The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-12-15
oOp,ushs b. Charles ssnbOsrs Sons


canyn ssed before.
"NothIn' but that cIlppIn' from some
newspaper back East, tellIn about Mr.
Dudley's passin' out"
kinda curious somebody don't tell
ye sOmethin'. amt III" the marshal
put In. Looks like the heirs d be
either fishln' r cuttin' bait on this
here cinnabar jayout-not as it'd do
'em any good II they did. Didn't any
letter come with the newspaper pieceT
"Nnry n pen-scratch."
"Whereabout was the envelope
postedf"
"Washin'ton."
"Aha !" said to myself. 81 have you.
Cousin Percyi For some reason best
known to yourself you didn't want
Daddy Hiram to get hold Of Grand
father Jasper's proper address,
His pipe smoked out. the marshal
prepared to take horse. Daddy went
with him to the far side OF the dump
and the murmur OF their voices came
TO me IN diminishing cadences. After
bit Daddy came back and called up
10 me In the sing-song Of the miners
after the final blast has been fred !:
"A-a-ll over. Stanale. reckon We
can come down now and get you some
breakfast"
Jeanie served me in silence when
! took my place at table and the good
old man stood In the doorway. keeping
watch. as | made no doubt. against
a possible second-thought return OF
Friend Isaac, the brIstle-bearded.
Throughout the working day which
followed he never made the slightest
reference TO the episode OF the morn
Ing and truly | think the whole Incl.
dent would have been buried In obIv.
ION by those two simple-mlnded souls
u hadn't arst spoken OF It myself.
This did in the evening OF the
same day. when Daddy had gone to
make his entirely useless night round
OF. the mine property. AS on most
evenings Jeanne sat at her corner OF
the hearth. knitting, and was filling
a bedtime pipe.
"Jeanie," ! broke out, 81 wish you'd
tell me why you and your father are
SO good TO me. How do you know that
I'm not the crazy criminal that other
people believe me TO be? did steal
the car and get II smashed. you know
You are not criminal and I am
sure you didn't mean to get the chr
smashed. Besides. you had taken
shelter under our roof"
"You are true BedouIns," I laughed
rs that the code In the West2-your
code?--to defend anybody who has eat.
en- salt with your"
y should think It would be any.
body's code"
"You and your father were expecting
this man Beasley to come here look.
ing for mef"
Daddy thought he might Just hap
pen along. We are only four miles
from Atropia, you know"
"And was that the reason Won put
the old transit at the window?--so
you might watch for himf"
"Of course"
by Jove Another woman. any 9th.
er woman In the world. I Thought
would have let some little shred OF
sentiment show; she couldn't have
helped IT, But this one didn't. A
boy couldn't have looked me In the
eyes any more frankly and squarely
than she did when she said "Of
course" Since had eaten their bread.
was, for so long as | chose TO STAY
member OF the clan.
II was near the end OF the fortnight
and Daddy Hiram and had secured
ana rubbed and scraped and reas.
sembled the engine and pumps. and
were finishing the cleaning OF the boil
ers. These were pretty badly rusted
and scaled. and to do the lob pronerly.
we had taken the manhole heads ont
OF the holes left to give access TO the
Interior Of the shells, and had had n
good'natured squabble as to which of
us should crawl Inside to do the scrap.
Ing; Daddy insisting upon doing Il. he
cause as he pointed out, he was the
smaller man, and arguing that
should because ! was the younger and
stronger.
To settle II finally we dipped coin
one OF those lnch-wlde copper men.
MES that Daddy carried for a pocket.
piece-and won the toss. The ioh
wasn't exactly a picnic, but l got along
all right until we came TO the last OF
the battery. found that the repair.
ers had at some past time inserted \
couple of extra stay-rods so that there
was little enough room left In the old
steel shell for professional boiler.
monkey to wriggle about In. 10 saw
nothing Of a husky young chan who
tipped the beam a; around a hundred
and seventy pounds. stripped.
just the same. made shift To knock
the worst of the scale on and rattle
Il down so that II could be washed
out from below and was backing ont
To make my escape. when found thar
one OF the extra stay-rods was loose
Az my asking, Daddy screwed IN the
nut on the outside OF the boiler heod
to tighten the rod, and then passed the
wrench In 10 me so that could screw
up the nut ON the inside. To This
good day ! don't know just what ana
happen, but guess the big S.wrench