The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-23
posterous! He smiled with sardonic

enjoyment Of the joke that he was to
be reformed, at his time of life, accord
ing to the maiden aunt" school of
training. But it was also beastly an
noyance; it sent him often to the So
ciety of those familiars which he kept
under lock and key in his sideboard
closet. With his daughter presiding.
conscience-wise, over personal habits.
and with Darcie Hamilton investigat-
ing his business management, it was
no wonder that frail-minded old gen.
tleman, with a rather darkling record.
should have gone off somewhat in his
temper. Heaven and earth! was he to
be baited by children?
He had said to Faith that she could
mot go, without extraordinary precau-
tions for her safety. in the excited state
of feeling at the mines; but this had
been merely for the purpose of re-
minding her that she was not quite mis-
tress of the situation-free to repudiate
her father, and depart from him when
ever he should have paid for her ticket
eastward. AS fact, she was not half
SO anxious to go as was he to have her;
he did not desire her presence in his
house, either as monitor or as witness,
any longer. She had seen too much
already, considering her general intelli.
gence and her uncompromising way of
looking at things. She must go back
to the east, where in q short time such
frank incidents as the ordeal of Wan
and the ambushing of Darcie Hamilton
in the talnaracks would appear to her
ac incredible as the nightmare visions
of a fever. And that she might not
unwisely recall her visions in speech,
he had, in that last painful interview
in the library, taken measures to make
her very tired of the subject of Darcie
Hamilton. On this point at least he
was easy.
AS to Darcie, that young gentleman
had been vastly busy at the managers
expense; he had formulated some dam
gerous discoveries; incidentally he
had made rapid love to his daughter:
Between business and pleasure he had
been going very much at large. But
he had been careless, as the too sure
footed are apt to be. If the Big Horn
directors chose to send their younger
sons masquerading as honest miners,
into the Occur d'Alene, they must post
them better upon the local institutions.
"Monkeying with the buzz-saw" was
pastime for children compared with a
conflict of opinions with the Miners
union in the summer of 1892. Mr..
Bingham proposed to shift his personal
responsibilities frankly upon the union.
If Darcie should never reach London
with his verbal report (the documents
were in Mr.. Bingham's hands,, and ali
international correspondence, tran
scending questions of business, should
ensue, the manager was prepared to
wash his own hands. and to point to
the guns in the hands of his irrepress-
ible allies of the union. The trade
unions have thus suffered always, and
ever will suffer most, at the hands of
their so-called friends.
And now we come to the last scene
before the close of the wharf.-the de-
portation of the "scabs," including a
few non-combatants, among whom was
Faith. Recording angels, recorders of
the truth of any sort, were not in de-
mand at that time in the Occur
d'Alene; the victors proposed to record
matters to suit themselves.
ITO BE Continued