cash. hen sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting euvelo rite your same and address plainly. Address ae ache wean: HARRY E. WOLFF, Charlies E. Nylander, Ses, Publisher, Inc., i F. Wilsio, Treas. 166 W. 28d St., N.Y. ITEMS OF INTEREST WHAT IS A MAN WORTH Georgine Ludin, says a medical journal, has analyzed us, declaring that “we are made of soap (fat), iron, sugar, lime, phosphorous, mag- nesium, potassium and sulphur,” all having a to- tal value of 98 cents to the individual.- That be- ing so, no one hereafter can “look like 300 cents.” A NEW METHOD OF FOOLING FISH A new method of fooling the fish has been dis- covered by the owner of a fishing boat in Ber- wickshire, Scotland. He uses a net dyed the hue of the sea, and the result has always been a much better catch. A convincing test was recently made when a fleet of sixty-five fishing craft com- peted. One of the boats used nets dyed blue, and the others the usual brown nets. The blue nets in every test bagged the most fish. © ee - SUBMARINES’ WILL HELP SALVAGE SUNKEN SHIPS One of fhe latest methods devised for the re- covery of sunken treasure is that of an European company which seeks to use submarines to gain an entrance to the interior of the vessels wherein repose the chests of gold. When the wreck has been definitely located, a submarine will be brought to the scene and sent down to discharge a topedo into that part of the sunken vessel where the treasure lies. Once that portion of the ship is opened, a mechanical octopus will be low- ered to grasp the treasure chest in its tentacles. The octopus is probably the most ingenious part of the entire scheme. It will be equipped with immense searchlights, a cabin, observation ports and periscopes so that those within may guide it _ to the treasure. A number of engineering difficulties will be en- : countered, one of which will be to keep the tor- from destroying the treasure chest when it e anaes up the steel sides of the ship. We as- sume that the engineering company that is pro- the scheme has taken all such difficulties into siders ion, however. _ did you act?” “I was the Blot.” FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY RECEDING ICE LINE The permanent ice layer, or stratum of frozen subsoil, which lies just underneath the blanket of moss common throughout much of Alaska and has led many to believe that crop production could not be made successful there, recedes under cul- tivation, according to reports from the Federal agricultural experiment stations in that Terri- tory. At the Rampart station, which is within about fifty miles of the Arctic Circle, the soil was found to be frozen to within eight inches of the surface when the first clearing was made and the moss re- moved in the summer of 1900. The ice layer has now receded to a depth of six or seven feet. A well was dug some time ago to a depth of twenty-five feet on land on the lower Yukon River which had been under cultivation about ten years and no permanent ice encountered. The presence.of this frozen subsoil is not with- out advantage in the interior of Alaska, where the rainfall is light and dry seasons sometimes prevail. At such times the moisture from below is brought to the roots of plants by capillarity and crop production is assured. LAUGHS “Where did you get that cigar?” “Somebody gave it to me.” “A friend?” “I don’t know yet.” “Has Tom given up. paying attention to Matil- da?” “Ya-as.” “What! -Jilted her?” “No, married her.” “Why ‘this hush, this elaborate tiptoeing about?” “S-sh! Mother is getting ready to ask father for a little extra money.” “You’re kinder to dumb animals than you are to me, your wife.” “Well, you try being dumb, and see how kind I’ll be.” “Have you any nice beefsteak this morning?” “Sure. Here’s some steak as tender as a woman’s heart.” “Give me a pound of sausage.” If your leg is loose get it tightened before the table tips and breaks your dishes. All work guar- anteed.—Furniture repairer’s ad. in the Bremer- ton Evening Searchlight. “Freddy, you shouldn’t laugh out loud in the — pi sara 5 ee want “T didn’t mean o do it,” apologiz reddy. “I was smiling, when all of a sudden the smile busted.” : Wife—An’ phwy do yez be takin’ thim pills when yez are well again? Husband—Faith, would ye be afther havin’ me let a dollar’s wo of pills go to waste? It’s a thriftless family Oi married into, sure. “So you want to join our company?” said the theatrical manager to the seedy-looking appli- cant. “In what places have you ever appeared?” - “Well,” replied he, “my last engagement was with _ ‘The Blot on the ’Scutcheon.’” “What character er =4

