Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-06-10

. for glass Of water; he raced bacl
} again. splitting half of it. Hilliard wa
} chatting the brokers wrists. The thre,
; men strained at the unwieldy, unresiSt
ing bulk, while leaden fear clutched a
their hearts.
The house physician hustled in Il
find the broker lying on the bed in 6
profound coma his refiexes had gone
from him: he couldn't he reused. There
was no need of a stethoscope
Order an ice bag" said the man OF
medicine sharply. He himself was rat,
Ting among his Walls for the calOmel
Rufus was at the telephone.
Anything | can do?" asked billiard
earnestly. His suspicious had crys-
talized; and he was bitterly aware
that the broker had planned not JUS
tice, but some new brand of perfidy
nevertheless the man was unQuestiOn-
ably in danger-and revenge could
wait.
"Nothing-just give me plenty of
ROOM"
AS the three stood watching pain
fully, Cullen put out his hand to Hill
lard, and spoke under his breath.
"Henry-when did he Gomez"
only just now. An hour ago"
Hadn't he told you? Or hadn't
you heard?"
'Heard what?"
Cullen motioned TO Warning.
GIVE it to him, Rufus Oh.
| see; see"
The law student, without a word,
produced yellow blank and thrust
it at billiard. He flashed a glance of
Understandable contempt at the supine
broker; his eyes had lost some of
their anxiety.
'Oh, the big crook !" he said boy
ishly. THE big crook ~
"Sh-h-h! Rufus!" Still, billiard. at
heart, agreed with him to the letter.
The boy stood close to the
masquerader.
"l'm sorry, Hilliard 1t came
at four this afternoon we'd
been hunting for you ever since :"
Hilliard wasn't interested.
"Tll wait until" II
Cullen signed to him peremptorily! 4
'2 lad it, I tell you It'll give
! q a slant on ilim!"
GHilliard peered over the foot of the
bed; Harmon was still lying inert. The
physician nodded sidewise.
Nothing for you to do" he said |
grimly; and billiard, only partly aware
of what he was doing, gave heed to
the yellow blank.
The fourth telegram of the day was
from Butte, Mont, addressed to War
ing.
Arrived here last night after delay
in Chicago. This mornings papers con-
tain information as follows: THE
faulted vein on MING property adj
joining Silverbow claim number one
has been located about twenty feet
from Silverbow boundary. Indications
are ore body running at least eighty
per cent average and some places high
as twenty. Also some zinc and silver l
and traces Of manganese. This evi.
IDENTIFY extends well into Silverbow,
where the greatest values are uLdOuht-
adly lying, and judging from records
IF old NLNC vein it's a tremendously
zig strike Understand MING own
IRIS offering large sum- said to be veil
Dver half-milion for controlling in
crest. | strongly advise all of you to
ret aboard for as much as billiard
will let 90. Am sending this from Of
ice of Cooley. Benjamin & Russell,
Who will not send separate report I'M
ews and mine is sure winner, even if
My fraction as large as reported.
lease show this message to billiard
ig. J. T. ARMSTRONG"
IIilliard sat down in the nearest
hair. The lump in his throat was
nat his feelings were primitive; his
IMPRESSION of them were very simple. !
lie only smiled; the meaningless, vacu- :
us smile of an infant. That smile EN- y
raced the entire universe ii was in q
cative of happiness so limitleSs. so $
arfect, that 1t was almost foolish. So Z
armon. knowing from his own sources G
the sudden strike, had rushed to Il
yracuse to pose as a man of honor Il
, Harmon had wanted to meet War v
g-and find if Waring had yet heard II
e news, and, If he hadn't, stop the in
,stigation by apparent frankness and Il
ady restitution. So Harmon had Il
zen eager to destroy the contract, to t;
omise Hillard anything and every
ing. to repay the money that was
described already-and then, as sole fl
rner, to take an enormous profit for o'
nself. G.
No one In tho whole world-and Ia
list Of all, Warning and Cullen-could "
We remotely fathomed the thoughts TO
Mt were eddying in billiards. brain. lu
ley were not for his own aggran-
they were for the Cullens
d Durants and for the others who 81
ed never know the acid of disillu- Al
They were for the ideals me
had struggled toward; they were ed
: the friends who had stood by him. on
d there WAS one very especial end so
" manly thought for Jack Arm So