The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-24

fn become Du4ilc- He uc-uA AO SSV vhy it was that men looked at him s ranseiy at times. when 1t was q ques- ton Of Ruth interests. He must Te- strain himself.
 The operaior did not hang ID imme Giately. bu1 said hesiiadngly: Say. John. there's a wire here; inst came n from The Master Key mine IL does nor seem % iihe with yours VII sersou sent it.
 I'll play fair said John 10 himself nd uo ra.led back over the wire. "Bii r. that's yours and WiikerSon'S busi ess. hot mine IT he had listened to .e tenor of iae message directed re eau Dagneu. in New York. he would fave learned what WiikerSnn was plot ting.
 For years WHkerson had built up for himself golden image in Jean Oar aeH No one realized better than him elf that she was q creature Of appe tite. lover of silk and velvet \ wo man whose eyes widencd at sight of Persian cat Feminine in every de gree. womanly in none But he him self dominated absolutely, utterly and completely by his desires, had fallen under her spell. and be was going to win her, no matter how. Ii is strange thing that when dishonest man finally yields to an honest passion nothing will satisfy him but the ut most observance of the ritual of socie- ty Harry WiIkersons vision was oI walking up the aisle of a great church to meet his bride at the altar.
 Yet he had always thought of her in terms Of gold; that was a contrast the pallid. sauny, blue eyed woman voluptuous, soft-and his image of her built of yellow gold. dragged out of the bowels of "The Master Key" mine This imags was now before his eyes: Instead of the warm. sun blessed Cali. fornia hills with their faint scent of sage and cnrtus, he saw richly fur nished rooE and breathed the od0r of altar of roses. Let Us not follow him In his dreams But looking over his shoulder an hour later we read:
 Master Key" Mine. June Jean Darneil. Astor House. New York City:
 Find George Everett at III Broadway and meet Ruth Gallon in Chicago on Sante Fe express leaving here thls even ing Introduce Drake as Everett after you have seen Everett and keep the girl to yourself until l can arrange matters.
 HARRY.
 Il can't send this through any office near here," he thought, ''so | guess I'll ride down to Valle Vista and hand it to the conductor. He can send it from Los Angeles"
 Three days later Ruth Gallon settled herself in the seat of q Pullman that was soon to leave Chicago for New York. She was excited In crossing town from one depot to another through the streets roaring with traf fic she had hear I'd sounds that had nev CT met her ears before-the sounds Of the worlds business which oddly enough. seemed to be mostly hauled over cobbieStones. The faint echo of that noise still rang in her ears It ap palled her to think that she must dwell with men who lived ill such an atmos pnefe, also she 1eIt very lonely. She thought of the mine, of Tom Kane in he door of his cook shanty. of the great ore bucket swinging across the gulch toward the mill. of John. bend Ing over his blue prints and papers; ot the grave on the hill where her father lay, still within the precincts ot "The Mastef Key
 II had bean So impressed upon her that t@f mission was of vita impor tance to the mine. that these tender emotions flowed into the same channel with her really keen business instinct She pulled the Key. warm from her OOSom uut of is hiding place and looE I'd at u
 lContinued Tomorrow