Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-18

Excuse me. What s the average price
OF walking dress from a leading Paris
house?"
Thirty pounds"
And an evening dress7"
On anything. from nfty upward"
a, ne picked up few pieces OF quartz from
tho canvas sheet.
Here is your walking dress" he said.
handing her lump Weighing about a
pound with the remainder In the heap
there you can staggcr the best-dressed
woman you meet at your first dinner In
DO you mean by peltinE herr" she in,
CURED mischevously.
Far worse. By wearing a more ex-
pensive costume"
His manner was so earnest that he COM
peueu seriousness. Iris took the proffered
specimen and looked at II.
From the cave, I suppose? I thought
you said antimony was not very valuable ?"
Ihat is not antimony II is gold. BY
Snance have hit upon an extremely rich
,Io ,1ue 9t gold AZ the most modest computa-
.lon u Is worth hundreds OF thousands Of
POUNDS You and I are quite wealthy
persons Miss Deane."
Iris opened her blue eyes very wide n,
thls intelligence. II took her breath away.
BUT her first words betokened her innate
sense OF fair dealing
you and II Wealthy" she gasped 'I
am so glad for your sake but tell me
pray. Mr.. jerks, what have / got to DO
with t7"
You" he repeated. Are we not part-
lners In this island? BY squatter's right, IL
by no better title, we own land, mnerals
wood, game and even such weird belong
privileges"
1 don't see that at ALL You find a gold
mine, and coolly tell me that / am a half
owner OF IL because you dragged me out
OF the sea, fed me, housed me- saved my
lite from pirates. and generally acted like
oevoteo nursemaid In charge OF n baby
Really, Mr. jerks"
Really, Miss Deane. you will annoy me
seriously IL you say another word / alb
solutely refuse to listen TO such an arTu-
ment."
Her outrageously unbusiness-like utter
ances, treading fast on the heels of his own
meiooramatic and written views concerning
their property, nettled him greatly. Each
downright syllable was a sting 10 his con-
science. but Of this Iris was blissfuliy un-
aware, else she would not have applied
eaustic to the ranking wound caused by
his momentary distrust OF her.
FOR some time they stood In silence until
the sailor commenced to reproach himself
TOR MS rough protest. Perhaps he had
hurt her sensitive feelings. What a brute
he was. to be sure
she was only child in ordinary affairs.
and he ought to have explained things more
iueidly and with greater command over his
dimpling with amusement for she under
stood him 30 well that had he threatened
TO XIII her she would have laughed at him
would you mind getting the lamp?" he
said softfy, surprised to catch her express
sion of saucy humor
"oh. please may speak?" she inquired.
i don't want to annoy you, but 1 am sim
ply dying to talk"
He had forgotten his own Injunction.
Let us first examine our mine" he
said. II you bring the lamp we can have
a good look at it." ..-
Close scrutiny of the work already done
merely confirmed the accuracy of his first
impressions. While Iris held the light he
opened up the seam with a few strokes of
the pick Each few inches II broadened
into noteworthy volcanic dyke, now vel
low In it's absolute purity, at times blush
black when fused with other metals The
additional labor involved caused him to
follow up the line Of the fault. Suddenly
the flame of the lamp began to flicker in a
draft. There was an air passage between
cave and ledge 80 rs..l'
81 am sorry" cried jerks. desistinR
from further efforts. that have not re-
Gently read one of Bret Harte's novels. or
! would speak to you In the language of the
mining camp. But in plain Cockney Miss
Deane. we are on TO good thing II only
we can keep IT,"
They came back into the external glare
Iris was now so serious that she forgot TO
extinguish the little lamp, She stood with
outstretched hand.
There is a lot Of money in there" she
said
Tons of IT,"
mo need to quarrel about division. There
is enough for both of u.s."
Quite enough. We can even spare some
for our friends"
He took so readily TO this definition of
their partnership that Iris suddenly be-
came frlgid. Then she saw the ridiculous
CLEAN of the tiny wick and blew II out.
Il mean'" she said stiffly. that IL you