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Miss Cullen, I want thowe letters. ' "What letters?" she asked, looking me in the eye with tho most innocent f expressions. Sho made a mistake to lo that, for ; I, knew her innocence was feigned and so didn't put much faith in her face for the rest of the interview. "And what is more," I said, with a firmness of manner about as genuine as her innocence, " unless you will produce them I ehall have to search you, " "Vr. Gordon!" she exclaimed. But she put BTK'h surprise and grief and disbelief into the four syllables that I wanted the earth to swallow ma then and there. "Why, Miss Cullen," I cried, "look at my position. I'm being paid to do certain things, and" "But that needn't prevent your being a gentleman," she interrupted. That made me almost desperate. "Miss Cullen," I said hurriedly, "I'd rather bo burned alive than do what I've got to, but if you won't give me those letters search you I must. " "But how can I give you what I haven't?" she cried indignantly, assuming again her innocent expression. ' ' Will you ive me your word of honor that those letters are not concealed in your clothes?" "I will," she said. I was very much taken aback, for it would have been so easy for Miss Cullen to have said that before tWt I had become convinced she must have them. "And do you give me your word?" "I do," she affirmed. But she didn't look me in the face as she said it. I ought to have been satisfied, but I wasn't, for in spite of her denial something forced me still to believe she had I Miss Cullen was sitting on o rock, them, and, looking back now, I think it was her manner. I stood reflecting for a minute and then said, "Please stay where you are for a moment. " Leaving her, I went over to Fred. "Mr. Cullen," I said, "Miss Cullen, rather than be searched, has acknowlWlged that she has the letters and says j that if we men will go into the hut , she'll get them for me. " He rose at once. "I told my father ; not to drag her in," he muttered sadly. , "I don't care about myself, Mr. Gordon, but can't you keep her out of it? She's , as Innocent of any real wrong as the j dar she was born. " "I'll do everything" in my power," I promised. Then he and Hance went into the cabin, and I walked back to the culprit. "Miss Cullen," I said gravely, "you have those letters and must give them tome." "But I told you" she began. To spare her a second untruth I inters ruptod her by saying, "I trapped your brother into acknowledging that you have them." "You must have misunderstood ! him," she said calmly, "or else he didn't know that the arrangement was changed." Her steadiness rather shook my conviction, but I said"Yon must give me those letters or I must search you." You never would!" she cried, rising end looking me in the face. On impulse I tried a big bluff. I took hold of the lapel of her waist, intending to undo one button. I let go in fright when I found there was no button only nu awful complication of hooks or some other feminine method for keeping things together and I grew red and trembled, thinking what might have happened had I, by bad luck, made anything come undone. If Miss Cullen had been noticing me, she would have seen a terribly scared man. But she wasn't, luckily, for the moment my hand touched her, and before she could realize that I snatched it away, she collapsed on the rock and burst into tears. "Oh, oh!" she sobbed. "I bogged papa not to, but he insisted, they were safest with me. I'll give them to you if you'll only go away and not' ' Her tears inade her inarticulate, and, without waiting for more, I ran into the hut, feeling as near like a murderer as a guiltless man could. Lord Ralles was swearing over his trousers by this time and was offering the cowboy and Hance money to recover thm. When they told him this was impossible, he tried to get them to sell or hire a pair, but they didn't like the idea of riding into camp minus those esseitt ials any better than ho did. While I waited they settled the difficulty by strapping a blanket round him, and, by splitting ifc up the middle "and using plenty of cord, they rigged him out after a fashio. Jmt I think if he could have seen himself lie would have waited till it was dark enough to creep into camp unnoticed. Before long . Miss Cullen called, and when I went to her she handed me, without a word, three letters. As" she did so sho crimsoned "violently and looked down in her mortification. I was so rorry for her that, though a moment before I had been judging her harshly, I now couldn't help saying: "Our positions have been so difficult, Miss Cullen. that I Qsm't think we either

