THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. G.
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f THE IRE At llAN 1
L By FRAMCIS LYNDE ; J
AFTER SAVING THE LIFE OF DAINTY CORONA BALDWIN,;
SMITH TAKES IT UPON HIMSELF TO SAVE THE COM
PANY'S PROPERTY AT THE RISK OF HIS LIFE
Synopsis J. Montague Smith, cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank
and Trust company, bachelor society leader, engaged to marry Verda
Richlander, heiress, is wrongfully accused of dishonesty by Watrous
Dunham, his employer, and urged to be the scapegoat for his guilty ac
cuser. Smith strikes Dunham, leaves him for dead and flees the state.
He turns up as a tramp sometime later at an irrigation dam construc
tion camp in the Rockies and as John Smith gets a rough job. He soon
attracts the attention of his boss by his evidence of superior intelli
gence ; and because the company is in financial straits, is asked to join
the office staff and become a sort of financial adviser. About this time
Smith saves tue life of Miss Corona Baldwin, daughter of Col. Dexter
Baldwin, president of the company.
CHAPTER VI Continued.
"I was born here in Timanyoni, and
you haven't been here three weeks:
do you think I'd be afraid to go any
where that you'll go?"
"We'll see about that," he chuckled,
matching the laugh; and with that he
let the clutch take hold, sent the car
rolling gently up to the level of the
railroad embankment and across the
rails of the main track, and pulled it
around until it was headed fairly for
the upper switch. Then he put the
motor in the reverse and began to
back the car on the siding, steering
so that the wheels on one side hugged
the inside of one rail.
"What in the world are you trying
to do?" questioned the young woman
who had said she was not afraid.
"Wait," he temporized; "just wait
a minute and get ready to hang on
like grim death. We're going across
on that trestle."
He fully expected her to shriek and
grab for the steering wheel. That, he
told himself, was what the normal
young woman would do. But Miss Co
rona disappointed him.
"You'll put us both into the river,
ana smasn joionei-aaaay's car, out l
guess the Baldwin family can stand it
If you can," she remarked quite calmly.
Smith kept on backing until the car
had passed the switch from which the
spur branched off to cross to the mate
rial yard on the opposite side of the
river. A skillful bit of juggling put
the roadster over on the ties of the
spur-track. Then he turned to his fel
low risk.
"Sit low and hang on with both
hands," he directed. "Now!" and he
opened the throttle.
The trestle was not much above two
hundred feet long, and, happily, the
cross-ties were closely spaced. Steered
to a hair, the big car went bumping
across, and in his innermost recesses
Smith was saying to his immediate
ancestor, the well-behaved bank clerk:
"You swab! You never saw the day
when you could do a thing like this
. . . you thought you had me tied
up in a bunch of ribbon, didn't you?"
If Miss Baldwin were frightened,
she did not show it. Smith jerked the
roadster out of the entanglement of
the railroad track and said : "You may
sit up now and tell me which way to
go. I don't know anything about the
She pointed out the way across the
hills, and a four-mile dash followed.
Up hill and down the big roadster
raced, devouring the interspaces, and
iit the topping of the last of the ridges,
in a small, low-lying swale which was
well hidden from any point of view In
the vicinity of the distant dam, they
came upon the interlopers. There
were three men and two horses and a
covered wagon, as Martin's telephone
message had catalogued them. The
horses were still in the traces, and just
beyond the wagon a legal mining
claim had been marked out by freshly
driven stakes. At one end two of the
men were digging perfunctorily, while
the third was tacking the legal notice
on a bit of board nailed to one of the
stakes.
Smith sent the gray car rocketing
down Into the swale, brought It to a
stand with a thrust of the brakes, and
jumped out. Once more the primitive
"Stone Age man In him which had slept
so long and so quietly under the Law
renceville conventionalities, was joy
ously pitching the barriers aside."
