White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-14

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themselves to waiting
Estelle tripred along the street to a
car line and took the first car that
came along. which. the conductor in
formed her. crossed the street she
sought
Arriving al her street. she got Oh
and found herself in a neighborhood
inhabited b. very poor people. She
looked with disgust at the tumbledown
shanties and dirty shacks that Uttered
the rubbish heaped yards. Two blocks
up from the car line she found her
number. a house slightly better kept
than most. But she noticed In the
yard an uptilted ash mans cart In the
real was a rickety stable. She entered
the gate and rang the bell.
A very large. III dressed Italian wo-
man opened the door. letting out q
tremendous odor Of garlic and cheese
She surveyed her caller with suspicion
and then beamed
"Oh. you come looka de papes?" she
demanded.
EsteIle merely showed a copy of the
advertisement.
"Yes. my husband he put that in de
pape." the woman said. losing her
smile.
For some moments Estelle tried to
get a glimpse OF the documents. The
Italian himself came on the scene and
demanded a full description When
EsteIle said that they had been lost
from the Manx hotel he nodded and
explained that he had been removing
the ashes therefrom when his eye had
been caught by the folded papers. but
he still insisted on an accurate de-
scription. which the maid could rot
give. At last she said quietly, The
papers are of no value to you, and I
am authorized to pay a good reward
for them"
Al the word reward there was a
change. and the woman demanded to
know how much it would be.
Estelle thought rapidly. 1t had beer
impressed on her that haste was nee
essary. She decided on offering a good
~ sum. yet not enough to make the
ash man and his wife think they were
In possession of papers Of extraordi-
nary value. She pulled out her purse
and held u 81 The man was taking
1t. His wife interviewed
Twenty dolla, she said cunningly.
Estelle bargained for some moments
and then said IN a tone that was de
cisive. IF you show me the papers
you SIS and no more"
The deeds were produced. and a
glance told her that they belonged to
Ruth. She paid the money and hur-
ried away
Everett and Dorr had gone over the
situation thoroughly together. and the
broker agreed that he would help out
in putting the Master Key" mine on
its feet again.
II think | can do IL tomorrow" he
said. Just let me have all the pa
pers. and III go over them tonight"
Ruth has them" John replied
Wed best go up and get them now
Ruth received them cheerfully n
promptly went 10 her trunk for the
deeds. Her first search was not re
warded. and she lifted a puzzled face
to John. Then she once more vent
through all her belongings. Ii was
fruitless. She then remembered the
desk and searched 1t with the same
result
They're gonei' she stammered.
"Impossible.' said Dorr They must
be somewhere here"
No" she mourned. I've looked
everywhere
Everett was the trst to suggest thai
no time should be lost In locating the
missing property. He sent for the
evening papers and delved into the
Lost and Found columns. with the
result that he very SCOT handed a pa
per to Dorr and pointed out the adver
tisement which had attracted Wilker
sons attention.
Half an hour later John Dorr turned
away from the ash mans oor and
said to Everett: I'll bet thai was one
of Wilkerson's crowd We must no
Ill II ROatS othofO "t ,ah sti
away"
They had soon told their difficulties
to the sympathetic ear at headquar
tiers and started back for the hotel
Iohn was In the dumps.
at seems as II everything goes
wrong when / try to do something for
that little woman" he growled.
II begin to think myself that you
are playing in hard luck" was the re
ply. But | always did like a good
tight, and this promises to be one III
stick. John
They shook hands
They found Ruth and Tom Kane
~anxiousiy awaiting them. John sim
ply stated the case and then turned
to comfort Ruth He was startled to
see how white she was
Ruth. Ruth" he cried in alarm.
what Is the matterY
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