Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-18

! uau u0u 6llSutcu lIOu tEc hcCouu "
truly" coach among the resl passenger
Ind strolled carelessly and easily in TIL
Veranda as Il the novelty sud the occs'
sion were nothing to him, Johnny, witt
3 gulp OF satisfaction, knew that he hGt
seen prince! Beautifully dressed IN i.
white duck suit, with dismond rim:
on his finger, gold chain swinging
from his fob, and Panama hat With q
broad black ribbon jiunsi!y resting on his
curled and scented hsir, Johnny's eyes
had never rested on more reSplendeni
vision. He was more romantic tnen
Yubs B;lt, more imposing and less impos
Sible than the Honorable Ablar Dean,
beautiful than any colored print that he
passing Johnny would have felt thrill
had he epoken to him he knew
he would have been speech.
less 10 reply. Judge then Of bis utter
ssupetsctlon when BE saw Uncle
BsI-.ctuelly u ncls Ben !-2pprosch this
paragon OF perfection, albeit with soms
embarrassment, and sitter word or two
OF unintelligibIe conversation walk away
with hin! Need 1t De won 1ered that
johnny, iorgetiul st once CT his brother,
the horses, and even the collation. with lis
possible ''gooGies," instantly followed.
The two men turned into the side
street, which after few hundred yards
opeced upon the deserted mining fist,
crossed s2d broken BY the borrows
and mounds made by the forgotten
engines of the esrly gold-seeksrs !;
Johnny, At times hidden by these iriegu-
lerities, kept closely in their re6r, ssuat.
ering wherever he came within the range
OF their eyes II thSs sideloug, spssmodic
and generally diagonal fashion peculiar
to smsll boys, but ready e: any moment
to assume inter unconscious ess and the
appearance CT going somewhere else o. Of
searching for something on the ground.
! Is this way appearing, /; noticed at all,
esch time IN some different position 10
tie right or LEFT OF them, J lhnEy l.
lowed I EN- to The tEIrge q Wo0cisnA
! Wnitn ensoled him to draw closer to
their heels.
CHAPTER VI.
Utterly o0l;yIou3 ot this artistic "sizd-
owing" il the Insignificant person CT tee
smEu boy who once or twice even crossed
heir path with affected timidits, they
/ continued On apparently confident al pro-
Vious Interview. Tha words "stocks"
and "ehares" were sloue Ineligible
Johnny had heard them during the day,
but he |as struck oy the fsct that Uncle
Ben seemed 10 be seeking Information
from the paragon and was perfectly sub
missiye and humble. But the boy wss
considerably mystifed when after q tramp
OF hsli IN hour they arrived upon the de
ba.abIe ground OF the Harrison McKin-
stry boundary. Having been c.
peciGllY warned never to 60
there, johnny e5 matter Ct
course WAS perfectly familiar with
| It. Blu. what WAS the incompreheDsible
stranger doing there3 Was he brought
By Uacle Ben with view CT perslyZ ne
both Of the contestants with the specta-
Gle Of his PROJECTIONS? Was he youth
tul sheriff, = young Judge, OF maybe the
J son OF the governor CT Calif3rris? Or
| WAS 1t tnst Uacle Ben was "silly," and
dldn't know the !ocslity? Here was 81
opportunity for hin, johnny, to intro
duce himscli and explsin sGd even mag
niiy the danger, with perhaps slight
slIusion 20 his cwn fearless familiarity
with it, Unfortunately, IS he w4s max
| i1g up lis small mind behind q :ree, the
psrsgon .urned and, VITA ths essy dis
dsin thstso Wsll became him, said:
"Well, wo1ldn'a OF s dollar an scze
| t3r the Whole rancho. but II sou choose
20 give fancy price, that's jour look
ou.."
To Johnny's already pEeiadiced mind,
Udcle received this ia4 contempt
subnd:siyely, IS he ought, oT. nGverIhe-
legs ~ muttsred something "Silly" in re-
ply, which Johnny was. rsslly too dis-
gu3ted tc listen to. Ought ne not to step
forward and inform the parsgon that he
vas wasting his time on 9 man who
couldn't even spell "3a-ker," and who
was taught ME letters by his, John2y's
| brother?
The paragon continued.
"And Of course you know thst merely
your buying the title to the land don't
give you possession. You'll have to fight
these sQuatters and jumpers just the
came. In be three instead OF two fight.
ing-thal's all"
Uncle Ben's imbecIls rsp;y did rot
trouble Johnny. He hsd ears now oaly
for the superior intellec. baf3re him, I:
continued coolly.
Snow let's take look 81 that yield OF
yours. haven't much time 20 g:ys you,
as expect some men to be looking for
me here-snd 1 suppose you want this
thing still Kept s secret. don't see hcW
you've msnsged 20 do it so far. Is your
claim nesl7 You I've on it, think you
| sale 2"
But that the little listener was SO pro-
occupied with tie stranger, this sug.
ges!ion Of Uncle Ben's having 3 claim
worth the attention Of that dis
tinguished presence would have set
MIN thinking; the little that he under
stood he set down to Uacle Ben's
| "gassin'." As the two men moved for
ward sgsir, he followed them until Ia
Gle Bsn's house was reached.
Il was g rude shanty OF boards and
rough bouldars, bali ourroWing II one Of
the largest mounds OF eLr!h and gravel
which Esd once represented the tsi!ings
or refuse of the abandoned Indian Springs
Placer. Ia fact Is was casually alleged
by some ths. L ,cIe Ben eked on. the
scanty "gruo wages" he made bY
sctusl mining, in re working and sitting
the tsilings a.. odd times degrading
work hitherto pTacticed only by
Chinese, and unworthy tie Gu
csslcn ambition. The mining code
Of honor held that man might accept
the emaliest results CT his daily labor, as |