"It's moving day for you fellows," he
announced cheerfully, picking the big
gest of the three as the proper sub
ject for the order giving. "You're on
the Timanyoni Ditch company's land,
and you know it Pile Into the wagon
and fade away!"
The. big man's answer was a laugh,
pointed, doubtless, by the fact- that
the order giver was palpably unarmed.
Smith's right arm shot out, and when
the blow landed there were only two
left to close in on him. In such sud
den hostilities the advantages are all
with the beginner. Having superior
reach and a good bit more skill than
either of the two tacklers, Smith held
:his own until lie could get in a few
more of the smashing right-handers,
but In planting them he took punish
ment enough to make him Berserk-
w a A o rrl art nra r-M rct 11 vr in n r M a
"xnere was a nerce mingling oi,arms,
legs and bodies, sufficiently terrifying,
one would suppose, to a young woman
sitting calmly in an automobile a hun
dred yards away.
The struggle was short In just pro
portion to its vigor, and at the end of
It two of the trespassers were knocked
out, and Smith was dragging the third
over to the wagon, Into which he pres
ently heaved the man as if he had
been a sack of meal. Miss Baldwin,
sitting in the car, saw her ally dive
into the covered wagon and come out
with a pair of rifles. Pausing only
long enough to smash the guns, one
after the other,, over the wagon wheel,
he started back after the two other
men. They were not waiting to be
carried to the wagon; they were up
and running in a wide semicircle to
reach their hope of retreat unslain, if
that might be. It was all very brutal
and barbarous, no doubt, but the
colonel's daughter was Western born
and bred, and she clapped her hands
and laughed in sheer enthusiasm when
she saw Smith make a show of chas
ing the circling runners.
He did not return to her until after
he had pulled up the freshly driven
stakes and thrown them away, and by
that time the wagon, with the horses
lashed to a keen gallop, was disap
pearing over the crest of the northern
ridge.
"That's one way to get rid of them,
isn't it?" said the emancipated bank
man, jocosely, upon taking his place
in the car to cramp it for the turn.
"Was that something like the notion
you had in mind?w
"Mercy, no!" she rejoined. And
then : "Are you sure you are not hurt?"
"Not worth mentioning," he evaded.
"Those duffers couldn't hurt anybody,
so long as they couldn't get to their
guns."
"But you have saved the company at
your own expense. They will be sure
to have you arrested."
"We won't cross that bridge until
we come to it," he returned. "If we
were back in the country from which
I have lately escaped, it would be
proper for me to ask your permission
to drive you safely home. Since we
are not, I shall assume the permission
and do it anyway."
"Oh, is that necessary?" she asked,
meaning, as he took it, nothing more
than comradely deprecation at putting
him to the trouble of it.
"Not absolutely necessary, perhaps,
but decently prudent. You might drop
me opposite the dam, but you'd have
to pass those fellows somewhere on
the way, and they might try to make
it unpleasant for you."
She made no further comment, and
he sent the car spinning along over
the hills to the westward. A mile
The Struggle Was Short.
short of the trestle river crossing they
overtook and passed the wagon. Be
cause he had the colonel's daughter
with Mm, Smith puton a burst of
speed and so gave the claim jumpers
no chance to provoke another battle.
In the maze of crossroads opposite
the little city on the south bank of
the river, Smith was out of his reck
oning, and was obliged to ask his com
panion to direct him.
"I thought jou weren't ever going
to say anything any more," she sighed,
in mock despair. "Take this road to
the light."
I can't talk and drive a speed p
ctrxn engirt " V - r Vi or t
wagon at the same time," he told her,
twisting the gray car into the road she
had indicated, and he made the asser-'
tion good ,by covering the four remain
ing miles In the same preoccupied
fashion.
There was a reason, of a sort, for
his silence; two of them, to be exact.
