The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-26

through the years, had shown MS
perspicacity. 1t was there; he al
ways had said it was there, and now
the strike had been made at last, lead
silver ore, running as high as two hun
dred dollars a ton. 1t meant every.
thing for Ohadi; it meant that mining
would boom now, that soon the hills
would be clustered with pr0spectors,
and that the little town would blossom
as q result Of possessing one Of the
rich silver mines Of the state.
Fairchild felt cheap. He felt de-
feated. He felt small and mean not
to be able to join the celebration.
Squint and Maurice Rodaine possessed
the Silver Queen; that they, of all
persons, should be the fortunate ones
was bitter and hard TO accept. Why
Should they, of every one in Ohadi, be
the lucky men to find a silver bonanza,
that they might faunt it before him,
that they might increase their stand
ing in the community, that they might
raise themselves to q pedestal in the
eyes of every one and thereby rally
about them the whole town in any
difficulty which might arise in the fu-
ture? It hurt Fairchild, it sickened
him. He saw now that his enemies
We're more powerful than ever. And
for a moment he almost wished that
he had yielded down there in Denver,
that he had not given the ultimatum to
the greasy Barnham, that he had ac-
copied the offer made him.-and gone
ON, out of the fight forever. ~ e.. 3
Anita! What would it mean to her?
Already engaged, already having given
her answer to Maurice Rodaine, this
now would be an added incentive for
her to follow her. promise. It would
mean Observation-Disclosures argument
with 4, her father, already too weak
from illness to find the means of
evading the insidious pleas Of the two
men who had taken his money and
! made him virtually their slave. The
future. looked black for Robert Fair
/ child.5i Slowly he walked past the
happy,ssllouting crowd and turned up
Kentucky gulch toward the Inflated
Blue Poppy, Isr: L. D. 4 ..s j
The tunnel opening looked more for
Torn than ever when he sighted it, {,
bleak, staring, single eye which
+ seemed to brood over its own misfor
tunes, a dead, hopeless thing which
never had brought anything but disap-
pOintlnent. A choking came into Fair
child's throat. He entered the tunnel
slowly, ploddingly; with tagging mus
Giles he hauled up the bucket which
told Of Harry's presence below, then
slowly lowered himself into the re-
cesses of the shaft and to the drift
leading to the stope, where only a few
days before they had found that
gaunt, whitened, haunting thing which
had brought with 1t q new misfortune.
A light cleaned ahead, and the
sound Of single jack hammering on
the end Of n drill could be heard. Fair
child called and went forward. to find
Harry, grimy and sweating, pounding
away ut d narrow streak Of black for
nation which conferred In the top Of
the stope. s L.. *. s:g&% p
TITS the pein," he announced, after
he had greeted Fairchild, sand 1t don't
look like It's. going to amount to
much" % =" $4tl" .-.r
~"No?" u l.,t -. i, -
Harry. withdrew the drill from the
hole he was making and mopped his
forehead. -.....s5..5, .. 49,
1T amt a world-beater," came dis
consclately. II doubt whether it'll run
inore'n twenty dollars to the ton, the
wye smelling prices ave gone up!
And there amt much money In that.
What 'appened in Denver?" ~
Another frame-up by the Rodaines
to get the mine away from us. 1t was
lawyer. He stalled that the offer
had been made to us by Miss Rich
mond." ia.~i T. -a g., IT..
"How much?'' r.. '.r,. ~
'9rwo hundred thousand dollars and
us to get out of all the troubles we
are in" a. .4D@ -. !.
"And you took 1t, Of course?"
II did not J" a 5T&l .
"No?" Harry mopped his forehead
again. 'Well, maybe you're right
Maybe you're wrong. Rnt whatever
You dld-weli, that's just the thing /
would ave done. Only" and Harry
was, staring lugubriously at the vein
above Hing 'it's going to take Sus d
long time Ito get two hundred thou
sand dollars out Of things the wye
they stand now" SKIS
+ "Bnt we're going to keep at 1t,
Harry, sink orSswiin." ~ 4
III "You know it!n}S ~, as.f
"The Rodaines have hit-maybe we
can have some good luck too" s.5 .
"The Rodaines?" Harry stared. "'It
what?" /, & E.& &
1.-TWO hundred dollar a ton ore y
A long whistle. Then Harry, who
had been balancing single Jack, pre-
to going back to his work,
threw it aside and began to roll down
his sleeves. .
'We're going to ave a look at It."
"a look? What good would it,"
A cat can look Mt king" said
Harry. sThey. can't arrest! us for go
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