Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-16

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The Hsoney lrps paid Orcr mud Daniel
ChtptdRd tOtd his stOrB.
Sad was the honest old farmers awak-
ing from the delusion in which he had
encouraged himq II. Pan after pan of
sand and dirt were deity tVyirled by the
expert miner in the edge of the creek,
and reduced 4 wa to their last grains
without a sin lie specl appearing that
looked even a little bit yellow. Though
trial was mad in a score of places the
result was th same everywhere. Then
theyrwent I ok 10 the northern creek
and tested { e sane there 10 make sure
that there vas no mistake about that.
The washing Of the FIRST pan yielded
golden atoms that Ar. Chipland esti-
mated at "A full dollars worth.
Zach! lieber himmel." walled the old
man, sinking down upon the bank.
These emotions viii be the death of me.
From M surprise to another / fly so
fast that my head schvims. One mo-
ment ! so up in the clouds With hope unit
joy, the next | been in the u~ntervelt
With disappointmenHunt despair. / did
think l would be worth in ten years
about seven million dollars, INT now it
dvindles down to "a poor little one hun
dred INT forty thousand.
The GOldbug turned away to conceal a
smile. Abstractedly amusing himself
by panning out another lot of dirt,
which turned out richer than any pre-
ceding, he said:
fsnf a,nvea r15r v,fwhN ,-a-,I1, 4k,f
those sharpers took everything there
was in sight. OF course they had been
over all the ground, and knew they
didn't want the south creek. Land
without gold in it would be no good to
them-auy more than it would to me.
But / know what I'd do if 1 were in your
place"
What would you do, my friendg'
81 rake together every dollar l could
raise by hook OF crook, or any other
way; go down to New York before
those chaps dreamed of my coming and
corral every share of the stock of that
company that l could get hold Of the
minute it was put on the market, before (
people found out what it was worth and
while it was cheap"
by graciousl Goldbug, you got a
great head!"
That conversation between the old
man and his confidential adviser was
still further elaborated when they re-
turned to the porch, and was overheard
by Jacob, who not being able TO under
stand it by the light of his own unaided
intelligence. sought out George Stirling
and wanted to know what he could
make out of it.
At first it simply seemed to the un-
happy lover to ~substantiate his view Of
Mr.. Kropffs unbalanced condition of
mind, but upon talking it yer with
Lieschen with whom he of curse man
aged to have interviews despite the old
mans ~prohibition), he saw something
in it. She~had learned from her
mother all about the prospective sale of
the property to the New Workers, and
what Frau Anna had OWNED they were
going to do with it. 1t now looked as IL
he contemplated investigating in their
mineral water and hotel scheme-which
again seemed to be a-working around
toward the lunacy hypothesis.
George, who was a young fellow pos
a good deal Of plain, practical
made up his mind that it would
be well for him to take a hi down to
New York and learn, if he could, "who
those chaps were and just what they
were mp to-" All the clew he had TO
them was the card they had given to
Mr.. Kropff, and which he had left upon
the parlor mantel, where Lieschen found
it. But that, he felt assured. would be
quite enough. 1t represented them as
brokers" and, as he had a cousin in
street, he would soon learn if that
was their business, and all about them.
That he should have interested himself
in his neighbor's affairs to such an ex-
tent, and with such Unforeseen and inn
portant results as accrued, was simply
another illustration Of the proverbial
tendency Of tall oaks to grow from little
acorns. But for the baleful CLEAN re-
fracted from the golden bubble Of Herr
Kropffs fancy athwart the course of his
love he would have been, and con
tinued Z be, a. bhssfully unconscious Of
everything but his love as lovers Gus
tomarily are.
He was away in New York two days,
and on the evening Of his return home
hasts q solicit an interview with
biz INTENDED father-in-law Herr KropH
received him. but unwillingly and with
q degree Of formaiity that indicated his
hostile feeling. The old man had been
lown to Dover merry all that day 0