The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-09-18

"a NUDES.
III give IL TO you when we get home.
At the dinner table that evening h
notleed IL on her hand when she wa
pouring out the coffee but he didn
like 10 say anything before their CUES
Afterward. he reached out his lsf
hand and asked her TO put the ring on q,
Let me wear II for n few days. sh,
pieaned childishly. You used 10. don
you remember
Then he remembered-butn not TIL then
that he used to. and he felt less un.
kindly toward the dead brother.
! "a rather YOU would not. DEAR he
said. Il don't want you TO wear IT,
she drew IT OFF retuiantiy and threw
IL TO him.
oh. l forgot" she said. coming over
and slipping IL on finger OF his well
Here IL remained while he and the MAJ
who wore its mate went about together:
Tor Dave took Harry Gray everywhere.
valuable substitute for the disabled
arm. TIL he announced a sudden deter
nlnation TO 20 20 Alaska
u. M nom 'o oI.a 1ns, can. go away from
taken you anywhere yet Besides'-he
laughed. indicating the sling-"we can
not get along without you
| oh. those boards vii be off In a few
days. replied Gray. and you'll be all
/ right again. Besides. I must go" he
persisted. or IN miss my boat I've got
10 get TO Frisco by the 18th"
And 80 he went
They expected TO hear from him when
re eot 70 san Francisco. but they didn't
men they saw about the boat leaving
there on the 18TH. loaded with pasSen-
sers Tor the new sold region In Alaska
] Ahu they saw. too. where IL damned
INTO an Iceberg and went TO the bottom
Win all on board but five.
The names OF the five wer. e,v.n
HAIRY Grays was not among them.
/ Su.,, ,,oo. III
rheh pave couldn't get a word out OF
! her. Then when ne did, OH" shed
say. as II he had brought her back
from somewhere.
she went downtown n great deal
\ 10 the matinees. or shopping When
] ne could. he would come uptown and
nave nave lunch with her. because he didn't
IKE 10 have her going around 80 niue n
alone. lie would leave her at the door
= OF the theatre. Afterward she would
seem TO have forgotten what she saw
OF. at other times. she was so fun OF
3 the play that she overdid It
! She would start out 20 buy some
/ thlnE and come home without having
made the purchase. Once she didn't
get home tin after he did lie was
much alarmed and was telephou.ng to
every likely place he could think OF.
when she walked in as frightened AZ
( he was. In the midst OF tears. she told
hoT she had gone on the wrong car
/ and got lost.
Then. the next time. she didn't conc
II was one Of those sudden disan.
pearances that happen now and then
S.ooo.ooo other people don't get lost
! otherwise would.
Dave Baton hired a private detec-
b i've. lie tried 60 keep II from the
police. on &C cunt OF the notoriety 81
The newspapers got hold 81 It. but he
W. neither a millionaire nor other
wis" prominent. and. when they did
Z y soon blew over. except in his own
heart
, lie became an old man for his wears
and MS neglected business went to the
dog. He kept the little apartment
HS long - he could for the wife Who
might stih come back to It. lie woul!
have ~ that she had suddenly lost her
memorv-or. perhaps. her reason and
would some day wake up and CONS
looking for him. Hope is hard 20 Kill
lie hoped for five long years: and
when There was no more OF his hard
earned money lerr-for he was not max
ing any more and detectives don't work
for MS stored HOUSEHOLDS things. and
again went west to forget.
Great otanEes had taken place IN the
Years Of his ahserc" lie had kept track
81 things by watching tie mining mar
krt. but he was litile prepared FOR to
cities that had grown out OF the SAND.
Many OF the old camps too. had died out
entirely
come over and stop with ire a
ranch IN Death Valley. I've qutt mining
and am raising AnEori goats"
/. Tue went along through Tule Canyon
IN tis machine
This e. tie only way 20 travel" said
Eare's new friend Look AZ some OF
a.. others that went along this trail
hof'r" on foot-seekine first gold. then
water All tie gold IN tie world would
nj have bought 81 for them
lie was pointing 10 TIE homes along
The way bones 81 man AMI bones OF
10 Ira -
Dave was surpr sod whom they got
90 his friends ranch. n was .u oasis
10 the desert, with plenty - water and
vegetation. ar plenty ~ harmless In
dams. VINO DID no work sbou' tho place
So e fI"SS. lazy way fnr oven the
oasis YVES hot
friend and see the goats 1u the hillside
Vt 9th times nr would take the ma
chin" and ono or two ~ the Indians and
20 prospecting for some - the fabulous
wealth believed % boz hidden under the
hone hroit"red sand. Nut taat 10 do.
sired 20 md a.
lie saw more than ono heap = bones
that told the story - tragedy Here
and th"~@ were fragments ~ ciofhinc
afiii ClNgirg 10 the short brush. where
~" wearers Nad discarded fi~at ono r4--
mont then another. as they went deeper
into the sum sfniftcn valley. whore they
finally left everything even their
bones
BE vas moving along slowly. his ~.
pertenred ewes Elued o. me ground Or
surface Indications when sudden fIrv
red flash from something that Do Tas -ed
made him stop tho machine
Wait here" he said g. the Indian @
want t1 80 back and look ~ something "
lle Wa not mistaken Like q spark
o. Tire. 10 Elow"1 among me white bones
Ilc sfp0Tcd and liffad uu one bone traf
had been FINGER 10 cruul1ed ~ ID.
ring foil or Boz che ho' SIND ile picked
" np re- "r'r'lf and DO could almost
imagine tfs rcbv returned lI4 rnya
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