Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22

out with it at once. Aren't we both getting
! in love with the wrong girl!''
Just what was going to say myself. old
| boy: but, you see-So many things to attend
to
''EXactly-we understand all about that
only we are getting so near our destination
| that l felt now's the time or never
''Taste this-it's new hask-old Bour
! bon. Well, there's no Disgusting it; we
| live and learn, don't we?"
Il should say SO, just: but hJw Jolly it is
| when the lessons come so naturally TO US.
| eha"
And so they chatted into long, serious,
| manly exchange OF thoughts that ended in
the completeSt understanding of each
| others judgments and intentions Subject
| to the various contingencies, persona, and
| circumstantial, they resolved to declare
| themselves to Elsie and Genie, but not
until after the election.
When at last they arrived on the borders
of Idaho and Wyoming, time was so short
that they abandoned the idea of sport, ex-
cept that of hunting for facts. With much
difficulty they explored the territory in
which the scheme was to be operated.
They found no evidence whatever of fraud
All the tempting statements about the pos
sibilities of the railroad, and the mines, and
the lind of asphalt were unassailable. The
shaky thing about it all was that little eff. ~
IL was ClcdF 10 Ule SltreNO ana experienced
Hogg and the sensible but inexperienced
Tyrwhitt that '.if' immigration would
people the district, railroad would flour
iSh; that SIP the mines maintained pop
ulation OF workers. large profits would be
made: that '.if'' the asphalt was inexhaust-
ible. millions could be made out of the New
York contract; and ''if'' all these develop
ments develop, Blarnaby would be ma
tional benefactor.
They met an intelligent man, a surveyor
and superintendent, formerly employed by
the company of which Blarnaby was presi-
dent. He was now keeping a sort of hotel
on his own farm lands. He told them a
good many interesting things, and among
them this:
sI'm almost the only one left of the orig
inal crew. We settled here about ten years
ago, a lot Of US, and made sure our claims
were going to yield US fortunes. And SO
they would if the stuff hadn't give out.
Then weogave up the game. A smart chap
whose lot was next to mine hit on a scheme.
Says he, BOYS, why should we chuck
everything away when we can sell QUIZ
Well, we smiled; but bye-and-bye he showed
us that he knew thing or two more than
we did. He set off for the East, and in
month he came back with a lot of gentle
men, and they surveyed the land, and all
that sort of thing, and along in the fall they
made big company and bought us out.
That's what got me this homestead. He
was made boss of the whole show here
abouts. and had fine time of it. He made
me superintendent right here, and told
me that the company was swelling into
big scheme that would soon turn this terri
tory into d fiourishing state, full of Pitts
burgS, and all that He told me how Sena-
tor Blarnaby was working it up and would
make his fortune for him if he'd put his
own bit in (for he'd bought out some of the
other chaps claims) and get his friends to
chip in too"
"But their money wouldn't amount to
much!" said Hogg, amusedly.
Wouldn't 1t, neither Why, he had
some o. the richest people in the country
for his friends, and his own brother was
one of the solidest men in Massachusetts
And, worse luck, he did throw in his chips,
and a lot o. them threw in theirs, knowing
him to be one o. the smartest fellows on
this footstool. and as honest as truth
And what then?'' broke in Tyrwhitt.
warming up. ''Why, then the blasted thing
blew up, STRIP 'sWhat9"
Not the company-don't mistake me
there. The company's going on as slick as
ever, guess: but this particular 'conces-
sion.' The company made over what they
called concession, don't you see, to an
other company that did nothing but sink
mines. My mate was sure that q certain
spot would be sure good thing. He per-
suaded them to start right there They did,
and it was n failure, because they daren't
keep spending more on it. Then it busted
up but my mate believed all along as it
was the company as was working it When
he found that he and his friends had been
turned over to the concession-that he had
lost everything. while the company lost
nothing and gained by their loss-he went
real mad. The poor fellow cried like a
child. not for himself, but for his brother
in-law, who had lost every cent. I'll never
forget how he Swore a terrible oath to get
even with Senator Blarnaby for deceiving
him, as he believed. What made him worse
was he heard soon after that his brother
was dead, heart broken, leaving an orphan
daughter"
"Who was this poor fellowl Can We see
himy"
Il guess he's either dead. or perhaps
raving mad in some asylum. His name
was Job Terwilliger, and his brother-in-
laws name was George Bennison-Dabchic -
The men were dazed.
''Terwiligerr' at length spoke Tyrwhitt.
Good God-that was the name of the
tramp!''
And he told Hogg about his stroll with
BlarEaby in the Mall of London and the
adventures Of that peaceful evening.
ITO BE coNTrSuEDj.