Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-10
CHAPTER I. D

Dlexy in his private car at Kaslo Junction no one knew just whore to reach either his old father or his young son with the news of his death. Somewhere up the eastern slope of the yierras the old man would be leading, u he had long chosen to lead each vummer, the lonely life of 8 prospect r. The young man, two years out of Harvard, and but recently back from m extended European tour, was at Ioms point on the North Atlantic soast, beginning the seasons pursuit Df happiness as he listed Only in . land 50 young that almost lhe present dwsllers therein have made It might we find individualities which 10 decisivsly failed to blend. So little songruous was the family of Bines in root, branch and blossom, that 1t might, indeed, be taken to picture an sbpic of western life as the romancer would tell it. First of the line stands tho figure of Peter Bines, the pioneer, contemporary with the stirring days Of Fremont. of Kit Carson, of Harney and Bridger: the fearless strivsrs Howard an ever-receding west, fascin- tting for its untried dangers as for it's fabled wealth-the sturdy. grave men who fought and toiled and hoped and realized in varying measure, but who led in sober truth life such as the colors of no taleteller shall ever be high enough to reproduce.
 x Next came Daniel J. Bines. type of sthe builder and organizer who fol flowed the trail blazed by the earlier 5pioneer: the genius who, finding the magic realm opened. forthwith became ifs exploiter to it's vast renown and his own large profit, coining it's wealth of minerals. lumber, cattle and grain, and adventurously building the rail roads that must always be had to drain new land of savagery.
 Nor would there be wanting third "a figure of this present day. contain ing. in potency at least, the stanch qualities of his two rugged forbears- the yenturesome spirit that set his rest less grandsire to rowing westward, the power to group and coordinate. TO think three moves ahead which had made his father a man of affairs; and. further, he had something modern of his own that neither of the others possessed. and yet which came as the just fruit of the parent vine: dis position perhaps bit less strenuous, turning back to 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 commer- cialism: to make the most of what had been done rather than strain to the doing of needless more: to live, in short, like a philosopher and gentle man who has more golden dollars a year than either philosophers or gen. tlemen are wont to enjoy.
 And now the central figure had gone suddenly at the age of 52, after the way of certain men who are quick, ardent and generous in their living. sdFrom his luxurious private car. lying Son the side-track at the dreary little station. Toler. private secretary to the millionaire. had telegrapaed to the hsadquarters of one important rail- way company the death of it's presi- dent, and to various mining, milling and numbering companies the death Of their 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 noun tain resort not far from the family home at Montana City.
 There promised 10 be delay in reach ing the other two. The son would early read the news, Toler decided. un- less perchanee he were of at sea, since the death of figure like Zines would be told by every daily newspaper in the country. He telegraphed, however. to the young mans New York arart- ments and 10 a Newport address. on the chance of finding him.
 Locating old Peter b.nes at this sea- son of the year was feat never light ly to be undertaken, nor for any trivial end. It being now the 10th of June. it could be known vith certainty only that in one of four states he vas provling through some wooded canyon. toiling over a windy pass or scaling q mountain sheeriy. in his ancient and best loved sport of prospecting Know ing his habits. the rashest gussser would not have attempted to say more definitely where the old man might be.
 The most promising plan ToIer could devise was 10 wire the superintendent Of the "One Girl" mine st Skiplap. The elder Bines. he knew. had passed through SkipIsp about June I. and had left. perhaps. some inkling Of his pro- yosed route: f it chsncsd. indeed. that ne had taken the trouble 10 propos. gre
 7srgburn. the mine superintendent. on receipt of the neEs. dispatched five
 men on the sssrrh in ss many differ eut directions The old man was now 74 and Pangburn had noted when las, they met that he zpDssrsi to be some. what less agile and vigorous than hs had been ze years before: from vhfch |, was fair so reason that as might hs playing his solitary game st a leisure s ly pace. and would have frsnped no Erss. disssnre fr ths len days hs had been EDrs- The sszrchsrs. therefor. ~sre directed 10 bes; up the nearby -o1nfry. To BfIIy Brue uas sIIostsi