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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: In the Garden of the Gods - -Author: William McLeod Raine - -Illustrator: F. DeForrest Schook - -Release Date: January 20, 2022 [eBook #67165] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE GARDEN OF THE -GODS *** - - - In the Garden of the Gods - - By William McLeod Raine - - -When one is in the Garden of the Gods one should be, I suppose, in -Elysian humor. My mood, to the contrary, for private reasons of my -own, was thunderous. I lay on my elbow among the kinni-kinic where I -had flung myself down in the shade of a silver spruce. But the sun was -higher now, and its rare, untempered beat was on me. Naturally I used -the shifting orb as a text on the futility of life. What was the use -of arranging things comfortably when they always disarranged -themselves as promptly as possible? Now, there was Katherine— - -The sound of a revolver cracked into my sombre discontent. Hard on its -echoes came the slap of running feet, and, as I guessed, the swish of -petticoats. A raucous command to stop brought me to my feet instantly. -It also brought the runner to a halt just out of my sight beyond the -shoulder of the hill. - -“I dare you to touch me,” panted a high-pitched voice that struck in -me a bell of recognition. - -“I’m not going to hurt you,” replied he of the hoarse bellow, -soothingly. “You know that mighty well.” - -“If you put a finger on me I’ll cry for help.” - -“There wouldn’t anybody hear, Miss,” replied the heavy bass. - -“You—you coward!” Her voice was like a whip. - -“Oh, you can call me anything you like but you got to go along with -me, Miss,” he said sullenly. - -“I’ll not go a step.” - -“I reckon you got to go, lady.” - -“May I go, too?” My contribution to the conversation came from the -knoll just above them. - -[Illustration: “My contribution to the conversation came from just -above them.”] - -They whirled as at the press of a button. The man was a huge hulking -fellow in corduroys, but he did not look the villain by a long shot. -Indeed, his guileless face, lit with amazement at my words, begged to -offer a guarantee of honesty. Here certainly was no finished -desperado. The first glimpse of him relieved my mind. We were in no -personal danger at least. - -“Who in time are you?” he wanted to know. - -“Tavis Q. Damron, at your service. And you—since introductions are -going?” - -The young woman—she was a Miss Katherine Gray, stopping at the same -hotel as I at Manitou—promptly took the opportunity to slip behind my -back. For me, I was in a glow of triumph. It had not been twenty-four -hours since Miss Gray had informed me that she meant never to speak -again to me. And already the favoring gods had brought her to me on -the run. In my relation I felt myself a match for a score of lowering -countrymen. - -“He shot at me,” she cried over my shoulder. - -“It went off accidentally,” protested the man. - -“I don’t care. He shot.” - -“He’ll not do it again,” I promised, complacently. - -My unlucky triumph must have crept into my voice. I felt her appraise -with deliberate eye my sixty-six scant inches. Nothing “hips” me more -than an inference that I am short. To be sure, I am not a giant -physically. Neither was Napoleon. - -“I’m sorry not to meet with your approbation,” I said huffily. - -“Oh, I did not say that. It would be unjust. You can’t help being -little,” she was pleased to say, and I swear I heard the chuckle in -her voice. - -“Any more than you can help being offensive when you are in the -humor.” - -“Don’t take it so to heart. You may grow yet. You are very young, you -know.” - -“Perhaps I am _de trop_. Very likely you were looking for somebody -else when you came galloping down the hill,” I said sulkily. - -“I was looking for a man.” Her casual eye swept the valley. Tavis Q. -Damron really did not appear to be on the map. - -“I am certain you will not have to look long,” I assured her with -excessive politeness. - -“Thank you.” She glanced scornfully at me. “I suppose you mean that -for a compliment? I think it impertinent, if you want to know.” - -It was odd how we had almost forgotten the presence of our friend in -corduroys; yet not so strange either, for he looked the picture of -awkward indecision, much more the detected schoolboy than the “bad -man” bandit. His fat, red hand, wandering restlessly about, included -us in its orbit. - -“I say, my man! Put up that gun! You make me nervous,” I barked. - -“It might go off again accidentally,” suggested Miss Gray derisively. -“We can’t risk Mr. Damron’s fainting. I suppose you have no -restoratives with you, Mr. Corduroy?” - -There came a shout from the cliff five hundred feet above. A man -standing on the edge was beckoning to us. - -“Somebody appears to want us to come and to share his beautiful view,” -I said. - -Corduroy’s indecision came to an end. “I guess we better be going -back, Miss.” - -“I thought I understood her to say she did not care to go back,” I -said, eyeing him steadily. - -Corduroy shifted uneasily. “She hadn’t any call to run away. Her -father’s up there.” - -“He’s a prisoner,” explained Miss Gray. - -I gasped. “A prisoner?” - -“Yes. Mr. Halloway is keeping him on that cliff and won’t let him -leave,” she said, quite calmly. - -“Halloway! Bob Halloway?” - -She nodded defiantly. “Yes, Bob Halloway.” - -“But—why, the thing is impossible.” - -“Isn’t it ridiculous?” She gave a sudden charming smile. “I didn’t -know the West was so delightfully primitive.” - -“Surely one can’t hold up a copper king in that primeval fashion. It -has to be done on Wall street.” Reflecting on Simon Gray’s probable -reflections, I smiled. Immediately I regretted my indiscretion. The -study of Miss Gray’s moods was a continual education. They were -teaching me just now that she might laugh at that which I might not. - -“Isn’t it humorous?” said Miss Gray, a little too sweetly. “Don’t let -me curb your gayety. He’s only my father.” - -Instantly I switched the indecorous mirth from my face. “I don’t see -how he dares,” I murmured, to bridge the pause. - -“Dares! I thought you knew Bob Halloway better,” she said scornfully. -“He dares anything.” - -I did know him better. He would stick at nothing. Whatever else his -smiling