The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-25

You must know what sort of a fellow Harry Wilkerson is by this time, Why play his hand for him?'
 Il don't notice you holding any trumps in your hand" she returned gently, but with faint gleam in her eyes which made him draw back. This is my game, and l expect you to play your part. You come on now and be George Everett. The girl is as ig- norant as pigeon. Remember what l told you"
 About that stock?'' he said sullenly, Yes, the stock. You understand that she came to New York simply to raise money for this mine You are supposed to handle the business for her If you don't learn all that is to be learned about The Master Key mine in the next two days you are more than the fool take you for
 She drew him back to where Ruth stood amid the suit cases and hand bags and said, Miss Gallon. MT Ev- erett has been telling me that ,e, too, has heard from John Dorr about your coming"
 Ruth scanned him politely But the interest died in her eyes when she saw what sort of a man he was He might be friend of Johns; he might be the man to rescue "The Master Key" from bankruptcy. but he did not interest her
 Drake, trying to play the part Of the busy broker and, being thoroughly and temperamentally an actor, felt the chill of this lack of interest and would cer- tainly have fallen down on his part had he not been prompted by Mrs. Darnell He was glad to hasten away to find the elusive taxi.
 The real George Everett got out of his limousine on the corner of Wander bilt avenue and hurried through the revolving doors; brisk. debonair. alert, decided; with that happy style which denies foppery and avoids surveillance. It seemed strange that he should have a photograph in his hand at which he looked intently until he got in the con- course. There he stopped and with the picture still in bis hand. commenced watching the faces of the people thronging through the gates under the vast dome As he waited he drowned slightly. why had John Dorr sent him during business hours on a wild goose chaseP" He thought of this ar ticulately and then smiled to himself. "A wild gooser he muttered. It brought up darkling sunset vistas. lakes smooth as quicksilver under the evening sky, and slim. gray, beautiful birds homing downward. The frown left his forehead
 After all 1t will be good to see some body from out of doors," he said to himself.
 Half an hour later he discovered that he had irretrlevably missed the ar rival of the Chicago express and with it Ruth Gallon. He went back into his car and drove to his office. Once there he called his head clerk, an an cient and fragile man, as crisp and bloodless as the money that passes on Wall street, and told him to see at what hotel Miss Ruth Gallon was stop ping Then he wired John Dorr:
 Ill Broadway. New York. John Dorr. Master Key" Mine. Silent Valley, Cal:
 Could not find Miss Gallon at train. Am seeking for her. as it is important that the business be settled immediately. Wire any possible address.
 GEORGE EVERETT.
 Far out on Broadway, above the eighties. an operator was ticking off another message addressed to Harry Wikerson. It read:
 % A West Eighty-fourth St.. New York. Harry WilkersOn, Master Key Mine, via Valle Vista. Cal:
 Everything all right George met Ruth She Is now with me and waiting further particulars. Have seen Everett under guise of prospective purchaser of stock. The girl is charming.
 JEAN DARNELL.
 Some houses like some people, should never be illumined with sunshine, and Mrs. Darnelfs residence, overlooking the Hudson, was of this type. It's dull, red stone front, marked by windows that seemed blind to all that went by. was not distinctive in that neighbor- hood. A thousand doors within a mile would have suggested to the passerby nothing more nor less than the great oak portals within which she lived. To Ruth Gallon. of course, the house seemed tremendously formal and state ly. Within she found an atmosphere so absolutely strange and alien to all she had ever known that she shrank within herself and had nothing to say until she had been conducted to her own room on the third floor and a dis