Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-06-15
THE VALUE OF
confidence.
sy EVELYN WENTWORTH.

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MY poor little girl" gasped old Tom
Conyers on his deathbed, 81 dread "a
leave you with nothing. IL | couId
have lived six months might have.
left you rich"
Oh don't mind that. dad. IN get
along
Sailie Conyers buried her father and
packed up their belongings ready to
leave the old cabin, near the mine in
when all his hopes had been conferred.
She found Will drawn some time be.
fere. but now there appeared to be no
occasion for will. Then she went
down to Colorado Springs. where she
mad an aunt to whom she could look
for guidance.
When her father died SaIlie was slx.
Teen. A year later vein was dlscov.
cred In the mine in which she still had
an interest. A dividend was declared
that gave her $1,000 which by the
terms OF the will she could not have
TIL she was twenty-one years old. But
the vein soon died out, and the Con-
yers mine was abandoned.
Two years later a couple of specu-
lators bought the property for song,
wiped out the old stock and organized
a company called the Hope Mining
company.
Meanwhile Sallie Conyers was earn
ing her living in Colorado Springs.
When she was twenty she became en-
gagged to a clerk In a bank with a sal
airy so infinitesimal that matrimony
between the two seemed but multi
plication of their troubles. But the
day was approaching when Sallie
would come into her $1,000, and that
would enable them to set up In a small
way at housekeeping
The day she was paid the money be-
gan happily and ended In misery VIII.
| lard Stearns, her lover. had been long
looking for the day when they should
be married. Now. when the money
was paid, Saliie told him that she pro
posed to invest 1t In the stock Of the
Hope Mining company He looked at
her aghast.
II have kept In touch with the prop
erty," she said, land know something
about what they are doing. My IA
Their worked that mine for three years.
He used to talk to me about it because
he hadn't any one else TO confide what
absorbed him. | know that when a
certain event happens, II It ever does
happen. a rich lode will be struck"
She got out her fathers old maps.
showing plot after plot crossing and
covering one another. and tried to ex-
plain what her father had so often
explained to her. But either he could
not or would not understand. He took
no interest in the angle at which the
sanborn lode dipped nor In the depth
at which 1t crossed the Conyers. A
gold mine to him meant a capacious
nav capable OF swallowing the hard
earned money of simple minded peo-
pie. He told Sallie that If he married
her he had the prospect Of living with
q woman who had inherited a specu-
lative mania He preferred to &c
through life alone.
Sallie tearfully accepted the situa'
ton. The next day she visited the
mine and introduced herself to the
superintendent of the boring gang as
the daughter Of the former owner. He
was very kind to her. answered all heT
questions, but showed no expectation
of striking paying dirt. Indeed, be
told her that he expected soon to aban
don the work Sallie asked him how
deep was the hole. He told her 1t was
l,4OO feet. promise me that you
won't stop till you have gone 200 feet
farther" she said. why so?' BE
cause you'll strike rich vein at 1.5OC
feet"
He gave the promise, and Sallie re
turned to Colorado Springs. The mex
} day she went to a broker and asked
the market price Of Hope Mining
shares. They told her that there hat
not been a quotation for months. but j
or 8 cents were offered II would
bring all she might wish TO buy. Sh'
authorized them to offer cents
: share for as much as $1,000 would pur
chase. The offer was made and 500
OUO par VaIue Oh tue StOSA SSNN
old Conyers had expected TO make
strike at from I,45O to 1900 feet. Sal
lie waited a week In terrible sus
Dense. She had absolute confidence II
her fathers expectations, but ne
l $1,000 was backing these expectations
{ The next day. looking at the quota
! lions Of Hope stock. she was astouno
ed to see that It had been run up TO .
hid and few sales The vein bad bee
struck. the stock became worth -
share, and Sallie was rich.
willard Stearus kept away from sa
lie from the day he told her he "ouh
not marry one who had inherited
> mania for speculation. One day 0
2 heard of a great rise in Hope Mlnln
o comnauy stock and saw an Item 10
Newspaper stating that the daughte
Of Corners. who formerly owoeu IN
! mine had a large block OF the stocl
ais heart for a moment seemed
v cease 10 beat. he hoped sallie wonI
e send for him. But she didn't d
n