Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-02-23
UPRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS q
SYNOPSIS.

AOFYklOn by Cf1ARl
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I.-Under his grandfather
Wili. Stanford Broughton. society idler.
something like $4,000. lies in SAFE re. e.
postory." latitude and longitude de-
ssc sd e and that is all It may be Identi-
haired. blue-eyed girl. piebaid horse.
and dog with a split face, half black
and half white. Stanford at first regards
the bequest as joke. but after considera-
CHAPTER lion his way to Denver.
me city nearest the meridian described
from q fellow traveller story having to
90 with flooded mine. j.
CHAPTER H1.-Thinking things over,
thing in his srandfathes' i bea S st worth worth
while, his idea finally centerlng on the
possibility of q mine, rs "safe reposi-
tory" Recalling. thes narrative on the
eler was q mining engineer, Charles Bull
!erton. Fullerton refuses him informa-
tlon. but from other sources Broughton
ieaans enough q TO to make him proceed to
CHATTER Won the station platform
e. Atropia. Just as the train pulls out.
teal horse and dog described in his
the train At the next stop. Angels. There
ne hnds that Atropia was originally
Placerville. his destination. Unable to
secure q conveyance at once to take him
70 P!acerville. Broughton SEXES con-
preston on the town marshal, Beasley,
that he is slightly demented.
CHAPTER v.-Pursued. he abandons
the car, which is wrecked, and escapes on
BY a girl on h HORSEBACK, and The E1z dog.
h@ s o hsl s s tSs d 'ei
bar mine. to meet her father.
CHAPTER V1.-Broughton's hosts are
and his daughter Jeanie. Seeing the girl,
Stanford 10 satisfied he has located his
property. but does not reveal his identity.
CHAPTER v1I.-Next morning. with
Hiram. he visits the mine. Hiram asks
him to look over the machinery. and he
does SO. glad Of an excuse to be near
ested. and he engages In the first real
work he has ever done.
In that case, even the low-grade
nabar would come bit nearer be-
a bonanza, wouldn't it?" asked.
She sure would, Stannie. That
6, hard wagon haul to 'Tropia was
1T was putin the cuss in the cost
1andlin'." >.
And with the railroad right at the
r, so to speak, it might even pay to
apitalize ut three-quarters of mil
and drive that long drainage tun-
we have been figuring on?"
Somethin' like that; yes. Can you
any furder into the milestone? I'll
I've got about to the end of my
intin'."
refilled my pipe and did a bit of
1tatfng. Surprising had been the
IS figurer in the bunch that did
Or andfather Jasper the honor to blk
hir1; as constituencies as that pirate,
whoever he was, and in the secret Of
the conditions us Daddy had just out
lined them, what would have done ?"
The answer came as pat as you
please. With railroad in prospect
which would turn a small profit into
big one, l should quite probably
have shut the mine down to wait until
I could hear the whistle of the locomo-
tive. w.
This conclusion led promptly and
logically to another. Supposing. at the
moment when had decided upon the
shutdown, some doddering old gentle
man had come along and offered to
buy the mine? Add, as corollary,
the superstition that the water problem
was daily growing more insistent, with
the ultimate threat of food. AS an or
binary, garden-variety mining shark,
what would I have done?
That answer came pat, also.
should have taken the old gentleman's
money, trusting to the rising flood to
make him sick of his bargain in due
course Of time and thus willing to sell
out for anything he could get.
II believe l have it doped out" I
told Daddy at the end Of the cogitating
pause; and then I passed the infer
ences along to him. The immediate
effect was to evoke a couple Of his
quaint substitutes for profanity.
Observation-Disclosures! he ex-
claimed; "I'll be ding-swizzled If I
don't believe you've struck the true
lead, Stannie, my son! If you have,
here's what folders: Charley Butler
toms here to do the dickerin' for that
same old high-bindin' Cinnabar outfit
that did your gran'paw up. They sold
for half a million r so and now they're
willin' to buy back for thirty or forty
or fifty thousand. BY Jezebel! just
4 knew that slick-tongued rooster was
tryin' to work some skin game I"
"Yet he is going to marry your
daughter" I put in grimly.
@ At this the old man turned gloomy
serious in the batting Of an eye. draw
ing his mouth down at the corner and
sucking hard at the pipe which had
long since burned out.
'That's been a-pinchin' me like 4
tight boot, Stannie," he admitted. IF
you'd asst me afore he come, I'd a.
told yO,y she hadn't n ,nnrsol n, ,,sa