THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, NOVEMBER 24, 1900.

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vent, rubbing a d rimmed eyes ming a cavalry her, a stocky,

bim.”’ And at the mo! pair of bleary, sleepy, r with ene band and butt sack coat with the o' heavily built man of about 85 came furching down the aisle. Briefly the conductor told his suspicions and asked bat help he could have in case of trouble. The cavalryman was evidently a trifle hard to rouse. le seemed slow ef comprehension. He pondered a bit, looking dumbly from the conductor to the porter, with eyes that did not clear gs rapid’y as they should have done. At last he said:

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Following the cond meandered up the aisle was swaying Violently bad reachee the and was rashing down the westward slope at a speed that became swifter every moment. The lisutenant stopped

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at his berth wnd ruminaged under a '

villow. ‘“‘You’re not getting a gun now?’’

whispered the conductor warningly. ‘‘No, only a pocket pistol,’’

answer as tho blue blouse straightened |

up and preduced a half filled flask.

“IT wish your men, those recruits, had arms,’’ muttered tae conductor as they went on again. Then he held upa warning hand. They were just squeez- fog through the narrow passage between the smoking compartmeat and the side of the car. ‘‘ Wait till I see what he’s doing,’’ said Jarvis and disappeared around the corner. Preseatly he beckon- ed, and, flask in hand, the lieutenant followed on, giancipg casually at the dim form near the window, stepped to the washstand and found a tumbier, half filled it with liquor and proffered it to the condnctor, who shook bis head. The soldier poured in a little water and swallowed it all at a gulp.

**Now,’’ said he, ‘‘lot’s have a look at your man.”’

The conductor stepped inside the smoker, feigning to try to decipher the writing on a card ke beld in bis hana, but, as though the lighs were too dini, reached up and turned higher the flame, brightly illnminating the little co partment in a moment. Gray may have been dozing. He glanced quickly up, as though startled, and hia eyes met those of the stout mau in cavalry uniform. For a moment they looked ateach other searchingly and without a word. A flush as of surprise ani ann<yvance be- gan to mount to civilian’s face; a flush that was not of surprise was al- ready manifest on that of the sc«ldier. The conductor glanced from one to the other as thongh about to speak,

Suddenly the night was rent by one sharp, quick, almost agonized shriek from the engine far abead. Suddenly, so suddenly that it almost hurled Jarvis and the lientenant off their feet, the airbrakes gripped like a vise, the waiz- zing wheels instantly checking their Way, the smooth, swift motion changed toa jerky, grinding, straining series of bumps. . Jarvis, turning white as a sheet, sprang to the door the instamt be could recover balance. For six er eight seconds the Pullmam went thumping ahead, slower and slower every second, yest still at langerous speed. Them came & thunderous shook and crash. Gray, whose feet were on tho epposite seat, doubled up like a jaesknife, hix nose and knees jammed tovether, the back seat clamped tight against that in front. The lieutenant shot forward out of sight and was overheard fetching up witha

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groans. The big car recoiled some 30 or 40 yards, then came to a standstill, and | Mr. Gray, scrambling out from the | smoking compartment, nearly stumbled over the prostrate officer, who was slow- ly finding hisfeet. But, following some half articulate cry for help, Gray darted through the narrow passageway the curtained aisle, now rapidly filling

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beygared description. The cavairy ser- geant felt an access of envious respect Lieutenant Rawson in-

| vited both to have a drink, and this

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time it was accepted. It was a five mile stretch up to the

| Gap, and much more than that back to

Bowlder, but news of the mishap had lt was then that Gray’s shabby tramp had

| come to the fore. He had been warmed,

fed and rested as he had not been for a week. He was used to walking, he said,

| and offered to carry the conductor’s pen- | ciled dispatch. It should have been sent by a brakeman of the freight, but both

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; ed, some of them bleeding from con- | tusions, all of them shaken and scared, ard slowly sliding out of the nearest | berth came a blue robed, slender, sense- | less form—that of the soft voiced occu- ; pant who an hour earlier had impor. | tuned him for water. In an instant | Gray stooped, raised her in his arms, | bore her through the passage, nearly | capsizing the lieutenant the second ' time, laid her flat upon the long seat in ; the smoker and applied bis fine cam- bric handkerchief to a gash in tha left temple, from which the blood was ooz- | ing.