For one, he was troubled by that
haunting sense of familiarity which
was still trying to tell him that this
was not his first meeting with Colonef
Baldwin's, daughter; and the other
much bigger and more depressing, was
the realization that In breaking .with:
his past, he had broken, also with the
world of women, at least to the extent
of ever asking one of them to marry
him. ,
He pushed the' thought aside, com
ing back to the other one the puzzle
of familiarity when Miss Baldwin
pointed to a transplanted Missouri
farm mansion, with a columned por
tico, standing in a grove of cotton
woods on the left-hand side of the
road, telling him it was Hillcrest.
There was a massive stone portal
fronting the road, and when he got
down to open the gates the" young
woman took the wheel and drove
through; whereupon he decided that
it was time for him to break away,
and said so.
"But how will you get back to the
camp?" she asked.
"I have my . two legs yet, and the
walking isn't bad."
"No ; but you might meet those
two-men again." .
"That is the least of my troubles."
Miss Corona Baldwin, like the Mis
souri colonei, her father, came upon
moments now and. then when she had
the ultimate courage of her impulses,
"I should have said you hadn't ,a
trouble in the world," she asserted,
meeting his gaze level-eyed.
The polite paraphrases of the cof
fined period were slipping to the end
of his tongue, but he set his teeth upon
them and said, instead: "That's all
you know about it. What if I should
tell you that you've Been driving this
morning with an escaped convict?"
"I shouldn't believe It," she said
calmly.
"Well, you haven't not quite," he
returned, adding fhe qualifying phrase
in sheer honesty.
She had untied her veil and was
asking him hospitably If he wouldn't
come in and meet her mother.- Some
thing in the way she said it, some little
twist of the lips or look of the eyes,
touched the spring of complete recog
nition, and the familiarity puzzle van
ished instantly.
"You forget that I am a working
man," he smiled. "My gang in the
quarry will think I've found a bottle
somewhere." And then : "Did you ever,
lose a glove, Miss Baldwin a white'
kid with a little hole in one finger?"
"Dozens of them," she admitted;
"and most of them had holes, I'm
afraid. -But what has that ,to da with
your coming in and meeting mamma
and letting her thank you for Saving
my life?" ' .
"Nothing at all, of course," he
hastened to say; and with that he
bade her good-by rather abruptly, and
turned his back upon the transplanted
Missouri mansion, muttering to him
self as he closed the portal gates be
hind him : " 'Baldwin,' of course ! What
an ass I was not to remember the
name! And now I've got the other
half of It, too; Jt's 'Corona.'" ,
CHAPTER VII.
Timanyoni, Ditch.
Smith had his vote of thanks .from
Colonel Dexter Baldwin in Williams'
sheet-iron office at the dam, the
colonel having driven out to the camp
for the express purpose ; and the chief
of construction himself was not pres
ent. ,
"You've loaded us up with a toler
ably heavy obligation, Smith Corry's
mother and nie," was the way the
colonel summed up. "If you hadn't
been on deck and strictly on the jqb
at that railroad crossing yesterday
morning-"
"Don't mention it, colonel," Smith
broke in. "I did nothing more than
any man would have done for any
woman. You know.it, and I know it.
Let's leave it that way and forget it."
The tall Missourian's laugh was en
tirely approbative.
T like that," he said, fit's" a good,
man-fashioned way of looking at ' it.
You know how I feel about" it how
any father would feel; and that's
enough."
"Plenty," was the brief rejoinder.
"But there's another chapter to It
that neither of us can cross out ; you'll
have to come out to. the ranch and let
Corry's mother have a ha;k. at you,"
Baldwin went on. "I couldn't figure
you out. of that if I should try. And
now about those claim jumpers : I sup
pose you didn't know any of them by
name?" V.
"No."
"Corry says you gave them the time
of their lives. By George, I wish I'd
i been there to see!" and the colonel
slapped his leg and laughed. "Did
j they look like the real thing sure-
1 enough prospectors?"
"They looked like a bunch of hired
'Wcr DQCcinc cor1' Qmi -Vi TtrlTi i cn n
tgssassins," said Smith, with a grin.
