Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-20
The Girl, A Horse and A Dog
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By FRANCIS LYNDE.

BX&0PSxS.
Under his gr%andfather's will, Stanford
81 the esaat society xai,e ,dle st f fa%s, his share ''ks
tude and longitude described. and that
Is all. It nay be identified by the pres.
EYED girl, 4 piebald horse. and 4 doE.
white. Stanford at first regards the be-
sets out to find his legacy.
On his way to Denver, the city near
est the meridian described in his grand
low traveller a story having to do with
a flooded mine :
Thinking things over, he begins to
imagine there may be something in his
idea finally centering. on the possibility
of q mine, as a safe repository" Re-
calling the narrative on the train, he
= mining engineer. Charles Fullerton.
Fullerton refuses him information. but
from other sources Broughton learns
e yI11el p to e. make Rsd him proceed to Placer
On the station platform at Atropia,
lust as the train pulls out. Stanford
sees what appear to be the identical
fathers viii. Impressed. he leaves the
train at the next stop. Angels. There he
hnds that Atropia was originally Placer
Vile. his destination. Unable to secure
Placeryille, Br6ughton seizes a con-
~struction car and escapes, leaving the
impression on the town marshal. Beas-
Pursued: he abandons the car. which
Is wrecked. and escapes on foot. In the
darkness, he is overtaken by = girl on
h. jna Tx and The dog; After ne <
her home, at the Old Cinnabar mine. t o
meet her father
Broughton's hosts are Hiram rwom-
ghter.. Jeanne. Seeing the girl, sian
ford is satisfied be has located his
property. but does not reveal his ident-
Next morning. with Hiram, he visits
the mine. Hiram asks him to look over
the machinery. n he does 90. glad Of
an excuse to be near Jeanie. in whom
he has become interested, and he en-
gases in the first real work he has
Broughton and Hiram get the pumps
started: but are unable to make m i'm
parently an old friend Of the Twomblys.
vistts,the mine. He offers to drain IL in
consideration of B%roughton's giving him
9 farS refu nsa 'sn Th 81 th Bul Rls9psa'y cne s.an to
buy the mine outright for $4,000. 1t
had cost Broughton's grandfather more
than half a million. Stanford again re.
fuses.
Jeanie cautions Broughton against
selling the mine, under any circumstanc-
es, and, apparently in a spirit Of mis-
cnsel, allows him to kiss her. After a
ton decides te will stick to the property.
CHAPTER X.-Condnuod,
The longer I thought about 1t, the
larger the conviction grew that no
U c expense expedient was to be
resorted to. Fullerton, or his hackers,
or both, knew some other and far
= hAaNcr q ND ~ nro -A- = G
getting rid OF the water. Sitting on a
big rock that had in some former
earth CONFUSION turnbIed from the
broken cliffs above the mine, I rave
the mechanical fraction OF my brain
IT was q small fraction and sadly
undar-developed) free rein.
Two possibilities suggested them
selves. "A saphop, = big pipe, starting
at the bottom Of the shaft and leading
out over the top and down the noun
tain to q point lower than the shaft
bottom, would, after It was once
started. automatically discharge q
stream OF It's own btgneSs. whatever
that should be. But the cost Of over
. mile OF such pipe was beyond my
means; and II two six-inch pumps
driven night and day had failed to
make any impression upon. the siphon
which. In the nature Of things, couldn't
be much bigger than an ordinary
street water main?
hopeful. It wa the driving OF. 4 short
tunnel, which Daddy and I might I'M
dertake without additional help, from
the level Of the high bench straight in
TO an Intersection with the mine shaft.
Thia,gI estimated, might tap the water
at a point possibly twenty feet below
ifs present level In the shaft. Its sue