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The Huron Expositor, 1922-03-17, Page 7MARCH 17,1 • by Richard Harding Davis engines, *ming hag trains of o1P aqsty rolled and locked on the 'gestagen surface of the ggrsound, and swung around corners with'owning screech- es pf their Whittles: "They could see, on peaks outl utg1net the sky, the sinal -p n e wetting their red Sage and thsn plunging down the mount- taia-ride out of danger, as the eragth 'rambled and shook and vomited a iYioel^sr of stone's*rub the es* bot air. a (ddq nPel stl elf, y p the ' it elsmeds Iw scattered over as ,unlimited extent witty no bead nor direction, and with each man, or each ;'roup of men, working alone, like ragpickers on hemp of ashes. After the And half-hour of curios interest ?dies Larghapz adtgitited to herself *that .s e wale des rated. 'Slee confessed she heed hoped that 'Olay would explain the meaning of the mire to thee, end stetayrher escort over ''the mouutaine .wbichhei wale bloating into pleees. But tt was, King,. some at bored by the ceaseless noise and iaeat, and' her brother, incoherently enthusiastic, who node at her side, whjlle Clay moved on in advance and seemed to have forgotten her existence, - She watched him pointing up at the openings in the mountains and down et the ore -road, or stooping to pick up a piece of ore from the ground in cowboy fashion, without leaving his saddle, and pounding it on the m - mel 'before he passed it to the others, And, again, he would stand for min- utes at a time up to his boot tops in the sliding waste, with this bridle rein over his arm and his thumbs in his belt, listening to what his lieu- tenants were saying, and glancing •quiokly from them to Mr. Langham to see if he were following the technicalities of their sjieech. All of the men who had welcomed the ape pearance of the women on their ar- rival with such obvious delight and with so much embarrassment seem- ed now as oblivious of their presence es Clay himself. Miss Langham pushed her horse up into the group beside Hope, who had kept her pony close at Clay's side from the beginning; but she could not make out what it was they were saying, and no one seemed to think it necessary to explain. She caught ('lay's eye at last and smiled bright- ly at him; but after staring at her for fully a minute, until Kirkland had -finished speaking, she heard him say, "Yes, that's it exactly; in open - face workings there is no other way." and so showed her that he had not been even conscious of her presence. But a few minutes later he saw him look up at Hope, folding his arms across his chest tightly and shaking his head. "You see it was the only thing to do," she heard him say, as though he were defending some course of action, and as though Hope were one of those who must be con- vinced. "If we had cut the opening on the first level, there was the dan- ger of the whole thing sinking in, so we had to begin to clear away at the+top and work down. That's why I ordered the bucket -trolley. As it turned out, we saved money by it." tHope nodded her head slightly. "That's what I told father when Ted wrote us about it," she said; "but you haven't done it at Mount Washing - con." "Oh, but it's like this, Miss—" Kirkland replied, eagerly. "It's -be- cfouse Washington is a soldier foun- dation. We can cut openings all over 'it and they won't cave,\ but this hill • is most all rubbish; it's the poorest stuff in the mines." Hope nodded her head again and crowded her pony on after the mov- ing group, but her sister and King did not follow. King looked at her 'and smiled. "Hope is very enthusi- astic," he said. "Where did she pick it up?" "Oh, she and father used to go over it in his study last winter after Ted came down here," Miss Langham answered, with a touch of impatience in her tone. "Isn't there some place where we can go to get out of this heat?" Weimer, the Consul, heard her and led . her back to Kirkland's bungalow, that hung like an eagle's nest from a projecting cliff. From its porch they could look down the valley over the greater part of the mines, and beyond to where the Caribbean Sea lay flashing in the heat. "I saw very few Americans down .there, Weimer," said King. "L thought Clay had imported a lot of them." "About three hundred altogether, wild Irishmen and negroes," said the Consul; "but we use the native sol- diers chiefly. They can stand the climate better, and, besides," he ad- ded, "they act as a reserve in case of trouble. They are Mendoza's men and Clay is trying to win them away from 'him." "I don't understand," said King, Weimer looked around him and Waited until Kirkland's servant had deposited a tray full of bottles and glasses on a table near them: and ;had departed. "The talk is," he said, "that Alvarez means to proclaim Er dictatorship in his own favor be- fore the spring elections.. You've 'heard of that, ' haven't you?" ,King k this head. , tell