The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-21
A Wedge Of Gold.

lished second book, with the above
title. 1t isa good companion for his
"Comstock Club,u one OF the most
charming books of the year. The
Wedge of Gold" begins its plot with
conversation between two miners in the
Comstock, who were working in the
drift which cut the bonanza in the Con-
soidated Virginia. Both were shrewd
young men. one from the Miami Valley,
Ohio, and the other from Devonshire,
England. Both had left home on ac-
count Of boyish scrapes which had real
ly shown their manliness. Both had
saved some money while working on
the Comstock and they both bad an
ambition to go home with monsy to re-
deem themselves.
Their opportunity came by watching
the moves of uncle Jimmy Fair and Mr..
Macksy at the time the bonanza was
struck, and they made venture in
stocks which brought them each for
tune.
The third, and the most charming
character in tho book lis that of Texan
with whom the Ohio boy had lived a
year before going to the Comstock. He
was cattleman, rough, uneducated, but
with heart in him big as the state
from which he hailed. The Ohio boy
had read translation OF Homer's Iliad
to him when with him and bad given
him aStas.e fer good literature. He,
through love affair with a northern
schoolmarm, sold his Texas ranch aud.
with broken heart, started out to see
the world.
+ The two miners, with their fortunes,
went first to Ohio and squared matters
with the family of the Ohio boy and
then went to England to SIX up matters
for the English boy with his friends in
Dsvonshire, the latter including love
affair which bad caused the trouble
through the opposition of the parents of
both parties thereto. In England they
ran across the Texan. In England the
English boy was drawn into a mining
deal by his step-fsther and the step
father of the girl whom he loved and
the greater part of his fortune was
swamped in it. 1t was a manifest swim
die, and his American chum and his
Texan friend determined to see the mat
ter made right. The property, of which
he had been induced to buy nearly all
the stock, was i n South Africa.
The two Americans persuaded their
English friend to hold the stock and
keep quiet until he heard from them
again, and then secretly started to South
Africa to investigate. They found the
property and found it valuable, except
for the fact that it was apparently al
most inaccessible. BY exploring the
Mountain passes they found an opening
through which they could reach it by a
COED road and they resolved to risk their
own fortunes in developing it. They
were successful within year in max
ing a great paying property out of it,
returned to England eftsr their success,
broke the two old schemers who had
first sold the stock by entrapping them
into selling the stock short, restored to
their friend his fortune and terminated
everything most happily, including all
three of their love affairs.
The book abounds in gems in Judge
Goodwin's happest style, in which the
chief characters are made to say many
beautiful things. From where the Ohio
boy is made to show that civilization
has only advanced during times when,
and with nations where the precious
metals have been most abundant, to a
disquisition upon the Mediterranean
Sea, wherein he shows that its shores
were the cradle of civilization, are all
master pieces.
Get a cepy of the book and read it.