Sflt's some more of the interference,
Isn't it?"
m The colonel's square jaw settled into
lihe fighting angle.
hi "How much do vou know about this
Mmsiness mix-up of ours, Smith?" he
Risked.
au uiai n liiiauis uuuiu ten ute ill
little heart-to-heart talk we had the
father day."
auu ci&iccu w iiii uiui LimL mere
as a tolerably big nigger in the wood-
e, didn't you?"
I had already gathered that much
LI
Mrom the camp gossip."
pj "Well, it's so. We're just about as
helpless as a bunch of cattle in.a sink
hole," was the ranchman president's
Hpnflrmatien of the camp guesses.
IgfVhat In the name ff the great horn
3poon can we do more than we aaye
fone?"
J "There are a number of things that
Nnight be done," said. Smith, falling
reflectively upon the presumably
feThey Looked Like a Bunch of Hired
33
Assassin 8.
lead and buried bank-cashier part ot
in. "And if you can manage to stry
1$ the game and play it out, there A
money in it for all of you ; enough
1f make it well worth while for you to
)it up the fight of your lives."
,J!'Big money? you mean In saving
ortr investment?"
as.
"Oh, no; not at all; In cinching the
0her fellows," Smith put In genially.
Colonel Dexter Baldwin lifted hit
sjfft hat and ran his fingers through
hfts grizzled hair.
f'Say, Smith ; you mustn't forget
at I'm from Missouri," he said half
qzzlcajly. "
But I shouldn't think you'd need
to be 'shown' in this particular in
snce," was the smiling rejoinder.
"Igjie chance to sell you people water
from your own dam isn't the only
tjppg or the main thing in this case.
Ty are obliged to have this dam site,
o at least, one as high up the river
afthls, in order to get. the water over
tqftheirnewly alienated grant In the
Vetera .half of the park."
HjYou've got It straight," said Vw
cpnel.
fii'Very good. Then they're slmpJ
opged to have your dam, or Doc?t
see the alternative now, colonel"
ilHeavens to Betsy!" exclaimed the
bbder of fine horses, bringing his fist
dff n upon Williams' desk with a crash
thgjt made, the ink bottles dance. And
th'n : "What a lot of fence-posts we
ar-the whole kit and b'ilin' of us!
Ifthey get the dam, they sell water to
usjf f if they don't get it, we sell it to
iThat's It, exactly," Smith put in
quietly. VAnd I should say that your
strife in the game is worth the tiffest
flgtp: you can make to save it. Don't
ydf agree with . me?" ,
Great Jehu! I should say so!"
ejaculated' .the amateur trust fighter.
Thgii he broke down the barriers mas
teif filly. "That settles it, Smith. Ton
caii; wiggle out of it now, no way or
sh)e. You've got to come over into
Medodia and help us. Williams tells
meyou refused him, but you can't re
fuse? me."
3r.
;.D0
you believe that Smith
ijvo u Id be wise in taking an im
ft
portant position with the ditch
dmpany-especially if he really
'iopes to escape prison as a re
sult of th Lawrenceville affair?
Wouldn't he be wiser if he disap
peared from the new job?
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Resistance of the Wind.
sts on a model of the naval collier
Nertune made in the wind tunnel of
thevtVashinetoa navy yard by Naval
Constructor William McEntee show
thaiif this vessel were steaming
agal&st a 30-mile wind at 14 knots an
houM it would require about 770 horse
powip to overcome, the resistance ol
the -jvrind. This is about 20 per cent
of tie pbwer necessary to propel hj
throiih the water.
3v
LESSON
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher Of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 16
THE FIERY FURNACE.
LESSON TEXT Daniel 8.
GOLDEN, TEXT When thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burn
ed; neither shalt the flame kindle upon
thee. Isaiah 43:2.
I. The Occasion (vv. 1-7). The fact
that God said to Nebuchadnezzar,
"Thou art this head of gold" (2:38)
was too much for him. Though he ap
peared to have been deeply impressed
with Daniel's God, his pride got the
better of him. As he grew great and
became conscious of it, he grew proud.