us about it," said Miss (Continued from last 'week.) "Nd ---Mr. Clay. He'e beefs in three real wars and, about a dozen little ones, and he's built thoushnids of utiles of railroads, I tion't know how many thousands, but aptain .Stuart knows, and he built the highest bridge in ' 'Peru: It swings in the air across a chasm, and it rocks when the wind blows. And" the German Emperor made him a baron." "I . don't 'know. I couldn't under- stand. It waitsomething about plane{ for fortifications. •• He, Mr. Clay, put , up a fort in the; harbor, of Rio Janeiro during a revolution. and the •officers on a German man-of-war saw it and copied the plans, and the Ge mans built one just like it, only larger, on the Baltic, and when the Emperor found out whose design it was, he sent Mr. Clay the, order of some. thing -or -other, and made him a Bar- on.,. "Really," exclaimed the elder sis- ter, "isn't he afraid that some olye will marry him for his title?" "Oh, well, you can laugh, but I think it's pretty fine, and so does Ted," added Hope, with the air of one who propounds a final argument. , "Oh, I beg your pardon," laughed A,lice. "If Ted approves we must all go down and worship." "And father, too," continued Hope. "He said he thought Mn'Clay was one of the most remarkable men for his years, that he had ever -met." Miss Langham's eyes were hidden by the masses of her black hair that she had shaken over her face, and she said nothing. "And I liked the way -he shut Reg. gie • King up too," continued Hope, stoutly, "when he and father were talking that way about Madame Al- varez." "Vies, upon my word," exclaimed her sister, impatiently tossing her hair back over her shoulders. "I really cannot see that Madame Al- varez is in need of any champion. I thought Mr. Clay made it very much worse by rushing in the way he did. Why should he take it upon himself to correct a man as old as my father." "I suppose because ,Madame Al- varez is a friend of his," Hope ans- wered. "My dear child, a beautiful woman can always find §ome man to take her part," said Miss Langham. "But I've no doubt," she added, rising and kissing her sister good -night, "that he is not going to keep us awake any lunger, is he, even if he does show much gallant interest in old ladies?" "Old ladies!" exclaimed Hope in amazement. "Why, Alice!" But her sister only laughed and waved her out of the room, and Hope walked away frowning in much per- plexity. v The visit to the city was imitated on •the three succeeding evenings by similar excursions. On one night they returned to the plaza, and the other two were spent in drifting down the harbor and along the coast on King's yacht. The President and Madame Alvarez were King's guests on one of these moonlight excursions r • and were saluted by the proper num- ber of guns, and their native band played on the forward deck. Clay felt that King held the centre of the stage for the time being, and obliter- ated himself completely. He thought of his own paddle -wheel tug -'boat that he had had painted and gilded in her honor, and smiled grimly. - MacWilliams approached him as he sat leaning back on the rail and looking up, with lthe eye of a man s " who had served before the mast, at „r. te the lacework of . spars 'and rigging above him. MacWilliams came to- ward 'him on tiptoe and dropped care- fully into a wicker cha4,ir. "There don't seem to be any` door --mats on this boat," he said. "In every other respect she seems fitted out quite complete; all the -latest magazine* • and enanleiled bath -tubs, and Chin- ese waiter boys with cock -tails up their sleeves. , But there ought to be a mat at the top of each of those stairways that hang over the aide, Otherwise some :one is ♦jure tto soil the deck. Have you been down in the engine -room yet?" be asked. "Well, don't ,go, then," he advised, solemnly: "It 'will only make you feel badly.. 'I have asked the Admir- al if .I can send those half-breed en- gine drivers over to -morrow to show !them what a dean engine -room Ioolte like. I've just been talkie tb the thief. Itis nante's•'MacKenzie, and I told him I was Scotch myself, and he Said It. `was a greet pleesure' to find a'j entlem•an •so well acquainted with the movements of machinery, He thought I waa one of King's friends, I guess, so .1 didn't tell him I pulled a lever, for a living myself. I gave him a cigar though and he said, `Thankee, sir,' and though, his cap to me." MacWilliams chuckled at the re- collection, and crossed his legs com- ,fortably. "One sof King's cigars, too," he said, "Real Havana;' the leaves them lying around loose in the cabin. Have you had one? Ted Langham and I took about a box be- tween us." a Clay made no answer, and Mac- Williams 'settled hitthself contentedly in the great wicker chair and puffed grandly on a huge cigar. "It's demoralizing, isn't it?" he said at last. "What?" asked Clay, absently. "Oh, this associating with white people