insolence covered, it did not hide any lack of courage to back -his recklessness. He was the type of man that women find fascinating, -especially women of the high-spirited, chivalrous order. You know the -sort of scamp I mean—the kind whose dark, unscrupulous eyes and -devil-may-care fearlessness draw the poor moths to the singeing flame. -And though for his unworthiness his father two years before had -shipped him to a ranch in Colorado and cut him adrift, my resurrected -suspicions painted him a rival still to be feared. Katherine had liked -him then; she liked him now. I knew it from the moment when the -picturesque vagabond galloped up to our hotel two days before and -offered her his strong brown hand and candid smile. - -I meditated. “Of course it is a holdup of some sort. He isn’t doing it -for fun. What does he want?” - -Looking up, I happened to catch Katherine Gray’s eyes. They were -blushing. - -“Oh!” I exclaimed understandingly. - -“Nothing of the kind! Don’t be silly, Tavis,” she told me sharply. - -“Then I’m hanged if I _can_ understand. I seem to be playing blind -euchre with my eyes shut. First one finds Miss Katherine Gray, -daughter and sole heir to Simon Gray, the Copper King, scudding over -the mountains with Mr. Corduroy’s revolver barking at her.” - -“I told you it was accidental,” growled the bass voice. “I couldn’t -catch her, so I took out my gun to frighten her into stopping.” - -“Then one hears that the Copper King himself is viewing scenery he -does not enjoy, under enforced restraint at the hands of a young man -who used to lead cotillions with his daughter before he fell into evil -ways. You know I told you he was a scamp.” - -“Don’t be a parrot, Mr. Damron,” Katherine snapped. “I told _you_ -yesterday that I wasn’t interested in your opinion of Mr. Halloway. -You so often forget that you are not my chaperon.” - -“Of course I don’t want to rub it in, but if you had listened to——” - -“——Grandmother Damron. Well, I didn’t—and I’m not going to.” Miss -Gray’s chin was in the air. She wheeled and began to climb the -hillside. - -“Where are you going?” I asked. - -She can be very deaf on occasion. - -“Oh, up the hill,” she flung over her shoulder in answer to my -question repeated. - -“But you said you weren’t going back.” - -“Can’t I change my mind, Grandmother?” - -“You don’t need to be rude,” I said sulking. - -I toiled in her wake, and Corduroy in mine. The pace she set soon had -us puffing. Miss Gray is one of those young women who do outdoor -things better than most men. She never fainted in her life, and nerves -are a fairy tale to her. It always ruffles my temper and my vanity to -do a twosome with her at golf. - -“Hello, you people! Just in time for lunch. Glad to see you, Damron,” -sang out Halloway cheerily as we emerged from the aspens into view at -the rear of the cliff. - -A most appealing luncheon was set forth on the white table cloth -spread on a camp table among the boulders. Halloway, in his shirt -sleeves, was making coffee, opening cans of deviled ham, unpacking a -box of fried chicken, and otherwise endeavoring to be several places -at once. He fell immediately to issuing orders. - -“Bring that box of ice with the bottles in it from the wagon, John. I -say, Damron, do you know how to broil bacon? Well, you’ll never learn -younger. Shake those coals down and set to work, my son. And don’t let -the coffee boil over.” His enthusiasm was contagious. I found myself -obeying him mechanically. “You might unpack the sandwiches, Kate. -We’re going to have the jolliest little lunch you ever saw. I suspect -you are hungry. Scudding over these hills is great for the appetite. -By the way, you made a fine run of it.” He was so genial and friendly -to her that one could hardly believe he knew that his confederate had -just brought her back under the menace of his revolver. - -Miss Gray probably thought his assurance was akin to cheek. At any -rate she gave him the full benefit of her un-willowy five foot seven. -He met with smiling admiration her level indignant eyes; and indeed -the girl’s long curves, her frank good looks, her flashing sunburnt -beauty, had led captive many a man’s fancy. Turning on her heel, she -joined her father. Simon Gray, multimillionaire, was seated morosely -on a rock, frowning down into the Garden of the Gods with blazing -eyes. Far below a dozen dwarfed carriages might be seen wheeling along -the red ribbon of road, and many burros with tourists on their backs -crawled like ants among the rocks, but for all practical purposes the -grim-eyed captain of industry was as much a prisoner as if the gates -of a jail had closed on him. - -His dignity was too precious to be risked in a futile attempt to -escape from the long-legged powerful young athlete. Possibly it was -because I was so interested in the situation that I burnt the bacon to -a crisp. Miss Grey, with one of her sudden changes of humor, drove me -from the fire and broiled the bacon herself. The truth is that despite -her frowns the girl was enjoying herself hugely. The excitement of a -new experience filliped through her blood. - -I joined Mr. Gray and we conversed in whispers. He explained to me the -absolute necessity of his being in Denver that afternoon to attend an -important meeting of the Copper Consolidated Corporation. It was the -day of the biennial election of officers. He had bought Consolidated -stock sufficient to win the control from the present management, but -without his presence or his proxies the old management would still be -able to carry the election and reinstate itself. James Halloway was -president of the Consolidated, and the two men had been fighting for -control more years than one. - -“Last call for dinner in the dining car,” sang out Halloway, and -notwithstanding our lack of harmony the sharp air of the Rockies had -made us hungry enough to sink, for the moment, at least, all -differences. Halloway, easy, alert, and masterful, dispensed -refreshments with debonair hospitality to his unwilling guests. - -“Finest bacon I ever ate. It would be a pleasure to have you for a -housekeeper, Miss Gray,” our host tossed out audaciously. - -“You are such a good provider, Mr. Halloway, that I am sure it would -be a pleasure to be your housekeeper,” returned Miss Gray