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

she gOl up idNiVi
hack TO the cabin across the dump
head and wouldn't stay another min
ME though I begged and pleaded with
her.
"No. indeed, Bluebeard man." she
said with that queer little gurgle Of a
laugh. IL think have found out
what wanted to. Goodby." And
then. after | thought she was clean
gone. she turned back to say, alrlly:
"Oh, yes; / had almost forgotten what
| came over here to tell you. You
mustn't sell the Clnnabar. Stannle; not
for any price that anybody might offer
you. GoOdby. again"
Can you beat it1 When the good
Lord made women He doubtless had
many patterns; but | do believe the
mold was broken and thrown away
after this Jeanie girl had been fash
toned. For solid hour or more | sat
on that slab bench at the shafthouse
door in a sort of bewlldered daze, won
derlng II had been asleep and dream
ing, or II the bedazzllng thing had
really happened.
At breakfast the next morning every
thing passed Off as usual and Cor any
thing that Jeanne said or 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 l had gone across to the
mine, Fullerton came over to dig me
out, as before.
"Forty thousand this morning." he
announced as clipper as an English
sparrow over an unexpected heap of
street sweeplngs. Say, Broughton.
can you afford to let your capital
shrink at the rate OF ten thousand dol
lars day? II you should ask me,
should say not"
"You never miss what you haven't
had" | shot back. There are no
takers on the floor this morning"
"Rlght-o; it'll be thirty thousand to-
morrow. yOu must remember. At that
rate you'll be owing me quite chunk
OF money by this time next week.
That's about all / 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 gad,
you know"
IL made me so boiling hot to have
him admit, thus badly, that he had
been spying upon Jeanie and me the
previous evening that could scarcely
see straight.
THAT will be about enoughv I
Parked. 81 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 cat, but
| doubt itr
He laughed and threw back the In.
pei OF his coat to show me a regula.
ton slx-gun slung by a shoulder strap
under his left arm.
You pulled a hammer on me yester.
day." he said, letting the laugh Lapse
into grin that showed his fine mouth
iul OF teeth. "and you probably didn't
know that you would have been n dead
man before you could swing II. Oh.
yes; could do It, and any coroner's
jury In the Red desert would acouIt
me; dangerous lunatic-self.defen
you know. That's word to the wise
una II ought to be sufficient. But
nave better life-lnsurance policy than
any that the slx-gun could write mo
you're In love with Jeanne Twomblv-
III spite OF that girl back East and ha.
cause you are, you are not going 70
make her a widow before the fact
You're not selling your mine for fort ]
thousand-cold cash-thls morning ,"
NOT this morning or any other
morning" ''"e'
Good. | can afford 70 st,cL oro,
mere few days longer, guess,
she rate OF ten thousand dollars d,v
90 long And he picked his wov ON,
OF the clutter Of the shop and won,
ucross TO the cabin-and Jeanne
Later, along in this same dov Will,
l was standing at the shaft mouth md
s'nrlhg down at the water that wo,
Eeeplng me out of my heritage Dad
dy Hiram came up.
SUI a-puzzlln' over IL Stanr,o, .,
ne asked In the sympathetic tome tho,
ne Always used when he spoke ~ m,
Great Disappointment WV
There's nothing to 1t, Daddy
gloomed. "Bulerton has ma hS -.
neck and he knows t." Wv
lie uptoed to the door and roo,o
out. "'u Peepet
You've heard 'em say AT cur,os,,,
KILLED cat" he said. our OF tho oo ~!
ner of his mouth; well tho c",, eor
comm skip out o. that other A. II"
Slannie, and hit fog the timber ~
Getch up with YOU In llttle snoi
l didn't know exactly what no ,.a
driving at until after | cor claa.
the mine buildings and was cl,nh,.
the slope Of the mountain above m,
looked back and saw Bullerton sonn
tering across the dump head. He Voc
evidently bent on another LITTLE a.,
OF spying either that, or else he d,Sn'
want Daddy and me TO get togatha
by ourselves.
Under cover of thu forost 49,