Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

ever-yrowing admiration. He could tell from her
attitude whether he was more to her than inter
esting of the mountains, whose life. habits, and
methods of speech different from any that she had
known He suspected that this the sole
for her interest Yet the night when he expressed
qualification at the receipt OF the forms and letter, she
displayed personal citation that puzzled him..
l am 50 glad those forms came she declared, looking
enveop, and today when it came was certain it could
contain nothing else suppose you will 60 back and Tile
them Immediately is, do whatever you have to do.
about all that consists Of in the first place, IS to
substitute them with the same witness signatures for
the ones that have already placed the stakes, he
said. after that fancy can take my time to record
He did tell her that already he and Hardpan
getting low in funds that they cconomizing on
every possible dollar and that the recording fees for
documents such they had to file would run into quite
a little sum- from their viewpoint.
He almost the verge Of explaining this when
a heavy footstep almost behind them caused him to
turn Hares there, looking out over the gloom OF
the lake. and apparently absorbed in his thoughts;
but Jim had uncomfortable feeling that he had been
there for sometime, and wondered how man OF his
weight could around noiselessy as he seemed
to do when it was his desire He was thankful that
nothing had been said that could be of value to the
promoter; but lest his tongue slip unawares he rose
and suggested to Miss Waters that she accompany MN
down to the beach.
He patted the envelop in his pocket he went for
it seemed to him that all their troubles were being
swept aside, and that nothing remained between him
and affluence but the small work of completing the
drain tunnel He could not refrain from voicing his
happiness and his hope It had taken months OF &c.
nature point where he dared confess the magnitude
of his and Hardpan dream.
ONLY few days more he said as they walked along
- the shore "and we shall know what is beneath
lake. There is reason why 1t should not be immensely
rich. 1t is in such place that Nature makes her big
deposits In such holows she creates her savings banks
"How much will you get from it, Eve asked, and he
was compelled to smile at her ignorance
"That scarcely be foretold with any accuracy,
he replied.
"Rut would it be as much twenty thousand dol
larso' she persisted
at might contain much more than that. 1t might be
rich the lost Arch mine supposed to be- and the
presumption is that it deposit such have
been formed hollow where the gold drifted and
washed, and collected until It was tabulousy rich
deposit
fully. Il never heard of it."
IL wish / knew where 1t was, he answered 1t IS
of the legendary things, like the Pegeg dozen
others that they will tell you about. The Arch mine
found in the sos by two men named Fish and
Croker when they were searching for water. Fish
found it. He stopped to rest in the shade OF great
natural arch in the mountains the northeast of here
out on the desert section and suddenly discovered
he in a little hollow and sitting what might
well have been pure gold. He could scoop it up by
the handful. 1t coarse and It was IN Just such
place little lake might be 1t suddenly dried up,
and the country around it dried up and the desert cept
in the dead forests. Croker believe, died on the
out, very shortly after the got to water
and other Then Fish tried for years to find it,
until he died SO did other men, by the score Joe
Lord down in San Bernardno could tell you of outfit
after outfit that has turned away to the north to
back 1t is still there somewhere, under its arch.
that dried lake whose bottom OF gold Our lake
here and shall lay bare all that has stored for
She seemed for the first time to grasp the full sig
nicancc Of all this work meant to him. and unhesltat
ngly voiced her hope that would great he
desired She stood quite close to him. looking up INTO
his face and the stiffness of the night broken only by
the soft tapping of the their feet the sotness
the air. the urement of the sarit sky, everything,
seemed attuned to romance, and the love that
urging him to say The words rushing
quickly his lips words that would tell her that his