Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-04-08
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come back and reveal our secret
IMAM as hey now are chained to
cracked skull, and therefore in bad work
ing order. Hillyear, from what you say, is,
/ judge, only an appendage of Pratts, and
not able to do anything without him At all
events, I'll find out soon As for the Bank
think I've got the cream out of it already.
It's only feeder to some bigger vein in the
mountain That can lay for awhile. I've
got four or five caches of quartz up there
that | haven't shown YOU Wen get it all
down this week and hush up things for the
present There's, think, your fair share of
divvy, so far as we've gone" and he put in
my hands mint certificate of deposit for
Sl4,0o0 IF the rock that's mined out gives
down as think it will, you'll have as much
more coming to you. Are you satistiedm
Satisfied Less than year from home and
1 the possessor of what in Eastport was deemed
! small fortune In the well-worn phrase.
| wanted to pour forth my thanks"
| said: Il wish could fifty express my
feeling and gratitude to you"
Pm glad you can't" said Broener inter
rupting me- Its good thing for you
that you can't. / hate effusiveness. You
may in part thank your reticence and I'M
demonstrativeness for what you call your
luck. | don't want any gushers about me.
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cent OF it. Fate put you and me together,
and with that put it in your way. There's
no thanks nor gratitude in the matter
hate people always overwhelmed with graft
tude. They're the sort who, if ever they
do you what's called favor, never forget it.
] and, In effect want to be paid for it forever
| afterward Let's change the subject There's
travelling theatre company at Chinese
Camp tonight Let's go and see the show.
You need change from the CHASTITY buz-
card spying and body hunting business Get
Rankin's horse I'll take mine. and we'll
/. gallop over there
On applying, Mr. Rankin said he would
gladly hire me his horse. The animal. he
added, was vicious, SHE'D at his own shadow.
'bucked' frequently and had been the death
of two men. As we were leaving he called
| out to Broener: 1.-THE coroner lives at one
| end of the camp and is Eighteenth on an in
| quest when sober The undertaken lives at
| the other You'd better take the cloth for
| the young mans shroud along with you
They know that horse up there and always
| put an extra ten cents yard on white linen
when they see him comm"
1t seemed another world in that land when
riding by night. The suns hot glare was
gone. The air after nightfall was always
cool and refreshing, for it came Off the snow
1 odhhS VA tuo 6lefTa SuInIllUS. Our horses
were full of life and apparently as glad to
make the trip as ourselves The life of the
( horse seems to add life to the rider, provid-
| ing he is horseman." Distance at night
| seems unnoticed. 1t is more like a dream
One travels forward without so much of that
| mental straining to reach one point after
| another as do so often our unhappily consti-
tuted hurrying minds in the day time.
| So galloped Broener and |, regarding those
myriad shining wonders of all ages-tbe
| stars.
Lots of em, aren't thereg said he.
"The starsa Yes
Small potatoes we are under them
| Smaller than ants in comparison, and moving
about on THIS planet for these shining atoms
| we call gold. l wonder, now, of what i'm
portance poor Pratt, if he had his senses
would consider that biggest star alongside of
pan full Of dust. Pratt would trade Venus
| for quartz claim
Stars speculation, immortality, etc. ~ said
Broener as we rode on. 'The three seem to
go together; or, at all events, stars ALWAYS
| start one on those topics. wonder what we
are, anyway-who we are, where we came
| FROM and all the rest | am a certain a.nount
| of life and intelligence in a body. Body's
| only garment, wrap, machine Hit
| part of the body hard enough, Just one
blow, and in one second life's all gone and
with it the gumption' I've been storing up
for years. Hit it not quite as hard. like the
crack poor Pratt gave himself, and the intel
lgence stays but goes to flinders-all hurIy-
burly. Problem: when you bore a hole with
| bullet through a mans head, does all his
intellect go out through that hole, and, if So
where does it go to2 and might there not be
some way of putting bucket or basin under
such a mans head when he's dying. and
collecting his intelligence, his quien sabs
for ones own use, just as they tap
| trees for maple sugars Well one things
certain; we're here, anyway, and / put
it up that the best plan is to get all the
fun we can out of it-body, soul, mind spirit.
and any other little addition the theologians'
philosophers and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. can tack on
US"
We rode into the scamp" In the language
of the time it was 'sbilr,n The theatre
company had brought in miners from far and
near 1t was a single straight street. From
every door and window on either side poured
a flood of light, for every house II the street.
Of wood or c4vtil, was either store, sa
loon, gambling tent or some place Of public
resort Sidewalk, street and houses were
| alike full of men, The 'fandango" was
alrea ly in full blast. Here, alone were
seen AFOf R.ll--uark-Sklun SenOf1UdS III WIlUo
dresses, some having their waists encircled
by broad bands of pure gold. Riders were
momentarily coming in, some urging their
horses at a breakneck pace through the street
The air WAS filled with medley of sounds
music sbonts, laughter the hum of several
hundred voices gathered in SO small an area,
| the clinG of glasses and an occasional yell
| from some miner giving vent in this way to
the emotions within him developed by whisky
''Cone,n said Broener. Lets take look
| at the fandango. Everybody goes there
either to dance or look on. It's not the low
dance house of an old city. You will find
| there the leading merchants of the place
| the banker, the lawyer, the judge, and all
i the other present pillars of society, in this
| new world of adventures. Society here.
you see, is in state of effervescence, and
| everybodys at the top. Hence there's now
| no bottom. Nor are these Mexican and Chill
| eanean girls like the abandoned of our
| American or English cities They don't get
drunk, won't pick your pocket, and
though morality sits lightly on them, still
| they have a certain respect for themselves
| which keeps them out of CUTTERS
| We went in Broener was soon whirling
| one of these tawny beauties about in waltz.
1 followed his example. The dance over, We