again, as we're doing now. It spoils you far tortillas and rice, doesn't it? It's going to be great fun while it lasts, but when they've all gone, and Ted's gone too, and the yacht's vanished, and we fall back to tramping around the plaza twice a week, it won't be gay, will it? No; it won't be gay. We're having the spree of our lives now, I guess, but there's going to be a difference in fhe morning." "Oh, it's worth a headache, 1 think," said Clay, as he shrugged his shoul- ders and walked away to find Miss pat'igh a m. The day set for the visit to the mines rose bright and clear. Mac- Williams had rigged out his .single passenger -car with rugs and cushions and flags flew from its canvas top that flapped and billowed in the wind of the slow-moving train. Their observation -car, as MacWilliams termed it, was placed in front of the locomotive, and they were pushed gently along the narrow 'rails be- tween forests of Maraca palms, and through swamps and jungles, and at times over the limestone formation along the coast, • where the waves dashed as high as the smokestack of the locomotive, covering the excur- sionists with a sprinkling of white spray. Thousands of land-strabs, painted red and black and fellow, scrambled with a rattle like dead men's bones across the rails to be crushed by the hundreds under the wheels of the Juggernaut; great liz- ards ran from sunny rocks at the sound of their approach, and a deer bounded across the tracks fifty feet in front of the cow -catcher. Mac- Williams escorted Hope out into the cab of the locomotive, and taught her how to increase and slacken the speed of ,the engine, until she show- ed an unruly desire to throw the lever open altogether and shoot them off the rails into the ocean beyond. Clay sat at the back of the car with Miss Langham, and told her and her father of the difficulties with which young MacWilliams had had to contend. (Miss Langh;.m found her chief pleasure in noting ,the atten- tion which her father gave to all that 'Clay had to tell him— Knowing her father as she did, and being familiar with his manner toward other men, she knew that be was treating Clay with unusual consideration. And this pleased 'her greatly, for it justi- fied her -own interest in him. She regarded Clay- as a discovery of her own, but she was glad to have her opinion of him shared by others. Their corning was a great event in the history of, the -mines. ,Kirkland, the foreman, aped .Ohs than, 'who .han- dled the-dynantite, Weimer, the' Con- sul, and thenative doctor, also cared for the fever -stricken and the cas- ualties, were all at the station to meet them in the whitest of white duck and ,with' a bunch of • porde* to carry them on their tqur of inspec- tion, and t'he village •of ilnudreabins and zinc -huts that stood *leer of the bare sunbaked earth on whitewashed wooden ;piles was as clean as Clay's hundred policemen could sweep it. Mr. Langham .rode le advance of the. cavalcade, and the head of each of the different departments took his turn in riding at his side, and explain- ed \what had been done, and showed hitn the proud result. The' village was empty, except for the families of the native workmen and the own- erles's dogs, the scavengers of the cpleny, that snarled and barked and ran leaping .in front of the ponies' heads. Riising abruptly above the zinc vil- lage, lay- ilhefirst of the five great hill's, with its open front cut int6 great terraces, cm which the men 'clung like die* on the side of a wall, 3dme of than in groups around an opening, er • in couples pounding a steel bar that a fellow -workman turned in his hare hands, while *there gathered shoat the :.panting stead - that shook the solid• rock with Serve, short biome, and hid ithe Mien about thein in athrliof Curtain *team. Self-lnspor�Itt denim, USE RAZ-mMi M Sal RAZeliAli Jit ewis Ql erlieent..J WOW atop rangy& 41010t gt: tpr 1,44T Olt W-. AS Our Personal Guarantee to All slda Sufferers Yea •banse oar absolutir guarantee a/ retie horn the first bottle of D. D. D. Year money will lre returned without a word If you tell ue that the first bottle did not atop that itch. did not soothe and cool that amp - Lion.. 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Alvarez married her in Madrid when he was Minister there, and when he returned to run for President, she came with hire She's a tremendous- ly ambitlous=ivenran, and they-do,.say she wants to convert the republic in- to a monarchy, and ,cake her hus- band King, or, ,more properly speak- ing, pearing, make hereelf Queen. Of coulee that's absurd, but she i; supposed 'to be plotting te turn (Wancho into a sort of dependency of Spain, as it was long ago, and that's why she is so unpopular." "Indeed?" .intelrupt,d Miss Lang'. ham, "I did not,know that she was unpopular." , "Oh, rather. Why, her party is called the Royalist Party already,and only a week before yuu sante the Lib- erals plastered the city with denun- ciatory enunciatory placards against her, calling on the people to drive her out of the country." "What cowards—to fight a we.