The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-11-30


well End IT."
With that determination. he went =,
bed, to awake in the morning filled
with desire TO reach the mine. tc
claw at its vltals with the sharp.
edged drills. TO swing The heavy sledge
until his shoulders and barE ached
10 send the roaring charges Of dyna.
mite digging deeper and deeper into
that thinning vein. And Harry was
beside him every step Of the way.
days work. the booming charges
and they returned to the stope 10 End
! that the vein had neither lessened nor
grown greater. Another day-and one
after that The vein remained the
same.
Squint Rodalne had established his
oihce In small, vacant store building
on the main street, and Falrchild
could see. as be went 10 and from bis
work. constant stream OF toynspeo.
pie as they made that their goal
there 10 give their money into the
keeping Of the be-scarred man and TO
trust 10 the future for wealth. II
CALLED Fairchild IL made his hate
stronger than ever. As for the Girl
who was named as vice president
lie saw her, day after day. riding
through town In the same automobile
that he had helped retire on the Den.
yer road. But now she did not Iool,
AZ him; now she pretended that she
did not see him. She had gone over
to the Rodaines. she was engaged TO
marry the chalky-faced, hook.nosed
son and she was vice president of
their two-milllon-dollar mining cor
poration. FsirchIld did not even strive
TO find a meaning for IL all: women
are women, and men do well some
times II they diagnose themselves.
The summer began to grow old. and
Fairchild felt that he was aglng with
IT, The bank deposits were thinning.
and the vein was thinning with IL.
Slowly but surely, as they fought, the !
strip OF pay ore In the rocks was
pinchlng out. Soon would come the |
time when they could work II no |
longer. And then-but FalrchIld did |
not like TO think about that.
September came. and with II the
grand jury. But here for once was
a slight ray OF hope. The body OF
twelve good men and true wore them
selves out with other matters and ad-
journed without even taking up the
mystery OF the Blue Poppy mine. But
the JOY Of FaIrchlld and Harry was
short-lived. In the long. legal phrase
ology OF the jury's report was the
recommendation that this important
subject be the first for inquiry by the
next grand inqulsltorial body TO be
convened - and the threat still re-
NAMED.
But before the two men were now
which were worse even than
hreats, and Harry turned from his
tagging late one afternoon to voice
he most important.
Wen start slngle-jackIng tomor. !
ow," he announced with a little sigh.
In the 'angIng wall The veins
'inched down until we amt even get.
Ing day laborer's wages out OF it
nd It's October now" {
October October-and winter on I
he way. October-and only a month I
NTH the time when Harry must face 7
jury on four separate charges. any
ne OF which might send him to Canon I
ity for The rest OF his days. Fair
hild's hopes lay inert. He was only {
'orklng now because a great strong. d
lg-shoulfered man had come from /
ornwall to help him and was willing c
night II out TO the end. October d
nd the announcement had said that
certain girl would be married in the S
tie fall, girl who never looked in Il
IS direction any more. who had al. G.
wed her name to become affiliated Il
I'm that OF the Rodaines. now near. q
e the task Of completing their two 81
lllion. October! b.
For a long moment, FaIrchild said IN
thing, then as Harry came from the b,
aging, he moved TO the older mans cl
le. +
IL didn't quite catch the idea"
me at last. Harry pointed with his
.dge. F.
I've been noticing the vein. II G,
cps turning to the left. II struck al
that II might ave branched of pc
nm the main body and that there's he
bigger vein over there some'eres. In
ell Just ave to make a try for IL. IN
5 our only chance"
AND II we fail to find II therer" ex
III II amt there-we're whlppedr
I was the first time that Harry had
d the word seriously. Fairchild an
stended not TO hear. Instead. he lo
ked up drill, looked at its point, so
N started toward the small forge elf
ich they had erected just at the en-
I Of the little raise leading to tina in,
pc. There Harry Joined him; to. Bu
her they heated the long pieces OF do
ell and pounded their biting faces
the sharpness necessary to drilling
the hard rock Of the hanging wall,
ipering them in the bucket Of wa.
near by, working silently, slowly inl
npered by the weight OF defeat. a
~ were being whipped; they felt an
n every atom OF their beings. But mn
y had not given up their fight Int
o blows were left In the sfruggla -.