The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-12-10

@wOOfy- she shIvered. here GENES
the bear again = and then. right smash
out Of a clear sky: kiss me-just
once. Stannie-bear.
Did l. She was gaSpiRg a Bit when
she got ND rather unsteadIly 10 90
back to the cabin across the dump
head and wouldn't stay another min
ute. though begged and pleaded with
her.
NO. indeed. BIueheard man. she
said with that queer little gursle Of
laugh I'll think I have found ont
what I wanted 70. GoOdby. And
then. after 7 thought she was clean
gone. she turned back to say. afrlly
aOh- yes; I had almost forgotten what
/ came over here 70 tell you. You
mustn't sell the Cinnabar. Stannie; not
for any price that anybody might offer
you. Goodby, again"
Can you beat III When the good
Lord made women He doubtless had
many patterns: but I do believe the
mold was broken and thrown away
after this Jeanie girl had been fash
on that slab bench at the shafth0use
door in a sort Of bewildered daze, won
dering If had been asleep and dream
ing, or If the bedazzling thing had
really happened
AT breakfast the next morning every
thing passed of as usuas and sor any
thing that Jeanne said OF looked there
needn't have been any bench beside
the shafthOuse door and the dream
theory had been playing with might
have been the sober fact. An hour
later. after / had gone across TO the
mine, Fullerton came over 10 dig me
out. as before.
Forty thousand this morning. he
announced as clipper as an English
sparrow over an unexpected heap OF
street sweepings. Say, Broughton.
can you afford to let your capital
shrink at the rate of ten thousand dol
lars a day7 If you should ask me, T
should say not"
you never miss what you haven't
had" / shot back. There are no
takers on the floor this morning.
,Right-o; it'n be thirty thousand to
morrow, you must remember. At that
rate you'll be owing me quite a chunk
Of money by this time next week.
That's about 81 / have to say-ex-
cepting one more little thing: No more
chinny little tete-a-tetes In the star
light, old man. or shall be obliged to
put the CAD TO you; the railroad CAD,
you know"
1t made me so boiling hot to have
him admit, thus badly, that he had
been spying upon jeanne and me the
previous evening that could scarcely
see straight.
+That win be about enoughl"
barked. Il told you the other day
that there were limits, and you've
walked up and looked over the edge
two or three times. You may think
you have as many lives as a cat, but
doubt ftT"
pei Of his coat to show me a reguIa-
ton stx-gun slung by shoulder strap
under his left arm.
~YOu pulled hammer on me yester-
day." he said. letting the laugh lapse
into a grin that showed his fine mouth
full Of teeth, "aRd you probably didn't
know that you would have been dead
man before you could swing IT, Oh,
yes; 1 could do it, and any coroner's
jury in the Red desert would acquit
me; dangerous lunatic-self-d defense,
you know. That's a word to the wise.
and Ii ought TO be sufficient. But /
have better life-insurance policy than
any that the six-gun could write me.
you're In love with Jeanne Twombly-
in spite Of that girl back East and be
cause You are. you are not going TO
make her a widow before the fact.
You're not selling your mine for forty
thousand-cold eash-this mornings-
''Not this morning OF any other
morning"
~GoOd. l can sfford 10 stick around
here a few days longer, guess-at
the rate Of ten thousand dollars day
So long" And he picked his way out
OF the clutter of the shop and went
across to the cabin-and Jeanie.
Later, along in this same day. while
/ was standing at the shaft mouth and
staring down at the water that was
keeping me out Of my heritage. Dad
. dy Hiram came up.
"Still a-puzzlin' over it, Stanniez'
he asked, in the sympathetic tone that
| he always nsed when he spoke Of the
Great Disappointment.
There's nothing to It, Daddy"
gloomed. "Bullerton has me By the
neck, and he knows IL"
He tiptoed TO the door and peeped
out
/ You've heard EN- say at curiosity
/ killed a cat he said. out Of the cor
ne # his mouth; well. the cats a.