The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-12-10
THE GIRL. A HORSE AND A DOG
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LnaFlEy BulleFIDn get a1 the money
that he's fashin' around so peacocky p
81 don't know where he got it. but
he has It, all right; carries it with
him." said sourly.
"Yes; but see here, Stannie, son,
I'll bet fee dog worth hundred dol
lars that it amt his money"
ssWhat makes you say that7'
swell. for one thing, because I know
Charley Fullerton; been KNOWN him
since Adam was little boy in knee
breeches. He can't keep any money
Of his own; just naturally amt built
that-away."
''GamDles itT' / suggested.
big CANDLES, yes; stocks and that
sort o. truck. No stree; these yeller-
backs he's a-fiashin' around amt his'n,
not by Il long chalk, and I'd bet. ON It.
Somebody else is settin' EN- up; and
IL that's so, Stannie, there's reason
Tor it."
Sure / conceded. Then: "Could
Fou make a long. high, running jump
and guess at the reason, DaddyT'
"Not so s it'd hold together, /
reckon" he replied obviously But
there's few little notions at I've
picked up from folks that's older In
this neck o. woods than I am-been
here longer The old Cinnabar never
was what you'd call bonanza Plen-
ty of ore, to be sure, but mostly low
grade, 'cepting them rich little pockets
now and then"
Those rich pockets, put in. "A
strike of one of them would be about
the right time to sell, wouldn't 1T"
He nodded.
you're shoutin', now. / reckon
that's about how they caught your
gran'paw But Buddy F'uller-he's the
'Tropia telegraph operator and sort
o. halfway nephew o. mine says
there's more to it than that. Long
back couple o. years r so there was
copper strike made in Little Cinnabar
gulch, about four mile west o here,
and follerin' it there was a heap %
talk about the railroad runnin'
branch to it. That there branch, If 1T
was BUILT when it's built, for it's
goin' to be, some day, to open them
copper mines--that there branch IL go
right along our bench within a hun
bred yards of the old Cinnabar; SC
close you could mighty near dump
from the ore sheds into the cars
| began to see more croOkings in
the sacrificial road over which Grand.
father Jasper had been led; many
more and more devious ones.
''Tn that case, even the Iow-grade
Cinnabar would come a bit nearer be-
ing bonanza, wouldn't it?' | asked.
"She sure would, Stannie That
long, hard wagon haul to 'Tropia was
what was putin the cuss in the cost
o. handlin'"
'And with the railroad right at the
door, SO to speak, it might even pay to
recapitalize at three-quarters Of mil
lion and drive that long drainage tun-
mel we have been figuring on?'
''Somethin' like that yes Can you
see any 1urder into the milestone? I'll
say I've got about to the end of my
squintin'.'
/ refilled my pipe and did bit of
cogitating. Surprising [ had been the
boss figurer in the bunch that did
Grandfather Jasper the honor to blk
him; as constituencies as that pirate
whoever he was, and in the secret OF
the conditions as Daddy had just out
lined them, what would | have done y
The answer came as pat as you
please With a railroad in prospect
which would turn a small profit into
a big one, l should quite probably
have shut the mine down to wait until
could hear the whistle of the locolno-
tive
This conclusion led promptly and
logically. to another. Surprising. at the
moment when | had decided upon Ft
shutdown, some doddering old
man had come along and off,
buy the mine? Add, as colo
the superstition that the water prou.en
was daily growing more insistent, with
the ultimate threat of food. AS an or
binary, garden-variety mining shark
what would | have done?
That answer came pat, also.
should have taken the old gentleman's
money, trusting TO the rising flood tC
make him sick of his bargain in due
course of time and thus willing to sell
out for anything he could get.
Il believe 1 have it doped OUT j
told Daddy at the end of the cogitatins
pause; and then I passed the infer
ences along to him. The immediate
effect was to evoke a couple of hi!
quaint substitutes for profanity.
"Jehoiachim- to-breakfast I" he Elk
claimed; I'm be ding-swizzled if
don't believe you've struck the tru,
lead, Stannie, my sonl If you have
here's what folders: Charley Butler
TONS here to do the dfckerin' for tina
same old high-bindin Cinnabar outfi
that did your gran'paw up. They sole
for half million r so and now they're
willin' to buy back for thirty or fort,
or fifty thousand. BY Jezebell l jus
knew that slick-tongued rooster wa
tryin' to work some skin camel"
yet he is going TO marry you