rt uS are quite respoimDie ior our actions." She said nothing, and, after a pause, I continued: "I hope you'll think a leniently of my conduct as you can, for I can't tell you how grieved I am to have pained you." Cullen joined ns at this point, and knowing that every moment we remained would bo distressing to his sister I said we would start up the trail. I hadn't the heart to offer to help her mount, and after Frederic has put her up we fell in to. single file behind Hance, Lord Ralles coming last. As soon as we were started I took a look at the three letters. They were all addressed to Theodore K. Camp, Esq., Ash Forks, A. T., one of the directors of the K. and A. and also of the Great Southern. For the first time things began to clear up to me. When the trail broadened enough to permit it, I pushed my mule up alongside of Cullen and asked: "The letters contain proxies for the K. and A. election next Friday?" He nodded his head. "The Missouri Western and the Great Southern are fighting for control," he explained, "and we should have won but for three blocks of eastern stock that had promJ told the sheriff that I had recovered the lost property. ised their proxies to the G. S. Rather than lose the fight we arranged to learn when those proxies were mailed that was what kept me behind and then to hold up the train that carried them. " "Was it worth the risk?" I asked. "If we had succeeded, yes. My father had put more than was safe into Missouri Western and into California Central. The G. S. wants control to end the traffic agreements, and that means bankruptcy to my father. " I nodded, seeing it all as clear as day and hardly blaming the Cullens for ' what they had done, for any one who has had dealings with the G. S. is driv en to pretty desperate methods to keep from being crushed. And when one is ; fighting an antagonist that won't regard the law, or rather one that, through control of legislatures and judges, makes , the law to suit its needs, the temptation : is strong to use the same weapons oneself. "The toughest part of it is," Fred went on, "that we thought we had the whole thing 'hands down,' and that was what made my father go in so deep. Only the death of one of the M. W. directors, who held 8, 000 shares of K. and A., got us in this hole, for the G. S. put up a relative to contest the will, and so delayed the obtaining of letters of administration, blocking his executors from giving a proxy. It was as mean a trick as ever was played." "The G. S. is a tough customer to fight," I said, and I asked, "Why didn't yon burn the letters?" really wishing they had done so. "We feared duplicate proxies might get through in time and thought that by keeping these we might cook up a question as to which were legal, and then by injunction prevent the use of either." "And those Englishmen," I asked, "are they real?" "Oh, certainly," he said. "They were visiting my brother and thought the whole thing great larks. " Then he told me how the thing had been done. They had sent Miss Cullen to my car so as to get me out of the way, though she hadn't known it. Then he and his brother got off the train at the last stop, with the guns and masks, and concealed themselves on the platform of the mail car. Here they had been joined by the Britishers at the right moment, the dis guises assumed, and the train held up, as already told. Of course the dynamite cartridge was only a blind, and the let ters Juki been tnrown about tne car merely to confuse the clerk. Then, while Frederic Cullen, with the letters, had stolen back to the car the two Englishmen had crept back to where they had stood. Here, as had been arranged, they opened fire, which Albert Cullen duly returned, and tr-?n joined them. ; "I don't see now hjw you .spotted us," Frederic ended. I told him. and his disgust was amusing to 'see. "Going to Oxford maybe all right for the classics," he growled, "but it's destructive to gumption." We rode into camp a pretty gloomy crowd, and those of the party waiting for us there were not much better. But when Lord RaUes dismounted and showed up in his substitute for trousers there was a general shout of laughter. Even Miss Cullen had to laugh for a moment. And as his lordship bolted for his tent I said to myself, "Honors are even. I told the sheriff that I had recovered the lost property, but did not think any arrests uccosary as yet. And as he was the agent cf the K. & A. at Flagstaff he didn't question my opinion. I ordered the stage out and told Tolfree to give us a feed before we started. But a more silent meal I never sat down to, and I noticed that Miss Cullen didn't eat anything, while the tragic; look on her face

was so pat hetio as; nearly to orive me frantic. We started a- littl after 5 and were clear of the timber before it was too dark tos. At the relay station we waited an hour for4he moon, after which it was a clear track. We reached the half way ranch about 1 1, and while changing the stage horses I roused Mr. Klostermeyer and succeeded in getting enough cold mutton and brad to make two rather decent looking sandwiches. With thesand a glas of whisky and water, went to the stage, to find Miss Gallon curled up on the scat asleep, her head renting in her brother's arms.

