The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18

Lysle installed themselves quite com.
fortnbly. A mule team from the near |
est settlement had brought on n load
of provisions. There We're fish In a
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 cold
bite for dinner.
I'm able to cook a 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 day"
One day, few minutes before noon,
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 thatT" sharply ex-
claimed the professor.
why. yes" replied Lysle-"its the
dinner bell you brought with the pro-
visions. Someone Is ringing 1t"
And from the house. What can It
mean?"
"Perhaps the Chinese housekeeper
YOU tried to get at Oreville has
changed his mind and has come on"
Y
citedly. ut is woman, girl. Why,
it's Dorothy"
Dorothy IL was. Dorothy Burton, the
old professors daughter, and as ne ran
toward her and her father gain
cred her up in happy embrace, Lysle
West stood spellbound at realization OF
the marvellous beauty Of this unexpect-
T ed visitor He shyly acknowledged an
Introduction. absorbed. bewildered,
drinking in her rare lOyeliness.
: 81 iust couldn't keep away, papa.
p dear" confessed the winsOme sprite.
II got longing for you and was tired
: Of boarding school. And come in the
u house, both OF you. and see the famous
q dinner have all ready for you"
e II was. indeed, a rare, delicious meal
g and Dorothy persisted that she swas
e elected permanent cook and house
e keeper. Her presence held Lysle to the
e work he was convinced was bound &c
t result in nothing, and one day he tolt
l. Dorothy so.
o 81 don't know how far you are right.
3 she said, quite sadly, 'but before moth
( or died she told me to live close u
% him and his ideas. AS to the fortune
l. that is nothing to his love.
So time went on and the last S3,oU
vent into engaging drilling crew.
was extensive experimental work. III
professor eagerly inspected the core
as they were bored out.
"West," he said one morning, 9TH
drillers have closed their contract, 70
nv capital has run out. l am dlsaI
pointed in the boringS. They do no
al carry out my theories as to weigh
and propinquity. give it up
The speaker was strangely subdue
that evening. Lysle was himself dt
pressed, for he foresaw a separatio
! from the girl he had learned to low
Only Dorothy was her natural. cheer
n self
q Dorothy slept lightly. Her fatht
~ and Lyle were slumbering heavily an
n did not hear her get up to answer a
. urgent summons at the front doc
They heard her call up the stairs fe
minutes later, and in wildly excite
N tones.
VI "Oh. father! Mr.. West! Come
once, hurry, please! Something wo
derful has happened over at the di
gings. The drill foreman Is here
\ "What is it2" shouted down the pr
A fessor, and the reply came In ech
y ling tones:
. "You've bored for gold. and you
struck something just as good-oil, q
os- biggest gusher In the state!"
nv It was true. They believed 1t with
of the hour, after a visit to the Digging
h" They knew it the next day, when
80 SPECTATORS thronged the place. off'
.od ing fabulous prices for the surroundi
on- land.
The professor was rich. And Lys
West, too, for within the week he d
.e covered that all along, although he c
~ ~ not know it. he had possessed the mt
49, opulent treasure in the worid-tne 10
Of sweet. loyal Dorothy.