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(Continued From Our Lait Issue)
Again one of those agonizing
waits, racking to the two men whose
future depended largely upon the
happenings atop the range. Far on
the ether side, fighting slowly up
ward, was a freight train loaded with
the necessary materials of a large I
sawmill.
“Guess it's all off,* came at last I
“The general superintendent in Den- I
ver’s on the wire. Says to back
up everything to Tollifer, including 1
the plows, and give up the ghost.”
“Give it up?” Houston stared
blankly at the telegrapher. “But
that’s not railroading!”
“I know. I’ll call Denver.”
He turned to the key and ham
mered doggedly. Only soggy dead
ness answered. The line was gone!
CHAPTER XVI
“It’d take a guy with a diving suit
to find some of them wires, I guess,”
the operator hazarded, as he finally
ceased his efforts and reached for his
coat and hat and snowshoes. “There
ain’t no use staying here. You fel
lows are going to sleep in town to
night, ain’t you?”
There was little else to do. They
fought their way to the rambling
boarding house.
Morning brought no relief. The
storm was worse, and they faced
drifts waist high at the doorway.
Two hours later, the agent once
rhore at his dead key, Ba’tiste turned
to Houston.
“Eet is no use here,” he an
nounced. ‘We must get to* camp
and assemble the men to help those
who are not fortunate. There is
death in this storm.”
Again with their waist-belt guide
line, they started forth to bend
against the storm in a struggle and
at last reach the squat, snowed-in
buildings of camp. There, Ba’tiste
assembled the workmen in the bunk
house.
“There are greater things than
this now,” he announced. “We want
the strong men—who will go back
with us to Tabernacle, and who will
be willing to take the risk to help
the countryside. Eet is the danger
ahead. How many of yju will go?”
One after another they reached for
theii snowshoes, silent men who
a«e<| rather than spoke.
Guide lines were affixed. Huddled,
clumsy figures of white, one follow
ing the other, made the gruelling trip
back-to Tabernacle. Already the re
ports were beginning to come in,
brought by storm weakened, blizzard
battered men, of houses where the
roofs had crashed beneath the
weight of snow, of lost ranchmen of
bawling cattle, drifting before the
storm—to death. It was the begin-I
mng of a two-weeks’ siege of a white .
inferno. ' i
■ Ihe whole world was one great
bleak thing of dreary white—a desert
ni which there was life only that
there might be death, where the bat- j
t e tor existence continued only as a !
matter of instinct.
Ami over this bleak desert went I
t ie men of the West Country, silent, I
frost-burned men, their lips cracked
fi-om the cut of wind, their eyes
bood-red with inflammation, strug
gling here and there with a pack of
I cod upqn their backs that they
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might reach some desolate home
where there were women and chil
dren; or stopping to pull and tug at
a snow-trapped steer and by main
effort, drag him into a barren spot
where the sweep, of the gale had
kept the ground fairly clear of snow.
A two-inch crust of snow formed
over the main snowfall, permitting
small sleds to be pulled behind Strug
gling men; the world beneath had
been frozen in, to give place to a new
one above. And with that:
“It’s open! It’s open!” The shout
came from the lips of the telegraph
er, waving his, arms as he ran from
the tunnel that led to the station
house. “It’s open! I’ve had Rawlins
on the wire!”
“Rawlins?” Houston had edged
forward. “There’s not a chance. Get
Denver on the wire. Then take thisj
message to every newspaper in the
city:
“Can’t you help us? Please try
to start campaign to force Crestline
Road to open the Pas'. Women and
children are starving fcer6. We have
been cut eff from the rest of the
world for two weeks. We need food
—and coal. Road will not be open
for four or five weeks more under
ordinary circumstances. This will
mean death to many of us here, the
wiping out of a great timber and
agricultural country, and a blot on
the history of Colorado. Help us —
and we will not forget it.
“ ‘THE CITIZENS OF 1 THE WEST
COUNTRY.’ ”
“Sounds good.” The telegrapher
was busily putting it on the wire.
Then a wait of hours. Then the wire
clattered forth a message. He
jumped.
“It’s from the papers in Denver!”
he shouted. “A joint message.
They’ve taken up the fight!”
‘ 'lhe snows still swirled, the
storms still came and went. Dur
ing this period of uncertainty
Houston met Ba’tiste Renaud, re
turning from the lake region, to find
him raging. ’
“Is eet that the world is all un
just?” he roared. I am the mad
enough to tear them apart!”
