The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-06-13
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Henry Nelson, banker, hires three
men to watch Nelson's activities in
the oil fields. Gus Briskow strikes
oil and Gray visits him in his beau
tiful new home. Allie BriskOw,
daughter Of Gus, falls in love with
Gray, but he loves Barbara Parker.
Bud Briskow, Allies brother, having
been rescued by Gray from the
hands Of an adventures, goes to
take charge of the BriskOw oil
wells. He phones to Gray telling
him that oil is expected on some
land in which Gray has interest.
Allie goes to spend few days with
Bud.
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WAS that Buddy talking"
ct was, and he gave me some
good news. He says that we'll on
thilty-five is liable to come in any
minute, and it looks like big one"
The speakers eyes were glowing,
and he ran on, breathlessly, He
says they're betting it will be better
than ten thousand barrels!'
Ten thousand barls?" Briskow
echoed.
That's what he said. OF course,
they can't tell a thing about it. Bud
dy's only guessing, hut haven't
had a big well yet" Gray took a
nervous turn about the room.
Pm going out on tOnight's train
and see it come inf it does come
in. told Buddy to stop work; not
to drop another tool until | arrived.
.Fatted for destruction | like the
sound of that. Ten thousand bar
rels! Ho! IN write this day in
brass. Why, that lease will sell for
million lit may mean the
end"
Gray brought himself to with an
effort, hastily he kissed Mrs. Bris-
kow's faded cheek and wrung her
husbands hand. A moment later he
was gone.
"Thirty-five," where Buddy was
working, was only a few miles from
the Bliskow ranch, therefore the
boy was able to meet his sister at
Ranger and drive her directly to the
old home.
The ranch house seemed very
mean, very insignificant to Allie
but she slipped into one of her old
dresses and prepared the supper
while Buddy straddled kitchen
chair and chartered upon ten thou
sand topics of mutual interest.
On the morning of Gray's coming
Allie rode with Buddy over to
thilty-five. 1t Was wretched
rainy day, and nothing is more
bleak than rainy day in drilling
camp. Work had been halted and
the men were loafing in their bunk
house. Brother and sister spent the
impatient hours i'm the mess tent.
Gray's trip from the railroad was
more like voyage than nntol
journey, for the creek beds, usual
ly dry, were angry torrents, and the
'dobe flats were quagmires through
which his vehicle plowed hub deep;
nevertheless he was fresh and aier,
when he arrived. After a buOyan,
) greeting to Allie, he and Buddy in
spected the we'll, then he issued
orders for work to be resumed.
Word had gone forth that Their.
was something doing on thirty-five
and from the chaparral emerged
muddy motor cars bringing scouts
neighboring lease owners, and ever
the members of nearby casini
crew.
Supper was a jumpy meal, and no
body had much to say, Allie Bris
kow least Of ALL She was silent
intense; she CURLY refused Buddy.
offer to send her home, and whel
the meal was over she followe,
Gray back to the derrick.
Buddy Briskow was running tn
rig, and the dexterity with which
he handled brake and control ro'
gave him pride. He had seated hi
sister on a bench out of the way
where she was protected from tn
drizzle, and he felt her eyes upo,
him. 1t gave him sense of impor
tance to have Allie watching him a
such crisis; he wished his par
ents were with her.
He eased the brake and the mas
sive bailer slid into the casing as .
heavy shell slips into the breech O.
a cannon. As he further released
his pressure the cable began to poul
serpentlike from the drum. Budd.
turned his wet, grimy face ant
flashed grin at Allie. She smiled
back at him family. Some light
ninglike change in her expression
or perhaps some occult sense of tn,
untoward warned him that all wa
not as it should be, and he jerket
his head back to attention.
During that moment of inatten
ton the bailer had stuck. Perhap.
five hundred feet below, frictio,
had checked its plunge, and mean
while the velvet-running drum
spinning at it's maximum velocity b.
reason of the whirling bull wheel
was unreeling. its cable down upo,
the derrick platform. Down it pour
ed in FAINT loops, and within thes,
coils, either unconscious of his dan
! ger or paralyzed by its suddennes SIS
stood Calvin Gray.
Instinct, rather thar, reason