demurely. - -“And if I neglected my duties you could always send your man out to -shoot at me.” - -[Illustration: “And if I neglected my duties you could always send a -man out to shoot me.”] - -“Ah! That only shows my solicitude to detain you. One couldn’t bear -the idea of having you leave our party, and yet one couldn’t in common -politeness desert Mr. Gray to follow you. It remained only to send a -message via John requesting you to return.” - -“Well, he delivered it,” the girl said, dimpling reminiscently. - -Halloway smiled. “I’m afraid John is a little abrupt sometimes.” - -Her eyes mocked him boldly. “In your profession of highwayman, -abruptness, one would think, might sometimes be essential.” - -“It was cruel of you to desert us without warning,” he said, ignoring -her irony. - -“I went to get help.” - -“That was good of you, but we did not really need it,” he returned, -misunderstanding her promptly. “Though of course we are very glad to -have Damron with us.” - -“I suppose you know that it will be a criminal offense to keep Mr. -Gray here till night as you threaten. You invited him here to a -picnic. You have no right to detain him a moment longer than he -desires. Your outrageous course is very much against the law, Mr. -Halloway,” I said stiffly. - -He looked politely interested. “Is it? No, I didn’t know just how -illegal it was. Of course I guessed I was skating on thin ice, but the -truth is that I didn’t get legal advice. That shows the advantage of -having a lawyer along when one goes buccaneering. How much could they -give me, Damron?” - -“You’ll not think it so much of a joke when you are behind the bars.” - -“No, I daresay not. I expect I would better enjoy it while I have the -opportunity. Try one of these peaches, Miss Gray.” He leaned against a -rock and smoked the placid post-prandial cigar of him whose soul is at -peace. I, too, had lit up, but my mind was far from equable. I was -possessed by the vision of a headlong generous girl under the -fascination of this charming young vagabond. Yet I confess that for -myself I admired as much as I disliked his dare-devil indifference to -consequences, though for the life of me I could not guess what his -game was or how it could advantage him to detain the Copper King on -this mountain top against his will. - -He expounded his easy philosophy with airy candor. “After all, laws -are made for man, not man for the laws. Mr. Gray is a capitalist, and -he can tell you that laws are to be obeyed with discretion. There -would not be any use in having them if somebody did not break them -occasionally. Well, this is my day off. I’m playing ping-pong with the -statutes of Colorado” - -“But why?” I demanded. “What good does it do you?” - -“Oh come, Damron! Mayn’t I have a secret or two of my own? I don’t -suppose you ever explained publicly just why you happen to be spending -your vacation in Colorado instead of Timbuctoo.” - -I fear I blushed. Glancing covertly at my reason, I found it the -fairest under the sun, but too present to admit of discussion. - -Suddenly Simon Gray cut crisply into the talk for the first time. - -“Of course I understand why you are holding me here, Halloway. You are -working under instructions from your father to keep me until after the -election this afternoon. But the thing is too barefaced. It won’t hold -in law. It’s a conspiracy.” - -Halloway’s masterful eves looked straight at him. - -“I have not seen or heard from my father in two years, Mr. Gray. He -does not have anything to do with his scalawag son. You do not need to -look beyond me to place the responsibility for this. But you’re right -in one thing. I intend that you shall not reach Denver in time for the -Copper Consolidated meeting.” - -They were both dominant men, and their eyes met like the flash of -steel. - -“No? Why not?” asked Gray quietly, his lids narrowing to long watchful -slits. - -“Because you are going there to take what doesn’t belong to you—to -vote away from my father and his associates the control of a business -which they have given twenty years of their lives to build. Theirs is -a legitimate business enterprise. They developed and extended it -gradually. It grew to be a big thing. Then you took a fancy for -copper. You——” - -“You don’t know what you are talking about young man. I am going there -to take what the law allows me—what I have bought and paid for in the -open market,” broke in Gray harshly. - -“Yes, the law allows it to you, and it doesn’t allow me to interfere. -That is where the law is defective. It is true, too, that you have -manipulated the market in such a way as to get temporary control of a -majority of the stock. But that does not affect the fact that my -father and his friends have the moral right to direct the affairs of -the Consolidated. Their whole life is bound up in it. You are -interested simply for speculative purposes. They have earned the right -to direct its affairs. You haven’t.” - -“Such talk is sheer folly. You do not understand finance, sir. You -have been living outside of the currents of business. The matter is a -plain business one, not an ethical or sentimental affair at all.” - -Halloway’s daring eyes swept whimsically across the table and rested -momentarily on Katherine. “I am trying to keep it on a business basis -so that sentiment may not interfere, sir.” - -Then Katherine spoke with silken cruelty. “You have a very flattering -opinion of my father, Mr. Halloway. It makes his daughter proud to -know that one of such notable achievement thinks so highly of him.” - -Halloway bowed, a sardonic smile on his good-looking face. “I can -hardly expect my course to commend itself to Miss Gray,” he said -simply. - -Miss Katherine’s dark flashing eyes showed their anger at the -presumption of this lawless, high-handed youth. She had, in company -with many charming women, a capacity for injustice, but she had, too, -a quick instinctive appreciation for fine points of character. Her -feelings were outraged that this young man, who had once wanted to -marry her and who still held much fascination for her, had taken -advantage of his position as host to overreach her father. But she was -very much a creature of moods, and I knew her well enough to fear the -revulsion which would follow when she began to