- . man!" exclaimed Miss Langham. "Well, she began it first, you'aee," said the Consul. "Who is the leader of the fight against her?" apked King, "General Mendoza; he is comman- der-in-chief and•has thgreater part of the army with ,hint but the other candidate, old Genefa! Rojas, is the popular choice and the best of the three. He is_Vice-Presdent now,and if the people were ever given a fair chance to vote for the man they want, he would unquestionably be the next President. The mass of the people are sick of revol',t:oils. They've hod enough of " them, but they will have to go through another before long, and if it turns against Dr. Al- varez, I'm afraid Mr. Langham will have hard work to 'he'd these mines. You see, Mendoza has already threat- ened to seize the wiele plant and turn it into a Government monopoly," "And if the other �,ne, General Rojas, leets into power, will he seize the mines, too?" "No, he is honest, strange to re- late," 'laughed Weimer, "but he won't get in. Alvarez ,v i l l make him, - self dictator, or Mend„ra will make himself President. That's why Clay treats the soldiers hese eo well. He thinks he may need them against Mendoza. You may be turning your saluting -gun on the city yet, Commo- dore," he added, smiling, "nr, what is more likely, you':, need the yacht to take Miss Langham and the rest of the family out of the country. King smiled and Miss Langham re- garded Weimer with flattering inter - eat. "I've got a quick -firing gun be- low decks," said King, "that I used in the Malaysian Peninsula on a. junkful of Black Flags, and I think I'll have it brought uv. And there are about thirty of my men on the yacht who wouldn't ask for their wages in a year if I'd let them go on shore and prix up in a fight. When do you suppose this—" A heavy step and the jingle of spurs on the bare floor of the bunga- low startled the conspirators, and they turned and gazed guiltily out as the mountain -tops above them as Clay came hurrying out upon the porch. "They told me you were here," he said, speaking to Miss Langham, "I'm so sorry it tired you. I should have remembered --it is a rough trip when you're not used to it," he add- ed, remorsefully. "But I'm dad Weimer was here to take care of you." "rt was just a trifle hot and noisy," said Miss Langham, smelling sweetly. .She put her hand to her forehead with an expression of patient suffer- ing. "It made my head ache a little, but it was most interesting." She added, "Yon are certainly to be con- gratulated on your work." Clay glanced at her doubtfully with a troubled look, and turned away his eyes to the busy scene below him. He was greatly hurt that she should have cared so little, and indignant at himself for being so unjust. Why should he expect a woman to find in- terest in that hive of noise arid sweat- ing energy? But evert as he stood arguing with himself Ms eyes fell on a slight figure sitting erect and graceful on 'her pony% back, her white habit soiled and stained red with the ore of the mines, and green where it had crushed li;gainst the leaves. She was coming slowly up the trail with a bodyguard of half a dozen men erewding closely around her, telling her the difficulties of the work, and explaining their successes, and eager for a share of her quick sympathy. Clay's eyes fixed themselves on the picture, and he smiled at its signifi- cance. Miss Langham• noticed the look, and 'glanced below to see what it was that had at, 1pierested him, and then back at him again. He was still watching the approaching caval- cade intently, and smiling to himself. Miss Langham drew in her breath and raised her head and shoulders quickly, like a deer that 'hears a foot- step in the forest, and when Hope presently stepped out npon the :porch she turned' quickly toward her, and regarded her steadily, as though ale were a stranger to her, Ind as though she were trying to see her with the eyea of one who ,looked at her for the flet time. "Ropel" she said, "do look at your . Rope's face was glowing with the unusual exercise, and her eyes were brilliant. Her hair bad slipped downs beneath the visor of her helmet. H ,so tired - h rend ea ggrryy She was laughingend lookingdilaect- ly at Clay beteg a weeder- at VoBeshe said, at hair., !Maier mend 1 to - en," done," etre ridded. She pub- ed -o( her glove and held out her , bend to Clay, moist +14 d.d with t�leelmese e., ," she "Thank you;' the ligegh.' The master of ,fie mines kit With + quick • * of gree and saw toy rething thWe"that SltartW 8 ai fro that he glanced quickly peat her at the circle of booted assn grouped in the door behind her, They were eacis WI*, smiling in appprechition of the •tab- leau ; her fst+brer' and Tsd, lSLaeWil- Maros And Kirkland, and all the others "Nowada '. it is "'SAL,ADA" for