Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-28

and loyal. but without an atom of business
push or enterprise about him. Bradley had
been blessed with foresight. he caueu II
business intuition which sounded better 10
investors When Jim had come 10 INN one
day and said briefly that he was going TO
Arizona TO take up some copper claims,
Bradley smoked a few minutes, and replled
that he considered it good thinS, ana ne
bought out his partner for a few hundred
and smiled over the business intuition thal
brought him luck.
Al the end of four years he had cursed
the intuition Tralnor had taken up SIX
claims along the ella river. Without capt.
tai or business intuition either he had set
tied down happily after sinking his re
quired 1O-fQot holes and duly recording MS
claims and waited for things 10 happen.
Incidentally. he built a cOzy little two
room shack for Dora and planted a gar
den for her, and a chicken coop was ouiit,
and two burros added to the family, ana
under the shade Of the cottonwood ne put
nm a grub tent-a cafe and smoking parlor,
Dora called IT,
II was lots of fun, this playing at Eden.
Sometimes they talked about the nope the
claims held for them, but somehow, all the
hone and money In the world did not seem
enviable beside the happiness they already
possessed.
And suddenly something had happened.
Only four miles north OF them an eastern
syndicate had bought up a group OF semi
abandoned claims and had started opera
tons Rumors drifted down 10 them OF Il
big copper strike. II was nushed anu uA-
certain but new machinery began 70 APP
near and gradually the wilderness began
10 open up it's arms and the world walked
in.
The syndicate had cast a coveting eye on
the adjoining group and Jim mad Whlstled
comfortably and had said he might think
II over. In the meantime he sat back and
waited to see what would happen 10 the
syndicate group -.
ten to Bradley and had sent up hfty-
mound box OF his own ore to be assayed
on the quiet. II was only from the ten
foot surface workings, but the percentage
OF copper Il showed made Bradley drop
Chicago, pack his suit case and trunk ana
make for Arizona and Eden valley
He had gone out TO look at the copper
properties" and he found Dora. IL had
been "A little over q month since jim hau
met him over at Lost Moon with the Duck
board He had never forgotten the hrst
glimpse he had OF her, standing on the
rise OF ground under the eottonwooo, WIN ,lul
the AMETHYST twilight afterglow around her
and her face uplifted for Jims kiss he
had not dreamed OF finding such woman
I'm Eden valley And in that month ne had
grasped every detail, every PHASE ot S. .e
life there-Jim's easy-going lndecislon' ms
frequent trips over TO Lost Moon post.
Nothing wrong in it. old boy" Jim had
said merrily. Just social time with the
crowd There's only seven or eight or us,
a lot of exiles. you know. There's jan
sem the artist with old con. gripping him,
and Doc Yates. and Barry Conway; You re-
member Barry, the lawyer up on Lasalle
street He's here In the syndicate interests
now: fine fellow. isn't he, DotP And there
a real estate agent, Morton, and q few
others We meet and chat. and have few
smiles on the side. What's the difference
Have 20 get a little something out OF this
desert"
Bradley had said nothing. merely smoked
but through the smoke he had watched tht
face of Dora and had seen the vague trou'
BILE in H. He understood better, one night
when he joined the social crowd over al
Lost Moon and assisted Jim into the buck
board at daybreak.
He'll get over II II We let him alone
he had told Dora. when she came out Of
the tent TO meet them, and had seen ths
sleeping figure IN the hack of the buck
board. He hasn't really done anything
wrong"
"Jim never does anything really wrong.
she had said quickly. This is the only
thing that ever happens"
There was not word of the LONELINESS:
of waiting hour after hour there In thu
wilderness for the sound of the wheels OF
tina road and the call Of a voice In the dark.
ness And Il had been going on for nearly
five years. Bradley did much smoking
walking day after day over the hillside
where the claims lay, and sometimes Dors