take into account his -motive—loyalty to a father who had disowned him. And I was certain -that even now there was running through her rage an admiration of his -audacity that would remain when the anger had evaporated. - -Just now, however, she treated his remarks in very cavalier fashion. -The burden of such conversation as there was rested on Halloway. It -consisted for the most part in genially ironical remarks on the charms -of an outdoor life. Katherine was aloofly viewing the scenery with -occasional side-shot glances at the offending youth; I watched events -in a moody silence, and Corduroy still discussed his dinner some fifty -yards from us. As for Simon Gray, he sat in a brown study, his eyes -fixed intently on a syphon he did not see. I wondered what plan was -filtering into that alert, fertile brain of his. - -I was soon to learn. Halloway carried over to Corduroy a bottle of -ale, and in his absence the Copper King found chance to enlist his -daughter in the scheme. Presently Miss Katherine strolled leisurely -toward the cluster of great brown rocks which cropped out near the -edge of the bluff. She carried a magazine with her. - -“You’re not going to run away again, Kate,” Halloway called after her. - -She shook her head. - -“Word of honor?” - -“Word of honor,” she called gaily back to him. “But if you doubt——” - -[Illustration: “Word of honor,” she called gaily back to him.] - -Her smile was an invitation. Halloway did not accept it at once, but, -plainly eager to be off, stuck to the magnate for a long ten minutes. -Then, “Hang duty!” he said, and with a word of caution to his -accomplice, he disappeared after her behind the rocks. His long shadow -had scarcely trailed out of view before old Gray and a flask of old -Scotch were laying siege to Corduroy. The task of sapping his loyalty -was no easy one. It took thirty minutes of argument—of threats, -cajolery, promises, interspersed with frequent internal applications -of the contents of the flask—to win him over. There were times when I -despaired of hooking our shy fish, and even after he had swallowed the -bait he fought against being landed. Every moment I expected to see -Halloway’s impudent curly head rising over the brow of the hill. I was -as nervous as a youngster awaiting a caning, but they don’t make them -more cool and game than old Gray was. Our joint pocket books happened -to carry five hundred twenty-five dollars, and it took all we had -except some silver change to buy a release. But in the end I had the -satisfaction of seeing the rotund millionaire and Corduroy legging it -down the hill toward Manitou. I am not going to pretend that I have -often spent as bad a quarter of an hour as the one which followed, -during which I saw their figures lessen in the distance. It was not -until they had reached the red thread of the valley road that I -breathed freely. I was ready now for the villain to reenter, and, as -if pat to his cue, the alluring vagabond I had cast for the part -sauntered into view. He was very much engrossed with his companion, -and—I noticed it with a pang of envy—she with him. Both of them seemed -always to radiate health and vitality, but my jaundiced eyes found -about them now a scarce decently subdued sparkle of exhilaration. They -were in a world primeval and everybody else forgotten. There have been -times when I have trod air and breathed champagne myself, but that did -not make me any less sulky now. I resented to the bottom of my soul -their Eden from which I was excluded. - -[Illustration: “In a world primeval.”] - -They were almost on me before they wakened to things mundane. - -“Hello, Damron!” Halloway looked over the plateau and brought his eyes -back to me. “Where’s Mr. Gray?” Katherine started and looked guilty. I -verily believe that till this moment the minx had forgotten she was in -a conspiracy to worst him. - -I pointed to the disappearing specks. “On his way to a telegraph -office. He is going to have the Consolidated election postponed till -to-morrow,” I said with malicious triumph. - -“What did you do with John?” - -“Bought him. You should have stayed here. If you want a thing well -done, you know!” - -“Oh! You seem to have been quite active.” He looked long at the -figures through a pair of field glasses. “Why didn’t you go along?” he -asked presently. - -“I thought I would stay and break the news of our little surprise to -you,” I said tartly. - -He turned his genial, impudent smile on me. “That was good of you, -Damron. You deserve something for that.” His eyes met Katherine’s for -an instant. She nodded, blushing. He tucked her arm under his, and -they beamed down on me. “We have a little surprise, too. Miss Gray and -I are engaged to be married. We arranged it while you were buying my -partner in crime.” - -I offered my congratulations with a wooden face. - -Katherine has always been able to twist her father round that supple -little finger of hers. It did not surprise me at all to read in the -papers two days later that an adjustment of the affairs of the C. C. -C. had been made satisfactory to the warring factions and that by this -arrangement President Halloway was allowed to retain his position and -continue his policy. The breach between Bob Halloway and his father -was immediately healed. Friends industriously circulated the -information that the difference had been due merely to the clashing of -two proud natures which did not understand each other. They point to -the fact that since his marriage Bob has been in every way equal to -the business responsibilities of his important position in the -Consolidated. One understands that he has now entirely sown his wild -oats. He reaps golden opinions everywhere. - -I don’t join in the general chorus much myself—but I’m hanged if I can -hate him as much as I would like. - - -[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the September 1905 issue of -The Red Book Magazine.] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE GARDEN OF THE GODS *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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But the sun was -higher now, and its rare, untempered beat was on me. Naturally I used -the shifting orb as a text on the futility of life. What was the use -of arranging things comfortably when they always disarranged -themselves as promptly as possible? Now, there was Katherine—</p> - -<p>The sound of a revolver cracked into my sombre discontent. Hard on its -echoes came the slap of running feet, and, as I guessed, the swish of -petticoats. A raucous command to stop brought me to my feet instantly. -It also brought the runner to a halt just out of my sight beyond the -shoulder of the hill.</p> - -<p>“I dare you to touch me,” panted a high-pitched voice that struck in -me a bell of recognition.</p> - -<p>“I’m not going to hurt you,” replied he of the hoarse bellow, -soothingly. “You know that mighty well.”</p> - -<p>“If you put a finger on me I’ll cry for help.”</p> - -<p>“There wouldn’t anybody hear, Miss,” replied the heavy bass.</p> - -<p>“You—you coward!” Her voice was like a whip.</p> - -<p>“Oh, you can call me anything you like but you got to go along with -me, Miss,” he said sullenly.</p> - -<p>“I’ll not go a step.”</p> - -<p>“I reckon you got to go, lady.”</p> - -<p>“May I go, too?” My contribution to the conversation came from the -knoll just above them.</p> - -<div id='001' class='mt01 mb01 w001'> - <img src='images/illus-001.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> -<p class='caption'>“My contribution to the conversation came from just above them.”</p> -</div> -<p>They whirled as at the press of a button. The man was a huge hulking -fellow in corduroys, but he did not look the villain by a long shot. -Indeed, his guileless face, lit with amazement at my words, begged to -offer a guarantee of honesty. Here certainly was no finished -desperado. The first glimpse of him relieved my mind. We were in no -personal danger at least.</p> - -<p>“Who in time are you?” he wanted to know.</p> - -<p>“Tavis Q. Damron, at your service. And you—since introductions are -going?”</p> - -<p>The young woman—she was a Miss Katherine Gray, stopping at the same -hotel as I at Manitou—promptly took the opportunity to slip behind my -back. For me, I was in a glow of triumph. It had not been twenty-four -hours since Miss Gray had informed me that she meant never to speak -again to me. And already the favoring gods had brought her to me on -the run. In my relation I felt myself a match for a score of lowering -countrymen.</p> - -<p>“He shot at me,” she cried over my shoulder.</p> - -<p>“It went off accidentally,” protested the man.</p> - -<p>“I don’t care. He shot.”</p> - -<p>“He’ll not do it again,” I promised, complacently.</p> - -<p>My unlucky triumph must have crept into my voice. I felt her appraise -with deliberate eye my sixty-six scant inches. Nothing “hips” me more -than an inference that I am short. To be sure, I am not a giant -physically. Neither was Napoleon.</p> - -<p>“I’m sorry not to meet with your approbation,” I said huffily.</p> - -<p>“Oh, I did not say that. It would be unjust. You can’t help being -little,” she was pleased to say, and I swear I heard the chuckle in -her voice.</p> - -<p>“Any more than you can help being offensive when you are in the -humor.”</p> - -<p>“Don’t take it so to heart. You may grow yet. You are very young, you -know.”</p> - -<p>“Perhaps I am <i>de trop</i>. Very likely you were looking for somebody -else when you came galloping down the hill,” I said sulkily.</p> - -<p>“I was looking for a man.” Her casual eye swept the valley. Tavis Q. -Damron really did not appear to be on the map.</p> - -<p>“I am certain you will not have to look long,” I assured her with -excessive politeness.</p> - -<p>“Thank you.” She glanced scornfully at me. “I suppose you mean that -for a compliment? I think it impertinent, if you want to know.”</p> - -<p>It was odd how we had almost forgotten the presence of our friend in -corduroys; yet not so strange either, for he looked the picture of -awkward indecision, much more the detected schoolboy than the “bad -man” bandit. His fat, red hand, wandering restlessly about, included -us in its orbit.</p> - -<p>“I say, my man! Put up that gun! You make me nervous,” I barked.</p> - -<p>“It might go off again accidentally,” suggested Miss Gray derisively. -“We can’t risk Mr. Damron’s fainting. I suppose you have no -restoratives with you, Mr. Corduroy?”</p> - -<p>There came a shout from the cliff five hundred feet above. A man -standing on the edge was beckoning to us.</p> - -<p>“Somebody appears to want us to come and to share his beautiful view,” -I said.</p> - -<p>Corduroy’s indecision came to an end. “I guess we better be going -back, Miss.”</p> - -<p>“I thought I understood her to say she did not care to go back,” I -said, eyeing him steadily.</p> - -<p>Corduroy shifted uneasily. “She hadn’t any call to run away. Her -father’s up there.”</p> - -<p>“He’s a prisoner,” explained Miss Gray.</p> - -<p>I gasped. “A prisoner?”</p> - -<p>“Yes. Mr. Halloway is keeping him on that cliff and won’t let him -leave,” she said, quite calmly.</p> - -<p>“Halloway! Bob Halloway?”</p> - -<p>She nodded defiantly. “Yes, Bob Halloway.”</p> - -<p>“But—why, the thing is impossible.”</p> - -<p>“Isn’t it ridiculous?” She gave a sudden charming smile. “I didn’t -know the West was so delightfully primitive.”</p> - -<p>“Surely one can’t hold up a copper king in that primeval fashion. It -has to be done on Wall street.” Reflecting on Simon Gray’s probable -reflections, I smiled. Immediately I regretted my indiscretion. The -study of Miss Gray’s moods was a continual education. They were -teaching me just now that she might laugh at that which I might not.</p> - -<p>“Isn’t it humorous?” said Miss Gray, a little too sweetly. “Don’t let -me curb your gayety. He’s only my father.”</p> - -<p>Instantly I switched the indecorous mirth from my face. “I don’t see -how he dares,” I murmured, to bridge the pause.</p> - -<p>“Dares! I thought you knew Bob Halloway better,” she said scornfully. -“He dares anything.”</p> - -<p>I did know him better. He would stick at nothing. Whatever else his -smiling insolence covered, it did not hide any lack of courage to back -his recklessness. He was the type of man that women find fascinating, -especially women of the high-spirited, chivalrous order. You know the -sort of scamp I mean—the kind whose dark, unscrupulous eyes and -devil-may-care fearlessness draw the poor moths to the singeing flame. -And though for his unworthiness his father two years before had -shipped him to a ranch in Colorado and cut him adrift, my resurrected -suspicions painted him a rival still to be feared. Katherine had liked -him then; she liked him now. I knew it from the moment when the -picturesque vagabond galloped up to our hotel two days before and -offered her his strong brown hand and candid smile.