The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-08

nave 20 stay IN their trap until the
Irisfrnen came in the morning, for of
all things it was most unlikely they
would be found by the men Hale would
send out to look for them.
Manette had been resting on the side
of the bucket, and now she arose and
looked about her
rs there ANYTHING can get for you?
that can get?" he added
SWELL, yes-a chair"
That's easy"
He took the pick. and breaking into
the loosened part of the side of
the drift he dug away persissently
for few minutes, and then turned
fer admiration. He had followed
out quite a comfortable niche, and
Manette sat down in it with q sigh
OF comfort He had made it large and
roomy, thinking that she might very
likely have to spend the night there,
and had crashed down large pieces of
rock in doing it, that brought small
ones in their train. Some of these the
girl picked up
Il am going to take some specimens
away from your mine to put in my
cabinet" said she. Il have pieces OF
ore from all the mines about here"
DO" he said bitterly.
He leaned against the wall and
looked at her. He thought he had
never seen her look so pretty
While he was looking. wondering
what thought had stilled those fea-
lures for the moment, she gave a sud-
den little gasping cry, and sprang at
him.
''Jack!' she said, ''Jack,'-and the
thrill of his spoken name on her lips,
and the clasp of her hands on his arm,
nearly took his breath. 1--WE are the
greatest fools! There's ladder back
yonder. in that new hole you called Il
winch or something. saw it"
$50 there is" He was almost as ex-
cited as she; and then he gave second
thought: But it can't be long
enough" He wouldn't let himself
think that it was, although he knew
that the men wodld not have short
ladder down an inclined plane like
that. He remembered how il had
stuck out, and that he had noticed that
it was jointed ladder, made especially
for use in mines where operating space
was small. He never stinted his work.
men in the price Of necessary tools, and
they were eXtravagant for so small a
mine.
He took Manette by the hand as
though she had been "a child, and,
almost running, they went around into
the new drift and en- 10 the ladder.
How Walden blessed his free-and-easy
ways toward the men and their expen.
ditures, as be pulled out and unfolded
the patent painted thing. and saw that
it was twenty-five feet long!
1t was the work of twenty minutes to
carry it to the bottom of the shaft and
to climb out Five minutes more saw
them trotting slowly out into the road
toward home. Except that Walden's
hands were not overclean, there was
little to show that they had ever left
their saddles.
Dickon was on the veranda as they
came up, and he looked at them mar
rowly. 1t was almost dark, and they
when Walden had brought Manette
home. Perhaps that gave an added
cordiality to Mr.. Hale's invitation to
dinner. Manette seconded it with q
glance-and he stayed
81 really must ask Mrs Blair for
some soap and water" he said. with q
look at his hands.
What in the world. Walden, have
you been doing?" Dickon said. "Your
hands look like miners"
Il have been getting Miss Hale some
specimens he said, quietly.
Yes" she said 81 have them here
am thinking of buying mine"
They had made each other under
stand, in that. brief minute, that their
adventure was to be theirs; nobody
else was TO have share in It
1t was eleven o'clock that night when
Walden opened his bedroom door at the
hotel, and he started back in amaze
ment as he faced two excited, red-faced
1rishmen with sack of something
held gingerly between them.
We'll, boys, what's wanted?" he said.
eff We place, Mister Walden" Cassidy
said, in a stage whisper, we've sthruclx
it rich.'
"Arrah now" Peters put in, I'VE
didn't at all. Somebody has struck it
in the moline, and thried to fire it.
AN to stale the new ladder!' inter
polated Cassidy.
= l.. r.
managed to say
Then the men told him that they had
gone to the blacksmiths with some
tools that afternoon and had come bacl.
late to put things to rights and found
everything in, to use their expression.
"a divil nv shape" The "hoisting
works were burned, the new ladder
had dug hole in the side of the old
drift and uncovered new vein which
their practiced eyes had seen at.once
was almost solid silver.
DC went out to the mine at once and
the three worked with picks all night,
getting more jubilant at every stroke.
When Walden. griny and happy. came
into town at nine o'clock for his break
fast he found tucked under his door a
little note:
g AlT DEAR Mr. WALDEN.
Diekon saw those specimens and IS Eild 20
know where they came from Wks: must te!!
him. Yours sincerely MANTLE HALE"
TIL tell him myself" II alden said. IS
he tucked the little note into breast
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