‘ Who? What’s gone wrong?!’
Ah! I pass today the Blackburn
mill. They have the saw going—
they keep at work, when there are
the women and the babies who
starve, when there are the cattle who
are dying, when there is the country
that is like a broken thing. (They
know that wo do not get oJr ma
chinery! They have think they have
a chance—for the contract!”
It brought Houston to a sharp
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knowledge of conditions. They had
given, that the rest of the country
might not suffer. Their enemies had
worked on, fired with the new hope
that the machinery necessary to
carry out Houston’s contract would
not arrive in time.
A shout had come from the dis
tance. Faintly through the siftiiig
snow they could see figures run
ning. Then the words came:
"They're going to open the road!
They're going to open the Foad!”
A message bearer came from the
station. “It’s the M. P. & S. L. Ac
cording to the message, the papers
hammered the stuffing out of the
Crestline road. The other road saw
a great chance to step in. it’s lend
ing the men and the rolling stock.
They’re going to open another fel
low’s road, for the publicity and the
good will that’s in it.”
• Two pictures flashed across Hous
ton’s brain; one of a snowy sawmill
wit!7 the force working day and
night, when all the surrounding
country cried for help; another oi
carload alter carload of necessary
machinery, snow-covered, ice-bound,
on a side-track at with ui<-
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He was looking into the drawn hag
gard features of an unconscious wo
man.
whole, horrible, snow-clutched fierce
ness of the Continental Divide be
tween it and its goal.
In the night he awoke, again think
ing of it. Every possible hand that
could swing a pick or jam a crowbar
against grudging ice would be needed
up there. A mad desire began to
come over him; a strange impelling
scheme took hold of his brain. They
would need men—men who would
not be afraid, men who would be
willing to slave day and night if
necessary to the success of the ad
venture. Long before dawn he rose
and scribbled a note to Ba’tiste Re
naud:
“I’m going over the range. I can’t
wait. Tfiey may need me. I’m writ
ing this, because you would try to
dissuade me if I told you personally.
Don’t be afraid for me—l’ll make it
somehow. I’ve got to go. It’s
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“HOUSTON.”
Ihen, his snowshoes affixed, he
went out into the night. The storm
clouds were thick on the sky again,
the snow was dashing about him
- once more. eH floundered aimless
' once more. He floundered aimless
the path from which the storm was
, driving him.
Dawns found him at last, flounder
> ing hopelessly in snow-screened
woods, going on toward he knew not
’ where.
A half-hour, then he stopped.
' I' ifty feet away, almost covered by
the changing snows, a small cabin
showed faintly. His numbed hands
banged at the door, but there came
no answer. He shouted; still no
sound came from within.
The door yielded, and climbing
over the pile of snow at the step,
* Houston guided his snowshoes
’ through the narrow door, blinking
1 in the half-light in an effort to see
' about him. There was a stove, but
’ the fire was dead. At the one little
window, the curtain was drawn tight
and pinned at the sides of the sash.
There was a bed—and the form of
some one beneath the covers.
Houston called again, but still
there came no answer. He was lock
ing into the drawn, haggard fea
tures of an unconscious woman, the
eyes half-open, yet unseeing, one
emaciated hand grasped about
something that was shielded by the
covers. Houston forced himself
even closer. He touched the hand.
He called:
“Agnes!”
The eyelids moved slightly; it was
the only evidence of life, save the
labored, irregular breathing. Ihen
the hand moved, clutchingly. Slow
ly, tremblingly, Houston turned back
an edge of the blankets—and stood
aghast.
On her breast was a baby—dead!
CHAPTER XVII
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cloths went to the woman’s head;
quietly, reverently, Barry had tak
en the still, small child from the
tightly clenched arm and covered it,
on the table. And with the touch
of the small, lifeless form, the re
sentment which had smoldered in
Houston’s heart for months seemed
to disappear.
“I’m sorry—Agnes. Don’t be
afraid of me. 11l get help for you.”
“Don’t.”
There was the dullness that comes
when grief has reached the break
ing point. “Dead. It died—yester
day morning.”
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Houston could say nothing in an
swer. Quietly he turned to the stove,
red-hot n v w, and with snow water
began the making of gruel from
supplies on the shelf.
Forcing himself to the subject,
Houston asked a question:
‘Where is he?”
“Who?” Sudden fright had come
1 into the woman’s eyes.
i “Your husband.”
..(Continued in Our Next Issue).... .
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