The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-15

Until it's paid" said Brace. continuing
nv sentence, you've got to go to bed lsteI
and get VI airls. aid be thankful Def you
kin sleep sound in betwixt. | reckon it'll
take you a pretty considerable long time
afore you feel you don't know what to do
with yourself"
"A long while!" / said. gravely.
How long?" asked Lola. quickly. under
her breath.
"Oh, many. many years. perhaps ga
piled.
She did net attempt TO coneeal her satis-
faction:
l gave the girl 4 why little horse. She
sat il for the first time with the grace and
mastery of a trained horsewoman.
Every morning | rode round the planta-
ton: sometimes business took me to the
city. She never failed to be by my side on
these occasions. But when L had work to
do il was another thing. She hated work
and dreaded tranquility; she found an es>
cape from both in u wild gallon among the
foothills, She became coquettlsh with re-
gard to her appearances When she could
coax dollar out OF her father, who would
gallon to san Diego to buy some tribe for
the ai6rnineht of her pretty little person.
If by my manner she fancied | approved
the new addition, she wore it till she could
replace ii with something else. But If |
failed to notice it, or she thought 1t was not
il was day old. She abandoned herself to
the enjoyment of the new life that came to
her and for some time she seemed neither
to remember the past nor think OF the future.
Under these conditions all trace of illness
disappeared, and with health returned
something of her old mutinous independ-
enee: paternal authority once more sunk
into insignificance.
Brace quickly found occupation. and after
a time rendered inc Invaluable assistance i'll
the inahageinant of the business. One ddy;
as we were returning from the packing
sheds. he said:
I've looked around this consarG pretty
careful. and | see, sir, that you're goin' to
do a great big thing here. You've found
out jest where the real grit o this country
lays, and you're goin' to work 1t up into an
almighty pile. That's what you're goin to
do, and I'm everlastin' glad OF 1t for more
reasons than one. And one reason is this:
I'm gettin' more duberous every day
whether we shall ever get the Great Hesper.
For. fustly, when the frost breaks up the
great hole where the gel hes hid the stone
may be sweep out as clean as gin-baril by
the torrent of melted snow, or it may be
blocked up for eyerlaSun' by the mass of
rock that comes rollin' down from the
mountain sides every spring; and, secondly.
the Kid may change her mind. She may
back out of the promise she gave us when
she was sick. Reflect her mother were
greaser, and consequently it's nat'ral to her
TO tell lies when they'll serve her purpose;
and bear in mind it would serve her pur-
pose to make out the diamond amt no lon
ger where she put it. Bear in mind, also,
sir, as she warn't herself when she made
the promise, and that she's been gettn'
more herself since. Her obs macy and dew
iltry's comm back more and more every
day, and she's now almost the bs'nate,
contrary little cuSS she was. Keep on
bearn' in mind that she stole the diamond
purposely TO separate you from Miss Las
celes and TO bring you down TO Urinary
workin man again. l see her game tho
day we lost the diamond; | see it clearer
an ever when we got up to Petersvile-
she was that angry when L told her there
was no good to be done minin in the or nary
way-so eager for me to write and tell you
there was IA going for the stuff down the
big hole Now, fortune to be made soon as
| hit on the idea of what's she's goin' to git
by givin' up the damond-a little wuss than
nothin'. Which is why ! rejice in the pros
pect of your making big thing Of this ere
orange CROWN. Still, sir, we amt goin to
lose that diamond, if we can help it, and
we're got two things to do. We're got to
keep our eye on the snow, and get down the
great hole afore the wust OF the slush and
the rock comes tumbiin' down and were
got to make the Kid believe as things down
here is so jolly tlourishin' as we don't kere
Two straws whether we find the thing or not.
You'll leave that to me. I'll pitch il in
strong to herl"
And he kept his word. Every day he OK
hausted his stock of nd jectives in glorify-
ing tile estate, and dilating upon the mar
vcl0us results to be obtained from fruit
culture, and occasionally he referred TO the
Great Hesper with such contempt that one
would have thought it was hardly worth
stretching out ones hand to take.
This had the effect that Brace desired.
She listened in moody sill nee. and after |
had turned the subject she would sit with
her chin in her hands, her elbows on her
kn-es, and her great sad eyes llXed upon
some distant object, wrapped in dreamy
neditatiOn. But Brace was not content
tn this.
One day | overheard him speaking to Lola
when Trey were alone.
i reckon we shall have to show off our
good pints my gel, before the Squire and
his daughter come here, or we shall look
pretty mean by comparison, and Gentleman
Thorne will sorter feel sick, seem US hang
in around. He'll say to hisself. natral like.
well, here's this Squire and his daughter as
I've never done nothin' in partickley for.
has set me up in a business us is goin to
make me the most eternel ALTERED Million
airc that ever lived; and on tie other
hand. here's this derned old Judge, as
skercely earns his salt, and the Kid, as I've
nussed and saved twice from dying light
out. and all they've ever done for me is ter
rob me of all ] he'd, and do their level best
to clean me ottt and ruin me.'
He might have continued, being of per-
severing sort, but that Lola ran away to
her room. slammed the door. and burst into
sat on the terrace.
Iury.