The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-08-23

~ VIII
fortably. A mule team from the near
est settlement ha0 brought on a load
Of provisions. There were fish In q.
near stream and game in the woods
and, therefore, no lack Of good living.
All day Lysle measured, calculated
and explored to find the ideal spot for
drilling. All day the professor submit
ted surface specimens of ore and earth
to analysis. They were fully occupied
and rather than lose time took a cold
bite for dinner.
"Im able to cook n good break
FAST" observed the professor. "You
can stop work an hour earlier than
quitting time afternoons and prepare
supper. Then we will have at least
two good meals a day"
One day, a few minutes before Don
the two workers dropped Instruments
and hammer and started for the house.
Suddenly both halted and stared at one
another in surprise.
did you hear thatf" sharply ex-
claimed the professor.
"Why. yes" replied Lysle-"it's the
dinner bell you brought with the pro-
visions. Someone Is ringing It."
"And from the house. What can It
meanT"
perhaps the Chinese h~ousekeeper
you tried to get at Oreville has
changed his mind and has come on"
"No. see !" cried the professor ex-
cItedly. ut is a woman, a girl. Why.
it's Dorothy
Dorothy 1t was. Dorothy Burton, the
old professors daughter, and as he ran
toward her and her father gath.
cred her up In a happy embrace. Lysle
| West stood spellbound at realization of
the marvellous beauty Of this unexpect-
ed visitor. He shyly acknowledged an
introduction. absorbed, bewildercd,
drinking In her rare loneliness.
~ Just couldn't keep away, papa.
dear" confessed the winsome sprite.
II got longing for you and I was tired
OF boarding school. And come in the
house. both Of you, and see the famous
dinner I have all ready for you"
1t was. indeed. a rare, delicious meal,
and Dorothy persisted that she was
elected permanent cook and house.
keeper. Her presence held Lysle to the
work he was convinced was bound Ia
result In nothing, and one day he told
Dorothy so.
81 don't know how far you are right
she said, quite sadly, ''but before moth
err died she told me to live close to
him and his ideas. AS TO the fortune
that is nothing to his love-"
SO time went on and the last $4,000
went into engaging a drilling crew. II
was expensive experimental work. The
professor eagerly inspected the cores
us they were bored out.
"West,' he said one morning, "the
drillers have closed their contract, fol
my capital has run out. ] am disap
pointed in the borlngs. They do no
all carry out my theories as to weigh
and propinquity. / give 1t up"
The speaker was strangely subduet
that evening. Lysle was himself de
pressed, for he foresaw a separation
from the girl he had learned to love
Only Dorothy was her natural, cheer!
self.
Dorothy slept lightly. Her fathe
and Lyle were slumberlng heavily ant
, did not hear her get up to answer nj
urgent summons ut the front door
They heard her call up the stairs a few
minutes later, and in wildly excite'
tones.
"Oh, father Mr.. West! Come d
once, hurry, please! Something won
derful has happened over Mt the dig
gings! The drill foreman is here"
"What is 1t?' shouted down the pre-
fessor, and the reply came in echo
ing tones:
you've bored for gold. and yol'v
struck something just MS good-oil, tn
biggest gusher in the state"
1t was true. They believed 1t With
the hour, after n visit to the digging'
They knew 1t the next day, when o.
spectators thronged the place, Offer
ing fabulous prices for the surroundin
land.
The professor was rich. And Lysl
West, too, for within the week he dii
covered that all along. although he di
not know it, he had possessed the mos
opulent treasure in the w%orld-the low
/. of sweet, loyal Dorothy.
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