The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-06

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burst2"
"Why. OF course not II was
cloudburst Kilgore and the Barnes
boys have been up the canyon beyond
che dam, and the track Of it can be
traced for two miles
"True; but if that were all the dam
would be standing at this moment.
Angus. II did stand the cloudburst.
and the pressure on was decreasing
rapidly when il went out"
"The mischief, you say How do
you know all this, Jack2"
GAS I have sold you. I was within
so yards of the dam when il went
out. And Jacob Setter was trying to
cross it'll"
"Good Lord But what wrecked
it2"
"Selter, think. There was an ex-
plosion as if 12-inch shell had
struck just above the masonry. He
had fired his internal machine from
the mouth Of the outlet tunnel, aud
was scrambling up to be out Of
harms way when he saw Nan and
Wykamp below the dam. When tho
shell exploded he was trying to
reach them-for Mans sake sup
pose"
Macpherson smoked his pipe quite
to extinction before he spoke again.
Then he said: "aack, I'm a little
tangled on the ethics of this thing.
Could it do any possible harm to any
body If we keep this thing to our
selyes?"
81 don't see that 81 can. Jake has
paid the penalty. He's wen out of
reach of any court OF ours"
That's what was thinking And
if we publish Il, itn likely make it
harder for poor, miserable, desti-
tute widow woman
I'm with YOU" ! agreed. "And
now for your Plans. l don't think
the Glenlivat people will trouble you
for year or two. and the suit
against you will fall to the ground
without wykamp's evidence. Will
you go quietly back TO your cow
punching and make hay while the
sun shines?"
His smile was inscratable. IF it's
all the same TO you, I think I'll go
on with the dirt-washing on my
placer claim"
'But you can't; yo1r bars gone"
The mysterious smile held its own.
Its pretty spteful wind that
blows nobody good, Jack. As you
say, the bars gone. but there is an
other one formed '1at below. Invent
up there and washed out few pam
fuls to-day, and this is what | found"
He showed me a handful of duh,
yellow nuggets arom the size sf a
mustard seed TO that of a pea.
Then you've struck it rich at lasti
l congratulate you, my dea- boy"
< Thanks; though il may not be q
( bonanza probably isn't But maybe
therell be enough TO stand us all or
our feet again. If there is anything
( in 81 I'm going into the stock bust
ness"
you're in that now, aren't you"
mo; the other kind Of stock. The
/ Glenlivat people will be mighty tired
when they hear of this. and they'll
sell out cheap, most OF them. want
TO buy and own 81 per cent. Of the
stock. II there is ever another syn
dicate in the Torolito itll be Angus
Macpherson g. Co."
"Good; and the company"
"You know who the company will
be; and that's where you come in
You've got so think up some scheme
TO take care OF her while I'm making
the turn
1T is already thought up, proposed
and accepted. She goes with me q
my sister in Denver, POGO tempo"
"Jack. old man, you're a god in the
earl'-he wrung my hand till
WINGED. IF you go of and die be
fore you see me through on this, II
never forgive you"
'If / die, I'll Ieava II as beques
to Letitia, and she will see yoJ
through. She is a horn matchmaker