This moved him to set up a colossal
Idol of gold In the Plain -of Dura to be
worshiped by all the people of his
realm. It was an attempt at self -deification.
It combined with It a political
move, the object of which.was to weld
together the various kingdoms and
peoples Into one homogeneous body.
He inaugurated a religious festival,
and called upon all the people to wor
ship the image which he set up. He
backed this demand by civil authority.
The penalty for refusal to bow down
and worship the image was to be cast
Into the burning fiery furnace. Impos
ing Images are set up in many places,
and men and' women are being called
upon to bow down and worship them.
Some of these images are money,
fashion, scholarship, worldly ambition,
pleasures, etc., and woe be to those
who will not worship before them.
II. The Behavior of the Hebrews
(vv. 8-18). (1) the accusation by the
envious spies (vv. 8-12).
Daniel's three friends hall been pro
moted to positions of honor and re
sponsibility. Certain Chaldeans whose
envy had been excited by the promo
tion of these Hebrews, sought occasion
against them. This they found when
the Hebrews would not bow down to
and worship the Image. Envious eyes
are always watching God's faithful
ones. Had these Chaldeans been faith
fully worshiping, they would not have
seen the HeBrews. -
(2) The king's rage (w. 13-15).
He calls the Hebrews before him,
questions them and gives, them -another
chance. The offense was not serious
they were defying the authority of
the one who had honored them in their
promotion; it savored of Ingratitude.
After closely questioning them he gave
them another opportunity to consider
their position before consigning them
to the fire. His supreme mistake was
In the challenge he made to the God
of the Hebrews. He seems to have
forgotten entirely tjie confession he
had made with reference to God (2 :47).
(8) The courageous reply of the
L faithful Hebrews (w. 16-18).
They replied without passion or fear.
The peace of God rilled their hearts.
Their behavior is an expression of
triumphant faith. "We are not care
ful to answer thee In this matter. If it
he so, our God whom we strve is able
to deliver us from the burning fiery j
furnace, and he will deliver us out of '.
thine hand, O king. But if not, be
It known unto thee, O king, that we i
will not serve thy gods, nor worship !
the golden image. which thou hast set
up." They courageously showed their r
contempt for death. They were not i
afraid to dte but were afraid to sin
against God. They knew that to bow
down before this Image was to disobey
and dishonor tGod. While they did not
know what God would do, in the prem
ises they knew that he would do the
right thing. Tl;ese Hebrews were far
away from home, exposed to the most
severe temptation, but they saw their
duty clearly set before them. God's
law plainly settled It for them. They
did not try to find an excuse to evade
their duty, and seeing the way clearly
they acted accordingly.
III. The Glorious Issue (w. 19-30).
(1) The harmless furnace (vv. 19-25).
The Infuriated king ordered the heat
of the furnace to be intensified, his
most mighty, men to bind the Hebrews
and fling them into the fire. Though
the heat was so Intense that the sol
diers who cast them Into the furnace
were slain, the Hebrews were seen
walking loose in the fire without any
hurt. Equally astounding was the fact
that a fourth one was seen with them.
(2) The convinced king (w. 26-28).
The spectacle was so wonderful that
the king called the Hebrews together
out of the fire. They came forth un
harmed, for the fire had no power over
their bodies; not even a hair of their
heads was singed, their coats changed,
nor the smell of fire upon them (v. 27).
(3) The king's decree (v. 29).
This was most foolish and wicked.
Even a king has no right to kill people
for not worshiping God.
(4) Promotion of the Hebrews (v.
30).
Their fidelity in this trying ordeal
resulted in their promotion instead of
downfall. May we learn from this that :
(a) God alone is Lord of the con
science. One's faith and worship
should be determined by the Individual
before his God. No church, king or
ruler has a right to Interfere.
(b) We should meet religious intol
erance by being obedient to God rather
than man.
(c) God will support those who are
faithful.
(d) We should prepare for fiery
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