Gunnison news-champion., 1922-02-03

happen 10 be. FIffy-DHr per cent and
you give ne a clear u.id-nOl stick
around. / mean. That goes as II lies
Huh" | scofcd- A while back
you we're talking about pulling the law
on me-. You emit make anything Ike
that stand In the courts and you kuow
II mighty WELL
Maybe not but can make II stand
with you-wh.ch Is much more TO the
purpose. You said minute ago that
| couldn't turn a wheel without your
consent. You can't turn 4 wheel li
all wl'LoI, money"
His rubbing the poverty Elbc into me
made me madder than ever and |
thought II was about time 10 tell him
wh-r" he ~, OF
Then. 10y Joyr. the wheels needn't
turn ,puntcrcd. And that lets
you ont II yuu want TO go TO law
about that cau'raet-sal In. That's
al I've 90, Q" say"
"Da bold on" he protested. with
mock concern. Then he showed me
plainly wha, he'd been doing In the
Interval beru cyu his first and this sec
oud appearance 10 the Red Desert
re- uu. I've had time to look yol up.
| y"u knuv. You're engaged 10 girl
/ bark East and YOU cant marry Ter
| because you haven't money enough.
{ Half luaf Is better than no bread /;
| mud I'm Offering you very nearly the
/ half !oaf Take day or so to think
1t over. I'm Ia no hurry" And with
/ ,hP' he went hack TO the cabin across
/ the dump and left me warming tho
| anvil
guess II will say Itself that the
nest few days stacked Up about n
wrr;chcd an interval as had ever
/ been called upon to put over.
Fullerton hnd mastorful sort Of
/ grip fhat seemed to give him a strun.
( glc.hold upon everything he tackled,
/ At table md in the evenings before
| the IRE he mouOpullzcd the talk and
/ the rest Of us sat around Ike slough
! t0a-botilrs nud let him DO IT,
~ didn't help matters out much
when Daddy Hiram. chasing me up on
"ae ~ the days when was dods.us
! FULLERTON. gave me tho sealed euyc,
iup" which my grandfather had left
! with him. AZ will be remembered. &;
| VS. on the night Of EuIIorton'S arrival
/ nj the CiuuHhar TINT had told Daddy
! gul his daughter who | was. and the
subject hadn't been again referred 10
! 10y any Of US. But now Daddy, having
| "y"rtaken me on one OF the trails
! above the mine sat beside me on q
ilst rock and we had II out together
| You knew who | was from the first.
Daddyf" asked.
Not right plumb at first. no." he
| qualified. You see, didn't know who
l was looking for. Always reckoned
somebody'd be along. I course. but ]
hadn't had any Idea who r when"
I'm afraid I've been n pretty sorry
disappointment 10 you" muttered. Il
] have no money and don't know
enough TO be any good at the mining
game. And that reminds me: my
grandfather paid you a regular salary
for the caretakIng. didn't her
"Uh.huh."
THAT has been discontinued since
his deathT
II reckon so"
Il have a little income OF my own
not much, but enough for the way
We're living here. II must be under.
stood that | share 1t with you and
Jcanie so long as I stny with YOU
"AIn't no need o. your doin' that.
Stannie. / got little stake hid out
for a pinch"
! In NIL this, you will notice, there
was no word said about Fullerton. We
] sat In silence for while. Daddy chew
Ing spear OF grass. After time he
called attention to the envelope which
| sttil held unopened In my hands.
Don't ye want TO know what your
gran'paw says!" he asked mildly.
At this slit the end of the enyelope.
Its contents were a deed in fee simple
TO the Cinnabar and a note to me,
written in Grandfather Jasper's
cramped. old-fashioned handwriting.
In the note he merely said that he was
leaving me n property which had cost
him pretty wei up to hnlf million
and that he hoped I'd brace up and 20
TO work and make something out Of 1t,
adding that II ! hadn't been such q
l hopeless idler all my life he might
have considered the proprlety OF add
ing an experimental fund 10 the gift.
As 1t was, ] must work out my own
salyation-if were anxious TO possess
any OF that commodity.
think II was on the fourth day after
his arrival that Fullerton cornered mc
osaiu and again 1t was In the deserted
I blacksmith shop.
''Wcil, Brouebton," he began abrupt.
ly, seatlug himself once more upon
the empty dynamite box. 4rye given
you plenty of time to think 1t over.
Where do you stand nowT"
fright exactly where did in the
beginning" snapped. 81 don't want
any observation-disclosures per cent part
nershlp with you; neither that nor any