Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-07-20

NY dlroctorB and ak instructions fo4 he
investment Of tie money"
You'll live 10 Be hanged Martin"
said the Colonel, with evident admiration
mot by you, Ell, Colonelf Whatever
might have happened II I'd been obsti-
mattel Hope shall survive to dance at
your wedding anyhow. Less than a week
nowr'
YES" said he, NEXT Saturdays the
day!~
He really looked quite the happy bride
groom ~ he said this, and left him to
contemplate his blim-
Il would bet Ten to one that day never
comes" l thought, a. walked away.
Even II don't will I'll back the Presi-
dent to Be back before that"
The Colonies greed had triumphsd over
his wfts, and be had fallen into my snare
with greater readiness than could have
hoped The question remained, What
would the President do when he got the
Signorina's letter? 1t may conduce to
better understanding of the position If
tell what that letter was She gave 1t
me to read over, after we had compiled
1t together, and still have my copy. 1t
ran as follows:
Il can hardly hope you will trust me
again, but If I betrayed you, you drove
me to IT. have given them your money
1t is in the bank now. M. refuses to give
1t up, and the G. means to take it to-
night He will have only few men, the
rest not near. He will be at the bank at
two. with about twenty men. Take your
own measures. All here favor you. He
threatens me with violence unless marry
him at once. He watches The Songstress,
but If you can leave her at anchor and
land IN boat there will Be no suspicion.
Do not punish me moro BY disbelieving
me. CHRISTINA.
p. S.-M. and the G. are on bad
terms, and NJ. will not BE- active against
you"
Upon tho whole / thought this would
bring him. doubted whether he would
believe very much In it. but it looked
probable. Again, he was 80 fond of
bold stroke, and 80 devoid of fear, that
1t was very likely he would come and
So II 1t were true. II, as we suspected,
he already had considerable body of ad-
connoiter without very great danger of
falling Into the Colonels hands. Finally,
even II he didn't come. We hoped the let
ter would be enough to divert his atten-
ton from any thought of fugitive boats
and runaway lovers
To my mind It is nearly az difficult
to be consistently selfish as to be abso-
lutely unselish. l had, at this crisis, ev-
cry inducement to concentrate all my
efforts on myself, but l could not get
Jones out Of my head 1t was certainly
improbable that Jones would try to resist
tho marauding party: but neither the
Colonel nor his chosen band was likely to
be scrupulous, and 1t was impossible not
to see that Jones might get 4 bullet
through his head indeed, l fancied such
4 step would rather commend itself to the
Colonel, az giving a bona fde look to
the AFFAIR. Jones had often been the cause
OF great Inconvenience to me, but l didn't
wish to have his death on my conscience,
20 l was very glad when l happened to
meet him on my way back from the Gold
en- House, and seized the opportunity of
giving him friendly hint.
took him and sat him down beside me
on q bench In the Piazza. I was in no
way disturbed BY the curious glances of
tho three soldiers who were evidently
charged TO keep an eye on the bank and
my dealings with it.
began by pledging Jones to absolute
secrecy, and then l intimated to him. In
a roundabout way, that the Colonel and
l were both very apprehensfve of an at
tack on the bank.
The town." said /, "is In a most un-
settled condition, and many dangerous
characters are about. Under these cir
cumstances have felt compelled to leave
the defense Of our property In the hands
OF the government. / have formally in
timated to the authorities that we shall
hold them responsible for any loss occa-
stoned to us by public disorder. The
Colonel, in the name Of the government.
has accepted that responsibility. l there
fore desire to tell you, Mr.. Jones, that in
the lamentable event of any attack on the
bank 1t will not be expected of You TO
expose your life by resistance. Such
sacrifice would be both uncalled for and
useless; and must instruct you that the
government insists that their measures
shall not be put In danger of Illustration
by any rash conduct on our part. am
unable to be at the bank this evening
but In the event of any trouble you will
oblige me by not attempting to meet force
by force. You win yield, and we shall
rely on our remedy against the govern.
ment In case Of loss"
These instructions so fully agreed with
the natural bent Of Jones' mind that he
readily acquiesced In them and expressed
high appreciation Of my foresight.
Take care Of yourself and Mrs. Jones.
my dear fellow" 1 concluded: 'that i,
all you have to do, and l shall be salts