The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-11-03

boys, there wasn't a spot on the sun Of
bis regard. IL was n simple matter to
investigate after that. Took Bingham's
word for everything.
Poor Langley went down with a
run: what with the altitude. and the
fancy potations they seduced him with.
he drank himself silly, and was shipped
home like sheep.
Grant, they claim, never got any
rearer the Big Horn than New York.
That was a slander, dare say. Ididn't
stop in New York; / never tempted the
gods, and denied my weakness; l never
professed to be girl-proof. came
straight on; thought I'd be safe when
I'd got into the mountains.
Comes a knock at the door one pitch.
black night, and in she steps in her wet
skirt like lily in its sheath--a rose and
lily in one. And am gone, all at once.
like snow-slide in March; a chinook is
nothing TO it: there's not enough left
of me TO wipe up the floor with.
What shall l call II, mountain feverP
No; Langley said he had mountain
fever: mine is not the same kind. Say
I've struck it rich in the Black Dwarf?
No; the governor will ask for assays.
and want to organize a company: no
company wanted here. No; I'll give it
to 'em straight: say that things are rot
ten, rotten as the devil; but I'm not the
man for a committee Of one TO investi-
gate Manager Binghams administra-
ton. Let them discover the reason for
themselves; they wouldn't believe mine
If gave it. l have told them there's a
miners war toward, and the time is not
good for Investigations"
Again Darcie spoke aloud, using, l
regret to say, strong expression in re
gard to the letter which he held in his
hand, He flung it on the table:
"Why in thunder didn't send IL the
minute it was written? The informa-
ton in it belongs to the company. Is it
theirs-is itmine? It's on my conscience
that 1t ought to go. The amount OF
systematic robbery, and lying, and cor
rupting of the company's agents. that's
gone on here is almost too picturesque
for belief. l wonder what they would
have put up on me If l had come an
nounced as the company's representa-
tive authorized to make a report? !
should have succumbed little more
previously, that's all. l should have
looked at her and rendered my resigna-
tion on the spot. A curious fatality that
we've both been here about the same
time. and never saw her till last night
I mean two nights ago. 1t is an age,
yet II is the very present moment that
! live in. Hang the letter! How can /
send 1t after our little talk about her
troubles? L will trust you with all my
troubles said she. She shall trust me /!
If her notorious old parent is to be in
vestigated they must send another
| man. We're a rum crowd over there.
A set of doting grandmammas were
| wiser. 1t moves me to tears and laugh
| ter, the faith that is in us when faith is
downright Stiffness, and the fantastic
suspicious that feed upon us whenever
| suspicious the wrong card"
Here sound of footsteps crossing
the dump from below was beard
Dareie crouchcd behind the car and
reached for his rife; he listened sharp.
~ III Hc HtuIu Mihc Whistle, tHen nt
sang out:
"'Are ye there, Moriarty?'"
| Yes;. Mike was there, and he hac
brought news, of which he disburdened
himself together with his bacon, and
-four and pail of lard, and matches, ant
candles, and coffee. He had, as he said
made a pack-horse of himself
i at bot 4 !, = T. ~.
livin' in now," ne began in his riches
bass, shaking out reef in his IRIS
till the timbers rang. ITS not free
country, be gosh! Call man a fou
name, and bate the loife out av him
that's right! Thin anarchists rounded
up wan o. the Caltrop boys in town last
evenin', and settled wild him for a shcal
and thraitor. The guards found hin
at daybreak, and tiliphoned to the man
ager, and word come down he was to b,
sint up to the harspital ON han'-cyar
Tree av the Caltrop boys showed him W
the thrack, and as they was bringin
the cyar back the union min set upor
| them, and mishandled them, and two
| got away and wan was left on tn,
thrack wild the sinse knocked out a,
him. And the mine showed its guns t.
purtectit its mine whilst they was fetchin
him in, and the women began to screecl
that the mine was firin' on the town
And all the bigmouths was talkin', ant
/ think the crisis has come. And tina
scriptur' they nailed upon the dool
outside, that names business, Darci,
dear. II is small private matther, bu
! think they'll be lookin' afther us pref
ty soon"
] "Why do you say 'us,' Mike? You
name is not in it.
I'm in whatever my pardner's in
But here's the quarest go, and, by th
cross, / dunno fwhat to make av it! In
none so fond O. the nayborhood av tn
Big Horn, but it's the shortest way, ant
the boys is mostly in town on this rack
ct was tellin' ye, so snaked along NJ
the thrack, and as was steppin' up tn
thrail by the managers house, a nat,
little girl foregathered wild me.
is this Mike McGowan% says She
"'Its bound to be Mike said |
'whin purity gurl Is passin' the word.
I'm thinlsin' t was Abby Steers that'i
housekeepin' for Misther Bingham, bu
thought her a good bit oulder thar
this wan. But ye niver can tell; the,
make themselves what age they please
HAS that pardner of yours, Jacl
Darcie, has he leftT says she.
HE has not says /. For VIII.
should he leave?'
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