Graham guardian., 1922-01-13
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.--Under his grandtataer's
will. stanford Broughton, society idler,
finds his share of the estate, valued az
something like $1,000. lies in safe re-
pository." latitude and longitude de-
scribed, and that Is all /, may be ioenu'
haired. blpe-eyed girl. u. ,piebald horse,
and dog with split face. half black
and half white, Stanford at first reEards
he bequest as u joke, Lut after .considera-
ton sets out to lind hts legacy
CHAPTER lion his way to Denver;
he city nearest the meridian desCrihed
n his grandrother's Will, stanford hears
rom fellow traveller q story having 10
10 with a flooded mne, ,.,--r sr>,a ..g,'.- -
CHAPTER uI~-TniuNihs thiaRE over.
he begins to Imagine there may he s0;SlA
hing In his grRndfather's Oequest worth
while, his idea finally centcIing on the
possibility OF "A mine, as SAFE repos'-
tory." Recalling the narrative on the
rain he asceIIains that his fellow trav-
eler was mining engineer. Charles Bu'
!erton. Bullerton refuses him informal
iion, but from other sources BrouShton
learns enough TO make him proceed 70
placerville, In the Red desert
CHAPTER IV.-On the station platform
at Attopa. just as the train pulls out.
stanford sees what appear TO be the iden-
tical horse and dog described In his
grandfather's will. Impressed, he leaves
the train at the next stop, Angels. There
he finds that Atropia was originally
Placerville, his destination. Unable 10
secure a conveyance at once to take him
to Placerville, Broughton selzes a con-
strrction car and escapes, ,Ssvlng the mn
c<ession or .hs town marshal, Beasley.
iiat ne 10 slightly dementec.
p CHAPTER v.-Pursued he sbandons
the car, which is wrecked, and escapes on
L.. la ha 10
by girl on horseback, and THE dog.
After he explains his presence, she IN
vites him to her home. at the Old CHINA
bar mine. to meet her father.
CHAPTER vI.-Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly, caretaker of the mine.
and his daughter Jeanie. Seeing the girl,
stanford 10 satisfied he has located his
property, ". tess not reveal his Identity
CHAPTER vlI.-Sext morning, with
Hlram, he visits the mine. Hiram asks
him to look over the machinery, and he
does SO. glad ot an excuse ,,.H, to be near near
ested, and lie engages In the nrst reaI
work he has ever done.
BY Jove! Another woman, any 9th.
er woman in the world. thought.
would have let Some little shred of
''h''hi'h' Nii'N Nllt N'uluI luNt
helped 1t. But this one didn't. A
boy couldn't have looked me in the
eyes any rore frankly and SQuarely
than she did when she said "Of
course" Since had eaten their bread,
was. for so long as chose to stay,
apember Of ;ihe clan. -.
II was near the end of the fortnight,
and Daddy Hiram and | had secured
and Rubbed and scraped and reas,
scnlbled the engine and pumps. and
were finishing the cleaning of the boil.
ers. These were pretty badly rusted
and scaled, and to do the Job properly,
we had taken the manhole heads out
Of the holes left to give access to the
interior of the shells, and had had a
gOod-natured squabble as to which oi
us should crawl inside to do the scrap
ing; Daddy insisting upon doing II, he.
cause as he pointed out, he was the
smaller man, and arguing that |
should because was the younger and
stronger.
To settle 1t finally we Tipped coin
lone Of those inch-wide copper pen.
MES that Daddy carried for 4 pocket
piece-and I won the toss. The job
wasn't exactly Il picnic, but J got along
all right until we came to the last of