Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-17
The Girl, A Horse and A Dog
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BY FRANCIS LYNDE,

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Under his srandfather,,s will, Stanford
B~roushton. society idler, finds his share
q the estate. valued at something lika
tude and longitude described, and that
Is all. 1t may be identified by ths pres
ence nearby OF a hrown-haired. blue
with q split face. half black and half
white. Stanford at first regards the be-
quest as a joke. but after consideration
sets out to find his legacy. - ~
On his way to Denver, the city near
est the meridian described in his grand
fathers will, Stanford hears from a fell
low traveller a story having to do with
a Hooded mine.
Thinking things over. he begins to
imagine there may be something in his
grandfather's beQuest worth while, his
idea finally centering on the possibility
calling the narrative on the train, he
ascertains that his fellow traveller was
E mining engineer. Charles FULLERTON.
from other sources Broughton learns
vile, in the Red desert
On the station platform at Atropia,
sees what appear to be the identical
horse and dog described in his grand
fathers will. Impressed. he caves the
drain t At the ne1t stop, Angels; There he
vile, his destination. Unable to secure
q conveyance at once to take him to
placerville, .Broughton seizes a on
impression on the town marshal, Beas-
ley, that he Is slightly demented.
Pursued: he abandons" the car, which
Is !. Wrecked and escapes on foot. In the
horseback. and THE dog. After ne ex-
plains his presence, she invites him to
her home, at the Old Cinnabar mine, to
meet her father. F.. *
Broughton's hosts are Hiram Twom-
ply, caretaker Of the mine. and his dau-
ghter, Jeanne. Seeing the girl, Stan
ford Is satisfied he has located his
Next morning. with Hiram, he visits
the mine. Hiram asks him to look over
the machinery, and be does 50, glad Of
he has become interested, and he en-
cages in the first real work he has
has ever done.
CHAPTER VIn.-Conunued.
Tha may be-" I retorted. But if
you told me the story straight that
night in the Pullman, you can't turn
q wheel until 1 tell you to go ahead,
So your contract, II you've got one,
doesn't amount to a hill of beana"'
That point may make a nice little
question for the courts to decide" he
snapped. But l don't want to 70 ia
law about this thing, and neither do
you. As a matter OF fact, you haven't
any money to throw away in a legal
scrap. You make me a deed to fifty
ono pei cent of the Cinnabar property,
just as It stands. and then you may,go
back q and enjoy yourself playing
mQ ThlAa mr. mitch md k4n, - -~ 80
whatever your pet diversion may
happen to be. F1fty-one per cent and
you give me a clear field-not stick
around, I mean That goes as it hes
HUH" L scofed. "A. while back
you were talking about pulling the Law
on me. You can't make anything
like that stand in the courts and YOU
know 1t mighty we'll"
Maybe not; but I can make II
stand with you-which Is much more
to the purpose. You said a minute
that I couldn't turn q wheel with:
out your consent. You can't turn 4
wheel at an-without money"
His rubbing the poverty gibe inta
me made me madden than ever and
thought 1t was about time to tell him
whore he got Oh.
Then. by Jove. the wheels neednr
turn!" I %countered.. "And that let
You out II you want to 60 to law
about that contract-An In. THAR
all Two got to say"
"oh, hold ont" he protested, with
mock cer Then he showed me
plainly what he'd been doing in the
interval between his first n thia
second appearance In the Red Des-
ert region Tive had time to look
you up, you know. You're engaged
to A2Ef11 back East and YOU can't