Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-11-03

"5ut | Am Thinking Of Getting Mar
RED"
your father asked him what that was,
he said the idea that he could make
any money in the West. He told your
father that he was going back to Eng
land and give up his western schemes,
and that he had a claim to sell, and
he told Blair where it lay. Who has
seen IT, your father asked. Any Of
my men,? And the Englishman told
your father that nobody had wanted
to buy 1t and that was why he had
come to him. He said he thought his
only chance to sell was to hold up
some blind man on his dying bed and
that he had heard that Blair was too
sick to stir out of his room and to
prospect. Your father liked the fell
lows cheek, and when ne found out
that he had the maps with him, your
father bought the whole blooming
sweep at the mans price, which was
mere song.
"Your father never went near his
purchase for a year or more, and
when he had turned the mine he was
managing over to the original CON-
pany, with me as manager in his
place, at a salary OF twenty thousand
dollars a year, he said to me one day,
'Ruggles, you'll be sorry to know that
the fun is all over, I've struck OIL But
the oil was copper. The whole bloom
ing business that he'd bought of that
Englishman was rich with ore. Well,
that's the story of Blairtown," Rug
giles said. You were born there and
your mother died there"
Dan said: "Galorey told me what
dad did later for the man that sold
him the mine, and 1t was just like
everything else he did, for dad was all
right, just as good as they come"
Rlggles agreed. He left his rem
iniscences abruptly. Your dad and
me had the fun In our time; now you
are going to get the other kind; you're
going to make the dust fly that he
dug up"
And the rich young man said mus
ingly: I'll bet II isn't half as good at
my end" go.
And Ruggles agreed: Not by a Jug
full" And followed: Whats on to-
night? "Mandalay?"
Dams fury at Prince Poniotowsky
came back. 81 guess you thought
was little loose in the lid, didn't
you, Josh, going so often to the same
play?"
You wouldn't have been the first
rich man that had the same disease"
Ruggles answered.
There is nothing the matter with
'Mandalay,' but I'm not gone on any
actress living, Josh; you are in the
wrong pew"
Dan altered his indolent pose and
sat forward. But l am thinking Of
getting married." he said.
Il hope it's to the right girl, Dan"
And with young assurance Blair an
swered: 1T will be II | marry her.
| know what l want all right"
Il hope she knows what she wants,
Dan"
How do you mean?"
You or your money. You have the
darnedest handicap, my boy"
Blair flushed. I'll get to hate the
whole thing" he said ferociously. 1T
meets me Observation-Disclosures
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It's too much!" he said suddenly,
with resentment. Its too much for
me. Why, sometimes feel a hun
dred years old, and like a hunk OF
gold"
Ruggles, in answer to this, said:
why, that reminds me Of what a
man remarked about your father once. |
1t was the same English chap your IA |
Their bought the claim Of. Speaking !
of Blair, he said to me: You know
there's all kinds Of metal bars, and |
when you cut into them some is bull.
lion and some's coated with alum
mum, and there's others that when
you cut down, cut a clean yellow all
along the line II, as you say, you
feel like a hunk Of metal, It amt bad
If 1t is that kind"
TITS got to stop coming in between
me and the woman | marry, all right,
though" Dan did not pursue his sub
iect further, for his feelings about the