The Springdale news., 1915-10-15
CHAPTER xxx.
Planning to Win a Millionaire.

M E the mountain at the Lady fe
 E ronica mines. The hoarse whis-
 tie at the power plant woke the echoes of the mountain gorge The miners tumbled from their hunks md stormed the greasy coohhoEse. In the boss shack the telephone rang, and a siccpy. assistant foreman took q meSsa9e from John Powell chief en- ginc"r at the workings on tue othe" side. to which from the Lady Veronica miic> a tunnel WaS driven four miles through the mountain. The message called for all hands to quit the job and a5i4e through tu the new workings on the other side Tie message is deliy- cred to miners. outside men. the cook house help. even to the ore strippers who have just begun to load the ore carving cable cradle that carries the ore from the hillside outcrop across the gorge to tue tippe on the other side of the raNne.
 The whistle woke Esther and Quabba from where they had fallen exhausted in their flight on the rugged mountain side mile or more away. It reused to their evil purposes in their waking hours Luke Lowell and Blair Stanley as well
 That is the mine whistle" eXclaim- ed Quabba. If We can reach the mine We wifi find Arthur Stanley, and We will be safe
 Neither Quabba nor Esther knew, as Blair and Luke did that Arthur had left the Lady Veronica mines and had crossed the mountain t0 his new work ines Bat Arthur Stanley, or John Powell. as California knew him, had now ridden away from the new work ings ill company with one of his fore men and was well on his journey across the great mountain range to dis tant Santa Barbara, where he had ar- ranged to take over the palatial steam yacht that was to be delivered to hiIn there.
 Vivian Marston, in Los Angeles, had kept herself posted as regards Arthaf.s comines and goings.
 Experienced and world wise, Vivian Marston laid her plans well. She knew how telling and effeetual q romantic or dramatic first meeting with the youth. ful and high spirited type of young man always is She had met Arthur. it is true. Twice she had seen him. Tire meeting had been but passing intro duetion at Mrs. Kandoiph's ball in Richmond In the excitement that foi lowed so swiftly when the diamond had been torn from her own fair neck by all unseen hand, an excitement heightened by the further climax of Arthurs arrest on the charge of hay ing murdered Dr. Lee and his despet- ate fight and flight, the passing intro duetion had left no impression other than perhaps the slightest upon Ar thur. Vivian was sure.
 After this she had briefly seen him at the tournament at Fairfax. But these brief contacts. Vivian realized were as nothing She felt that to impress Af thur she must throw herself in his way in some impressive manner. tt q time when there would he no distraction 10 mitigate against the dramatic intensity of the meeting as she planned il.
 The reckless daring of Arthur had ill terested her, but as q bankrupt young Virginia gentleman CT as q fugitive from justice she had not deemed him worth exercising her siren spells upon. even had opportunity presented itself But here in California it was q far cry from the situation as it had been in staid Virginia. The fugitive young prodiga of Virginia was John Pow