The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-13

"All right; if it is a square deal, fol
low me-
He turned and darted behind the
rock. The youth made after him, but
when he came in sight of the fugitive
again he was 80 feet distant and run
ming like a deer Perhaps Roswell
might have winged him, but he did not
try to do so. He felt q natural repug-
nance to doing a thing of that nature
and the fact was self-evident that il
would do no good. The man would
| sturdily insist that he knew nothing
of the missing gold, and there could be
no actual proof that he did. Had he
been held a prisoner he might have
been forced to terms, but it was too
late now to think of that, and the
! youth stood motionless and saw him
! disappear among the rocks.
I wonder how Frank has made out, "
was his thought; he can't have done
worse than /"
! Meanwhile young Mansley had no idle
time on his hands. He had hurried up
] the fork of the trail. after parting with
his companion, until he had passed
about the same distance. The two
paths, although diverging, did not do
so to the extent the boys thought, and
thus it came about that they were con-
siderably nearer each other than they
supposed.
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the alert. Suspecting he was in the vi
cinity of the men for whom they were
searching, he paid no attention to the
ground, but glanced keenly TO the right
and left and even behind him. He was
thus engaged, when something moved
beside a craggy mass of rocks a little
way ahead of MIN. and slightly to the
right of the path he was following. a
second look showed the object to be
man, and, though his back was toward
the lad. his dress and general appear
ance left little doubt that he was Hard
man.
His attitude was that of listening.
sis shoulders were th4..n
ward, and ne gave a quick flirt of his
head which brought his profile Tor the
moment into view This removed all
doubt as to his identity. 1t was Ike
Hardman.
FRANKS first thought was that he was
standing near the spot where the gold
had been secreted, and that he was
looking around to make sure no one
cav him, but it may have been he heard
something Of the movements of his con-
federate that had escaped Roswell Pal
mer.
Afraid of being detected. Frank
crouched behind the nearest boulder,
but was a second too late. Hardman
had observed him and was off like a
HASH. 10 II RANK ) amusement. Wien ne
looked for him, he was gone.
Determined not to lose him, the youth
ran forward as fast as the nature of
the ground would permit. Reaching the
spot Wnere he rad first discovered
the man. he glanced at the surround
ings, but could see nothing to indicate
that the gold had been hidden any
where near, though the probabilities
pointed to such being the fact, for it
must have been in that vicinity that
the burro was turned free.
But the boy felt the necessity of
bringing the man himself to terms, and
with scarcely a halt. he hurried over
the bouIders and around the rocks in
what he believed to be the right direc-
ton though ne haG -ltstln know
ledge that such was tie fact.
He was still clambering forward I
painting, impatient and angry, when a
figure suddenly came in view a little in
advance. Frank abruptly stopped and
brought his gun to a level but before !
he could aim he perceived to his amaze T
ment that it was his friend Roswell I
mOtionless and looking with Z
around him. moment ,
later the two came together and hastily I
exchanged experiences.
We have made a mess of it," was I
the Disguised comment of Frank, for I
we had them both, and let them get /
away"
IAN the same, we must be near
the spot where the gold was hidden,
and ! believe we can find 1t by search /
ing"
we may. but the chances are a hun
dred to one against it, How strange
that those two men carried no fire
arms
II has been shown that the Klon1ike
is not one of dangerous weap-
ons, because it is well governed and
the necessity, therefore, does not exist
Tor men TO so about armed. Many of
them unquestiOnably carry pistols. but
larger weapons are few and the major
lty have neither, for they only serve as
membranes Strange. therefore as
1t may seem, Hardman and his COM
panion had but a single revolver be-