"She has nearly worried horself tc death ever since you told her that road agent3 were hung, ' Frederic whispered, "and she's been crying tonight ever that lie she told, you, and, altogether, she's worn out with travel and excitement." I screwed the cover on the traveling glass and put it with the sandwiches in the bottom of the stage. "It's a long and a rough ride," I said, "and if the wakes up they may give her a little strength. I only wish I could have spared her the fatigue and anxiety." "She thought she had to lie for father's sake, but she's nearly broken hearted over it," he continued. I looked Frederic in the face and said, "I honor her for it," and in that moment lie and I became friends. "Just sec how pretty she is!" he said, with evident affection and pride, turning back the flap of the rug in which she was wrapped. She was breathing gently, and there was just that touch of weariness and j sadness in her face that would appeal tc j any man. It made me gulp, I m proud to say. And when I was back on my pony, I said to myself, "For her sake, I'll pull the Cullens out of this scrape if it costs me my position." CHAPTER VII. A CHANGE OF BASE. We did not reach Flagstaff till 7, and I told the stageload to take possession of their car, while I went to my own. It took me some time to get freshened up, and then I ate my brcsakf ast, for after riding 72. miles in one night even the most heroic purposes have to take the side track. I think, as it was, I prove my devotion pretty well by not going tc sleep, since I had been up three nights, with only such naps as I could steal in the saddle, and had ridden over 150 miles to boot. But I couldn't bear to think of Miss Cullen's anxiety. When I had finished eating, I went into 218. The party were all in the dining room, but it was a very different looking crowd from the one with which that first breakfast had been eaten, anc they all looked at me as I entered as i: I were the executioner come for victims. "Mr. Cullen," I said, "I've been forced to do a lot of things that weren'l pleasant, but I don't want to do more than I need. You're not the ordinary kind of road agents, and, as I presume your address is known, I don't see any need of arresting one of our own directors as yet. All I as(k is that you give me your word for the party that none oi you will try to leave the country." "Certainly, Mr. Gordon," he re sponded. "And I thank you for youi j great consideration. " J "I shall have to report the case to oui i president, and I suppose to the postmas ter general, but I shan't hurry about either. What they will do I can't say. Probably you know how far you can keep them quiet." "I think, the local authorities are all I have to fear, provided time is given me." "I have dismissed the sheriff and hi posses and I gave them $100 for their work and three bottles of pretty good whisky I had on my car. Unless they get orders from elsewhere, you will not hear any further from them." "You must let me reimburse what expense we have put you to, Mr. Gordon. I only wish I could as easily repay your kindness. " Nodding my head in assent as well as in recognition of his thanks, I continued, "It was my duty as an official of the K. & A. to recover the stolen mail, and I had to do it." "We understand that," said Mr. Cul len, "and do not for a moment blame i you." "But," I went on, for the first time looking at Madge, "it is not my duty to take part in a contest for control of the K. & A., and I shall therefore act in this case as I should in any other loss of mail." "And that is" asked Frederic. "I am about to telegraph for instructions from Washington," I said. "As the G. S. has tied up some of your proxies, they ought not to object if we do the same, and I think I can manage so that Uncle Sam will prevent those proxies from being voted at Ash Forks on Friday." If a galvanic battery had been applied to the breakfast table, it wouldn't have made a bigger change. Madge clapped her hands in joy. Mr. Cullen said "God bless yon!" with real feeling. Frederic jumped up and slapped me on the shoulder, crying, "Gordon, you're the biggest old trump breathing, " while Albert and the captain shook hands with each other in evident jubilation. Only Lord Ralles remained passive. "Have yon breakfasted?" asked Mr. Cullen when the first joy was over. "Yes," I said. "I only stopped in on my way to the station to telegraph." 