Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-20
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"But where jeanne? She

w tLEpEEE Sl,EF /
at sure docs look khat-away. D..
ME. She left q it'r note ON tha 49,
for me. a-teiltn' mo not to worrv NM ~
and saytn' + neSdn't look for her NJ;
IN first / could hardly belev.
own ears. It was % incredibly ont y I.
keeping with Jeanne az ! had No
idealizins her. sssts 80
Are you going altar them?' I DEL
mandeo. -,s
| way you look at It. Jeanie's :. vns.
an growed, and she don't have to hnn.
the old daddy say she can, r ~
mustn't. Besides, they was proh.hi.
pitchin' out to catch one o. the ess,ss
trains-there's oSeseach way, east ma
west-and them trains we been rons
q couple o. hours" @ : A :
Daddy had done his best with =.
breakfast. but ! don't recall any mes,
choking me. l told Daddy about IL.
smashing Of the machinery, ana ths e
proof I had that it bad been 8. nieoS
reckon maybe he allowed ym,a
find out he done it and try a doefai q
r somethin' with him to pay hin
back?" Daddy queried.
Il don't know" ! COnfe10ed.
/ went on eating in silence, or rat,-
err trying to eat. and turning over thu
puzznng and b~ad-tasting questionine.
in my mind. How could Jeanne 20 ~
with Fullerton, knowing him to be- tho !
scamp he was? And why, IL she haS
been meaning all along to do TIL.
thing, had she blocked his came hv
telling me that I wasn't to sell him thu
Cinnabar2
1t was in the midst of these reflec-
tions that 1 CHANGED to feel In the coat
pocket where I had been carrying the
decd turned over to me by Daddy Hi
ram; and for the second time that
morning I nearly choked. The pocket
was emptE
What's hit o now, son? ?" Daddy
inquired; seeing my jaw drop, i sun
pose.
1.-The last thing there was in the bo..
that could fall out and hit me-" CUR
gled. Fullerton has stolen my deed
to the Cinnabar!"
1.-The mischief he has! Plum sure
you hain't lost it out o. your pocket?'
We made sure, without the loss of a.
moment; looking in my, loft sleeping
place and in the mine buildings The
deed was gone, safely enough, and we
both agreed that Fullerton had had
y plenty Of chances to steal it. Wearing
0verclothes While I was working about
the machinery, I had often left nv
coat hanging In the cabin. $ a. mat
ter of fact, I hadn't worn it all on the
previous day.
Well, Daddy" said I. after the pro-
longed search had proved futile,
where does this leave me?"
Threshing the facts out we soon
found where it left me. Grandfather
Jasper, as you ia remember, had
made NO mention of tho mine, or, in
= deed, of any legacy to me in his will
as it had been probated; there was no
q need Of it because ho had already
l decided the Cinnabar to me, and at the
time OF his death 1t was nc. longer
n among his assets Moreover, his law
yers had told Fullerton (according to
s Bullerton,s story told me in the Pull
man smokeroom) that there wa no
q record of n mining transaction
a whatever in his papers. Therefore, in
the absence of the memorandum
which my grandfather had given
Cousin Percy-and which Percy had
doubtless carried with him to China
there was nothing but the deed to
show for my owncrship; absolutely
Is nothing.
,r At that, the loss of the deed
IS wouldn't have been fatal II the docu-
= ment had been properly recorded. 1t
sc hadn't been. And now, with the unre-
ID corded deed gone. there was nothing
lie to prove that ] had ever owned the
is Cinnabar. The loss was .total-with
ID no insurance.
1T Daddy Hiram wa shaking his head
~sorrowfully after we had run this last
IS bunch of straw through the threshins
X machine.
re With things looking as blue as the
~ bluest milestone that ever clicked
upon scythe, We tried to settle upon
n some line of action Copah was the
Or county e n the obvious first step
would nave been for me to 80 there
&c for a search in the county records 70.
T. evidence of the sale of the mine to my
grandfather. But the minute I should
ir show myself OF the railroad. I'd be
as nabbed for the theft of that inferna
1g inspection car. Daddy offered to q
n IN my place, but that alternative didn'
to appeal to me at all. I knew perfect,
G. well how helpless he'd be in any sucl
ia Ia"yerlke search as would have to b.
y made in the county records office.
Being stopped off short in ever.
other direction. we finally gravitatet
over to the shaft-house and went II
Work in an aimless sort of fashion
;, gathering up the wreckage Of tn
smashed gear train and putting thing
~ shlpshape again. With steam up, "
"a turned he machinery w a fey
NO. times. just to see that everything wa
IN working order again, and I threy
IN the clutch OF the centrifugal
20 merely for the satisfaction OF hearin
me flood rushing through the Quite
ho When the pumps were going at fl
speed went to look down the shat
me- AS before. when we had run Il,
.ss pumps Tor a week on end, there VIZ
Nv a siisht disturbance of the water, br
~ nothing more. MY makeshift floa,
gauge showed no chang
90 III the level.
suddenly a freak notion seized nj
MAJ la like to know just what wa
,as gong on down in those black depth
u.s. INTO which the suction pipes OF tt
we big pumps led.
sa Daddy. I'm going to try to find o,
something" I declared and forthwith
oegan to strip my clothes of. "We',
seen the water coming out at the otF
~ er end to make sure that it's going
ate at this end 81
o. He didn't try very hard to dinuat
an me-. n a minute orOsoSlater I ";
.as craWitng down the shaft ladder in tt
M monuments that old Mother Natu,
a.. ave me: 1t was my first ~exploratie
~ 81 the Ia and I was surprised
'os hand IT 80 well and tightly timbere,
i. Is hi better word, since tt
~ na.noerinE was really 4 mbstanti
"oooen @ built within the saua
~, ~ ou.hninee OF n pit. Common sen
- .oia me tnAt This must have bean dol
20 eyer cavtng in Of the side
vas Ing, at the tinne, that the ~ t shou
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