Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-05-20


). parti lar sort Of muffied fury which
rises lest from a set OF circumstance
e not IorOughly understood.
Z Plat this is all about is beyond
Z me Only. il this law minnOw has
]. gOu as far as this +. We've got "a
| getkt the bottom OF II i. You know
: thai as well as DO, billiard. natural
: ". The boys as wild as a hawk
Heaven knows how far he'd go out
STD This has got TO be cleared up
We've got 20 pound some sense into
him. We"
Hliiard was smiling vacuouSly; now
that the blow had actually fallen. and
ne complaint officially lodged, he felt
tdeliciously relaxed. content. Before
he could eontrive reply warlng was
strident again.
"Yes." The students voice was thin
with acerbity. ''Yes. you think you're
pretty smart-all Of you. Don't you?
l come in here to do you a kindness
that anybody else, ii seems to me
would take as a favor, and you and
Angela jump all over newly doesn't
he deny IL? That's what ] want to
know Why doesn't he say some
thing"
Cullen looked at billiard and made
a swift deduction, and spoke it,
Hes waiting for the rest of il. Go
on-you're only half through the yarn
4 you told us"
"Oh, very we'll" Waring gathered
courage "YOu can have all you want
maybe more than you want. You'd
| have had it sooner if you hadn't start
ed yelling at me. / know what I'm
talking about; you people don't seem
to realize I'm in the law! l don't go
off half-cOcked. l wrote to a law firm
in Butte, Montana, that's what did
found out what was the biggest firm
there, and wrote 'em letter They
answered it, too. got my information
right from the ground. I've got let
ter that says"
Cullen Swayed forward, his hand
outstretched, palm-upward, in direct
challenge of Warnings truthfulness.
"Where is it?"
Inc UOy WlIuuIGW IL SlCp anu
mered: 81 left it home"
ooh, you did" Cullen's laugh was
singing. That's likelyw
Eyes, that's exactly what 1 did
Think I'd bring an original letter out
of my office-let 1t out of my hands
until it's time to make it of record?
Not on your life! I've got it all right.
1t says the Silverbow Mining corpora
ton owns some acreage, fast enough,
but there isn't mine on it"
Cullen ve6ted his abandon of rage |
on the empty air.
"Well, who in the devil ever said
there wasp
''Why :. didn't you?" The appeal
was to Hilliard and it was made in a
tone of establishment which would
have been 1udicrous if there hadn't
been tragedy behind it.
NO" billiard shook his head.
You can't accuse me of that, at least.
a.. The only mine we ever mentioned
ms ne in prospect, 4 always reosid it
a prospect, with an old shaft on
X didn't /? And so it is But an
- shaft isn't producing mine, nee
rily. And-please let him finish,
CulIen!"
We'll =. The boy had twin disks
hectic flame in his cheeks "That's
~ detail, anyway they said
i was undeveloped they
said the shaft had been abandoned
more than two years ago, because it
wasn't worth much of anything"
Cullen's haRds were closing and I'M
losing alphabetically.
''For Heavens sake, who ever said
t wasn't! two years ago! We all
NOW that! Give us some news
'oung man, give US some news"
Waring was breathing hard, and his
interest had switched to Angela, who
tood adamant. Indeed he was sud
enly transformed to the status of
uppliant rather than that of a prose-
uting witness.
"Well :. they said 1t was offered
\. two years ago to anybody
Tho'd take it for ten thousand
ollars F. and nobody'd take it as
lift ;"
"Oh, good Lord !" Cullen was near
0 bursting. Doesn't the fool know
that prospect is? Hasn't he seen
he reports? And still he"
sand and the land next to it Y
Ias had a mine on it, the KING
line, that's in pretty fair shape, but
lat didn't signify anything. :" He
aused for a moment. "And there
asn't been any work done on it, to l
Deak of, for two years. ). . And the a
,rporation report / got shows that a L
'llow named Martin Harmon's the k
resident of it, and Harmon's cheap
'all street man in New York. The f.
ute people don't consider him re- 1
able. And I've written to him four II
he won't answer" y
"Ah!' said Hilliard, startled. Il
"Well" Cullen repeated his chal- W
nge -
that's ALL" He gazed beseechingly 81
Angela, who shifted and turned her e.