'May I come with you and bee what you say?" cried Fred, jumping up. I nodded, and Miss Cullen said questioningly, "Me too?" making me very happy by the quesion, for it showed that she would speak to me. In a moment we were all walking toward the platform. . Despite Lord Ralles, I felt happy, and especially as I had not dreamed that she would ever forgive me. I took a telegraph blank, and. putting it so that Miss Cullen could see what I said, wrote: Postmaster General. Washington : I bold, awaiting your instructions, th thret, registered letters stolen from Xo. 3 Overland Missouri Western express on Monday, Oct. 14, loea of which has already been notified you. Then I paused and said: "So far, that's routine, Miss Cullen. Now comes the help for you. " And I continued: The letters may have been tampered with, and I recommend a special agent. Reply Flagstair, Arizona. Richard Gokoos, Superintended K. and A. K. B. "What will that do?" she asked. ' ' " "I'm not much at prophecy, and we'll wait for the reply, " I said. All that day we lay at Flagstaff, and after a good sleep, as there was no use keeping the party cooped up in their car, I drummed up some ponies and took the Cullens and Ackland over to the Indian cliff dwelling. I don't think Lord Ralles gained anything by staying behind in, a sulk, for it waa.a yery jolly

riae, or at Jeast tnat was wnac it, Man to me. I had to tell them all how I had settled on them as the criminals. To hear 3Iiss Cullen talk one would havo inferred I was the greatest of living detectives. "The mistake we made, " she said, "was not securing Mr. Gordon's help to begin with, for then wc should never have needed to hold the train up, or, if we had, we should never have been dieovcred." What was more to mo than this ill deserved admiration were two things hhi said on the way back when we two had paired off nnd were a bit behind the rest. "The sandwiches and the whisky were very seed, ' ' she told me. 'And I'm so grateful for the trouble you took." "It was a pleasure," I said. "And, Mr. Gordon," she continued, and then hesitated for a moment, "my Frederic told mo that ycu you said you honored me for" "I do," I exclaimed energetically as she paused and colored. "Do you really?" she cried. "I thought Fred was only trying to make me less unhappy by saying that you did" "I said it, and I meant it, " I told her. "I have been so miserable over that lie," she went on. "but I thought if I let you have the letters it would ruin papa. I really wouldn't mind poverty myself, Mr. (iordon, but he takes such pride in success that I couldn't be the one to do it. I ought to havo known you would help us. ' ' I thought this a pretty good time to make a real apology for my conduct on the trail as well as to tell her how sorry I was at not having been able to repack her bag better. She accepted my apology very sweetly and assured me her belongings had been put away so neatly that sho had wondered who did it. I

knew she only said this out of kindness and told her so, telling also of my struggles over that pink beribboned and bolaced affair in a way which made her laugh. I had thought it was a ball gown and wondered at her taking it to the canyon, but she explained that it was a dressing sack. That made me open my eyes, thinking that anything so pretty could be used for the same purposes for which I use my crash bath gown, and, while my eyes were open, I saw the folly of thinking that a girl who wore such things could ever get along on my salary. In that way the incident was a good lesson for me, for it made me feel that even if there had been no Lord Ralles I still should have had no chance. On our return to the cars there was a telegram from the postmaster general awaiting me. After a glance at it, as the rest of the party looked anxiously on, I passed it over to Miss Cullen, for I wanted her to have the triumph of reading it aloud. It said: Bold letters pending arrival of Special Agent Jackson, due in Flagstaff Oct. 2J. "The election is the 18th," Frederic laughed, executing a war dance on the platform. "The G. S.'s dough is cooked." "I must waltz with some one," cried Madge, and before I could offer she took hold of Albert and the two were whirling about, much to my envy. The Cullens were about the most jubilant road agents I had ever seen. After consultation with Mr. Cullen, we had 218 and 97 attached to No. J. when it arrived and started for Ash Forks. He wanted to be on the ground a day in advance, and I could easily be back in Flagstaff before the arrival of the special agent. I took dinner in 218, and they toasted me as if I had done something heroic