The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-12-15


to talk, much as If we'd invita- 't .ad ",
about bis Woodworking vaav hn Z
America; about the foh,S 70 ga
mines Ia that far.away T,..,s sl d
gold-dlggers about his vo, NV" ~
the lsthmus; about the odSs Ph
meeting me on the train
with the more excruciatlno ss.nehs
his meeting me again, here ~ o.aaea
ern Timanyonls; things llks ,s ae y
He was just comfortah,. l
along In the, swing Of It whs0 'a'gq +
opened behind us and no A., ~
with another "Well. well. Ioas
here u and when | tnrnoS ,VOs WI
holding Jeanie's two hands !. " " ID
braylng over her like a wild ~. ua
plains. And, II yOum believe 700 - an
girl had gone and changed no,
That Is what she went 10 do ~1 ues
slipped out and left Inc 70 sta s"sa
ea.p na', a., al'er she had hear, /.
rather say well, hello, CharIsv \. :
lertonl Tl y
1t was all Off with me t,on .
time on. For what was let, :,
evening, Fullerton played a ~.
got fuil-up on the performancs y
nine o'clock. and climbed nv l.s
and went to bed, mufillns ms bs,s
the blankets so that wouldn, =
to lie there and listen to the 49,.
drone Of Bullerton's voice in m. Y.
below.
hoped-without the least sbsdo. !.
reason for the hope, OF coursa-,
the next morning would shov =.
hole In the atmosphere In ths s..
that Fullerton had occupIed A.
there was no such luck. He wa, -.
ent at the breakfast table, az ,,.|
as life and twice as laxative
| made my escape from the mn.
as soon as could and Trained ~
to the mine. A glance into The ~,
showed the black pool In lts deptA, .
placid and untroubled as II we MAJ,
just lifted a million or so cubic h
of water out Of X by hard labor.
In morose dlscouragement recus
the few things | had learned 49,
drowned mines while | was knocE,
about In the Cripple Greek d'astl
trying to trace Fullerton. PartIcuh,
ly I remembered my talk with Hms
the man who had finally put me u,,
what had proved to be the right TAI
In the tracing job. lie had aid
quite freely. Sometimes the food "
only the tapping Of an undergone
stream, as when one digs a well, 3
other cases-and these were most 90.
mon In the Cripple Creek rega-
the source of the flood would be tuuul
In a buried lake or reservoir, large 4
not so large. as the luck might ha,
II. III the source were a lake-sO III
ton had said-there was little use I
trying to pump the mine dry.
Mulllng over these discOuraging M
OF information, was naturally \
back to the Pullman smokingroOm I'll
with Fullerton. | remembered, win
sharp little flick of the memory VIII
that he had given an expert Oplnla
which. as II seemed. he had backed
a year earlier with thousand d
lars of real money-the deposit In q
Omaha bank made to cover my gran
fathers bargain binder What be b
said was, am reasonably certain III
| discovered a way in which that nl
can be drained at Comparatively sni
expense"
Had he really discovered a wayE
and with no better data than stu
Of the maps? Staring down at Y
black pool which Daddy and hadl
been able to lower by so much As
fraction Of an inch In a weeks pun
Ing, doubted II.
l was stumbling out toward the
CINE room with my head down
my hands in my pockets when hea
footsteps coming from the direction
the cabin beyond the dump. Loon
out, saw Fullerton saunterlng "
toward the shaft-house. Thousn
knew that some sort of wrangle v
him was inevitable, | was PEREZ
willing to postpone 1t, so | edseo
10 the blacksmith shop and sat Nv
on the anvil, hoping he might MIS-
and go away. But there was nO~
coming to me on that bet.
II saw your lead when you zen
house." he began, after he mao ~
me and had busted Off an empty "
mite box for a seat. Don't you u
you've played 1t rather low uO"n
me-"
How soT'
"By taking In my story OF TINS '
when l told 1t to you without ~
me hint that you were the pe'
most deeply Interested-slnce Wy
gentleman was your grandfatnsl,
at didn't strike me that way ~
doesn't yet" shot back ~
you were mighty careful no. ~
inc the name Of your old gen''e~ y
or rather, | should say, you lieu -
II when | wired you
AN ordinary business preCaD'
he chuckled. "But We neeuh y
our time pickering over wha' y
have been-and wasn't. ! nave
tract with your grandfather WIZ
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