The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-10-26

SYNOPSIS
lat Thornton Fairchild's
4eafh his son Robert learns there has
Deen q dark period In his fathers life
Enscn TOT almost thirty years has caused
tn 9 document left by the elder Fair.
okriid, which also informs Robert he ie
now owner Of a mining claim in Colo
q and advising him, to see Henry
Beamish, a lawyer.
H.-Beamfsh tells Robert his
e!atm. q silver mine. Is at Ohadi, thirty
Sight miles from Denver. He also warns
aam against q certain a "souint" Ro-
paine MS fathers enemy. Robert decides
to go to Ohadi.
CHAPTER III.-On the road to Ohadi
rom Denver Fairchild assists a girl, APP
parently in a frenzy Of haste. to change
z tire on her auto. When she has left,
the sheriff and a posse appear, in pur-
suit of a bandit. Fairchild bewild sred.
misieads them as to the direction the
CHAPTER Iv.-At Ohadi Fairchild ia
warmly greeted by Mother Howard,
clearinghouse keeper. for his fathers
CHAPTER V.-From Mother Howard,
Fa1rchild learns something of the mystery
connected with the disappearance of Sis
sie" Larsen. his fathers co-worker In
the mine. He meets the girl he had as
sisted. but she denies her identity. She
Anita Richmond. Judge Richmond's
daughter.
VL-V1stting his claim. Fair
child is Swallowed by a man he recog.
nszes from descriptions as "Squint" Ro-
faine: Back in Ohadi. his fathers old
friend. Harry Harkins. q Cornishman.
summoned from England by Beamish to
help Fairchild. halls him with Joy.
CHAPTER. vI1.-The pair find the mine
flooded and have not sufficient funds to
have It pumped dry. Later in the day
"Squint" Rodaine announces that he
practically saw Harkins fall into the
flooded mine, and evidently Is drowned.
CHAPTER vIII.-Harkins being a gen.
eral %favorite, the entire population turns
ont to clear the flooded mine. When
the work is practically done, Harry ap-
MOL. II had been a shrewd trick on his
part to get the mine pumped out without
cost to himself or F'airchild, and the met
take It AZ a good joke.
CHAPTER K.-FairchHd learns that
Judge Richmond is dying. and that he
and Anita are In the power Of h Ro-
Ssines; They begin as partners: to Tork
hts body buried by a cave-in which de-
stroyed the mine: At the Old Times
3sa s.d rs,rshad dances WITH Anita to
Or "Sauint," supposed to be engaged
TO the girl. A bandit holds up the dance
end shoots a merrymaker: Maurice Ro-
daine claims he recognized the bandit as
Harkins. The latter is arrested. Fair
Mild interferes to save Anita from the
bullying Of the two Rodaines, and 10
mystihed at Anita's apparent ingratitude.
CHAPTER X.-Fairchild puts up the
claim as bond. and secures Harry's re-
lease from jail. They are offered $50. 900
tor the claim. by an unknown party. but
agree to disregard 1t. Clearing the mine.
they come to where they fear to and
Iarsen's remains.
CHAPTER XI.-A skeleton, in a miners
costume. which Harkins Identifies as Lar
sen, Is there. and there seems little doubt
that Thornton Fairchild was g. murderer.
CHAPTER XTI.-Fairchild informs the
coroner Of the discovery Of the skeleton.
wife VI "souint" Rodaine. and an &C
k~nowiedged imbecfle. gives damaging test
imony egainst Thornton Fairchild. The
tury. returns a verdict that Larsen came
hands. Anita's engagement to Maurice
Rodaine In announced.
Il seemed hours before the court
room cleared Then, the attorney at
enc side, Harry at the other, he start.
Cd out Of the courtroom.
The crowd still was on the street,
milling. circling, dividing itself into
little groups to discuss the verdict.
Through them shot %scrambling forms
II newsboys. Dazedly, simply for the
cake q something to take his mind
from the throngs and the gossip about
Him. Fairchild bought a paper and
atepped to the light to glance yer the
hrst page. There, emblazoned under
the extra" heading, was the story
Of the finding Of the skeleton In the
Blue Poppy mine, while beside it was
something which caused Robert Fair
child 10 almost forget. for the moment,
the. horrors of the ordeal which he
was undergoing. 1t was a paragraph
leading the personal" column Of the
small, amateurish sheet, announcing
the engagement of Miss Anita Natalie
Richmond to Mr.. Maurice Rodaine, the
wedding to come probably in the late
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