The morning call., 1892-08-21

pitched the coin. This will bring me bet
ter luck, said Jose, and into the pan he
threw another dOubloon.
RS mine darn said young Grummett, a
fat Dutchman. and he chueked in a speei-
men worth SO or SIS.
Count me in on that cried a black
whiskered chap we called Bones and so
II went on till thar was at least $3.50 in the
pan. Now, you wouldn't believe IT, stranger
but that thar Red Horse vas so mighty
bashful that he wouldn't take the money to
the wldder-no, / mean the woman we
thought likely to be eBe-so Big George and
had to carry it up and ex plain the ease.
We'll, I'll tell you / would rather have
taken good humping than to have seen
that woman cry when she tried to thank us
and to have u thank tie rest of the boys
for ber Why, more water run out of her
eyes than would come through small sluiee
when we were a-cleanng up. AS for Lemon,
he said: Boys, l knew you were all white.
and when l get the old channel open it shall
come back TO you
I'VE didn't answer, for Teller with one
leg broken and the other badly hurt wasn't
the one we were going to tell his Gold Bank
wasn't worth the old pick and shovel that
had been left in thar when he was kiyered
up The doctor came out several times
until Lemon could get about on crutehes,
and then he said to Big George aud |,
Boys, that fellow needs TO go down to the
bay, where thar's better doctor than | am,
before he'll be much account. His wife
must 20 too, for she is wore out watching
and helping take keer of him. and with
that, stranger, he took $50 out of his pocket
and handed it toward Big George, saying,
Y on must raise some money on the crick
aud send them down to Frisco George
and / looked at each other a moment, and
then ] said, No, doe; you have done more
than your share coming over here and get
ting him upon his feet. Ii you say they
must 90 to the bay, why go it is If il ia kes
every - cent thar is on Spanish Crick.'
I'VE held meeting that night at Dad
Morley's, after notifying the boys, and In
less than an hour we PUNCHED up $1,000
You did not catch Us taking that up to the
house, not bit. We waited till the next
day, when Doc Moore came over and gave
it to him. He then sent them off in good
shape day or two later, and we all settled
down TO digging gold, playing poker and
drinking whisky for the next two months.
Zone day there came letter to me from
Lemon, saying he and his wife would come
up the next Sunday.
He had written once or twice to say he
was getting along first rate, and had thrown
away the sticks, and was going on his own
legs now. We opened their cabin and Little
Mike went up and cooked supper, and had
some of the incest trout you ever saw and
some biscuits that were as nice as a woman
could bake.
''As they rode up they were mighty glad
to see US, but when that woman tried TO
thank US for what we had done her eyes
filed up and she could hardly speak. Let
US hear you laugh once more Grid Mike,
'tbim's the thanks for u.s.
Lemon was soon able to do little work,
cieTked in a store. kept books for the
butcher-shop, and later on got Job Of fork
Ing rocks out OF sluice whar the work WAS
not very hard. In few weeks he was him
self again, except being little lame in one
leg, which was likely to last. Then. siran-
no raj min lar cd
estly, what do you suppose Lemon did?"
Left the place and never paid you back
a cent" 1 replied.
Went to work in the crick like any other
man would, " said the driver.
Neither one nor tother." answered the
miner, "but he went back into that old tun-
mel under the hill"
Went back there again?" said /. 81
would have thought he had had enough OF
that place."
so we all thought" was the reply; shut
ne went back thar, cleaned out the dirt that
had caved. timbered up the drift, aud hired
Big George and L to help him get the thing
in shane"
You were a couple OF FOOLS" said the
driver.
co. That's what we were." was the reply.
put he was so dead in earnest that We let
hlm have some money TO get grub and tools
and then hired out to help him run that
tunnel 90 feet back into the hill" The tall
inihei otopptu moment TO get bis black
pipe out, and began TO ill it with tobacco.
evidently thinking of the bygone times on
spanish Creek. AS he lighted the pipe and
began smoking he said:
Right thar is whar we made a mistake
4 gu see Lemon offered US Qne-half the Gold
Bank IL we'd go la with HIN and finish the
tunnel, but we'd rather have his word to
pay US PACK Tor the money that he borrowed
tnan 10 nave the whole hill, and SO saw
right thar Is whar We made mistake. for
the third day we struck gravel"
Good DasP" i asked
Best kind" was the answer, "We tool,
out $1,000 the first day and only had three
sluices aud small head of water. IL were
just speckled all over with gold. Every
time we dug out a bowlder the spot under il
fairly spanked with the yallar dust. Itwa
the old channel that Lemon had preached
to US about and was as full Of gold as Span
lsh Crlrk was Of small powders. II didn't
take him long 10 pay back every cent that
lie owed. DAY his doctors bills and get square
with all hands. Then he began 10 whoop IL
up IN style. Put In a big flame, bought a
Dig mead OF water and had 30 or 40 men at
work running drifts and wheeling out pay
art, Before the mine was worked out he
had taken from IL over 100000. You see
right thar Is wbar we missed it in not taking
Lemons offer. When it come Christmas he
gave US a II big blowout. low thar was
$50 sat down to dinner and we had a meal
that would have been hard to heat hut