Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-02-02
FRANCIS IYNDEJ
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER 1.-Under his grandfather
Will. Stanford Broughton. society idler.
something like $40. 600. lies in a safe re-
posltory." latitude and longitude de-
ssc ad s and that Is all. It may be identi-
haired. blue-eyed girl. a piebald horse.
and dog with q split face, half black
and half white. Stanford at first regards
the bequest as Joke. but after considera-
uon sets out to find his legacy.
CHAPTER lion his way to Denver.
the city nearest the meridian described
IN MS grandfathers will. Stanford hears
from fellow traveller a story having to
DO with flooded mine.
CHAPTER II1.-Thinking things over.
thing in his grandfather's bequest worth
while, his Idea finally centering on the
possibility OF mine, as safe reposi-
tory" Recalling the narrative on the
eler was mining engineer, Charles Bull
ierton: Fullerton refuses him informa-
tlon, but from other sources Broughton
learns enough to make him proceed to
Placerville. in the Red desert.
CHAPTER Iv.-On the station platform
Ct Atropia. just as the train pulls out.
tical horse and dog described in his
Erandfather's will Impressed, he leaves
IN tran train at the next stop. Angels: There
Placerville. his destination. Unable to
secure conveyance at once to take him
to Piacerville. Broughton seizes con-
struction car and escapes. leaving the Inn
that he 10 slightly demented.
&c CHAPTER IA ,SE:, y1pursussd. he ahandon NJ,
foot In the darkness. he is overtaken
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.
OF course, this vas exactly what 1
was expecting to hear, and yet this
plain unvarnished confirmation Of
things gave me damp and soggy feel
ing of dependency. Percy had wired.
you remember, that his letter was no
joke; but 1t seemed that 1t really was
one, and that the jOke-which was
q mighty grim One-was on me.
Cant the water be pumped out?"
/, asked.
1T seems not. l understand the
company spent thousands Of dollars
trying to pump it out. lists rather
pitiful."
you mean the company's loss?"
: mo; the company didn't lose any
thing. 1t was just one old man."
Now we were coming to the real
meat of the thing and I looked my
hand of cards over carefully to the
end that should not everyday it.
I'm fond of stories," ventured;
especially mining Stories" and there
upon she told me the story Of the Gin
nabar. 1t was fair repetition Of
Bullerton's tale, with few more Of
the particulars thrown in.
AS my blue-eyed little Scheheraznde
understood it, my grandfather had
been a minority stakeholder In the
company during its prosperous period.
When the water debacle canle, the fact
of it was carefully concealed from
him and he was generously permitted
to come to the rescueywhich he did
by paying fabulous sum (Schehera-
Zade did not know how lnuch) for his
Observation-Disclosures holdings. In other
words, they had sold him gold brick !;
soaked him for a final cleanup on a
doomed mine. That was about all
there was to it.
did my-did the old gentleman you
speak Of ever come out here himself?'
She nodded.
"Once that we know off; that was
: vr.oS oil s,ror and tI,o nj q
deserted. At that time Daddy had
taken upta claim Just west Of here in
(. the next gulch and we were living In
this cabin; squatters, guess you'd
call us. So we. camped down."
'That was quite right and proper
And this Mr.. Jasper Dudley; he didn't
turn you out when he came did he?
"Oh, no, indeed; he was very kind
When he found that Daddy's gulcf
claim wasn't going to pan out any
y thing, he said he needed a caretakel
here. and since that time he has sent
/, us money every month. ;iut now
suppose 1t Will all be different. Mr.
Dudley is dead" Z.
"But the heirs!' l suggested.
I'VE don't even know who they are
+ When Mr.. Dudley went away he left
3 a sealed envelope with Daddy. He
said he might come back again, some
time, but If lie didn't. or couldn't, Dad
dy was to keep the envelope and give
it to his-Mr. Dudley's-representa
/: tive, whoever that might be-"
Talk about plots thickening! Thi.
j one was already as thick as mOIasse.
in the dead of winter
How were you to know this repre-
sentative If one should come ?" edged
|, in cautiously. 81
II don't know she replied simply
'.I should suppose he would be able
to identify himself In some way
I though; shouldn't you? That Is, II Il,
ever comes. =
"Snre; nothing easier, Of course
~ agreed and then. since we seemed
81 to have scraped the bottom of the Gin
nabar dish clean T. switched OF t
something else. n /, s. h
when we were coming up the roat
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