CHAPTER IV. A melancholy scene of wreck and dis- | aster was that which greeted the eyes | of Mr. Gray when perhaps half an hour

made his way forward. Through some | strange neglect of telegraphic orders ; from Butte the conductor and engineer | of No. 12 had not been biddc: to side | track at Thunder Gap, but had been sent spinning on their way down grade five miles to Alkali Flats, where the road crossed tothe northeast, and bezan to climb over the divide to Bowlder Creek, and right here, at the end of a straightaway mile of track, the hoad- light of the Pacific express flashed into view. Each engineer sighted the glar- ing eye of the other's steed at the same instant. Kack sounded bis warning cry. Each instantly reversed his lever, reck- less of cylinder heads. Long had vainly sprung the airbrake, and No. 12’s brake- men had spun their iron wheels for all they were worth, but still, with the fearful momentum of their down grade rush, the two trains dashed at each other like maddened buils, and engineer and firemen, having done all that mor- tal men could do, jumped for their lives a second or two before the orash. The lighter train of the two, the express, had so far slackened speed that Long and his fireman, landing and rolling in the soft sand, were but slightly hurt. The engineer of the freight, however, waa tumbled heels over head and then knocked senseless by a flying splinter. The fireman had only just been found as Gray reached the point where the $wo engines, locked deep in each other’s embrace, stood welded together, a tan- gled mass of metal. The whistle of one of them, dislocated by the shock, was emitting a low, mosuing sound, as of some huge beast in agony. The tender of the express had telescoped half its ‘length throvgh the mail car and the postal clerk had heen hauled from un- der a confused heap of coal and mail sacks. Tbe mail car in turn had emash- ed in the front of the express, and this, forced flat against the front of the bayg- gage car, left the messenger a helpless | prisoner within his own premises, un-

able to open even a side door. How the baggage mam escaped death he never could tell. He and his trunks were ' hurled to the front end of the car, all in a heap, yet, barring damages to cloth- ing and cuticle, he was little ts worse for the adventure. Then came the car- load of recruits. Hardly a man of ‘their number had a whole skin left. The seats were wrenched loose, the widows were shattered. The smoker, too, was a sight. Its few occupants bad been hurled about promiseuously and were still swearing when Gray got to the front.

People in the day ccach were less damaged, but equally dazed, and in the two Pullmans consternation reigned su- preme. The excursionists were all sound asleep up to the instant of im- pact, and those in the upper berths had been tumbled intc the aisle and all the -carload violently shaken. But in the forward Pullman the actual damage was greater. The porter was groaning with a twisted back. Two of the men were badly wrencied. Liecatenant Raw- son had a bump as big as a grapesDot on the side of his head. Mrs. Mainwar- ing, though uninjured, was so terrified as to be worse than helpless, and as for the fair girl with her, she had happenea to be awake, had lifted herself on her elbow at the shriek of the whistle, fear- ful of ill, and almost instantly had been dashed against the edge of the seat and cruelly stunned. Of the freight train, the six cars immediately behind the en- gine were crushed to fragments, and the fragments hurled far and wide. It was from under a heap of these they lugged the fireman as Gray appeared. This summed up the damage to person and € material, but net to nerves, tempers or records for piety. The language of Mr. Jarvis and his friend of the freight train

were lamed and badly bruised. Jarvis looked more than uncertain at first, but finally gave the man the important pa- per. Twenty minutes later the two cowboys, despite bangs and bruises, de- clared that they, too, would ‘‘hoof it,’’ and pushed ahead through the pallid dawn. Gray, silent and observant, ap- peared just as they departed and found

| the lieutenant, the two conductors and

the cavalry sergeant ina quadrangular council. At sight of the newcomer Jar- vis cautioned silence and dissolved the meeting.

The girl whom Gray had so promptly

| and tenderly cared for had recovered

later he stepped from the platform and |

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consciousness within five minutes. Sbe looked up, dazed and startled, into the strange face bending over her, and then almost instantly asked for Mrs. Main- Waring.

