Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-18
The Girl, A Horse and A Dog
By FRANCIS LYNDE.

the dedse-away that didn't mean any
thing at all.
~. got a claim over yonder in the
right-ftand gulch-the one at l was
workin' when your 'gran'paw came
along" he said. Thought maybe
take q look at her"
OF course, l said I'd be delighted:
so we made a detour around the Gin
cabin and shait-house, and pushing on
around the western slope for maybe
half q mile until We can,e to the gulch
in which the abandoned claim lay.
Working entirely, alone, Daddy had
driven a. tunnel possibly a hundred
feet deep straight into the solid rock
of the mountain side, following the
thin vein and hoping that it would
widenSinto a "pay-streak." After lie
had led me a few yards into the tun-
mel, he waved me-to' a. seat on a. pile
Of broken ROCK. and took one himself
with his back against the composite
wall. X pa,
m gettin' just naturally so 1. hate
a gosh-dummed crowd" he remarked,
switching suddenly from his talk OF
the abandoned claim. Fee some
times Is If I'd like to swap skins with
a condummed gopher and duck plumb
into "A, hole
Well" said l, grinninE at him
you've ducked, for once in a way
and SO have ]. What about it?"
Charley Bullerton:" he spat out
without further preface. THAT slick.
tongued word artist sure does get onto
my nerves. What-all's he tryin' to dc
to you, anyway, Stannie?"
I didn't. see n reason why hs
shouldn't know. so / told him all Of
it. from start to finish, offers, bully,
ings. and threats. but. Of course, moth,
ing about the Jeanie factor.
Great Moses!." he e. calculated, a
the n Of the sorry tale. why. gosh.
to-Methusaleh!-it's a hold-up! Dt
you reckon he kin unwater the CHINA.
barr" 5.
"surest thing in the world. 81
could yeu or I, If we had the none,
to drive a long drainage tunnel from
the lower SLOPE"
The old man smoked along il
thoughtful silence for a few minutes
Then he said:
Bout that there tunnel job; some
thin like two hundred thousand, v.
fi1gerd that'd cost. with no bad luck
didn't VIC. Stannie?"
That was the figure"
And, first off, Charley Bulle:to,
was wil!in' to give you fifty thousant
for your rishts-thouEh now you sa,
he's shaved it down to forty. That't
mean an investment Of at least tw,
hundred and fifty ~thousand:f all a
goin' out and nothini a-comin' in
Let's see where that's fetchtn' us to
I don't know what your gran'paw PAL,
for the minel but it was less'n halt:
million. and I reckon he paid ever
dollar it vas worth. don't your
Doubtless he did" L admitted.
s there's where we land" h
went on speculatively. 'sTwo hundre,
and. fifty thousand tackled onto hal
a million gives her. a capital Of three
auarters OF z million sunk in her. frs
it?"
was beginning to get his idea a
last. He was wondering If a min
that had once sold at a top-notc]
price Of half q million could stan,
the Investment OF a quarter of q mil
lion additional and still hope to B.
a paving p proposition. ia
You mean that Fullerton is figur
Ing upon spending a quarter OF a. mil
lion more o. IT." I inquired. =.
Nope; I reckon I can't. &rhere'
wheree. stannie. as sure s. your
born"
"Can you carry it n further;
I Nope; I reckon I can't. There
too many darned things a-puxxIin' ms
One, OF 'em is where in Sam Fill d,
Charley Fullerton get all the none,
that he's flashin around SO pea
lcocky?"l
II don't know where he got it, blu
he has 1t. all right; carries 1t witt
him." I said sourly.
Yes: but see here, Stahnie, sor
I'll bet q flee dok worth a. hundre,
dollars that 1t amt his money"
What makes you say THAR"
Well, for one Lthing. because
know Charley Bulaerton; heen KNOWN
him since Adam was a little boy II
knee-breeches. He can't keep an,
money Of HIS own; Just naturally ain
built that-away.
CANDLES IT." / suggested.
Big CANDLES yes; stocks and tina
sort o. truck. No stree; these yeller
backs he's a-flashin' around aim HIS
mot by a long chalk, and I'd bet OF
it SOMEBODY else is settin' EN- .up
and Il that's %. sfannie. theresa rea
son for IT,"
Sure. II conceded. Then "CouI,
you make q long. htEh, running jurnl
and Gtfee4 at the re1son DADDY 80
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