Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-28

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they stand now"
but we're going TO keep at 1t,
Harry sink or SWIM"
"You know ii y
"The Rodalnes have hit-maybe we
can have some good luck too
1.-THE Rodaines?" Harry stared. cit
what?"
1.-TWO hundred dollar a ton orer
A long whistle. Then Harry, who
had beer balancing a single jack, pre-
paratory to going back to his work,
threw It aside and began to roll down
HIS sleeves.
Were going to ave look at it,
"A look? What good would it--?"
"A cat can look at a king" said
Harry. They can't arrest us for go
ing up there like everybody else"
but to go there and ask them to
look at their riches"
There amt no law against i'll"
He reached for his carbide lamp,
booked TO a small chink of the hang
ing wall. and then pulled his hat over
his bulging forehead. Carefully he
attempted TO smooth his straying mus
taehe. and failing, as always, gave up
the job.
'I'd be Apply, just to look at it," he
announced. "Come on. Let's forget
90 they are and just be lookers-on."
Fairchild agreed against his will.
Out of the shaft they went and ON up
the hill to where the townspeople
again were gathering about the open
ing of the Silver Queen. A few were
going in. FairchiId and AIRY Joined
them.
A long walk, STOPPING most of the
way, as the progress was made
through the narrow, low-roofed tun-
mel; then a slight raise which Travelled
for fair distance at an easy grade
at last to stop; and there before them,
jammed between the rock. was the
strike, a great heavy streaking vein,
nearly six feet wide, in which the ore
stuck forth In tremendous chunks,
embedded In a black background.
Harry eyed It studiously.
You can see the silver sticking
out % he announced at last. It's won
derful-even II the Rodaines did do Il.
Come on, Boy, let's us get out Of ere
I'll be getting the blind staggers If
stay much longer"
Fairchild accompanied him word
lessly II was as though Fate had
played a deliberate trick. that IL might
laugh at him. And as he walked
along, he wondered more than ever
about the mysterious telegram and the
mysterious conversation of the greasy
Barnham in Denver
For once a ray of cheer came to
him. The Rodalnes had known Of this
strike long before he ever went to
that office in Denver. ThSy had wait
ed long enough to have their assays
made and had completed their first
shipment to the smelter There was
no necessity that they buy the Blue
Poppy mine Therefore, was II simply
another trick to break him. TO lead
him up to point OF high expecta-
lions, then, with laugh AT his dis
appointment, throw him down AGAIN. !
His shoulders Strengthened as they
reached the outside air, and he moved |
close TO Harry as he told him his con-
lectures. The Cornishman bobbed |
his head
81 never thought of II that wye" |
he agreed. "But 1t could explain lot
Of things They want to beat us and
they don't care 'ow 1t 'urts person
to be disappointed That's It. / al
wyes said you 'ad good cad on
you That's It, Let's go back to the
Blue Poppy"
Back they went, once more to de-
scend the shaft, once more to follow
the trail along the drift toward the
opening of the stope. And there,
where loose earth covered the place
wlsere skeleton once had rested,
Fairchild took Off his coat and rolled
up his sleeves.
Harry" he said, with a new deter
"this vein doesn't look like
much. and the mine looks worse. But
Il you're game. I'm game, and wen
work the thing until 1t breaks US"
you've said It, If we IT anything,
1ne and well-if we can turn out five
thousand dollars worth of stuff be-
'ore the trial comes up, then we can
sell hit under the direction of the
.ourt, turn over that money for cash
bond, and get the deeds back. If we
ant, and If the mine peters out, then
We amt lost anything but lot Of
opes and time. But ere goes. Wen
louble-jack. I've got a big 'ammer
ere You old the drill for awhile and
urn 1t, while l sling tn sledge. Then
'ou take tn 'ammer and Lor' ave
mercy on my 'ands If you miss"
Fairchlld obeyed. Hour after hour
hey worked. Then. as the afternoon
rev late, Harry disappeared far
own the drift to return with hand
III of greasy candlelike things,
trapped in waxed paper
II knew that dynamite of yours
ouIdn't be shipped in time, so
ought little up ere" he explained,
s he cut one of the sticks In two
18th pocketknife and laid the pieces
D one side. Then out came coil Of
use, to be cut to its regular lengths
nd inserted in the copper-cOvered
APPS Of illuminate OF mercury, Harry
nou,Ino HE corfaunf for fire danger