The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-03

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not thoroughly understood.
"What this is all about Is beyond
me! Only. II this law minnow has
gone as far as this :. We've got TO
get at the bottom of II :. You know
that as well as do billiard. natural
ly. The boys as wild as a hawk.
Heaven knows how far he'd go out
side. This has got to be cleared up
We've got to pound some sense into
| him. We"
Hllliard was smiling vacuously; now
that the blow had actually fallen, and
the complaint officially lodged, he felt
deliciously relaxed, content. Before
he could oontrive a reply Waring was
strident again.
Yes" The students voice was thin
with acerbity. ayes. you think you're
pretty smart-all of you. Don't you?
| come in here to do you kindness
that anybody else. it seems to me
would take as 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
tAing?"
Cullen looked at billiard and made
a swift deduction. and spoke it.
Hes waiting for the rest of 1t. Go
on-you're only half through the yarn
you told u.s."
"Oh, very we'll" Waring gathered
courage. you can have all you want
maybe more than you want. You'd
have had ii 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! | don't go
off half-cocked. / wrote to law firm
in Butte, Montana, that's what / did. /
found out what was the biggest firm
there, and wrote 'em letter. They
answered II, too. / got my information
right from the ground. I've got a let
ter that says"
Cullen swayed forward, his hand
outstretched, palm-upward, in a direct
challenge of Warnings truthfulness.
"Where is it?"
The boy withdrew a step and STAN
mered: II left it home"
"Oh, you did," Cullen's laugh was
singing. That's likely"
Eyes, that's exactly what did
Think I'd bring an original letter out
of my oflice-let ii out of my hands
until it's time to make 1t of record?
Not on your life I've got II all right.
1t says the Silverbow Mining corpora
ton owns some acreage, fast enough,
but, there isn't mine on it"
Cullen vented his abandon of rage
on the empty air.
swell, who in the devil ever said
| there WASP"
"Why :. didn't you?" The appeal
was to billiard; and it was made in a
tone of establishment which would
have been ludicrous IL there hadn't
been tragedy behind 1t.
mo" Hilliard shook his head.
"You can't accuse me of that, at least.
=. The only mine we ever mentioned
was one in prospect. / always said 1t
was a prospect, with an old shaft on
II 1t, didn't 1? And so II is But an
old shaft isn't a producing mine, nee
essarily. And-please let him finish,
Mr.. Cullen!'
swell -. The boy had twin disks
of hectic flame in his cheeks. That's
only a detail, anyway 81. they said
1t was undeveloped . they
said the shaft had been abandoned
more than two years ago, because 1t
wasn't worth much of anything"
Cullen's hands were closing and I'M
closing alphabetically.
For Heavens sake, who ever said
1t wasn't! two years ago! We all
know that! Give us some news
young man, give us some J"
Waring was breathing hard, and his
interest had switched to Angela, who
stood adamant. Indeed, he was sud-
denly transformed to the status of a
suppliant rather than that of a prose
cutting witness.
"Well they said it was offered
two years ago TO anybody
who'd take 1t F.. for ten thousand
dollars :. and nobody'd take it as
| gift :"
ooh, good Lordl" Cullen was near
to bursting. Doesn't the fool know
what n prospect is? Hasn't he seen
the reports? And still he"
"And and the land next to 1t
was i. had mine on it. the XLNC
mine, that's in pretty fair shape, but
that didn't signify anything. i. :" He
paused for a moment. "And there
hasn't been any work done on it, to
speak of, for two years. And the
corporation report l got shows that
fellow named Martin Harmon's the
president of it, and Harmon's a cheap
Wall street man In New York. The
Butte people don't consider him re-
liable. And I've written to him four
times-and he won't answer"
"Ah!" said Hilliard, startled.
"Wellf" Cullen repeated his chal-
lenge.
That's ALL" He gazed beseechingly
at Angela, who shifted and turned her