Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-10-03
THE
SPENDERS|
A Tale Of the Third Generation |
BY HARRY LEON WILSON
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CHAPTER L

plexy in his private care at KaslO
junction no one knew just where to
reach either his old father or his
young son with the news of his death.
Somewhere up the eastern slope of the
Sierras the old man would be leading,
oz he had long chosen TO lead each
summer, the lonely life of Il prospect
ar The young man, two years out of
Harvard, and but recently back from
an extended European tour. was at
some point on the North Atlantic
coast, beginning the seasons pursuit
or happiness as he listed.
Only In land so young that almost
the present jewellers therein have made
1t might we find Municipalities which
40 decisively failed to blend So little
congruous was the family of Bines in
root, branch and blossom, tnat it
might, indeed, be taken to picture an
epic of western life as the romanccr
would tell it, First of the line stands
the figure of Peter Bines, the pioneer,
contemporary with the stirring days
OF Fremont, of Kit Carson, of Harvey
and Bridger; the fearless strivers
toward an ever-receding west fascin-
Eting for it's untried dangers as for its
fabled wealth-the sturdy. grave men
who fought and toiled and hoped and
realized in varying measure, but who
He'd in sober truth a life such as the
Eolors of no taleteller shall ever be
high enough to reproduce
Next came Daniel j. Bines, a type OF
the builder and organizer who fol
lowed the trail blaZed by the earlier
pioneer; the genius who, finding the
magic realm opened, forthwith became
its eXploiter TO it's vast renown and
his own large profit, coming its wealth
of minerals. lumber. cattle and grain,
and adventurously building the rail
roads that must always be had TO drain
q new land of savagery.
Nor would there be wanting a third
"a figure of this present day, contain
Ing, in potency at least, the stanch
qualities of his two rugged forbears-
the venturesome spirit that set his res.
less grandsire to rowing westward the
power to group and coordinate. to
think three moves ahead" which had
made his father man of affairs and.
further, he had something modern of
bis own that neither of the others
possessed. and yet which came as the
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position perhaps a bit less strenuous.
turning back 20 the risen rather than
forward to the setting sun; a tendency
TO rest a little from the toll and tu-
mutt; to cultivate some graces subtler
than those of adventure and CONNER
clalism; to make the most of what
had been done rather than strain to
rhe doing of needless more: to live. in
short like philosopher and a gentle
man who has more golden dollars a
year than either philosophers or gen
.-Oemen are wont To enjoy.
( And now the central figure had gone
suddenly at the age of 81, after the
way of certain men who are quick, /
ardent and generous in their living |
From mis- luxurious private car. lying
on the side-tvack at the dreary little |
station, Toler. private secretary t. the |
millionaire, had telegraphed to the |
headquarters of one important rail !
way company the death OF it's presi- !
dent, and to various mining milling
and Numbering companies the death OF
Ghel president vice president or man
aging director. as the case might be
For the widow and only daughter word
of the calamity had gone to a noun
tain resort not far from The family
home at Montana City
There promised TO be delay I'm reach
fng the other two. The son would
early read the news. Toler decided UNI
less perchance ne were off at sea. since
Che death OF a figure like Bines would
he told by every daily newspaper i'm
the country He telegraphed. however.
20 the young mans New York a,art-
nents and to a Newport address. on
Ghe chance Of finding him
Locating old Peter B.ues at this sea-
son OF the year was feat never light
~ 10 be undertaken. nor for any trivial
end. It being now the 10th of June
a. could be known with certainty only
shat i'm one OF four states Doc was
DrOwliug through some wooded canyon.
fOiiing over windy pass. or scaling
- mountain sheerly. i'm his ancient and
best loved sport of prospecting Know
ing his habits. the rashest glrsse.
would not have attempted to say more
definitely where the old man might be-
The most promising plan ToIor could
devise was to wire tine superintendent
OF the one Girl" mine at SEipIau
The elder Bines. ne knew. had passed
through 5kplap about June and had
left. perhaps. some mixing Of bis pro-
posed route; If &c CHANGED indeed that
be had taken the trouble TO propose
one.
Pangburn. the mine superintendent
on receipt Of the news. dispatched five
men on the search in as many differ
ent directions The old man was now
"a. and Pangburn had noted when last
they met that he appeared to be some
what less agile and vigorous than he
had been 20 years before. from which