</p> - -<p>I meditated. “Of course it is a holdup of some sort. He isn’t doing it -for fun. What does he want?”</p> - -<p>Looking up, I happened to catch Katherine Gray’s eyes. They were -blushing.</p> - -<p>“Oh!” I exclaimed understandingly.</p> - -<p>“Nothing of the kind! Don’t be silly, Tavis,” she told me sharply.</p> - -<p>“Then I’m hanged if I <i>can</i> understand. I seem to be playing blind -euchre with my eyes shut. First one finds Miss Katherine Gray, -daughter and sole heir to Simon Gray, the Copper King, scudding over -the mountains with Mr. Corduroy’s revolver barking at her.”</p> - -<p>“I told you it was accidental,” growled the bass voice. “I couldn’t -catch her, so I took out my gun to frighten her into stopping.”</p> - -<p>“Then one hears that the Copper King himself is viewing scenery he -does not enjoy, under enforced restraint at the hands of a young man -who used to lead cotillions with his daughter before he fell into evil -ways. You know I told you he was a scamp.”</p> - -<p>“Don’t be a parrot, Mr. Damron,” Katherine snapped. “I told <i>you</i> -yesterday that I wasn’t interested in your opinion of Mr. Halloway. -You so often forget that you are not my chaperon.”</p> - -<p>“Of course I don’t want to rub it in, but if you had listened to——”</p> - -<p>“——Grandmother Damron. Well, I didn’t—and I’m not going to.” Miss -Gray’s chin was in the air. She wheeled and began to climb the -hillside.</p> - -<p>“Where are you going?” I asked.</p> - -<p>She can be very deaf on occasion.</p> - -<p>“Oh, up the hill,” she flung over her shoulder in answer to my -question repeated.</p> - -<p>“But you said you weren’t going back.”</p> - -<p>“Can’t I change my mind, Grandmother?”</p> - -<p>“You don’t need to be rude,” I said sulking.</p> - -<p>I toiled in her wake, and Corduroy in mine. The pace she set soon had -us puffing. Miss Gray is one of those young women who do outdoor -things better than most men. She never fainted in her life, and nerves -are a fairy tale to her. It always ruffles my temper and my vanity to -do a twosome with her at golf.</p> - -<p>“Hello, you people! Just in time for lunch. Glad to see you, Damron,” -sang out Halloway cheerily as we emerged from the aspens into view at -the rear of the cliff.</p> - -<p>A most appealing luncheon was set forth on the white table cloth -spread on a camp table among the boulders. Halloway, in his shirt -sleeves, was making coffee, opening cans of deviled ham, unpacking a -box of fried chicken, and otherwise endeavoring to be several places -at once. He fell immediately to issuing orders.</p> - -<p>“Bring that box of ice with the bottles in it from the wagon, John. I -say, Damron, do you know how to broil bacon? Well, you’ll never learn -younger. Shake those coals down and set to work, my son. And don’t let -the coffee boil over.” His enthusiasm was contagious. I found myself -obeying him mechanically. “You might unpack the sandwiches, Kate. -We’re going to have the jolliest little lunch you ever saw. I suspect -you are hungry. Scudding over these hills is great for the appetite. -By the way, you made a fine run of it.” He was so genial and friendly -to her that one could hardly believe he knew that his confederate had -just brought her back under the menace of his revolver.</p> - -<p>Miss Gray probably thought his assurance was akin to cheek. At any -rate she gave him the full benefit of her un-willowy five foot seven. -He met with smiling admiration her level indignant eyes; and indeed -the girl’s long curves, her frank good looks, her flashing sunburnt -beauty, had led captive many a man’s fancy. Turning on her heel, she -joined her father. Simon Gray, multimillionaire, was seated morosely -on a rock, frowning down into the Garden of the Gods with blazing -eyes. Far below a dozen dwarfed carriages might be seen wheeling along -the red ribbon of road, and many burros with tourists on their backs -crawled like ants among the rocks, but for all practical purposes the -grim-eyed captain of industry was as much a prisoner as if the gates -of a jail had closed on him.</p> - -<p>His dignity was too precious to be risked in a futile attempt to -escape from the long-legged powerful young athlete. Possibly it was -because I was so interested in the situation that I burnt the bacon to -a crisp. Miss Grey, with one of her sudden changes of humor, drove me -from the fire and broiled the bacon herself. The truth is that despite -her frowns the girl was enjoying herself hugely. The excitement of a -new experience filliped through her blood.</p> - -<p>I joined Mr. Gray and we conversed in whispers. He explained to me the -absolute necessity of his being in Denver that afternoon to attend an -important meeting of the Copper Consolidated Corporation. It was the -day of the biennial election of officers. He had bought Consolidated -stock sufficient to win the control from the present management, but -without his presence or his proxies the old management would still be -able to carry the election and reinstate itself. James Halloway was -president of the Consolidated, and the two men had been fighting for -control more years than one.</p> - -<p>“Last call for dinner in the dining car,” sang out Halloway, and -notwithstanding our lack of harmony the sharp air of the Rockies had -made us hungry enough to sink, for the moment, at least, all -differences. Halloway, easy, alert, and masterful, dispensed -refreshments with debonair hospitality to his unwilling guests.</p> - -<p>“Finest bacon I ever ate. It would be a pleasure to have you for a -housekeeper, Miss Gray,” our host tossed out audaciously.</p> - -<p>“You are such a good provider, Mr. Halloway, that I am sure it would -be a pleasure to be your housekeeper,” returned Miss Gray demurely.</p> - -<p>“And if I neglected my duties you could always send your man out to -shoot at me.”</p> - -<div id='002' class='mt01 mb01 w002'> - <img src='images/illus-002.