Licking Valley courier., 1921-12-22
SYNOPSIS.

2 CHAPTER I.-Under his grandfather's
awlll, Stanford Broughton, society idler,
finds bis share of the estate, valued at
something like $4,000, lies In safe re-
'pository'' latitude and longitude de-
sscribed, and that is all. It may be identi-
lied by the presence nearby Of brown
SHARED, blue-eyed girl, a pebald horse.
and dog with a split face, half black
and half white. Stanford at first regards
sthe beqdest as joke but after considera-
stion sets out to find his legacy.
:. CHAPTER lion his way to Denver,
me city nearest the meridian described
In his grandfather's will, Stanford hears
from fellow traveller story having to
80 with q Hooded mine.
~ CHAPTER Il.-ThInking things over,
he 'begins to imagine there may be some-
Ching IN his grandfather's bequest worth
ghile, his Idea finally centering on the
possibility OF a mine, as safe reposi-
tory." Recalling the narrative on the
. train, he ascertains that his fellow trav-
eler was a mining engineer, Charles Bull
slerton. Bullerton refuses him informa-
ton, but from other sources Brougnton
learns enough to make him proceed 10
Placervllle. In the Red desert
! CHAPTER Won the station platform
at Atfopla, just as the train pulls out.
Stanford sees what appear to be the iden-
tical horse and dog described In his
grandfather's will. Impressed, he leaves
{ the train at the next stop, Angels. There
he finds that Atropa was originally
Placerville, his destination. Unable 10
secure a conveyance at once to take him
to Placerville, Broughton seizeB 0 con-
tstruction car and escapes, leaving the Inn
preston on the town marshal, Beasley.
that he ID slightly demented.
fcHAPTER V.-Pursued, he abandons
the car, which is wrecked, and escapes on
! foot In the darkness, he is overtaken
by a girl on horseback, and THE dog.
After he explains his presence, she In
,yites him TO her home, at the old Cinna-
(, bar mine. to meet her father.
= CHAPTER VI.-Broughton's hosts are
: Hiram Twombly caretaker Of the mine,
] and his daughter Jeane. Seeing the girl,
Stanford Is satisfied he has located his
property, but does not reveal his Identity
K His breakfast eaten, Friend Isaac
showed no disposition to hurry away
much to my chagrin. He took time
to smoke lelsurely pipe with Daddy
! Hiram and to ask lot Of Indifferent
questions about the drowned mine,
"Hain't heard nothin' firm yer own.
ers VT, have ye, HlramY he wanted
to know, after-ns It seemed to me-
the subject had been pretty thoroughly
talked TO death.
81 heard Daddy's reply, made as tc
one with whom the matter had been
cpnvassed before.
s"Nothin' but that clippin' from somi
newspaper back East. tellin' about Mr.
EsDudley's passin' out"
"Kipd-a curious somebody don't tel
/ ye somethin, amt itr the marshal
put in. "Looks like the heirs d bt
either .hshin' r cuttin' bait on thli
here Clhnabar layout-not as It'd dt
'em any good II they did. Didn't any
Iietter come with the newspaper piecef'
"Nary a pen-scratch."
+ s.Wpereabout was the envelope
postedfn
"washin'ton."
~, ekhai" said l to myself, "T have you
Cousin Percyl For some reason bes
known TO yourself you didn't wan
Daddy Hiram to get hold of Grand
father Jasper's proper address!"
7, His pipe smoked out, the marsha
prepared to take horse. Daddy wen
kwith him to the far side Of the dunn
and the murmur Of their voices cam
to me In diminishing cadences. Afte
d bit Daddy came back and called NJ
10 me In the sing-song OF the miner
after the final blast has been fired
slA.a,ll over, Stunnie. reckon y
can cope down now and get you som
4 breakfast"
NJ Jennie served me In silence whe
IL took my place at table and the goo
\ old man stood In the doorway, keepln
u 2yatch, as | made no doubt, agalns
u o possible second-thought return Q
iFriend Isaac, the brIstle-beardet
/. Throughout the working day whlc
/ followed he never made the sllghtes
4 reference to the episode OF the morr
ing and. truly, think the whole inc
dent would have been buried In obll'
! Jon by those two siml,le-mlnded soal
4 II | hadn't first spoken OF II myself.
\ This ! did IN the evening of tn
same day when Daddy had gone
make his entirely useless night roun
Of the mine property. AS on mos
evenings, Jeanle sat at her corner {
Tie hearth, knitting, and was fillln
n bedtime pipe.
1 ,5"Jeanie," ] broke out ~ wish you
tel me why you and your father al
f'so good to me, How do you know thu
: I'M not the crazy criminal that o,ht
people believe me to hef~ | did ste.
tlIe'car and get II Smashed, you know
YOU are mi a criminal and | nj
sn~ Yen didn't mean TO get the c,
Flvashgp. Reshlcs, you had take
shNiermder our rcuf."
-You are truc ne1oums." | lnuphe,
"s That The code in the west?-yot