Licking Valley courier., 1922-02-02
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saTipSu, 1nu tnat is all. II may be identi-
ned by the presence, nearby Of a brown
haired. Sblue-eyed girl, piebald horse. |
and q Nog with a a,split face, half Black !
and hall white. Stanford at first regards |
the be4uest as Joke, but after considera-
Z uon sets, out to find his legacy.
CHAPTER lion his way to Denver,
the city nearest the meridian described |
N his gtandfather's will. Stanford hears
rom q reilow traveller q story having DO
do with flooded mine.
CHATTER uI-Thinking things oyer,
he.begtns to imagine there may be sone-
ming IN shis .grandfather's bequest worth |
while, his idea finally centering on the |
possibility of mine, as safe reposi-
tory" Recalling the narrative on the |
train, ne ascertains that his fellow trav- |
eler was Q mining engineer, Charles Bull
erton; Bullerton refuses him informa-
ton, but from other sources Broughton |
learns enough to make him proceed to |
Placervile. in the Red desert.
At Atropia. just as the train pulls out,
stanford sees what appear to be the iden-
tical horse and dog described in his |
grandtather's Will. Impressed, he leaves
The train at the next stop, Angels. There
he finds that Atropia was originally
Plaeervtlle. his destination. Unable TO
secure a conveyance at once TO take him |
20 Plaoeryille, Broughton seizes con-
preston on the town marshal. Beasley. |
that he is slightly demented
CHAPTER v.-Pursued, he abandons
The car, which ls wrecked, and escapes on
root In the darkness, he is overtaken |
by a girl on horseback. and THE dog. |
After he explains- his presence, she in
sites him to her home. at the Old Cinna
oar mine. to meet her father.
CHAPTER Vi-Broushtons hosts are
Hiram Twombly, caretaixer of the mine, |
and his daughter Jsanie. Seeing the girl, |
Stanford is satisfied he has located his |
) properly, but does not reveal his Identity.
CHAPTER vII.+Next morning. with !
hram he visits the mine. Hiram asks
tim to look over the machinery. and he
Jeanie. In whom he has become inter. |
ated. and he engages In the first real |
work. he has ever done.
CHAPTER vIII.-Broughton and Hiram |
set the pumps started but are unable to |
make an impression on the water. Bull |
erton .apbafently an old friend of the
fwomblys,. visits the mine. He offers
% drain II in consideration OF Brough- |
on's giving hm ffty-one per cent of the |
propertyy Stanford refuses Then Butler |
on Offers to buy the mine outright for
5000. Il had cost BroughtSn's srand-
ord again refuses.
CHAPTER Ix.-Jeanie cautions Brough-
on against selling the mine, under any
rcnmssences and apparently n M IN sPlri. s5ta
conservation with Daddy, Hiram,
Broughton- decides he will stick to the
property
.ofds temporary Iso Absence @ from the I mine,
An enonny, without doubt Fullerton,
wrecks the pumping machinery. Brough-
on decides to have II out with him next
lay.
CHAPTER Kiln. the morning he finds
8ullerton and Jeanne have disappeared.
apparently eloped. He also discovers that
his deed to the mine has been stolen, and
as il has not been recorded, he has no
proof OF ownership. Mysterious actions
)fIfhe dog cause Hiram and Broughton
o take ithe trail in search Of Jeanie
CHAPTER xII.-They find Jeanie's
my. abandoned, but no trace OF the girl.
When they get back to the cabin, Buller-
ON is there. apparently awaiting their
eturn.
CHARTtfR. XIII Believing Jeanie to
4 rave Rphe with Fullerton, the sight Of
the man rs too much for Broughton, and
he usea him roughly, Bullerton denies
Brougifon orders him OF his property.
md he departs vowing vengeance. Salts
ned Blillerton means mischief. Broughton
and Hiram fortify themselves In the
@ne ShS b sro%d rVa Of
ldoes and on their refusal to vacate. be-
gins an attack.
CHAPTER xIv.-During the day and
niRht the two successfully defend the
shafthouse against attacks, including an
attempt to drown them out.
Daddy was shaking his head and
wrlnging the moisture-and mud-out
Of his beard.
"Jerusalem-tO-g0sh, Stannie, we got
to take chance!" he muttered. "Any-
ways, I'd about as lief die as be
drowned to death. Wen have to muss
that blacksmith shop up and get II out
D. the way, somehow. Gimme a match
out o. that tin box o. yourn-if they
amt all soaked to jiz-whlzzlln' sop"
found the matches, which, luckily,
were still dry, and handed him one.
Before fairly realized what he was
going to do, he had taken one of the
dynamite cartridges out of Its bucket
hiding place and was splitting the fuse
with his pocketknife.
"0pen that there door into the shop"
he commanded; and when ! obeyed
mechanically, out went the bomb, fiz-
zlng and sputterlng, to land In a heap
Of scrap iron piled on the farther side
Of the stonebullt forge. The sight of
II smoking and splitting sparks In the
heap OF scrap half hypnotiZed me, !
guess, for | stood gaping at 1t, with
the door held open, until Daddy Hiram
Ierkedine away, slammed the door and
yelled to me to help him bar IT,
We had barely time to get the door
closed and fastened with the heavy
wooden bar and to throw ourselves
fiat on.-the floor behind the hoisting
machihery before the crash came. As
I havefpreviously said, the blacksmith
shop was a rather fllmsy, shed-like
affair. rooted with corrugated iron.
and Il seemed to us as II broken tim
bers and pieces of sheet metal were
raining down for a full minute after
the blast went or.
The shock to everything In the vicln.
lty was, of course, tremendous and
the stout old shnft-house itself rocked
and swayed like n tree In n hurricane
But the walls still stood intact, and
when we got up and peeped through
hole which piece OF the flying
scrap had torn In the door, we could
see whit we had done. 1t was a-plen.
ty The blacksmith shop had dlsap
peared, leaving nothing hut Il scatter
ing of wreckage. The heavy anvil had
been thrown from its block and the
forge looked us If II giant had kicked
It. out by the boller-shed a rack Of
cordwood had been toppled over and
under It man was struggling 70 free