**She is unhurt,’’ said Gray quietly. ‘Don’t worry. You have quitea bruise here on the side of your head. Please lie still until I check the bleeding. Mrs.

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the other car. Another had come to aid Gray, bat, seeing how deftly he bathed aud stanched the wound, she confined her ‘attentions to wetting towels and passing them to the strange gentleman. So skillful were his ministrations that the young lady presently deslared her- self able to sit up and walk and insist-

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arin, was taken ‘to her friend. Gray left her there, slipped quietly away and came forth, his heart beating with odd emotion,

The next thing he found to do was to he!n straighten out the fireman of the freinht, who was shaking like an aspen, tely demovalized and almost ervy- ing. He, too, had struck soft sand when be leaped from the train, but after a

mezsaalt or two had been buried u: :vvalanche of splintered boar?

Gist’ vated from the roofs, sides and of the shattered cars. The heavy trucks, wheels and beams fortu- nately had uot been hurled more th-- a dozen yards from the track, but ki- cling wood in distracting quantities baa been s)owered far and near. The hand- some silver topped’ fiask, so admired by the sergeant at the Junction, was promptly produced, and the fireman took a long, long pull. Then Gray be thought him of his tramp. The recruits aud passengers, mingling in a confused knot with the damaged men, were still grouped about the wreck, some detail- ing persenal impressions and experi- ences, some noisy and nervous, others

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| silent less t j Midserentik will un tach iva mccsent.”* | silent and doubtless thankful for their

escape, others still thinking only of the injured. Of these latter was Gray, at

alii a . ot as a whom the conductor was scowling sus- 8Aing and crying by turns, a .. | piciously the while and saying some-

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**Do you know what became of thai poor fellow we picked up at Willis Springs?’’ asked Gray of the brakeiwen, who was ruefully contemplatin« ruined lantern. The man looked un in stantly, but instead of an=wering turned and glanced significantiy at the con duotor.

“If you want him,"’ said the latter coolly, ‘‘you’ll have to follow the trac’: five miles or more, Perhaps vou ku: the two that went after bim. Birds v a feather, I take '*—bound for the and a spree on wiuat’s left of that $1) bill,’’

‘I’m very glad to hear he isn’t hurt,’’ said Gray. ‘‘You’ve sent for help, i prosume?”

“i've sent a message by that tramp friend oz yours, if that’s what yor None of my crew or the freig!t | gould walk a mile.’’

All this time Lieutenant Rawson stood aloof, his forage cap pulled down over his brows, intently eying the stylishly dressed man in tweeds. Grey became conscious of the scrutiny, and it anneyed him. Of the passengers iu the day coach none were men whom he would have been at all likely to meet on equal terms in his past. Among those of the forward sleeper only two or three appeared to be men of educa- tion or social standing, and they were nursing their bruises back in the lava- tory. The young fellows of the rear Pullman were laughipg and chatting noisily together as they rammaged about the wreck. The officer was the cne mau eboard the train whom ordinarily Gra) would have felt inclined to addaress. But while the uniform and the aszar- ance of at least.a certain social stauc- ing on the part cf its wearer attraci.:! him there was that in Rawson's fac:

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and wasa trifis bloated, that the eyes were somewhat dull and clouded, but in them Gray read unerringly an ex- pression of distrust, even of hostility, and the pugnacious in him was aroused at once.

All of a sudden he recalled that the porter had told him Mrs. Mainwaring was an army lady; so, doubtless, was the young lacy wity her. Very possibly the lieutenant was their escort, and the escort was wrathful over bis usurpation of an escort’s functions, so far as the dameel was concerned. Gray cou!d not remember the officer’s busying himsclf im any way to aid Nrs. Mainwerin,:. True, be was still balf stunned and was bathing his bruises, while Gray was car- ing for the very attractive if sumewhat disheveled girl in the pale blue wrap- per. Something in the contemplation of his Joneliuess and isolation during the earlier night—a man without a home, the would be sharer of the fireman’s seat, the companion of the rude sol- diery, the aider and abettor of tramps— and the exaltation of his present tickled his sense of the humorous. Had he net won the gratitude, the almost effusive thanks, of Mrs. Mainwgying, the elo- quent, if silent, recogn fen of a very pretty girl and now the undoubted jeal- ousy and dislike of an army officer? ‘‘There’s some fun left in life, even now,’’ was his grim comment, as he calmly studied Rawson's reddening face, gazing speculatively into the lat- ter’s shifting eyes until uneasily they turned away.

