White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-03


hands drew 1t up. Evidently there
was nothing to do but return nce
more to little old New York.
He rested for a moment, treading
water. seeing dimly the tall homes Of
the cave jewellers and ove them the
yellow glare Of Broadway. Then he
struck out. When he reached the
shore and turned the Lileth was al
ready under way, moving slowly down
the silver path of the moo An old
man was launching the ~padlocked row.
boat.
Great night for a SWIM" he re-
marked sarcastically.
"L-lovely," chartered Minot. Say.
do you know anything about the yacht
that's just steamed out?'
mot as much as I'd like to. Used
to belong to a man In Chicago. Yes
terday the caretaker told me she'd
been rented fer the winter. Seen him
tonight In a gin mill with money to
throw to the birds. Looks funny to
me-"
Thanks"
Man came this afternoon and paint
ed out her old name. Changed It to
Lileth. Mighty suspicious"
"What was the old name?"
The Lady Evelyn. II was you I'd
get outside a drink. and quick. Good
night"
As Minot dashed up the bank he
heard the swish Of the old mans oars
behind. He ran all the way to his
rooms and. after a hot bath and liquid
refreshment suggested by the water
man, called Mr.. Thacker on the tele-
phone.
well. RichardY' the gentleman In
quired.
"Sad news. Little Cupid's had a set
back. Tossed into the Hudson when
he tried to hoard the yacht that Is TAX
Ing Lord narrowly south"
mo! Is that sol" Mr.. Thacker's
tone was conternplatiye. well. Rich
ard, the Palm Beach Special leaves at
midnight Better be Oh It. Better 60
down and help the bride with her
t~rousseau."
Yes. sir. I'll do that And I'll see
to 1t that she has her lamp trimmed
and burning. Considering that her ia
theirs In the oil business, that ought
not to be-
81 can't hear you. Richard What
are you saying?"
"Nothing-er-Mr. Thacker. Look up
n yacht called the Lady Evelyn-Chi-
cago men, l think. Find out If he's
rented 1t and to whom. It's the boat
Harrowby went south on"
"All right, Richard. Goodby. my boy.
Write me whenever you need money.
Jephson must not lose"
leave 1t to me. The Palm Beach
Special at midnight And after that
Miss Cynthia Meyrick!-
No matter how swiftly your train
has sped through the Carolinas and
Georgia. when It crosses the line into
Florida a wasting languor overtakes 1t.
Then 1t hesitates, signs and creeps
across the fat yellow landscape like an
aged alligator. Now and then It stops
completely In the midst Of nothing. as
who should say: "You came down to
e the south. didn't you? Well, look
about you
The Palm Beach special on which
Mr.. Minot rode was no exception to
this rule. 1t entered Florida and a
state of %innocuous desuetude at one
and the same time. After a tremen-
dous struggle it gasped its way into
Jacksonville about o o'clock of the
Monday morning following. Reluctant
as Romeo in his famous exit from Ju-
liet's boudoir, 1t got cut of Jackson
vile an hour later. And San Marco
was just two hours away according to
that excellent book of light fiction so
widely read in the south-the time
table.
1t seemed to Dick Minot that he had
been looking out Of a car window ion
. coupss or epernideA Save for the
jdiversion q Jacksonville nothing had
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