The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

wall of yellow water rushed down. The creepers yielded to their weight. Gabriel dug his fingers into the soil around its root. .clutched a Jagged rock, let go with | one hand to hold the woman and pressed her close to the cliff l With despairing cry the man dropped away and was gone. Lock 1 your hands together hard and sling lem l over my neck!" said Gabriel to the i woman as soon as his mouth was above 1 water again. He groped for a projec- | ton on the rock above and raised him. l self by a supreme effort. "Kin ye hang | on a mint longer?" he asked When | the woman answered "Yes," he found
 another projection and another until at last he reached a ledge where they could rest.
 A month later Ramirez and Peter Dumphy looked at each other in mutual disgust over letter that had been | written to the latter gentleman from One-Horse Gulch. It announced that Madame Julie Devarges had thought | better of masquerading, as Grace Con roy, and that, instead, she had married | Gabriel, who had saved her life. The spaniard rushed away. too wild with Jealousy and defeated desire to Dumphy looked at some ore from the
 mine which had assayed 80 per cent silver, and decided to submit to cir [ cumstances and make the best bargain l that he could.
 When he reached One- Horse Gulch he l discovered something that took him a. back. Julie Devarges, adventures, had
 succumbed to human weakness at last and was hopelessly and help1essly in love with her husband. although Ga briel, in his turn, was not at all in love | with her, but simply yielded tamely ! and meekly to what seemed a fate that
 mere man could not resist.
 "He need never know that this land
 was deeded by my husband to his sis- ter" said Mrs. Conroy to Dumphy "TIe has discovered the mine which gives the land it's value and the law makes
 him the owner of the mine, no matter | on whose land 1t may be found" Dumphy admitted that it was true and admired the clever woman for hay ing obtained her ends so simply. "A silver mine needs a gold mine to run it." said Dumphy. You must have works and smelting. If you take others in, they
 won't keep quiet about the past as will. They'll investigate Take me in on this and we'll form stock company, five mil- lions capital. You take 50 per cent of the shares. I'll have 25 and we'll dispose of the other 25 per cent as we can" T will," said Mrs. Conroy If you will keep my secret from every one, from him"
 One-Horse Gulch bloomed wonderously into flowers of new hotels and barrooms and churches and gambling hells with the announcement of the great strike of sil- yer on Conroy's hill, where the blond
 bearded man with the patient eyes had
 delved so long and so uselessly for gold. A great house went up among the pines.
 The best people frequented Mir. Gabriel
 Conroy's new home and listened to the
 grand piano and admired the pretty cur
 tains and carpets. The only important
 person in the whole district who did not
 frequent the house much was Gabriel him.
 self
 He used it only for the exigencies of
 food and nightly shelter. If decoyed there
 at other times by spacious invitations
 from Oily, who had developed a hot love
 for Julie. he compromised by sitting on
 the back porch.
 His favorite resort was his old cabin
 that stood on the original claim some dis
 tance away from the new workings. AL
 though the structure was decaying fast he kept possession of 1t and smoked his
 pipe there and thought of the old days