Phoenix tribune., 1922-11-11

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Oopyright By Little, Brown 3 o.
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER LAT Thornton Fairchild's s
! death his son Robert learns there has
been a dark period In his fathers life
| which for almost thirty years has caused
him suffering. The secret is limited at
In document left by the elder Fair
child, which also informs Robert he is
| now owner of a mining claim In Colo
rado, and advising him to see Henry
| Beamish, q lawyer.
CHAPTER IL-Beamish tells Robert his
| claim. a silver mine, is at Ohadi, thirty
eight miles from Denver. He also warns
him against a certain man. "Squint" Ro-
dame, his fathers enemy. Robert decides
to go to Ohadi.
| CHAPTER III.-On the road to Ohadi
from Denver Fairchild assists a girl. ap-
| a tire on her auto. When she has left.
| the sheriff and q posse appear. in pur-
suit of a bandit Fairchild bewildered.
misleads them as to the direction the
girl had taken.
CHAPTER wat ohadi Fairchild is
warmly greeted BY Mother" Howard.
boarding-house keeper. for his fathers
sake
CHAPTER v.-From Mother Howard
Fairchild learns something of the mystery
connected with the disappearance of ISIS
sic" Larsen, his fathers co-worker In
| the mine. He meets the girl he had as
sisted, but she denies her identity. She
is Anita Richmond. Judge Richmond's
daughter.
| CHAPTER vI.-Visiting his claim, Fair
child is shadowed by man he recog-
nizes from descriptions as "squint' Ro,
daine: Back In Ohadi; his fathers old
friend, Harry Harkins. a Cornishman
| summoned from England by Beamish to
help Fairchild. haisS him with JOY.
CHAPTER vIL-The pair find the mine
| flooded and have not sufficient funds to
have 1t 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.-Harl5ins being gen.
eral favorite, the entire population turns
| out to clear the flooded mine. When
the work Is practically done, Harry ap-
pears apparently surprised at the tur-
moil 1t had been a shrewd trick on his
part to get the mine pumped out without
take It as a good Joke.
CHAPTER K-FairchiId learns that
Judge Richmond 10 dying, and that he
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DANES. They begin, as partners, to work
the mine. In their hearts both fear Lar.
1 gen was killed by Thornton Fairchild and
stroyed the mine. At the "Old Times
| Ball" Fairchild dances with Anita, to
| the discontinue Of Maurice Rodaine, son
Of ''Squint" supposed to be engaged
to the girl. A bandit holds up the dance
and shoots merrymaker. Maurice Ro-
dame claims he recognized the bandit as
Harkins. The latter is arrested. Fair
child interferes to save Anita from the
bullying Of the two Rodaines. and is
mystified 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 $4,000
for the claim, by an unknown party, but
agree to disregard It Clearing the mine
they come to where they fear to find
LArsen's remains.
CHAPTER XY.-A skeleton, In a miners
costume. which Harkins Identifies as Lar
sen, is there. and there seems little doubt
that Thornton Fairchild was murderer
CHAPTER xII.-Fairchild informs the
coroner Of the discovery Of the skeleton.
At the inquest, Crazy Laura" castoir
knowledged imbecile, gives damaging test
lmony against Thornton Fairchild The
jury returns verdict that Larsen came
to his death at Thornton Fairchilds
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Rodaine is announced
CHAPTER x1iH-eummoned to Denver
to receive "impoortant p.ot Int information" Fair
| schild refuses. Returning to Ohadi he
hears Of marvellous strike made in the
Silver Queen, Rodaine's mine, which ad-
Joins the Blue Poppy.
CHAPTER XTv.-The capital of the two
partners is rapidly vanishing. Anita ap-
naov kn xrNfA to&N y
uncover what appears to be a vein Of
silver. Leaving Harry IN the mine Fair
child hastens to have the find assayed.
CHAPTER XV.-The assayer tells Fair
child the vein is almost solid silver
fastening back. he finds the mine de-
stroyed by cavern. and Harry gone.
CHAPTER XvI-A note from Anita
puts Fairchild on Rodaine's track He
follows his enemy to the home of Crazy
Harry, whom the woman had in the
house. in an unconscious state
CHAPTER xvII-In the absence of the
Rodaines, Fairchild gets Harry from the
house and to a hospital. He has been
drugged by the crazy woman, but makes
from the mine through an unsuspected
passage. Judge Richmond dies, leaving
Anita friendless. Anita visits the part
nsrs IN the the mins seeking ,sd Eairchiids en- aid
| terious noise, the three take refuge In
the passage which Harry had found.
CHAPTER XVIu.-They fnd evidence
Of the existence of "cross-cut" from the
Silver Queen. Rodaine has been working
the Blue Poppy vein. Two of Rodaine's
henchmen, Blindeye Bozeman and Taylor
Bill, are captured. Taylor Bill admits
the robbery Of the Blue Poppy and also
that he was the man who held up the
"Old Times Dance" for which Harry IL
under Indictment
CHAPTER XIX.-Realizing the game is
up, Maurice Rodaine endeavors to reach
Denver and get away. but Is caught in
a blizzard and dies from exposure.
i 'SQuint" Rodaine. cornered, jumps from
window and escapes for time
CHAPTER XX.-Rodaine makes for the
house Of Crazy Laura" with intent to
destroy discriminating evidence which he
! knows she possesses. The woman resists
| him, and In the struggle the house Ia
/ burned, with Rodaine. Crazy Laura"
with the books In which her warped brain
/ no o6 f0 dnUn her QrirnQq