White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-06-24

iact. was utterly at Varlance Win his
notions of the owner. Even the girl
herself seemed TRANSPORTED. for her
hair was brought forward around her
face I'm some loose. mysterious fashion.
which gave her n Overwhelmingly girlish
appearance.
O'Neil's eyes photographed all this in
a single surprised glance as he passed.
| The mex moment he was mounting
the steps to the porch.
| Dan 6ung open the door. but his
words of greeting froZe. His smile of
welcome vanished al sight OF his
chiefs f%orbidding visage.
Murray was In 10 mood to waste
words. He began roughly:
Did you tell Miss Gerard that Poult.
ney Ills Is backing me?'
Dan stammered. L perhaps - !
What has gone wrong. chief?'
Did you tell her the i~nside-the sto
ry of his agreement with the steam
boat people,"
Dan paled beneath his tan, but his
eyes met Murray's without flnching
Il think ! did-tell her something. !
| don't quite remember. Bun anything
! may have said was in conf
Il thought so. | merely wished to
make certain. Well. the whole thing
is in the papers.
Appleton laid his hand upon the Ia
bile TO steady himself.
Then ii didn'i come from her. She
wouldn't
Gordon has spread the story broad
east. Ii couldn't have come from any
other source. 1t couldn' have reached
him in any other way. for none OF my
boys has breathed n word" His voice
rose despite his effort at self control
Hills agreement was Illegal" he said
sa vagely. 1T will probably forfeit the
charter OF the North Pass or land him
In u suppose you realize that. |
discovered his secret and assured him
1t was safe with me. Now you peddle
IL to Gordon. and the whole thing Is
public. Here's the first result" He
shook the London cablegram I'm Dams
face. and his own was distorted with
rage. There was a stir In Eliza's room
which neither noticed. Appleton wiped
his face with uncertain hand. He
moistened his lips TO say
lin terribly sorry. Bun I'm sure
Natalie wouldn't spy | don't remem-
Der what | told her or how | came to
know about the affair. Doc Gray told
me. ! think. in the first excitement.
but she-wouldn't knowingly
Gordon iired you for talking too
much. | thought you had learned your
lesson, but il seems you hadn't. Don't
blame Miss Gerard for pumping you
her loyalty belongs to Gordon now.
But ! require loyalty TOO. Since you
lack 1t you can go.
O'Neil turned as ELIAS door open
ed. She stood before him. pale. fright
ened. trembling.
II couldn't help hearing" she said.
You discharge u.s.
He nodded. I'm sorry. I've trusted
my boys so implicitly that the thought
OF betrayal by them never occurred to
me. | cant have men close 10 me
who make such mistakes as this
Perhaps there was an excuse or the
shadow OF one. at least. When n man
In in love. you know
Murray wheeled upon Dan and de
manded sharply:
whats this?" Then in a noticea-
bly, altered one he asked, 'Do you love
Natalie
Yes
Does she love your
No. sir
O'Nell turned back 10 the girl. say
ing. Il told Dan when | hired him
that he would be called upon to dare
much. To suffer much and that my in
terests must be his lie has disregard
ed them and lie must 20. That's all
There's little difference between treaeh
cry and carelessness
He left them standing there unhap
PLY dumb and stiff with shame. Once
outside the house he plunged down the
Hill ms Il fleeing from the scene of some
crime. lie rushed through the night
blindly. for he had loved his assistant
engineer. and the memory of THAI
chalk faced startled girl hurt him
abominably.
ITO think that l spent the best part
OF two years studying this spotV n"
told Gray as they started for the office
Il fired Appleton. he broke out at
last. Gray looked up quickly lie
acknowledged that he-did It, / hao
no choice. II came hard. though
"He did some great work. chiefY'
II know That affair at the Cross
ing-l intend 10 pay him well if he'll
accept It's not that. 7 like those
kids. stanley Eliza took it harder
than he 1t wasn't easy for me en-
Their he sighed YEARLY. I'D give
$4,000 if it hadn't happened She
looked as If Ia struck her
"Syhat did they sayY
Nothing. He has been careless, dis
Loyal
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