Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-18
SYNOPSIS,

- 'huSA liz J., III oLNtIlolO
~Eroushton, society idler. finds his share
81 the estate, valued at something like
100000 lies in a safe repository lati-
is all. 1t nay he identified by the pres
ence nearby OF a hrown-haired. blue
EYED sef girl. q piebald horss, and 2 dog
White. Stanford at &krnsstt r sssaH s'I the ' &c.
quest as a joke. but after consideration
sets out to find his legacy.
On his way to Denver, the city near
est the meridian described in his grand
fathers will, Stanford hears from a fell
low traveller a story having TO do with
imagine there may be Something in his
Erandfather's bequest worth while, his
IF eaea ! n mine, as ss" 4 assfe on a'e tss eSsz!ei1 Ky
calling the narrative on the train, he
a q that his fellow trayeler was
Bulierton refuses him Information, but
from other sources Broughton learns
enough TO make him proceed to Placer
vile, in the Red desert
sees what appear to be the identical
horse and dos described in his grand
train at the next stopASeRgels. There he
finds that Atropia was Originally Placer
vile. his destination. Unable, to secure
P1acerville, Broughton seizes a con-
struction car and escapes, leaving the
impression on the town marshall Beas-
ley, that he is slightly demented.
Pursued. he abandons the car. which
is wrecked. and escapes on foot. In the
darkness, he is overtaken by q girl on
plains his presence. she invites him to
her home, at the Old Ctnnabar .mines to
meet her father.
Broughton's hosts are Hiram Twom-
bly,. caretaker Of the mine. and his dau-
ford is satisfied he has located his
property, but does not reveal his ident-
ity.
Next morning, with Hiram, he visits
the mime. Hiram. asks hin, to look over
the machinery. and he does so, glad of
he has become interested. and he en-
cages in the first real work he has
has ever done.
Broughton end Hiram set the pumps
started, but are unable to make an i'm
preston on the water. Builtrton, ap-
paraptly an old friend Of the Twomblys,
consideration Of B%roughton's giving him
fifty-one per cent OF the property. Stan
ford refuses. Then Fullerton offers to
buy The mine outriEht for $4,000. y
than half a million. Stanford again re-
fuses.
CHAPTER IX.-onlinned. ~
He laughed and threw back the la.
pei of his coat to show me a regula.
tlOA SlA-SUn SUNG Oy a SNOulQer stray
under his left arm.
you pulled q hammer on me yes.
terday," he Said, letting the laugh
lapse into a grin that showed his fine
mouthful OF teeth, and you probably
didn't know that you would have been
a dead man before Q could swing it
Oh, yes; l could do It, and any coron.
er's jury in, the Red Desert would &C.
quit me; dangerous lunatic-self-de.
Il Fn q yyA,v.1rorxV,L NNh~%SxS - ~ - = = ~
wise, and 1t ought to be sufficient. Blu,
/ have a better life-tnsurance policy
than n that the six-gun gould write
me: you're in love with jeanne Twom.
bly-in spite of that girl back East,
ond because you are, you are not going
to make her a widow before the fact
You're not selling FOUR mine for forty
thousand-cold cash--this morning? 2
Not this morning or any Other
n1orning."
Good. j can afford to stick around
here REV days longer, / guess-a,
the rate OF ten thousand. dollars 4 day
or tha clutter OF the shop and wen
across to the .cabin--and JeantA.
Later. along in this same day, Will.
/ was standing at the shaft mouth and
staring down at the water that wa.
keeping me out of my heritage, Dad
day Hiram came up.
4 rStiu a-puzzlin' over 1t, Stannie?'
he asked, in the sympathetic mi tina.
he always used when he spoke Of tn.
Great disappointment.
There's nothing to- 1t, Daddy"
gloomed. "Bullerton has me by thu
neck, and he Knows It,"
He tiptoed to the door and peepet
out
you've heard en- say at curiosit,
killed q cat," he said, out of the cor.
ner of his mouth; well. the cats
comm. Skip out o. that other door
Stahnie. M hit for the timber. II
ketch up with you in a little spell
I didn't know, exactly what he wa!
!, driytAk 1T until after I got clear 81
the mine buildings and was climbing
the slope OF the mountain above. Thei
ia looked back.And saw Fullerton saun
, terfnE ACROSS the dump head. He VA.
evidently bent on another little toi
of, spying; either that, or else n,
! didn't want Daddy ana me TO get to.
!. gether by ourselves.
Lhder cover of the forest 1 rat dowr
and waited; and In a short time DGd,
dy Joined me, Masking nNsexc III