The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-20
CHAPTER XIV.

Now lead-niniug has been STOPPED IA
Upper Nharfcdaie these thirty years. bat
stu a boy who has been brought Up in
q village there may vel have some gen
cral know ledge Of ores and the methods
Of getting them. The mining first began
in those dim British DAYS before the Ro-
mans came. and IL has continued on down
t-rolsn the ceutur4es uN the influx OF
foreign lead brought prices below SO a
ton. and the mines could not be worked
at PROFIT
Raw dumps and grass covered dumps
are tIstcealo4e on every hand. and though
VIC older tunnels are obliterated there
are stun enough shafts and drifts and
.Id-ts % b. found IN the gray stone hills
L occupy many months exploration.
George Carter had heard OF the past
storles OF lead from his earliest years.
and old residents pointed TO the ruined
cottages that were nlled and flourish
lNs when the village held SEQ people
who lived by the mines. instead Of the
zoo who dwclt there now and made a
.ean living out OF a little limp farming.
WIN pockets stuffed with candle
Dc had splashcd into the old levels
and wandered for miles in the heart
Of the limestone hills and hacked with
rusty plckneaos at forgotten working
faces. he had raked amongst the old
ruined machinery beside the dumps
he had studied the run Of the water
races. and as Tar a man with n
natural engineering bent may recon
Struct these things from memorials Of
tho past. he had done 50 most thor
oughiy. and. In the old unscieBtihc way.
was as good a miner as any OF those
blue gummed rUfisns OF the past and
that without even having seen lead
mine in real work
Tin-stone he had seen In a not very
we'll equipped school museum. a tin
on Corn wall. which treated that coun-
Try more from the picturesque point OF
view than the mechanical or the scien-
But the thing that had fred his mind
one baking day at halls-Nulla was a
newspaper paragraph which spoke OF
Nnaa ~
majority OF the human race ne had not
troubled his head as TO whether tin
was IS a ton or $50. But here ne saw
that il had gone up 20 no less a figure
than f207 los per ton. lie wished ne
could find tine mine. but concluding
ne might as well search that par
ticular part Of steamy West Africa for
great auk's eggs. went no further than
fra ing tie wish
Then came the happenings at Mokki
and Ali ben Hossein's parting git OF
tie little gray stone duck which had
uumi stakable brown tin crystals for its
head its wings and its feet and on
the top 81 an arrived Rates cahlegram
4 sweating operator had read that
MESA &c from under sea. as 10 winked
out in a darkenod cable hut runners
had carried the curt words along roar
ing beaches. padd1ers had borne them
hV canoe up muddy creeks great
bank in far-oN Hamburg had pledged
dsv later tho elatternlv = S Frau
Pobst urched untGiiv up the muddy
creeks and commenced To case the rae
tory buildings OF their overlooking
wealth - West African produce
Carter itchcd 60 be on. IL had come
10 this. he could not trust himself in
Katc's ncighhorhood. Laura Siade saw.
or fancicd she saw how things We're.
and bravclv asked him one day to break
their engagement.
But Carter dt"W nor down onto the
ofic. chair beside him and pvt au arm
round her and kissed her. NOW" he
said tell out frankly who IL is that
YOU like better than YOU like me2"
"Tt isn't that. George"
well as Cascaes is the only alter
native. ! didn't suppose it was. Come
now out with IL. what's the troubie1
] suppose YOU just going to be "A wo-
man and toll me its my FAULT 7 don't
agree with YOU I'm the same me as
ALWAYS was rcd hair. large feet and
as big an appetite as the Coast viii
allow"
She put her face against his shoulder
IT'S Kate. George
You must let me refer to her as
Miss p'Neill" said Carter dryly. You
see she's my cmployer-or was-and
We re- naturally not on intimate terms
Well. what's Miss O'Ncfu got TO do
with my marrying you?"