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

when he had tried to sew clothes for Olympia.
 That young woman was aweing him more than ever. She was taking music lessons and had made school friends who struck Gabriel as so stylish that he used to turn into by-paths when he saw them coming toward him with her. He became more and more conscious of his great bulk and his slowly moving intellect
 Olympia felt the duties laid on her by wealth and Gabriel after smoking many pipes in the old cabin and thinking with eyes unconsciously melancholy of little Oily when he used to carry her in his arms. forced himself to make his greatest sacrifice and sent her to boarding school in Sacramento.
 "It 'ud as we'll O1ly," said Gabriel with immense artfulness before she went, "ez you'd forget all bout this yer gulch and the folks. Yer to be a lady and in beln' thet, brother Gabriel don't want thet the men O the fammerly gin'rally speakin runs to size and ain't, so to speak. strong up yer." placing his hands on his yellow curls.
 Some months afterward one of Dum- phys associates contracted with Gabriel to buy 100 shares in the mine at S1000 a share On the day set for closing the transaction the prospective buyer re- ceived a letter from Gabriel saying that the lead had unaccountably pinched out, and that under the circumstances the shares were not worth the price, and he had torn up the contract.
 The men who had put money in with Dumphy were furious and aghast. Dum- phy was neither. They sold cheap and he bought. Soon 1t was whispered around the exchange that Gabriel had played a sharp trick, depressing the stock only to buy it in and hold up investors for high CT prices. The stock promptly went up.
 MT. Dumphy chuckled when he heard the angry comments on Conroy's cunning and hypocrisy. Gabriel, quite unconscious of his reputation, believed the reports of Dumphy's experts about the mine, kept his stock and looked on 1t as worthless. MT Dumphy wondered how he could get supreme control.
 The question was being decided for him on Conroy's hill that same day. In Rami- reg, the revengeful and vindictive, but cowardly one, jealousy and hate had out grown fear at last. He appeared in One- Horse gulch and waited for Mrs. Conroy among the pines. He saw her meet man whom he had known in San Fran cisco as MT. Perkins, famous expert on legal documents of the time of the Spanish occupation.
 He crept close and listened. With a gasp of astonishment he learned that the man was the brother of Dr. Devarges and subsequent remarks showed the half crazed Spaniard that Mrs. Conroy had de- ceived and ruined him as she had de- ceived so many others.
 But these two were not making love- Devarges had arrived quite accidentally, lores Salvatierra to find out about the holders of the Conroy mine.
 Ramirez hiding behind tree, Was held suddenly in mighty grip. He was jerlxed backward to see the eyes of Cab riel Conroy Joking into his.
 When Mrs. Conroy returned to the house she had but one thought. It was to coax Gabriel to go east with her im- mediately that he might not discover her true character. After all her years of in- trigue for wealth, she had come to this that for love of a simple, rude man she was willing to give up everything else
 To her surprise she found Gabriel with his old miners pack. His clothes were his old rough miners blouse and boots. When he saw her he began apologetically: This contains. ma'am, only my old duds. I'll open 1t if you say