The gray dawn was sheeting the slopes about them, and farther to the west the mountain tops loomed, dim, pallid and white with snow. Fine, soft flakes were sifting down even here, and Long’s prediction was being verified. That faithful soldier of hia country and **the road’’ was now stretched on the flat of his back on the floor of the bag- gage car, with sone car seats for mat- tress, pluckily stifling the moan of pain that would bave forced itself through his set teeth. To him came the younger soldier, the sergeant, full of sympathy.

**You’re badly shaken, Mr. Long. Wouldn’t a little whisky help you?’ said he, the cavalry cure all of the old days most naturally suggesting itself.

“I don’t know but what it would,”’ groaned the engineer. ‘The lieutenant has some, hasn't he?’’

‘*Yes, he bas,’’ was the balf hesitant reply. Then the freemasonry of the craft seemed to show in the look that followed, half comical, half confiding, but all significant. ‘‘But—he ain’t the sort of man I’d ask for anything. *Tain’t like as if it was Captain Ray or Blake or Truscott or any of them was here, you know. But—I can find you some all right.’’

And, jumping from the car, Sergeant Kearney went straight to Mr. Gray. ‘*Our engineer, sir,’’ said he, ‘‘is badby stove up. Could you oblige me with a little whisky?’

‘*‘Certainly,’’ said Gray, going down into his pocket and fishing up the silver topped flask. ‘‘Give him a good swig, and, sergeant, help yourself.’’

The sergeant grinued, thanked him, hurried back to his uew friend and gave bim what he called an houest cay- alry four fingers.

**God!’’ said Long, smacking bis lips, his eyes snapping. ‘‘Tuat was an old timer.’’ Then as the potent liqucr, long a stranger to bis once case hardened sys- tem, began glowingly to assert itself he blinked his gratitude and looked admir- tagly at the handsome flask. ‘‘That’s a swell stopper you’ve got to that canteen, sergeant. Where'd you capture it?’’

‘**Tall young fellow in the first sleep- er. Seems to have money and whisky, cigars and good nature, till you can’t rest,’’ said Kearney in the vernacular of the day, surprised at Long’s sudden interest. The engineer braced himself up on an elbow, ali eagerness.

‘*Svaooth face, with light mustache, regular six footer, slim, broad shoulder- ed, traveling cap and big ulster?’’

‘*That’s the feller. Treated half my squad to pie and coffee back there at the Junction. No end of a swell, I— Why, what's amise? Say, I wouldn’t take an- other drink just now, would you?’’ he broke cf anxiously, for Long was reach- ing for the flask.

‘*T] want to sce tke monozram, or whatever you cali it, on that silver stop- per. D’ee know what I think of that feller? He’s first cousin or twin brother to the foxiest gang of bank and train robhers in the whole country, and if we hadn’t run over orrun our nose slap into No. 12 night here at Alkali Flats I’m betting my bottom dollar we’d have found bis gang waitipg for us back of Thunder Gap.’’

Kearney drew back, startled. Long had seized the fiask and was studying the stopper with keen intevest. No won- der he couldn’t decipher it. There was no monogram. instead there was a queer shaped slicid with diagonal lines and odd little figures, like tiny leaves, cut on the surface, and above it was the paw of an animal grasping a dagger, and there was 4 scroll with some words in a foreign tongue, Long knew not what. He searched the cup of silver that fitted om the base, but that was smooth and polished. The red Russia leather covering also bore no mark.

‘That don’t look like a train robber,’’ said Kearney, pointing to the device en the top of the stopper. ‘‘Ain’t that what you call @ coat of arms, or somé- thine?’ | :

(To be Continued.)

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