Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-01-26
BY VICTOR ROUSSEAU
Copyright b. v. c. Chapman
Copyright b v. G. Chapman

! i on see, the stones IS al tAE UULLDAl q
! the yellow ground, and when they'd
dug and Dr. and didn't get enough OUT
II it 10 pay their board people got
tired and moved away. But a few Of
the far-sighted ones stayed. The syn
dicate had g0bbled up q quarter Of the
I claims, and Il stayed. The Diamond
I Fields Amalgafnated owned another
1 quarter-thats Van Beers concern
and il stayed That ought 10 have
1 showed people there was something IN
/ Malopo.
But anyway. they rhousht the
I claims was good for nothing. aud ser
our 70 unload the rotten shares wher-
ever they could That's how y0u got
your shares. Mr.. Garrett. Then. last
week. kid ToJtie girl coming into
town with a basket 70 buv -four picked
40 a big pebble right there IN that
hole That was the De Witt stone
/ Ninety-dTe carats, they estimate il VIII
weigh. when its been cut She showed
il 10 me. I gave her i've pounds for
H. and Mr. De Witt called me a fool,
and swore when be paid NE back.
That's Mr. De Witt. but I don't know
he's my meaner than that old hypo-
/ critic. Judge Davis.
Somehow the news got into the
! papers dawn-country. Forty-e gAt hours
the first rush of pr9specr0rs from
! Taungs took 60 get up here. and they
couldn't understand why people in
Malopo was ignorant Of what had hap
pened. Next day a hundred came from
the TransvaaL Next day comes the
colony rush And today the popula-
tion Of Malopo looks Ike doubling
every week. You may have passed
some Of them on the roads,"
Yes. the roads alive with them"
Its one OF the big rushes. Mr.. Gar
rett, Ike in the old Kimberley days,
and you can guess how De Wits
crowd is kicking itself for not having
gobblea up the Big Malopo. They're
finding stones everywhere as they get
down toward the bottom Of the yellow
ground And De Witt let the property
20 down when he could have gobbled 1t
for a song"
St7EAAA III AAs-fE " -l4fEA4 422AD EAlE NaAU-
alton at the most interesting moment.
suggested Wluton.
You certainly have. Mr.. Garrett.
Not but what / was expecting some
thing to turn up. l was lying awake
last night. puzzllns and worrying. and
I thought I'd ind what the book had
70 say. So opened il in the dark and
struck q light and the first words my
eyes fen upon was that passage where
David danced before the Ark and his
wife naESed him for making a show
Of himself And he'd took OF his
clothes in his frenzy. as you'll ne
doubt remember. Now. sir. I put Il
10 you, coail there have been anything
/ more Ike a signTf
But bat WAS your Interpretation p
inquired Wlnton.
Why, its perfectly simple. sir, to
them THAT'S got the gift "a understand
pavld's Judge Davis. of course. and his
wite's he WITT who's always girdlng
az him 10 be croekeGer than God made
him naturally. And the clothes ne
took of Is his Snug Pharlsee face
that's going 10 be unmasked And the
Ark-well, l thought that was Malopo.
But now I see rs you. He's going
10 dance before you. sir, and you're
going TO be the piper"
Il hope so, Mr.. Burns, said Wintou.
Ned Burns laid hand on Wlnton's
arm Tell me cue ting" he said
How many people knoW you are IN
Malopo5'
Tive" answered wiuton Your
self and colored man.
Ned Burns stared at him. y don't
quite make that out." he said You've
kept your business 70 yourself mostly,
but you've tod a niggert"
THE man sam from the C77oeirle.
"Sam simpson, cried Nd Then
you might SIS well have so4e straight
20 Mr. De Witt AID his Grove. Se~,z
the whole Chronicle and the Chron-
.cie's judge Davis The Chronicle
couldn't run without sam There
aIn't anybody Lere vita the education
30 run il but sam, for all his play ahour
being a uewsboy. That's just one Of
Judge DAVIS tricks. How did you
7 come TO tell sam SIMPSON,"
4 met him selling papers, he showed
me the way here, and we got into con
yerSatlon,~ said Winton. feeling IN
commonly foolish. Ne doubt that ex-
plains why nc left me rather sudden
( ~ he added
NO doubt, answered Ned dryly.
He just run. back as hard as he could
~ 10 teu the 5adge. NoN. Mr. Garrett.
f Tu come 70 the point You've got d
4 big game to play. and you've just come
in time 10 play e. There's To &c a
4 meeting Of the shareholders Il the Big
/ Ma.opo in the Chamber of Commerce
+ building tomorrow morning az ten.
\ That means Mr.. ne WITT, Judge Davis.
ana maybe rwg or three u5re-and
son. Ana they're EsipE 10 wlad uq and
( sun The Bis Malopo over to lie sya-
I dieate
u don't think 500 said Wirtoa.
"Em glad Go hear yoa say THAI, an
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