The Irish standard., 1897-04-03

n then he'd 60, to law n beat the
preacher m the hull congregation.
IN now he's took 9 fancy to jump the
Mascot-well. NSil,Ss a goner, the way
look at It," ~
but the oolo9R$ely 'ain't got no case"
argued the other, dispassionately.
''You know how'd 7twos Never smell
Of mineral in the Grubstake till they
relocated, tloppip,s pound the side lines
SOS to take in thlssxMascot's background"
We'll, 1 amt ffor arguin' about that.
All I'm sayin' is Etbhat the colonel says
the. veins. his,nn 81 what the colonel
says generally gees with a jury, I've no
ticed. He's got a,sway with him that
seems to, catch ,ifsm,"
Catches :em ,siin their pockets"
laughed the .otheE approximately.
~ '.Sure. N ifsAeil thinks he's playin'
against a,..squar:Agame-well, probably
he knows better'n that. Everybody
knows what the colonel is. m when it
comes to g6in' to lawag' inst him--well,
Neips bitten OFF moren he can chaw,
in my opinion And here for the mo-
ment the argument paused.
dorothy turned away from the win
dow, walking the length of the room,
where she stopped, blankly staring at
a group of enlarged photographs mass
lively framed in black walnut, faces so
unprepossessing that in an undercur-
rent of thought she was duly marvel
ing that family affection could be SO
lacking in family pride as thus to ex-
pose them to public view. ButSwhile
striving to believe that the conversation
to which she had just listened had
left her wholly unmoved, that she held
it as altogether beneath her notice, she
knew that she was trembling with
angry excitement. She fairly burned
with wild desire to go out and silence
those illuminating tongues with such
scathing reproach as now in her per-
turbation she could hardly compose in
her own mind. It was nonstroi1s, i'll
credible, that she should be called TO
listen to such arrant falsehood, such UNI
considerable SANDER. She was almost
blinded with the anger that possessed
her as she stood there determinedly
staring at that ill-favored group Of pho
tographs; and yet, as she grew some
what cal1ner, it was straight back to the
window that she went. Woman-like.
she could not resist the impulse to know
the worst that might be said.
She had no conjunction Of con-
science in thus playing the role of caves
dropper. So far as she thought about
it at all in her disturbed condition Of
mind, it was to argue that a CONVERSE
ton thus carried on on the public side
walk could hardly assume to be private
in it's nature. AS in honor bound, she
coughed slightly to give notice Of her
presence as she resumed her seat; but
the cough was very gentle, and, if she
had been disposed to determination
she must have owned herself relieved
when presently the voices went on UNI
heedingly. sY:.
81 always thought twas McCready
put the coloneh up to that job in the
first place." one.&as now meditatively
Observing "Yolmind he was workin'
in the Mascot when they run across
that slip in the3haagin' wall, n twas
then, reckon, 4besee his chance. He
writes off to thettolonel to give him a
bond m lease on'the Grubstake, 'n'that
puts the colonel onto the fact that the
old claim mighh1d1]be wuth so'thin', n
over he comes m looks the ground
over. N they fxh some kind of deal
!, between 'em.. MfCIeady is superintend-
ent of the mine, ;s ,Hnbr up he goes slnk'n'
shaft in the toughest ground ever
,vas-no sort Of ShQaw Of mineral at all;
but that don't ,tfeaze McCready. He
knows what he's about. N pretty soon
he's driftin' straight in the direction OF
that little no-accpunt crack in the Mas