The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-02-09
CHAPTER ix.-Continued.
an YOU carry il any further?"

"Can you carry it any further?'
"Nope; | reckon l can't. There's too
many darned things ~a-puZzlin' me.
One of 'em is where in Sam Hill did
Charley Fullerton get all the money
that he's Hashin' around so ~peacocky?'
Il don't know where he got it, but
he has it, all right; carries it with
him." | said sourly.
yes; but see here, Stannie, son,
I'll bet a fee dog worth a hundred dol
lars. that 1t amt his money"
What makes you say that?'
well for one thing, because | know
Charley Fullerton; been KNOWN him
since Adam was a little boy In knee
breeches. He can't keep any money
of his own just naturally amt built
hathaway.
CANDLES it?" | suggested.
big CANDLES, yes; stocks and that
sort O. truck. No stree; these yeller-
backs he's a-flashin' around amt his'n,
not by a long chalk, and I'd bet on it.
Somebody else Is settin' EN- up and
If that's SO, Stannie, there's a reason
for it."
! Sure" I conceded. Then: Gould
you make a long, high, running jump
and guess at the reason, Daddy?'
"Not SO s it'd hold together.
reckon" he replied obviously. But
there's a few little notions at I've
picked up from folks that's older in
this neck o. woods thar | am-been
here longer. The old Cinnabar never
was what you'd call a bonanza Plen-
ty Of ore, to be sure, but mostly low
grade, 'cepting them rich little pockets
now and then"
Those rich pockets" l put in. "a
strike Of one OF them would be about
the right~tfme to sell, wouldn't it?"
He nodded:
You're shoutin', now. I reckon
that's about how they caught your
gran'paw. But Buddy Fuller-he's the
"Tropia telegraph operator and a Sort
O halfway nephew o mine-says
there's more to it than that. Long
back, couple O. years r so there was
q copper strike made in Little Cinnaba,
gulch, about four mile west O. here
and follerin' 1t there was a heap @
talk about the railroad runnin' 8
: branch to 1t. That there branch. If Il
was buiit-'r when it's built, for It's
goin' to be, some day, to open then
copper mines-that there branch II %
right along U bench within a hun
bred yards Of the old Cinnabar: q
close you could mighty heal dunn,
from the ore sheds into the cars"
began to lei more crookings II
the sacrificfal road v which Grand
father Jasper had been led; man,
more and more devious ones.
Tn that case, even the Iow-grad'
Cinnabar would come a bit nearer be
ing b boIanza, wouldn't it," / asked
'sShe "a would, Stannie. Tha
long. hard wagon haul to 'Tropia wa.
what was putin the cuss In the cos
o. handIin,." y
And with the railroad right at tn,
door, DO to speak, 1t might even ray II
rec~apitaIize at three-quarters of a mil
Hon and drive that long drainage tun
mel We have been figuring on?"
.SoDethin' like that /; yes. Can yor
see any furder into the milestone? III
say I've got about to the end of my
squinfin' Z
refilled my pipe and did a bit OF
c~ogitating. Supposing i had been thu
boss figurer I'm the bunch that did
Grandfather Jasper the honor to BIN
him as cuIscieneeless as that pirate
whoever he was, and I'm the secret oil
thA conditions u Daddy had Just ont
lined Them. what would I have doneY
III ansFer came as pat as yo1
paeaSe. With b railroad in prospec,
which would turn 4 sanan profit int
bt9 0ne, should quite rrobabl,
~ slaut the milne Down ID waif unfi
k161d hear me whistle ~ the loconao
| eonclusion Ied promptly IN
@ an0tI,er. Supposing, &t Id,
wnI md decided upon IN,
1aR1e ~deddering old gentIe
6 u eIong md offered Il
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