irtead of merely having sent a teleThey toasted inc as if I had done something hirole. tram. Later four sat down to poker, while Miss Cullen, Fred and I sat on the platform, and Madge played on hei guitar and sang to us. She had a very sweet voice, and before she had been singing; long we had the crew of a "dust express" as we jokingly call a gravel train standing about, and they were speedily re-enforced by many cowboys, who left the saloons to listen tc her, and who, not being overcareful in the terms with which they expressed their approval, finally by their riotous admiration drove us inside. At Miss Cullen's sugeestion we three had a sec ond game of poker, but with chips and not money. She was an awfully reckless player, and the luck was dead in my favor, so Madge kept borrowing my chips till she was so deep in that we both lost account. Finally, when we parted fox the night, she held out her hand, and, in the prettiest of ways, said: "I am so deeply in your debt, Mr. Gordon, that I don't see how I can ever repay you." I tried to think of something worth saying,' but the words wouldn't come and I could only shake her hand. But, duffer as I was, the way she had said those words, and the double meaning she had given them, would have made me the happiest fellow alive if I could only have forgotten the existence oi Lord Ralles. CHAPTER Ylir. HOW DID THE SECRET LEAK OCT? I made up for my three nights lack of sleep by not waking the next morning till after 10. When I went to 2 IS, found only the chef, and he told me the party had gone for a ride. Since I could not talk to Madge, I went to work at my desk, for I had been rather neglecting my routine work. While I still wrote I heard horses hoofs, and, looking up, saw the Cullens returning. J went out on the platform to wish them good morning, arriving just in time tc see Lord Ralles help Miss Cullen out oi her saddle, and the way he did it, and the way he continued to hold her hand after she was down, while he said sometliipii to her. made . me .grit rax teeth

ani K?o. iue c;cer way. 2cne of the riders hail seen me, so I slipped into my car and wont t ack to work. Fred came in presently to see if I wis np yet aud to ask me to lunch, but I feltso miserable and downhearted that I made an excuse cf my lato breakfast for not joLi ing them. After luncheon Iho party in the othei special all aim out and walked np and down the plr.tforr?, the round rf thoii voices ar.d lacghtrr t :ily makir.g i:u feel the bluer. Before lorg I h ard a rap ou ono of iiy windows, and there wa Miss Cullen peering in at me. The moment I looked up she c:;Ecd: "Wcn't you mike one of us, Mr. Misanthrope?" I called myself r.ll scrts of a feci, but out I went as cajrf-rly j.s if there ha.1 been some hope. Mis Cuiicn bega'i tc tease iuc over my sudden r.crc- cf energy, declaring ihr.t sho was sure it was a po: fcr their Ix nofit, or else due to a guilty conscience over having slept sc late. "I hoTf d you would ride with ns, though perhaps it wouldn't have paid

you. Apparently there is not lung to sm: iu Ash FcrLs. ,! "There is somtthicg thr.t may interest yen all," I paid, pointing fe a special that had been dropped off No. 2 th:st morning. "What is it?" risked Madge. "It's a G. S. special." 1 said, "and Mr. Camp and Mr. Baldwin and twe G. S. officials came in ou it." "What do you think he'd give foi these letters?" laughed Fred. "If they were worth so much to you, I suppose i lie v can't Ic worth any lesf o the G. S.," I rcpli'.d. "Fortunately there is no way that he can learn v. hero they are," said Mr. Cullen. "Don't let's stand still." cried Miss Cullen. "Mr. Gordon, I'll run you a race to the end of the platform." She said this only after getting a big lead, and she got there about eight inches ahead of me, which pleased her mightily. "It takeo men so long to get started," was the w;ay she explained her victory. Then sh walked me beyond the end of the boarding to explain the workings of a switch to her. That it was Ciily a pretext sho proved to me the moment I had relocked the bar by saying: "Mr. Gordon, may I ask you a quesion 9" "Certainly," I assented. "It is one J should ask papa or Fred, but I am afraid they might not tell me the truth. You will, won't you?" she Legged very earnestly. "I will." said I. "Supposing," she continued, "that it became known that you have those letters? Would it do our side any harm?" I thought for a moment and then shook my head. "No new proxies could arrive here in time for the election, " I