The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-04-12

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ere yet the morrows sun shall clear
the horizon. Let us avoid recrimina
ton Good night"
A week or 81 later he became sud
denly and Unexpectedly active. He
left the house az soon NJ his break
fast was eaten. md he did not come
| home to lunCheon-a circumstance
which irritated Hazel. since 1t was one
| OF those rare days when she herself
| lunched at home Late In the after
noon he telephoncd briefly that he
would dine downtown. And when he
| did return. at nine or thereabOuts in
the evening. he clampcd cigar be-
tween his teeth, and fell to work COW
ering sheet of paper with intermin-
able rows of figures.
"What is oil the clerical work
about?' she inquired. Reckoning
your Sssets and liablltieS?"
Bill smiled and pushed aside the
I paper.
I'm going 10 promote mining COM
pany." he told her, quite casually. at
has been put up 10 me Os business
| propoSition-and I've got to the stage
where l have 10 do something, or I'll
sure have the Willies."
She overlooked the latter statement; {;
it conveyed no special significance at
the time. Dut his first statement
opened up possibilities such as of late
she had sincerely hoped would come
TO pass, and she was all interest.
Promote mining company?" she
repeated. 'That sounds extremely
DuSineSsliie. How--when-wher
Nowhere In Granville" he re-
piled. "You see," he continued, warm
ing up bit to the subject. ''when /
was prospecting that creek where we
made the cleanup last summer,
ran across well-defined quartz lead.
l packed out a few samples In my
pockets. and happened to show them
as well as one or two OF the mug
gets to some of these fellows at the
club a while back. LOrimer took
piece of the quartz and had 1t assayed.
1t looms up as something pretty big.
So he and Brooks and couple Of
other fellows want me to 60 ahead
and organize and locate a group Of
claims in there. Twenty or thirty
thousand dollars capital might make
'em all rich. OF course, the placer
end of 1t will be the big thing while
the lode Is being developed. Getting
the start is easy. These fellows I've
talked to are dead anxious to get in"
"But"-her knowledge of business
methods suggested dililculty-'you
can't sell stock in business that has
no real foundation-yet. Don't you
have TO locate those claims first"
"Wise old head; you have the idea,
all right" He smiled. "But this is
not a stock-jobbing proposition. l
wouldn't be in on 1t If it were, believe
me. It's to be corporation, where
not to exceed six men will own all the
stock that's issued. And so far as
the claims are concerned, I've got
Whitley Lewis located in Fort George,
and I've been burning the wires and
spending bundle of real money get
ting him grub-staked. He has got four
men besides himself oil ready to hit
the trail as soon as give the word"
"You won't have to goT she put in
quickly.
"No." he murmured. "It isn't neces-
sary, at this particular stage Of the
game. But l wouldn't mind popping
n whip over good string of dogs.
just the same"
"B-r-r-rl" she shivered inyoluntar-
lily. -Four hundred miles across that
deep snow, through that steady, flesh
soaring cold. l don't envy them the
| Journey"
She came over and stood by him,
playfully rumpling his brown hair with
her fingers.
I'm glad you've found something
to loose that pent-up energy of yours
on, Billy-boy," she said. .You'll make
n success of 1t, l know. 1 don't see
why you shouldn't make success of
any kind of business. But 1 didn't
think you'd ever tackle business. You
have such peculiar views about busi-
ness and business practice"
II desplse the ordinary business
ethic," he returned sharply. But l
can exploit the resources of nature.
And that is my plan. II we make
money 1t won't be iilched by a com.
plex process from the other fellows
pocke $; 1t won't be wealth created by
shearing lambs In the market, by
sweatshop labor. or adulterated food.
or exorbitant rental of filthy dealing
with. I'm not overly anxious to get
into 1t with them. But 1t promises
action Of some sort-and l have to
do something till spring."
, In the springl That brief phrase
set Hazel TO sober thinking. With
April or May Bill would spread his
wings for the North. There would be
no more staying him than the fligh,
; of the wild goose to the reedy nesting
grounds could be stayed. Well. sum
mer in the North would not be so bad
she reflected. But she hated to thinl
Of the isolation. 1t grieved her tc
contemplate exchanging her beautiful.
ly furnished apartment for a log cabin
In the woods.
| Still she had hopes If he plunged
into business associations with jim