Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-22

cheerfully.
Going out to fiud John?''
''Yes. And if I like it as well as he
does shall stay"
"Say, joe the voice was suddenly
resolute and decided, Il have five
hundred dollars in the bank out here
and if you will take me with you 1
will divide even. Everybody has been
good to me since l have been laid up
here, and it has cost me little or moth
ing; | have no debts to pay, and if I
die before we reach our journeys end
you may have every dollar 1 have.
Will you do it?"
'But are you able to trayel?''
ooh. hang it! I am as well able to
travel as to sit here and NOPE. I'll
risk my health, if you will take me-"
And so next day, when Siby1 brought
her basket of dainties, she found her
patient fumbling clumsily at valise
| and his few clothes.
Her quick small hands hurried to
help him, and he told her what he was
going to do.
Her eyes filled with tears as she
lOOkeu UP ana SAID:
ooh, I shall miss you so much! Are
you sure you are able to go?"
Quite sure,'' he answered, bravely,
"and when you are married" (for it
was no secret that Squire Rogers
daughter had expected to marry
Judge Endicott's SOM you must come
out into the wiIds on your wedding
trip, and see how we'll l am"
Il shall stay at home with papa"
she answered, in a low tone, and the
young mans heart sprang to his lips
and begged and pleaded for word
but his strong will denied it utter
ance
He went away. The trip told fierce
ly upon his wasted frame, but youth,
change Of air and a naturally strong
constitution were in his favor and
they triumDhed. An attack of fever
and ague shook the rheumatism out
of his joints and left him in the very
depths of physical weakness, from
which he climbed slowly.
Joe Davis found his brother John
and settled down Immediately to farm
ing and raising sheep. But Ned went
up to the mountains-to White Pine
to Treasure City, that, soWn in a
creyice of the monstrous hill, nestles
safely more than eight thousand feet
above the level of the sea.
From here he went prospecting"
and soon learned the Surface indica
tons, was sure he had found Lead"
He went through with the legal for
mula for establishing his claim, and
then commenced work. It was far up
on an isolated mountain spur, and a
half mile below him was the already
famous Tricolor mine in full operation
| He had named his claim SibvPs
Dream, and though he tried to con-
vince himself that he did not hope, his
sleep was not so full of visions as his
| waking hours. Day after day he
| wrought with no result-the Sabbath
came and he rested more from eX-
haustion, perhaps, than from any real
regard for his Yankee training in
church and Sunday-school.
In the early twilight Ned wandered
out to look once more at his work. The
excavation that, with much trouble,
he had made was very slowly filling
with water. He could see the treach-
erous liquid filtering between two
shelving rocks and dripping down,
down. He was discouraged. To at
| tempt to work in that wet place
meant cold, fever and all his old
troubles returned. To bail it out
| 10 70, md &C,
WeariSOme.
| Too sick at heart to return to his
poor cabin, Ned wandered down to
the ''Tricolor'' and heard a man just
from the ''Eberhardt'' telling wonder
full stories of "brick making" going on
there.
"If we had ever so small a water
tors, gloomily, sit would be worth
"How much?" asked Ned.
The man shrugged his shoulders.
'"Ten thousand dollars?" was the
reply. 81 believe there is plenty of
water up yonder, but l have no time
to hunt for it, and the boys are all
silver mad"
"What would you give, though, for
a good spring less than a mile from
here?" asked Yankee Ned, for he
remembered how the water crept out
| through the rocks, and he had found
a spring.
The man looked sharply at the young
fellow with his pale, cadaverous face,
and large, bony hands, and said, slow
| ly:
"You look as though you had pluck
and common sense. Go ahead, and
if you can find as good water course
as they have down in the yellow
| Jacket I'll give you a hundred thou
sand dollars in 'Tricolor' stock, or fifty
thousand in solid silver bricks
There was plenty of work to do in
digging and tubing and bringing the