St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-12-03

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ITO Stanford Broughton,
"Hotel Savoy,
Denver.
John smith.
'CHAItLilo bULLhtION.
That settled it with vengeance,
you'd say. And yet it didn't. It
merely proved that Mr.. Charles Butler
ton had acquired sudden excess Of
caution and was probably cussing him
self plentifully for having been too
loose tongued with a perfect stranger
in Pullman smoker. He had an
swered my wire with name that
meant just as much or as little as II
he'd said alexander the Great" and
that was precisely the amount Of In
formation he had intended to convey.
Whether or not Bullertons memo
randum agreement with my grandfa-
Their would be binding upon me as
Grandfather Jasper's heir, was Ques-
ton. for the courts to decide But one
thing was certain-th that Is, granting all
the assumptions; if he should find the
mine and go to work on his unWater-
ing scheme, he would have a grip on
things that might be handsomely trou-
blesome to shake loose.
After had argued 1t out thus far
the next step suggested itself in a
fifty. / must have heart-to-heart
talk with the cautious Mr.. Fullerton,
telling him who | was, and perhaps
giving him a chance to join forces
with me In the search, if it should
prove to be my grandfather's mine that
he was looking for Grabbing this inn
pulse by the neck, so to speak, I took
the first train for Cripple Creek. The
next morning, when | made inquiry,
found that Fullerton had left town,
though where he had gone the bank
folks couldn't say.
I had gone into the chase more than
half for the sheer fun of 1t; pretty
much as the dog runs after the stick
you've flung into the bushes, and
which he hasn't much hope of finding.
But now 1t was appealing to me as
more of q mans Job. There was q
legacy; and however valueless 1t might
be In it's present condition, it had once
been worth nearly half a million-and
might be again. And half-million Is
a whole lot Of money, when you come
to consider it.
From what little the bank folks told
me it appeared that Fullerton was
fairly well known in Cripple Creek
and the region roundabout. Therefore,
somebody in the near vicinity must
know more than I had as yet been
able to learn ABOUT the manner OF dis
disappearance and his probable desti-
nation. My Job was to find the some
body.
About the time | thought had ex-
hausted all the combinations, found
the one particular Fullerton friend !
was hunting for. His name, as re-
call 1t, was Hilton, or something Ike
that, and he was the superintendent OF
big dralnage-tunnel undertaKing de-
signed to unWater lot OF nooueu
mines on the mis- ABOVE the tnhnel
site.
can gave you NIUE illloilna''o1'
Dut NOT much' was i.s ANSWER - 10y
inquiry. pa'is1 ~, ~ ~ - Du at "
usual disease in any mining country