White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-01
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board with her Ihey are plcHed up Dy
CAPTAIN brennan She proves to be Ma.
tslie Gerard. whose mother Is tho friend
Of Curtis Gordon. O'Neirs unscrsp ulous
business rival
o,Nell IA impressed with the magnetism
his rival. but is sure his plans are un-
saa,d Tom Slater quits Gordon for
o,4eO. They go To cortez In time To save
Nan Appleton IN a crooked card game.
o.Nau and Natalie Journey TO Hope to-
.etneT She tells him Of heS mother and
Gordon. When they arrive at Hope Cor
Con meets them
App,eton. an engineer. had worked for
Gordon. lie casts his fortunes with
Okea. o'Reil leads his men to a Wild
country. convinced he can build n rail
road up the Salmon river
ONeil meets his crew In Seattle. when
a newspaper woman gets on the phoue
She proves TO be Dan Appieton's sister
OsNeIl tells her Als plans. bu, not for
publication
Eliza Appleton - sent to Omar 40 ex.
pose the nen who are trying to snatch
control Of as empire. She meets her
brother and Natalie Dan IL worried over
a possible newspaper attack by Eliza on
0'heil
There's . scene when Curtis Gordon
asks Gloria TO be hostess to Miss Goiden
Gloria says Mrs Golden isn't n NJ person
10 meet Natalie. Gordon says she has
money and he needs her In his themes
In her extremity Mrs Gerard hstens
TO Nataiio's plea to go 10 the Irish prince
OfNeIi finds places for them In his new
hotel. Gordon. thoroughly enragsd. plans
20 cripple oNea.
Dan tells his sister he's desperately N
" - -.-lI- 80 AaEa har IN min
ONen. a. he considers him a rival. Dan
soes out with n car OF dynamite and holds
a canyon threatened by Gordon's men,
o'Nsl takes the girls on a trip to Jack
son glacier. He decides to make o peril
Gus voyage In a skin down the Salmon
river. Eliza. despite his ~piesdingA. ac-
companies him
Dan Appleton accepts o Neifs offer Of
n.ep to the man who'll cut n cable In
the work done by Gordon. After cutting
the cable Appleton In set upon by n crowd
Of Gordor.e but In rescued by oNsifs
mon.
When Dan tells Natalie that with the
C,eOJ he means TO buy her an engagement
ring she says shes sorry: that he has
made n great mistake Eliza consoles
Dan
Starting for New York. o'Neii tells Eliza
~ has the key to a Kingdom. Gordon
tells Natalie he IL ready to marry her
mother. In New York the Heidelmanns
refuse to back OfNeil
When things look darkest for O'Neil In
New YORK. he gets the backing of Poult-
aey Ills. an English capitalist. Dan and
Eliza. h their savings. pay on the la
borers at Omar and prevent n walkout.
oordan oians new attack.
lent %eol0fs: failure was written ncaass
every IA Of his undertakings. TIE
naked facts showed him visionary. In
competent. INSCRIPTIONS.
Thus far he had succeeded In Keeping
a large part OF his stockholders In h.
noranee of the true condition of Hope
Consolidated. but he qualled at the In
eNltable result of this article. which
had been flung far and wide into every
city and village In the land. lie dared
not think of Its effect upon his present
enterprise. now SO a~uspiciously launch
ed. lie had made a ringing appeal to
the public. and Its support would hinge
upon its confidence In him ns n man of
affairs. Once that trust was destroyed
the Cortez Home railway would crum-
Die as swiftly rs had all his other
schemes.
The worst OF II was that he knew
himself shut Off from the world for five
days as ofreetnaily as If he were locked
In n dungeon. There was no wireless
equipment on the ship. he could not
start the machinery Of his press bu
reau, and with every hour this damna.
Die story was bound ( gain homer
tnm, He cursed the luck which had
set him on this quest for vengeance
and bound his hands
Meanwhile Dan was struggling with
his problem IN bis own way. The pos
slDility that Natalie had voluntarily
betrayed him was u racking torture.
ana the remembrance of ELIAS words
added to his suffering He tried TO
gam some hint of his chiefs feeling.
but Murray's frank and friendly attl
fude bafiied him.
when nj last he received a BRIEF
note from Natalie asking him to call
ne raced to Hope afraid. yet eager to
hear what she might say. She met
him on the dock as he left the 8. II.
and N. motorboat and led him directly
TO the house
natalie went straight to the point.
I'm In dreadful trouble" she said,
and sent for you to tell you that I
nad no idea Of b~ctraying condolences"
Dan uttered some inane platitude.
out bis eyes lighted with relief.
when ! saw in the papers what =
stir that North Pass and Yukon story
nad made ! was afraid ! had done
something dreadful. Tell me. Is II sol
pid make %trouble?"
You certainly did. o'Neil was fun.
Gus aud nobody knows yet what the
result will be. It-it nearly cost me
my head"
Does he blame mefm
.N-no! He says you're on Gordon's
side now. He blames me or did until
ne generously fooL N I'm hfnsalfw