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> -<p class='caption'>“And if I neglected my duties you could always send a man out to shoot me.”</p> -</div> -<p>“Ah! That only shows my solicitude to detain you. One couldn’t bear -the idea of having you leave our party, and yet one couldn’t in common -politeness desert Mr. Gray to follow you. It remained only to send a -message via John requesting you to return.”</p> - -<p>“Well, he delivered it,” the girl said, dimpling reminiscently.</p> - -<p>Halloway smiled. “I’m afraid John is a little abrupt sometimes.”</p> - -<p>Her eyes mocked him boldly. “In your profession of highwayman, -abruptness, one would think, might sometimes be essential.”</p> - -<p>“It was cruel of you to desert us without warning,” he said, ignoring -her irony.</p> - -<p>“I went to get help.”</p> - -<p>“That was good of you, but we did not really need it,” he returned, -misunderstanding her promptly. “Though of course we are very glad to -have Damron with us.”</p> - -<p>“I suppose you know that it will be a criminal offense to keep Mr. -Gray here till night as you threaten. You invited him here to a -picnic. You have no right to detain him a moment longer than he -desires. Your outrageous course is very much against the law, Mr. -Halloway,” I said stiffly.</p> - -<p>He looked politely interested. “Is it? No, I didn’t know just how -illegal it was. Of course I guessed I was skating on thin ice, but the -truth is that I didn’t get legal advice. That shows the advantage of -having a lawyer along when one goes buccaneering. How much could they -give me, Damron?”</p> - -<p>“You’ll not think it so much of a joke when you are behind the bars.”</p> - -<p>“No, I daresay not. I expect I would better enjoy it while I have the -opportunity. Try one of these peaches, Miss Gray.” He leaned against a -rock and smoked the placid post-prandial cigar of him whose soul is at -peace. I, too, had lit up, but my mind was far from equable. I was -possessed by the vision of a headlong generous girl under the -fascination of this charming young vagabond. Yet I confess that for -myself I admired as much as I disliked his dare-devil indifference to -consequences, though for the life of me I could not guess what his -game was or how it could advantage him to detain the Copper King on -this mountain top against his will.</p> - -<p>He expounded his easy philosophy with airy candor. “After all, laws -are made for man, not man for the laws. Mr. Gray is a capitalist, and -he can tell you that laws are to be obeyed with discretion. There -would not be any use in having them if somebody did not break them -occasionally. Well, this is my day off. I’m playing ping-pong with the -statutes of Colorado”</p> - -<p>“But why?” I demanded. “What good does it do you?”</p> - -<p>“Oh come, Damron! Mayn’t I have a secret or two of my own? I don’t -suppose you ever explained publicly just why you happen to be spending -your vacation in Colorado instead of Timbuctoo.”</p> - -<p>I fear I blushed. Glancing covertly at my reason, I found it the -fairest under the sun, but too present to admit of discussion.</p> - -<p>Suddenly Simon Gray cut crisply into the talk for the first time.</p> - -<p>“Of course I understand why you are holding me here, Halloway. You are -working under instructions from your father to keep me until after the -election this afternoon. But the thing is too barefaced. It won’t hold -in law. It’s a conspiracy.”</p> - -<p>Halloway’s masterful eves looked straight at him.</p> - -<p>“I have not seen or heard from my father in two years, Mr. Gray. He -does not have anything to do with his scalawag son. You do not need to -look beyond me to place the responsibility for this. But you’re right -in one thing. I intend that you shall not reach Denver in time for the -Copper Consolidated meeting.”</p> - -<p>They were both dominant men, and their eyes met like the flash of -steel.</p> - -<p>“No? Why not?” asked Gray quietly, his lids narrowing to long watchful -slits.</p> - -<p>“Because you are going there to take what doesn’t belong to you—to -vote away from my father and his associates the control of a business -which they have given twenty years of their lives to build. Theirs is -a legitimate business enterprise. They developed and extended it -gradually. It grew to be a big thing. Then you took a fancy for -copper. You——”</p> - -<p>“You don’t know what you are talking about young man. I am going there -to take what the law allows me—what I have bought and paid for in the -open market,” broke in Gray harshly.</p> - -<p>“Yes, the law allows it to you, and it doesn’t allow me to interfere. -That is where the law is defective. It is true, too, that you have -manipulated the market in such a way as to get temporary control of a -majority of the stock. But that does not affect the fact that my -father and his friends have the moral right to direct the affairs of -the Consolidated. Their whole life is bound up in it. You are -interested simply for speculative purposes. They have earned the right -to direct its affairs. You haven’t.”</p> - -<p>“Such talk is sheer folly. You do not understand finance, sir. You -have been living outside of the currents of business. The matter is a -plain business one, not an ethical or sentimental affair at all.”</p> - -<p>Halloway’s daring eyes swept whimsically across the table and rested -momentarily on Katherine. “I am trying to keep it on a business basis -so that sentiment may not interfere, sir.”</p> - -<p>Then Katherine spoke with silken cruelty. “You have a very flattering -opinion of my father, Mr. Halloway. It makes his daughter proud to -know that one of such notable achievement thinks so highly of him.”</p> - -<p>Halloway bowed, a sardonic smile on his good-looking face. “I can -hardly expect my course to commend itself to Miss Gray,” he said -simply.</p> - -<p>Miss Katherine’s dark flashing eyes showed their anger at the -presumption of this lawless, high-handed youth. She had, in company -with many charming women, a capacity for injustice, but she had, too, -a quick instinctive appreciation for fine points of character. Her -feelings were outraged that this young man, who had once wanted to -marry her and who still held much fascination for her, had taken -advantage of his position as host to overreach her father. But she was -very much a creature of moods, and I knew her well enough to fear the -revulsion which would follow when she began to take into account his -motive—loyalty to a father who had disowned him. And I was certain -that even now there was running through her rage an admiration of his -audacity that would remain when the anger had evaporated.