The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-01-19
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CHAPTER Il Under his grandfather
will. Stanford Broughton, society idler. finds
his share of the estate. valued at some
thing like 100000, lies In a safe reposi-
tory" latitude and longitude described, and
that is all. II may be Identified by the
presence nearby of a brown-haired' blue
eyed girl, a piebald horse, and a dog with
a split face. half black and half white.
Stanford at first regards the bequest as a
joke. but after consideration sets out to
CHAPTER H-On his way to Denver.
the city nearest the meridian described In
his grandfather's will, Stanford hears from
a fellow traveller a story having TO 90 with
n flooded mine,
p TI-Thinking things over, he
begins to imagine there may be something
In his grandfather's bequest worth while
his Idea finally centerinR on the possibility
OF a mine. az a safe repository" Recall
ing the narrative on the train, he ascertalns
that his fellow traveller was a mining engi-
neer, Charles Fullerton. Fullerton refuses
him information. but from other sources
Broughton learns enough TO make him pro-
coed to Placerville, In the Red desert.
CHAPTER IV.-On the station platform
Mt Atropia. lust as the train pulls out,
Stanford sees what appear to be the idef-
tlcal horse and dog described in his grand
fathers viii. lmpresser, he leaves the train
ct the next stop, Angels. There ne hnds
that Atropia was originally Placerville, his
destination. Unable to secure a conveyance
at once to take him to Placerville, Brough-
ton seizes a construction car and escapes
leaving the impression on the town marshal,
Beaseley. that he is slightly demented.
CHAPTER v. - Pursued, he abandons
the car. which Is wrecked. and escapes on
foot. In the darkness. he Is overtaken by
n girl on horseback, and THE dog. After
he explains his presence, she Invites him
to her home, at the old Cinnabar mine, to
meet her father.
VI. - Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly. caretaker of the mine.
and his daughter Jeanne. Seeing the girl.
Stanford is satisfied he has located his prop
erty, but does not reveal his identity.
CHAPTER VII. - Next morning. with
Hiram, he visits the mine. Hiram asks him
TO look over the machinery, and he does 70.
glad of an excuse TO be near Jeanne. In whom
he has become Interested. and he engages In
the first real work he has ever done.
CHAPTER VIIL-Broughton and Hiram
get the pumps started. but are unable to
make an impression on the water. Bull
lerton. apparently an old friend of the
Twomblys, visits the mine. He oners to
drain IL In consideration OF Broughton's CIV
ing him hfty-one per cent of the property.
Stanford refuses. Then Fullerton offers to
buy the mine outright for $4,000. 1t had
cost Broughton's grandfather more than half
a million. Stanford again refuses.
IX.-Jeanie cautions Brough-
ton against selling the mine. under any cir
cumstances, and, apparently in n spirit OF
mischief. allows him to kiss her. After a
conversation with Daddy Hiram. Broughton
decides he will stick to the property.
CHAPTER X.-Next day. during Stan
ford's temporary absence from the mine. an
enemy. without doubt Fullerton. wrecks the
pumping machinery. Broughton decides to
have It out with him next day.
CHAPTER Kiln the morning he finds
Fullerton and Jeanne have disappeared. APP
parently eloped. He also discovers that
his deed to the mine has been stolen, and
as II has not been recorded, he has no proof
OF ownership. Mysterious actions of the dog
cause Hiram and Broughton to take the
trail In search of Jeanne.