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we var > | FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST ’ 18 INCHES OF HAIL FELL “Thousands of animals perished in a hailstorm in the region of Esquias, Honduras, June 9. In the*valleys and mountains hail fell to a depth of eighteen inches. A FEAT OF MEMORY Herr Otto Schrader of Berlin is the possessor of a freak memory. The German Meteorological Society tested it recently. “What was the weather on Nov. 26, 1890?” Schrader was asked. “Tt was clear before dawn; in the afternoon it be- came cloudy, with snow flurries. The tempera- ture was two or three degrees below freezing point,” answered Schrader. The scientists checked him up and found that he was right. STOCKINGLESS BATHERS NOT LADIES Capt. James H. Gillen of the Coney Island po- lice, who recently ruled all bathing suits off the new boardwalk, sent out a plea to bath house pro- prietors to put up signs requesting women not to go on the beach without stockings. There is a regulation covering nearly every other article of bathing apparel except the stock- ing. Stockings are optional, but the police of Island object to their absence and herice _ have asked the bath house proprietors to do what : : tation, a French scientist has sueceeded by using lass shells filled with fluid, in produc- = Pre | Enc they can to make women bathers wear them. “Tf they don’t wear ’em,” said Captain Gillen, “we can’t do anything about it—but they’re not ladies.” CONCERNING MOONLIGHT It is probable that very few persons are aware of the fact that the full:moon gives several times More than twice the light of the half moon. They tay be still more surprised to learn that the ratio is roximately as nine to one. bins and Brown, taking advantage of the ° extreme sensitiveness to light of a selenium cell, Measured the amount of light coming from the so different phases, with the result above itioned. The reason for the remarkable differ- ence shown is to be found in the varying angles of re@®ection presented by the roughened sur- faces of our satellite to the sun. he moon is brighter between first quarter and full than be- tween full and last quarter. CURIOUS LENSES It is reported that, after many years of ex- optical lenses said to be as good as the best Massive glass lenses in present use, and of much greater size. : The importance of such an invention in the ‘field of astronomy is cbviously gredt. The av- “erage large lens manufactured out of massive Spe for astronomical purposes has a diameter _of about one and a half speePa jeg ero ; Sick gece | a lens, it by the French _ Bergen process mentioned in a few weeks, at a cost of from $500 to $750. Lenses’ of smaller diameter for photographie purposes, for opera glasses, reading glasses, etc., can be produced, it is said, at correspondingly smaller cost. The lens consists of a fluid substance inclosed between two unusually hard glass surfaces, sim- ilar to what crystals, in which the reflective pow- ers and other characteristic properties are so chosen that the glass surfaces not only serve, to hold the fluid but also combine with the fluid to overcome such defects as are scarcely to be avoided in ordinary lenses. It is fer this reason also that the lens is achromatic. 50. RATS ARE WOMAN’S PETS' A complaint lodged with the health officer of Jersey City revealed -recently that residents of the Greenville section of Jersey City have been congregating nightly in the vicinity of 266 Old Road, where some half hundred rats have been frolicking away the dull hours of the even- ing on the roof of the two-story frame dwelling which occupies the premises. The rats, huge, gray, bewhiskered old fellows, few under ten inches from tip of nose to base of tail, were plainly visible’ from the roadway, swarming over the shingled roof, climbing up the screens in the windows of the upper dwelling, or balancing precariously on such bits of furniture in the interior as were visible in the deepening twilight. An investigation by Health Inspector Edward F. Doran in the upper tenement revealed that Mrs. Mary Tobin, who occupies it with her hus- band, had made the rats welcome some months ago and was providing them with food and water, they furnishing her with entertainment and di- version in return. Mrs. Tobin told the inspectors that she buys her pets nine loaves of bread each day—testi- mony which was amply borne out by the several pans of broken loaves found scattered about the house for the convenience of the rodents. She sometimes varies their diet with a little con- densed milk, but they for the most part seemed to be content with the bread except on ‘such oc- easions as they nibbled away~at the brim of Mr. Tobin’s derby hat or polished up their incisors on his winter overcoat, all of which bore evidences of their attention. In addition to this the rats had chewed holes in the floor, gnawed the shingles off the roof, bit- ten holes in the mattress and provided themselves generally and generously with emergency exits, ook-out stations, trysting places and sun parlors. The complaint was made by Nicholas Roehren- beck of Reehrenbeck & Sullivan, proprietors of a tinsmith shop on the ground floor of the building. Mr. Roehrenbeck said the other day that he not noticed the rats until a few months ago when they became’obnoxious. He had constructed an‘ in- genious tin. trap and baited it with cheese and rat. ison, but could not entice any of the intruders own front their diet of bread and. condensed milk.