</p> - -<p>Just now, however, she treated his remarks in very cavalier fashion. -The burden of such conversation as there was rested on Halloway. It -consisted for the most part in genially ironical remarks on the charms -of an outdoor life. Katherine was aloofly viewing the scenery with -occasional side-shot glances at the offending youth; I watched events -in a moody silence, and Corduroy still discussed his dinner some fifty -yards from us. As for Simon Gray, he sat in a brown study, his eyes -fixed intently on a syphon he did not see. I wondered what plan was -filtering into that alert, fertile brain of his.</p> - -<p>I was soon to learn. Halloway carried over to Corduroy a bottle of -ale, and in his absence the Copper King found chance to enlist his -daughter in the scheme. Presently Miss Katherine strolled leisurely -toward the cluster of great brown rocks which cropped out near the -edge of the bluff. She carried a magazine with her.</p> - -<p>“You’re not going to run away again, Kate,” Halloway called after her.</p> - -<p>She shook her head.</p> - -<p>“Word of honor?”</p> - -<p>“Word of honor,” she called gaily back to him. “But if you doubt——”</p> - -<div id='003' class='mt01 mb01 w003'> - <img src='images/illus-003.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> -<p class='caption'>“Word of honor,” she called gaily back to him.</p> -</div> -<p>Her smile was an invitation. Halloway did not accept it at once, but, -plainly eager to be off, stuck to the magnate for a long ten minutes. -Then, “Hang duty!” he said, and with a word of caution to his -accomplice, he disappeared after her behind the rocks. His long shadow -had scarcely trailed out of view before old Gray and a flask of old -Scotch were laying siege to Corduroy. The task of sapping his loyalty -was no easy one. It took thirty minutes of argument—of threats, -cajolery, promises, interspersed with frequent internal applications -of the contents of the flask—to win him over. There were times when I -despaired of hooking our shy fish, and even after he had swallowed the -bait he fought against being landed. Every moment I expected to see -Halloway’s impudent curly head rising over the brow of the hill. I was -as nervous as a youngster awaiting a caning, but they don’t make them -more cool and game than old Gray was. Our joint pocket books happened -to carry five hundred twenty-five dollars, and it took all we had -except some silver change to buy a release. But in the end I had the -satisfaction of seeing the rotund millionaire and Corduroy legging it -down the hill toward Manitou. I am not going to pretend that I have -often spent as bad a quarter of an hour as the one which followed, -during which I saw their figures lessen in the distance. It was not -until they had reached the red thread of the valley road that I -breathed freely. I was ready now for the villain to reenter, and, as -if pat to his cue, the alluring vagabond I had cast for the part -sauntered into view. He was very much engrossed with his companion, -and—I noticed it with a pang of envy—she with him. Both of them seemed -always to radiate health and vitality, but my jaundiced eyes found -about them now a scarce decently subdued sparkle of exhilaration. They -were in a world primeval and everybody else forgotten. There have been -times when I have trod air and breathed champagne myself, but that did -not make me any less sulky now. I resented to the bottom of my soul -their Eden from which I was excluded.</p> - -<div id='004' class='mt01 mb01 w004'> - <img src='images/illus-004.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> -<p class='caption'>“In a world primeval.”</p> -</div> -<p>They were almost on me before they wakened to things mundane.</p> - -<p>“Hello, Damron!” Halloway looked over the plateau and brought his eyes -back to me. “Where’s Mr. Gray?” Katherine started and looked guilty. I -verily believe that till this moment the minx had forgotten she was in -a conspiracy to worst him.</p> - -<p>I pointed to the disappearing specks. “On his way to a telegraph -office. He is going to have the Consolidated election postponed till -to-morrow,” I said with malicious triumph.</p> - -<p>“What did you do with John?”</p> - -<p>“Bought him. You should have stayed here. If you want a thing well -done, you know!”</p> - -<p>“Oh! You seem to have been quite active.” He looked long at the -figures through a pair of field glasses. “Why didn’t you go along?” he -asked presently.</p> - -<p>“I thought I would stay and break the news of our little surprise to -you,” I said tartly.</p> - -<p>He turned his genial, impudent smile on me. “That was good of you, -Damron. You deserve something for that.” His eyes met Katherine’s for -an instant. She nodded, blushing. He tucked her arm under his, and -they beamed down on me. “We have a little surprise, too. Miss Gray and -I are engaged to be married. We arranged it while you were buying my -partner in crime.”</p> - -<p>I offered my congratulations with a wooden face.</p> - -<p>Katherine has always been able to twist her father round that supple -little finger of hers. It did not surprise me at all to read in the -papers two days later that an adjustment of the affairs of the C. C. -C. had been made satisfactory to the warring factions and that by this -arrangement President Halloway was allowed to retain his position and -continue his policy. The breach between Bob Halloway and his father -was immediately healed. Friends industriously circulated the -information that the difference had been due merely to the clashing of -two proud natures which did not understand each other. They point to -the fact that since his marriage Bob has been in every way equal to -the business responsibilities of his important position in the -Consolidated. One understands that he has now entirely sown his wild -oats. 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