New-York tribune., 1910-02-27

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-1g with wondering ewes upon
: "a newly discovered world SIX months
before Fogho-n Mclean had found
= big vein Of silver II this wilderness
u fifty miles from Cobalt. and now
fF< - the Dler-irrde Of rock and trees had
% -~s--- rs --I-nevaI contours thrown out
@@ Of 701-r bv the aggressive squares
u I0gShaCbS and canvas tents.
T-r--= Hotel was distinctive II It's individuality II
vz --ezslve architectural design. Against cen
t-a --e ----g lighter board structures leaned with
c5-5-z 5z--- N the stability Of the parent abode
ke- L==zl-s had Tl1st eaten hearty dinner IN
Trout -e- Two weeks Of toll and lean tare out on
ns-eT claim. the Big Pine and. as he drew char up
beside -= host Pel00 Trout IN the front room that
One and almost everything else he felt ike one
ELc Lz- -=-----le6 70 his own flresIde.
H-r= tricks, Peloo:" he asked conventlo1aly-
Business IS hu-nrnin', - Trout answered
i E---e6 i would be when | heerd you had
sczk=l ms hotel" Red declared.
E=-z The worst" Peloo growled There's
>W=-= with his fam ~ an / got MS glrl 10
sing hasa. The Chink cooks purity good too,
B=--=- -1zn -r1irin" " Red observed. Bunk
house Is z---e winners II new camp
E--.----ses -5-a-s IS Red there was bOth
=s-s--- z-5 -er-oach II Peloo's tones: but the
va I iced guests there amt much IN lt-nOt when
the been wCrkln out on CLAIMS for couple u
7-=e-z -=zs-w-se
Rel --==5 u an II conditioned cigar he had been
struggling with looked rneditatively at the ceiling
a-- --- readily finding happy retort, asked at q
tangent How's Billy Forbes dom Hcldln down
hrs ----- goOd:'
D. -1-ned his face allowing his eyes 70 rest IN
= .--E. CO-ce-npiative gaze upon d slender d4lA
---. - who stood behind q rude counter IN q cor
--e room talking TO one who leaned with a S-
ges.- Il i-solence IN his whole pOise against the
-z- --a- separated them The slender man lace
.---zl-gIv pleasant TO look upOn.-tTaTlk, open
--- aEEes-e5 weakness Of the lower part soTeVFiI
balanced by lines indicating development OF claT-
----- --- II experience.
Billy seems quite 70 home" MeekIns spoke IN
-= way ri recalling Peloos attention to his question
-.l-.s done fu 81 rate since he took holt. trout
=-s.-=- How'd he come to leave Big axes
.g5alr an come here with you f\eo.
r=.- question was asked carelessly. but ms eyes
looked INTO Neelins' with q shrewd interest quite at
----e with ms assumed tone
was boss hash singer II the dlnln room Al
z axes. ar he was that perllte an oplg'h 'o'A
q 1e 70 Billy" Red answered V1Vldly ,,u
Oh 7us' come along cause you liked MN en-.
E.- exactlv Pel0o ! knowed yo'' was pulIaln
-E-e -e-e b-nkn0use-'
AM ~@e ike - pet busy with brokerin mines
again" Red continued ignoring the INTERRUPT tiol,
I 1ggered Billy Jus the KIND OF a Alu I"
manage rlIs part of your enterprises
An. he come PeIOo summed up.
Nor II IN 81 he rus laughed al Il. But guess
-re.1ir' must have gone wrong the nlSht peIcI5 ?
pulled gu for here. | kinder lit up that figIlL,
ra--' few drinks with the fellers, 50 don KIlo"
H- II was. but early IN the InOrnln Biily colLles
. room an SAYS he'll 60 He says ne Ii meet me -,
ae --s7- gCir' down TO LatcfOrd where Fe G"I 'iN
...-t- II . canoe 70 come up the river.
Kinder funny. WASH i, f<ed, he ul'1l1 '
Big axe for nothIu'. did he ,
Sas Peloo / thought you'd seen enough OF men
81 eg-r time 70 know bear from a 8roIIllIIios
psrgg shifted 7lueaSilv IN his char IeellllS ilS
Shame of P-5s -.-rl-oach and added apologetlcaE,
Billy don't look ike crook guess IS 'i lo
level right 'n0ugh. e -
He Vsr -,st scared that mOrnln. scared o1 some
rlIr' OF somebody. but when anybodN SgC . oii o.
-rsr BITlv's done him 11p he can have nan the Dig
Pine from ne an it's iookln purity iioiiiiSii -
thar. Meekins declared sturdy: p.d ~, al the
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