Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-11-12


dads dough. offered mis- title and en-
tire to the most exclusive princely set
on the continent. But there was no
commotion, beyond that of his nibs'
i'ttinS the grit. She told him in
choice, but decidedly emphatic Rus
sian. that she had absolutely no sym.
pathy with cattle of his breed. that
she expected to marry some day II
she got an opportunity that suited her
but the lucky boy would be some hus.
ky son of her native soil and not n
sickly son of debilitated aristocracv
This was almost her Identical Ian
guage. Other dukes and lords and
princes came, but they got the nit in
their several native tongues with the
same positiveness.
When Lucille arrived a. the acc OF
Il she was called to occupy a swivel
chair in the scientific department of
one of the Pacific Coasts leading uni
versities. She was regularly paid.
in-advance subscriber TO all the Neva-
ia mining camp papers. and their oc.
sasional stories about Death Valley
had attracted her attention. She
longed to investigate, TO find out jus
what the mysterious sink" is and
Why, So at the end Of the frs. year
she persuaded her institution TO send
her on an expedition to study the
nora, fauna, geology, mineralogy. phil.
ology, ethnology psychology and physi-
ology-and few more | cant recall
OF this wonderful region. Equipped
with her scientific instrum ents. porl,
and beans she started afoot on her
tour OF scientific investigation.
On the % day of last July had YOU
been at Bennet's we'll, point some
200 odd feet below sea level. when the
sun was shedding his last rays upon
the sombre. treeless crags of tho Pana-
minis and Funeral mountains. paintino
inc dull, dead desert waste a delicate
purple; and had yod cast your eyes
TO the south, you would have seen
a short distance away n
iair yours woman done in khal,is, dog.
Sedly dragging one foot after the other
IN desperate attempt to husband
her fast-failing strength and reach
the life-saving we'll before that awfrI
desert thirst claimed her for another
victim.
1t was Lucille-but you had guessed
that, though before fetched up. hadn't
OF? We'll /. was she all right. and
Size was practically pegged out A
Jew minutes longer and 1t would have
been all off with her. Remember tie
mercury was at $40 in the sha1n
Let Lucille get few swallows nj
water and the sand out of hcr back
hair' while you turn your gaze toward
the north
You will observe approaching a
stalWart, handsome young man mis-
tongue swollen and protrudink from,
thirst, his gait painful and y!ow. his
seconds numbered. IT, this condition is
to last, likewise headed for the life
giving hole. Who Is ne? AiayDs 70.
have guessed the man TO be thg u.vs.
FERROUS Scott, but you arc ava, al il
you think you will ever eaten soct,y"
without water, champagne or soulc.
thing TO liquidate his thirst wLol he
travels in the valley. Perhaps ven
have concluded that the man is lilo
leader of some bolG band OF robbers.
Secreting themselves in the fastnesscs
OF the mountains surrounding tie val.
ley for his very presence shows him
TO be leader. Wrong again. for
robber hiding in Death Valley Wolld
more than likely be next to the va,cr.
It's only the teedcr,cet
who get II in the neck, and lhcj kn,,
too blamed much to take adyic..
But tho man. lie Is meme oder dian
Luther Livingstone. the most rcuo..n.
ed scientific authority, outside OF Lu.
ellie LipDincott in the known world
ana II Is about standOn between
.lc two. The call Of the dascrt had
lkewisc smitten his auditory appara.
tUs. Leaving a substantial chair i'm
an eastern university he had hcark-
aned and hit out on his investigating
expedition about the same time Lu-
ellie had
IL is strange though. isn't it. ha.
ihcy should be here a. BENEFITS VOL.
some 200 odd feet below sea level.
and both gasping in their last brcltbs
when they touched tho rcyiving ,yat.,
that saved their lives? They had sta.
died together A. Leipsic, and werc in.
imatsiE acquainted Lucille had al
ways liked Luther Livingstone. and he
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