said, "and the ones I have will not be voted." She still looked doubtful and asked, "Then why did papa say just now, 'Fortunately?' " "He merely meant that it was safer they shouldn't know." "Then it is better to keep it a secret?" ghe asked anxiously. "I suppose so, " I said, and then added, "Why should you be afraid of asking your father?" "Because he might well, if he knew, I'm sure he would sacrifice himself, and I couldn't run the risk." "I am afraid I don't understand?" I questioned. "I would rather not explain," she said, and of course that ended the subject. Our exercise taken, we went back to the Cullens car and Madge left us to write some letters. A moment later Lord Ralles remembered he had not written home recently, and he, too, went forward to the dining room. That made me call myself something, for not having offered Miss Cullen the use of my desk in 97. Owing to this the two missed part of the big game we were playing, for barely were they gone when one of the servants brought a card to Mr. Cullen, who looked at it and exclaimed, "Mr. Camp!" Then, after a speaking pause, in which we all exchanged glances, he said, "Bring him in. " On Mr. Camp's entrance he looked as much surprised as we had all done a moment before. "I beg your pardon for intruding, Mr. Cullen," he said. "I was told that this was Mr. Gordon's car, and I wish to see him." , "I am Mr. Gordon." "You are traveling with Mr. Cullen?" he inquired, with a touch of suspicion in his manner. "No," I answered. "My special is the next car, and I was merely enjoying a cigar here. " "Ah!" said Mr. Camp. "Then I won't interrupt your smoke, and will only relieve you of those letters of mine. ' ' I took a good pull at my cigar and blew the smoke out in a cloud slowly to gain time. "I don't think I follow you," I said. "I understand that you have in your possession three letters addressed to me." "I have." I assented. This is a than

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" ihen l v. i.i yoa to deliver them to me. " "I can't do that." "Why not?" hcchallengHL "They're my property. " I produced tho postmaster general's telegram and read it to him. "Why. this U irfauioas!" Mr. Camp cried. "What use will t!xo letters l after the 20th? It's a conspiracy." "I can only olry instructions," I said. "It shall test you your position if you do," Mr. Camp thn r.teued. As I've already said, I k;-vent a good tertper, twA vr! ri !v tcld lue that I roulil.i't hel. n;.rti:vr: "That's quite on u par wi:h most G. S. methods." "I'm nor ;;Ai.g for the G. S.. ycung m." said Mr. (-;;:p. "I speak as a direrter cf the Ksrt and Arizona. What is nitre, I will have those letters inside of 24 hours." He made an angry exit, ami I said to Fred: "I wih you wt.uid stroll about and soy out the proceedings cf the enemy's camp. He may telegraph to Washington, and i there's any chance of tho postmaster general revoking his crtlor I mutt go back to Flagsta'T on No. 4 this afternoon." "Ho shan't do .-mythiug that I den't know al cut till he goes to bed, " Frvd promised. "But how thv deuce did he know thzt ycu had those letters?" That was just what we wen? all puzzling over, ierelythe e-cenpantsof No. 218 and luysel?, sr far as I knew, were in a position to let Mr. Camp hear of that fact. As Fred made hi. crit he said, "Don't toll -Madge that there is a new complication, for the de;ur girl lias had worries enough already." Miss Cullen not rejoining us, and Lord Ralles presently doing so, I went to my own car, for he and I were not good furniture for tho same room. Before I had been there long Fred came rushing in. "Camp and Baldwin have been in consultation with a lawyer," he said "and now the three have just boarded those cars, " pointing out the window at the branch line train that was to leave for Pheuix in two minutes. "You must go with them, I urged, "and keep us iiifcrmed as to what they do, for they evidently are going to set the law on us, and the G. S. has always owned the territorial judges, so they'll stretch a point to oblige them." "Have I time to fill a bag?" "Plenty," I answered him, and, going out, I ordered the train held till I should give the word. "What does it all mean?" asked Miss Cullen, joining me, ' I laughed and replied, "I'm holding np a train all by my lonesome. " "But my brother came dashing in just now and said he was starting for Phenix." "Let her go," I called to the conductor, as Fred jumped aboard, and the train pulled out.

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