Grand Forks herald., 1922-03-14

Shouldn't wonder ii YOU could he
sor, OF Godscnd TO ne. if sou want
! cd to. morruh, If you ain't IN TOO
/ big Il hurry to be lcarin US. LII set
T! you to show mo Il fc% things that
don't know. long them lines. maybe
I. or course, / acquiesced, chcc:fnlly.
BY and by the Glrl came in and ha /:
! down to knit. Just as her srandmothrr
| might have done. ANA al tnil nor
| father got up, and. lighting Il lantern.
went out. | was fairly perish!ns ny
/ this time 10 know a vast nuinpcr ot
! things, but hardly knew how to begin
asking about them. So. as the Old man
| ciappcd on his hat and lcft ;ac cabin.
] blew out tho firSl foolish remark
that came uppcrmnst
All dressed UP. ANA nowhere 10
| go; isn't that about the way OF it for
YOU two up on this mount.in?" ,"
! <.'Mcaning Daddy, ANA HOW. partic
! iaily?" she said. smiling across d the.
! "ilr has gone ln make his regular
/ round of the mine buildings ANA cab
! ins. Not that there is t;1c slightest use
! of it,; only he likes TO feel inst hc is
! al least pretending 70 earn his pay
The mine?" | Gucricd
Yes; this is the old Cinnabar. You
! know: and Daddy is thc->wcn sup
pose you might call us the Garcia kers
| though there isn't much 10 take care
OF The mine has been shI: huwh
I for a year and more ~
''ts i: 4 sold mine:"
''It was
| "Why the past tense?''
/ Water she said. briefly. ITS a
drowned mine. That is why it was
shut down"
or course. this was exactly what ]
was expecting to hear. and yet this
' plain unvarniShCd confirmation Of
things gave me damp AMI soSyy
= feeling of drSpOnuCncy. Etrry ia
wired, you remember. that his letter
| was no joke: but ii seemed ,l,at it
really was one. and. that IN, joke
| which was mighty grim ont--was
on me.
Cant the water he pumped out a.
/ asked.
I TT seems not l understand the
company spent thousands of dollar:
trying to pump it out 1t's-its rath.
er pi'iful.'
i You mean the company's loss?'
No; the company didul lose any
thing. 1t was just one old man.
/ NOW We were coming to the rea
meat of the thing and ! looked m,
hand OF cards over carefully to III,
end that I should not ovcrplay it.
/ I'm fond oi stories" 7 venturah
especially mining Stories" and there
upo: she told me the story Of the Gin
| nabar. 1t was fair repetition O
Bullcrton's tale, with Il few more O
the particulars thrown in.
/ AS my bluc-eyed little Schchc.azaI
understood it. my grandfather ha
been d minority stockholdcr in III
company during the prosperous pc
riod. When the water dcbaclc ca M
i the fact of ii was carefully conc "a le
from him and he was gcnerousi- ne,
m1tted to come to the rescuc-wni,.
Il he did by paying a fabulous SUI
4 (Scheherazade did not know ho,
4 nuch) for his follow -stockholde or
: holdings. In other words. they ha
sold hlm Il gold brick: soaked hi,
for the final cleanup on a doome
mine. That was about all there W.
to it.
Did my-did the old gcntlcma
you speaH OF ever come out here hin
self?"
; She nodded.
:, "Oncc that we know off; that W:
after it was all over and the place W.
, deserted. At that time Daddy na
taken up IL claim just west of here
the next gC!ch and We were living
this cabin; Squatters, ] guess yOl1'
call us. So we camped down"
fhat was quite right and prope
And this Mr.. Jasper Dudlcy;Hhc djdn
turn you out when he came, did he ?
} "Oh, no, indeed; lie was very k,n,
When he found that raddy's sulc
! claim wasn't going TO pan out an
thing, ne said he needed u caretakt
here, and since that time he has sei
4 us money every month. But no~
suppose 1t will All be different. NJ
: Dudley is dead.
i,dt the heirs?1 suggested.
We don't. even know who they ar