break ffst,for dinner, for supper and five o'clock Tea the Con- tin wide Who Orad helped hila. They seemed to envy, but not to grudge, the whole credit which the girl had given to him. Clay thought, "Why could it not have been the other?" . But he said aloud, "Thank a you. You have given me my reward.' Miss Langham hooked down ;im- patiently into the valley -below, a'nd found• that it seemed more hot and noisy, and mode grimly than before. VI Clay believed that Alice Langham's visit to the mines bad 'opened his eyes fully to vast differences between them. He laughed and railed at him- self for having dared to imagine that he was in a position to care for her. Confident as he was at times, and cure as he was of his ability in cer- tain directions, he was uneasy and fearful when he matched himself against a man of gentle birth and gentle breeding, and one who, like King, was part -of a world of which he knew Little, and to which, in his ignorance concerning it, he attributed many advantages that it did not pos- sess. He believed that he would al- ways lack the mysterious samething which these others held by right of inheritance. He was still young and full of the illusions of youth, and so gave false valises to his own quali- ties, and values equally false to the qualitiesked. For the next week he o'ded Miss Langham, un- less there ��othe r people present, and whenever she showed him special favor, he hastily recalled to his mind her failure to sympathize in his work. and assured himself that if she could not interest herself in the engineer, `he did not care to have her interested in the man. Other women had found him attractive in himself; they had cared for his strength of will and mind, and because he was good to look at. But he determined that this one ,must 'sympathize with his work in the world, no matter how unpicturesque it might seem to cher. His work was the best of him, he assured himself, and he would stand or fall with it. It was a week after the visit to the mines that President Alvarez gave a great ball in honor of the Langhams, to which all of the im- portant people of Olancho, and the Foreign Ministers were invited. Miss Langham met Clay on the afternoon of the day set for the ball, as she was going down the hill to join Hope and her father at dinner on the yacht. "Are you not coming, too?" she asked. "I wish I could," Clay answered. "King asked me, but a steamer -load P r daily bread ! of new naiacbdnerr-arrived to -day, and I hove to see It through the Cusatonti- House." Miss Langhans gave en impatient little lalxgb, and eboolt. her head. "You ',might wait until we -were gone ibefore you bother with your machin- ery," she said. • "When you are gonw I won't be in a state of mind to attend to machin- ery or anything else," Clay aaJeawar- ., ed. Miss Lingham seemed 'so far en- couraged by this ,speech that she seated herself in the boat -house at the• end of the wharf. She pushed her manbilla back from her fepe and leaked up at him, smiling Wittig. "'The time has come, the walrus said,' she quoted, "`•to talk of maty things."" Clay laughed and dropped down be- side her. "Well?" he said. "You have been rather unkind to me this last week," the girl began, with her. eyes fixed steadily on his. "And that day at the mines when I counted on you so, you acted abom- inably." Clay's face showed so plainly his surprise at this charge, which he thought he only had the right to make, that Miss Langham stopped. "I dons understand," said Clay, quietly. "How did I treat you abom- inably?" He had taken her so seriously that Miss Langham dropped her lighter tone and spoke in one nsof'e kindly; • "I went out there to see you work at its best. I was only interested in going because it was -your work, and because it was you who had done it all, and I expected that you would -try to explain it to me and help me to unde'rs'tand, but you didn't. You treated me as though I had no in- terest in the matter at all, as though I was not capable of understanding it. You did not seem to care whether I was interested or not. In fact, you forgot me altogether." Clay exhibited no evidence of a Iv - proving conscience. "I am sorry you had a stupid time," he said, gravely. "I did not mean that, and you know I didn't mean that," the girl answered. "I wanted to bear about it from you, because you did it. I wasn't interested so much in what had been done, as I was in the man who had accomplished it." Continued next week. The largest number of motor car plants in the United States was in 1911, when 275 were lined. Motor manufactories now total 181. Cafffor LIP NAVY CUT CIGARETTES 1Ofor1-5 25 for 35 i i Deafness Cannot Be Corsi plieutlons, as they cannot portion of the ear. _requires eon #&LIJO CAT- . R_ - S Is a nanatitittional rentedsr. Catarrhal la amused by age In- thmed �mas bewbeithetaian Te.Wnt in tubes inflamed iaay. 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