Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-03-09

SYNOPSIS.
FRANCIS TYNDE<

SYNOPSIS.
Will, Stanford Broughton. society idler.
finds his share Of the estate. valued at
something like $4,000 lies in safe re-
scribed. and that is all. 1t may be identi-
fed by the presence nearby OF brown
haired. blue-eyed girl. q piebald horse.
and hall White. Stanford at first regards
ths beauest as joke. but after CONSIDERS
the city nearest the meridian described
IN his grandfather's will. Stanford hears
from fellow traveller a story having to
do with flooded mine.
CHAPTER II1.-Thinking things over.
1e begins to imagine there may be some.
while, his idea finally centering on the
possibility Of mine. as a safe reposi-
tory" Recalling, the narrative on the
train. he ascertains that his fellow trav-
reler was mining engineer. Charles Bull
=. lerton: Fullerton refuses him informa-
ton. but from other sources Broughton
learns enough to make him proceed to
CHAPTER Won the station platform
e Ahopia. just as the train pulls out,
teal horse and dog described in his
the train at the next stop. Angels. There
Pc hnd1 that Atropia was originally
Placervflle. his destination. Unable to
secure conveyance at once to take him
to 9r,1 p,acerville. Broushton SEXES con-
preston ON the town marshal Beasley.
that he 10 slightly demented.
CHAPTER v-Pursued. he abandons
the car, which 10 wrecked, and escapes on
foot. In the darkness; he is oyertaken
E on and THE dog o.
yites him to her home. ct the Old China
bar mine. to meet her father.
CHAPTER vl-Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly, caretaker Of the mine.
and his daughter Jeanne. Seeing the girl,
Stanford 10 satisfied he has located his
property. but does not reveal his Identity.
CHAPTER vL.-Next morning. with
Hiram. he visits the nine Hiram asks
him to look over the machinery. and he
Jesn,e. In wi whom he he has become inter:
eRted. and he engages in the first real
work he has ever done.
CHAPTER VI1I-Broughton and Hiram
get the pumps started. but are unable to
make an impression on the water. Bul.
Twomblys, visits the mine. He offers
to drain It in consideration of Brough-
toms giving HIM ffty-one per cent OF the
ton offers to buy the mine outright for
10000. 1t had cost Broughton's grand
father more than half million. STAN
ford again refuses.
CHAPTER Ix.-Jeanie cautions Brough-
ton against selling the mine. under any
and ,o :y IN SPIEL
hroseRten decide. he viii STICK to the
property.
CHAPTER x.-Next day. during STAN
ford's temporary absence from the mine.
an enemy. without doubt Bqllerton.
ton decides to have 1t out with him next
day.
CHAPTER Kiln the morning he finds
Fullerton and jeanne have disappeared,
apparently eloped. He also discovers that
his deed to the mine has been stolen. and
proof of ownership Mysterious actions
OF the dog cause Hiram and Broughton
to take the trail In search Of Jeanne. d.
CHAPTER x1I.-They find Jeanie's
pony, abandoned, but no trace OF the girl.
When they get back to the cabin, Butler
ton is there. apparently awaiting their
return.
BY Jove! l wanted to put my arms
around the old Spartan and hug him
AS I've said there were ten or dozer
men in that bunch we'd seen in tn,
gulch, and he was calmly proposing t.
stand up to them, as confidently as l.
1t were all In the days work.
Il get you now. Daddy" said "ant
If there's fight coming to us, your
mind is Nine Well give them the bes
we've got"
thought the two old-fashioned gun!
and Jeanie's pistol promised pool
chance for an effective defense; bu
Daddy Hiram proceeded to show m,
that we had at least one other re
source. In the mine stores left benin,
by the former operating company werl
two boxes Of sixty-per-cent dynamite
with fuse and caps, and Daddy pointed
out that there were good possibilitie
wrapped up III the greasy brown-pape
cartridges if the enemy should COM
close enough to let us use them.
Il believe you had this all doped on
in advance, Daddy" I said, when HI
RI lad neat little row Of the cartridge
laid out on the floor. But surely 70,
didn't expect to hold out alone If thos
sharks sent crowd Of Jumpers in t
run you OFF,
ME and Jeanie," he said simply
WED "a done our level best; and til
angels couldn't do no more than that.
Here, unless the old man was sadl
mistaken in his daughter, was anothe
Il. and wholly unsuspecter side of the blue
eyed maiden displayed for me. l trie
to imagine Lisette helping her father
or me, or any lone man, to defend a be
leaguered mine against an armed al
rack. 1t was SO funny that shouted
n. Do you mean to say that Jeanne woul
shut herself ~ In here and load tn
guns for you agaiiat mob of min
jumpers?" 80
He looked up with prideful spark
In his mild blue eyes. & 81
IS ..YOu don't half know that little gil
O. mine. yet. Stannie. son." he sal
earnestly. Aud then She's the oni
boy / ever had, you see and she hahn