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: INTERESTING FRENCH VILLAGE GETS DRUNK were enacted in the little village of Quievrechain $s near Lille, when nearly every one in town be- =e, came riotously drunk on gquinquina, a French : liquor, discovered leaking from a 3,000 gallon e tank car. . Workmen discovered the leak in the car which was on a siding. Word spread throuh the vil- lage. Men, women and children came running with buckets and pans. Hundreds, rapidly intox- icated by the potent liquor, staggered through the streets. Gendarmes arrested eight ringleaders, but the tank car had been emptied. NEW RECORD IN TREE PLANTING More than 6,200,000 forest trees, or enough to reforest about 6,000 acres of land, have been lanted this spring by private owners of forest fond in Pennsylvania, Chief State Forester Major 3 . Y. Stuart announced recently, declaring this the largest number of trees planted on private x forest land in any one year in the history of the ze - / State. Among the 1,600 private planters who set ~~ out trees were farmers, lumbermen, water com- panies, mining companies and municipalities. Berks county leads all others in the number of forest trees planted, 108 persons setting out 335,- 000 trees. Indiana county leads the other coun- ties. ¥ MOUNTAIN FLYING Consideration has been given to the possibility of aerial observations in the Himalayas. The range, it appears, has only six peaks above 27,000 feet high, and an aviator flying at about 23,000 or 24,000 feet should have no difficulty in crossing if the highest peaks were avoided, while if he chose certain of the gorges. an altitude of some 19,000 feet would suffice. The greatest of the many obstacles to be encountered is the moun- “tain sickness, which occurs in the highest alti- tudes through deficiency of oxygen, The grad- - ual climber, going afoot, is less handicapped in this respect than -the aviator ‘rising sudden] from sea leyel in his machine. On the other hand, _. this practically equalizes matters. A LONELY LITTLE SOUTH ATLANTIC : ISLAND Few globetrotters have watched the snowclad peak of Tri:tan da Cunba lifting over the horizon. _ tis far from the liner track, an almost forgotten “backwater in a busy world. But Cape Town is the gateway of the southern seas and a few _ weeks ago I sailed from that port to see Tristan. and we arrived at our destination. Six months had passed since a vesesl called at the island, . and we knew that the inhabitants would be short of flour and many other necessities. — : The Rev. Rartyn Rogers, the young clergyman vil *d to go to Tristan and who has n for tw ve months Sis Scenes reminiscent of the French revolution — ‘war medals, Bob Glass is the first man to board the pedestrian has more fatigue to undergo, and_ Seven days steaming over unfrequented ocean . ow, told FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY — NEWS ARTICLES me of the hardships of his parish. They had not eaten bread for weeks. The last potato crop had been almost destroyed by drought. Many cattle had died during the winter through lack of pas- turage. Milk had been scarce. In a few weeks fish and seabirds’ eggs would have been the sta- ple diet. Landing at Tristan callec for great skill and the captain wisely decided to leave the work of getting the stores ashore in the hands of the is- landers. Naval cutters and whalers carried the bales and cases to a place near the shore, where 7 everything was transshipped into island boats. In one of these canvas craft I shot in through the breakers and grounded on the black vol- canic beach. It was a picturesque scene. With the sun swinging low work went on at high pres- sure. = Backed by a range of cliffs, the landing place § is a vivid memory. A group of swarthy women waited to help the boats ashore. A boat, heavily loaded, came racing in, the man at the steering = oar shouting in the drawling twang of the Tris- ; tan dialect. The painter was flung out; a dozen : women. strained together and before another = waye could break the precious stores were safe. a Everything went up a rough path, through a — miniature gorge, to the settlement. The stores were packed in amazing carts, rude wooden tum- F brils with two wheels, drawn by oxen, with the ~ ~ Boy Scouts of Tristan acting as “voorloopers.” ? That night intense white pencils of light—the cruiser’s searchlights—swept the beach. The work went on. 4 Every one who calls at Tristan is bound to ; meet Bob Glass. He is a tanned, wiry man of Ze. 50, with a mustache and blue eyes. World rover, soldier, sailor, whaleman and adventurer, he ig — a grandson of “Governor” Glass, who founded the settlement over 100 years ago. Wearing his Boer ~ a passing ship. He presents the visitors’ book, a — volume containing the names of vessels that have ~ called at Tristan for scores of years. Bob is something of a scholar and keeps the records of — the island. : : He himself is a living repository of informa- tion about the queer settlement. ; ea M Php RB

