The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-12-22

interval between mis- FIRST and this sec.
ond appearance In the Red Desert
region. 1--WE had time to look you up.
you know. ysu're engaged to n girl
back East and you can't marry her
because you haven't money enough.
Half loaf is better than no bread I;
and I'm Offering you very nearly the
half loaf. Take a day or so IL think
1t over. I'm In no hurry" And with
that he went back to the cabin across
the dump and left me warming the
anvil.
guess II viii say itself that the
next few days stacked up about ms
wretched an interval as had ever
been called upon to put over.
Fullerton had a masterful sort OF
grip that seemed TO give him stran-
gle-hoid upon everything he tackled.
AT table and In the evenings before
the fire he monopollzed the talk and
the rest of US sat around like slough
ton-bottles and let him do It.
II didn't help matters out much
when Daddy Hiram, chasing me up on
one OF the days when / was lodging
Fullerton, gave me the sealed enve-
lope which my grandfather had left
with him. As will be remembered, It
was on the night OF Bullerton's arrival
at the Clnnabar that had told Daddy
and his daughter who / was, and the
subject hadn't been again referred to
by any Of u.s. But now Daddy, having
overtaken me on one OF the trails
above the mine, sat beside me on a
fiat rock and we had II out together.
you knew who was from the first,
Daddyf" l asked.
"Not right plumb at first, no." he
qualified. "You see. l didn't know who
| was looking for. Always reckoned
somebody'd be along. 4 course, but I
hadn't had any idea who r when"
I'm afraid I've been q pretty sorry
disappointment TO YOU" muttered. ~
have no money and don't know
enough TO be any good at the mining
game. And that reminds me: my
grandfather paid you regular salary
for the caretaking, didn't her"
"Uh-huh."
THAT has been discontinued since
his deathp"
II reckon So"
II have a little income Of my own:
not much, but enough for the way
we're living here, II must be under
stood that l share II with you and
Jeanie, so long as stay with YOU"
"Ain't no need o. your dom that,
stannie. got little stake hid out
for pinch"
In all this, you will notice. there
was no word said about Fullerton. We
sat In silence for while. Daddy chew
Ing n spear Of grass. After time he
called attention to the envelope which
| still held unopened In my hands.
Don't ye want to know what your
gran'paw saysT he asked mildly.
AT this slit the end OF the envelope.
Its contents were n deed In fee simple
20 the Cinnabar and a note to me,
written in Grandfather Jasper's
cramped, old-fashloned handwriting.
In the note he merely said that he was
leaving me n property which had cost
him pretty well up to half a million
and that he hoped I'd brace up and 10
to work and make something ont OF II.
adding that II l hadn't been such a
hopeless idler all my life no might
have considered the proprIety OF add
Ing an experimental fund to the gift.
AS II was. must work out my own
salvatlon-if were anxious TO possess
any OF that commodity.
think II was on the fourth day after
his arrival that Fullerton cOrnered me
again and again II was in the deserted
blacksmith shop.
well. Broughton," he began abrupt
~, seating himself once more upon
the empty dynamite box. "rve given
you plenty OF time TO think II over.
Where do you stand nowf'
Right exactly where I did In the
beginning" l snapped. 81 don't want
any forty-nlne-flfty.on per cent part.
nership with you; neither that nor any
other kind"
"All right" he rejoined, brusqueIy
wen cali that phase OF II a back mum.
Der and go ON TO something else. I'll
buy your mine, just as Il stands. water
and all-and that's what nobody else
would do, you'd better believe"
"For how much2"
For fifty thousand dollars--cash."
NO grated. II don't need a lls.
tie money that badly"
Fifty thousand isn't little; at a
good, safe, investment interest II will
give you an income OF three thousand
a year. And that's more than you're
getting now out OF what your father
left you"
you seem 20 know n good bit about
my private affairs" | growled.
'You said mouthful, then. I've
made It my business to find out about
them. There's nothing much TO YOU
Broughton, when you come right down
to brass tacks. You had good educa-
ton, but you haven't had get-up-and-get
enough In you TO make any use OF IT,
'The less you dig In my private gar
den patch, the better we shall get
along" l told him.
He was silent for moment. He
had picked up a Bit Of iron rod and