Graham guardian., 1922-03-07

CHAPTER XvI-The siege continues.
Ruilerton vainly endeavoring to Induce
Hiram 10 abandon Broughton. He nnal-
iy announces his purpose 10 destroy Ts ths
~ him.
CHAPTER xvII.-using dynamite. the
besicgers have Twombly and Broughton
Al their last gasp when the rescuing par
~ from Atropia arrives. headed by
Rrourhton's acquaintance. Beasley, who
Il Daddy Hiram's nephew, With the
party 10 Jeanie an S eSpasauSSn sianSnrS o. hss hss
lead 10 the Old cinnabsr. which she had
inken to have recorded. procaution he
lad neglected. Bensley arrests Brought0n
Tor the theft and destruction Of the con-
struction car.
CHAPTER xvn1.--A charge OF dyna-
mite aimed by Bullerton at the shaft
house exploded & iauns rrnaisd n1 TN ,ne ays, Iny
rad been deliberately introduced into the
ahaft ana arrangements made TO keep II
ihsre with the object OF discouragtns
and ultimately frsssa,nss s;anssorS Sus ana sfGIsn Trs
discover the method and destroy H.
RrousS,on announces his intention OF
workinE the mine, With, Daddy Hiram
as his partner ana Seas1ey ss ar,d,Is as nis iore
,hsirg forgotten. To his Intense disgust
yes nSa, induccs Broughton to promise not
~ prosecute Bullerton, the only poaJibls
inference being that she loves the fellow.
CHAPTER xIX.-With the aid Of
se.sisv. Broughton interests capital In
,he mine. and the future OF the Old Gin.
nabar seems assured.
CHAPTER xX.--Reaiizins his debt 90
Hiram. and 10 Jeanne, for the recover OF
his property. Broughton assures tie gin
he win not prosecute Fullerton. bur she
de-: no; spgssr SatOn srsssfI 70
any one less deeply In love and possibly
less dense, dawns on Stanford, and he
realizes that ne has found the Girl the
Horse ana the Dos. and particularly THE
had been done under jealous super.
vision with all the needful precautions
taken against publicity. The tight
wooden box--which would figure as
part OF the shaft lining--had been
built, and into the box the creek had
been diverted by means OF the small
dam and the underground conduit.
With the water admitted. to rise In
the box to the level Of Its intake In
the creek reservoir, the tran was set
and was ready to be sprung.
Beyond this point there was gap
we were obliged to bridge By conJec-
tHre. but the inferehces were all plausi-
BILE enough. Doubtless the plotters
had notified my grandfather that his
mine was flooded and was no longer
workable. Doubtless, again. he had
authorized them to buy the needful
pumping machinery and to install it
which they did.
In this barefaced imposture the plot
ters had conceivably buuded some
thing upon Grandfather Jasper's ad.
yanced age as an insurance against
any too-sesrching investigation; but
beyond this they had carefully dis.
armed any suspicion that he might
otherwise have harbored by encourag-
Ing him--in the actual purchase Of the
property--to take expert advice, and
by crafti!y printing him, by under
statements Of the facts, to trust them.
only rumors of what had occurred
at this visit reached Angels; but Beas-
ley could testify that my grandfather
had come and returned alone, and that
after the pumping demonstration had
been made he had seemed disposed TO
pocket his huge loss and to call II
bad days work.
The later developments were not
hard to figure out. Beasley was able
10 tell us that the proposed railroad
branch to run to the new copper prop
critics In Little Cinnabar gulch was
now certainty for the very near fu-
ture. Hence the time was fully ripe
for the recovery of the Cinnabar by
The plotters. No doubt they had con-
ndently assumed that repurchase Of
the property--not directly by them
selves. OF course, but BY an agent who
would figure as disinterested third
party-would be easy. Beasley said
that there had been some talk OF an
undermining drainage tunnel, such as
Daddy and had figured upon--tbis at
the time OF the sprlnging Of the snood
trap--and that the cost had been estl-
mated at half million. Unquestion.
ahly the robbers had assumed that an
old man who hnd already charged his
venture up to profit and loss would
sell for song rather than TO venture
again; and in this they were probably
we'll within the truth.
But ut the moment when they were
ready to complete the circle Of I'm.
posture, death-the death Of Grand
father Jasper-had stepped in to com.
plicate matters. Somebody--possibly
Cousin Percy---had corresponded with
whoever was representing the robber
syndicate, and by this means the plot.
ters had learned that they would now
have to reckon with an heir. How
Fullerton came to be employed by
them almost at the instant of his re.
turn from South America we did not
know: but we could easily understand
that with the new complication which