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» a ’ - How I increased my s more than | ee Joseph gee : AM just the average man—twenty-eight years : ] old, with a wife and a three-year-old youngster. I left school when I was fourteen. My parents didn’t want me to do it, but I thought I knew more 3; than they did. = I can see my father now, standing before me, pleading, threatening, coaxing me to keep on with schooling. With tears in his eyes he told me how he had been a failure all his life because of lack of education—that the untrained man is always forced to work for a small salary—that he had hoped, yes, and prayed, that I would be a more successful man than he was. But no! My mind was made up. I had been offered a job at nine dollars a week and I was going to take it. _ That nine dollars looked awfully big to me. I didn’t realize then, nor for years afterward, that I > was being paid only for the work of my hands, My brain didn’t count. SHEN one day, glancing through a magazine, I came across the story of a man just like myself. He, too, had left school when he was fourteen years of age, agd had worked for years at a small salary. But he was ambitious. He decided that he would get out of the rut by training himself to become expert in some line of work. spondence Schools at Scranton and started to study in his spare time at home. It was the turn in the road for him—the beginning of his success. 4 at institutions who are earning $25,000 and : $50,000 a year. Those stories frighten me. I don’t think I could ever earn that much. But this story told of a man who, through spare time study, lifted himself from $25 to $75 a week. It made an im- pression on me because it talked in terms I could understand. It seemed reasonable to suppose that - Lcould do as well. and send in that familiar coupon. Information regarding the Course I had-marked came back by return mail. I found it wasn’t,too late to make up the education I had denied myself as a boy. I yeas surprised to find out how fascinating a home-study course could be. The I. C. S. worked with me.every hour I had to spare. I felt myself i I knew there was a me somewhere. » Mme and told me that he always gave preference )men who studied their jobs—and that my next So he got in touch with the International Corre- Most stories like that tell of the presidents of I tell you it didn’t take me long that time to mark bigger-job waiting : Four months after I enrolled my ‘employer came alary qty’ tie anh antl Ui os salary envelope would show how much he thought of the improvement in my -work. Today, my salary is more than 300% greater than it was when I began my studies. That increase has meant a better home and all the luxuries thet make life worth while. What I have done, you can do, For I am just an average man. I had no more education to begin with than you have—perhaps not as much. The only difference is a matter of training. O every man who is earning less than $75 a week, I say simply this:—Find out what the I. C. S. can do for you! It_will take only a minute of your time to mark and mail the coupon. But that one simple act may change your whole life. If I hadn’t taken that first step four years ago I wouldn’t be writing this message to you today! No, and I wouldn’t be earning anywhere near $75 a week, either! —— oe — — TEAR OUT DERE — — — INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS Box 4490-B, Scranton, Penna. — for an X: Without cost or obligation, please tell me how I can the position or in the subject before which I hare mark BUSINESS TRAINING DEPARTMENT Business Management Industrial Management Advert: ersonnel Organization Better Letters — og pee emer eoien Trade ess Law Stenography and Typing ing and Banking Law Business Eoetiah ecountancy (including C.P.A.) Civil Service Nichelson Cost Accounting Railway Mail Clerk Common Schovl Subjects High School Subjects Ulustrating oc Mechanical Engineer ‘echanical Draftsman (Machine Shop Practice tg ee eps stl Fok ine Opera’ Civil Engineer May Metallurgy ete ne Steam E ing Radio O Airplane Engines Occupation. .......----errerssrrreserneecrerneerssssenenans ei etete meat Pin _ Persons residing in Canada should send this to Interna- dional Correspondence Behoote Canadian, Limited, itontreat, Canada! — a ear

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and Fortune Weekly — LATEST ISSUES — 884 Getting the Coin; or, The Luckiest Lad in Wall St. 885 In the Lumber Trade; or, A Winning Speculator. 886 A Boy’s Big Deal; or, The Wall St. Tip That Won. 887 Prince, the Printer; or, The Little Shop That Was Made to Pay. 888 The Little Money King; or, Tempting Fate in Wall treet, 889 anes the Missing; or, The Treasure of the Silver ty. 890 Lucky i or, The Boy Who Made Wall Street ce. 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