The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-07-01
made him thrill with admiration and
with a determination to have her COM
panionship in the future.
CHAPTER SIX

with MIS-. McIavlSh, who was in a
rage not necessarily on account of
worry about Dora being in any dam
ger, but owing to the loss of her help.
Dora succeeded at last to get the in
formation impaired to the woman
where she was and what happened.
McTavish called for help and got
ready a team. They went up to
Fishers cabin and brought Hartz
down. The doctor having dressed the
wound, found that there was no SER
ious danger, except from gangrene,
the bullet evidently having gone out
the other side of the wound. During.
the period of Hartz' illness Dora was
his good angel. There grew up be-
tween them an attachment that quick
ly grew into love and each day he
would eagerly await her coming. Be-
ing short spoken as a rule, he wooed
quickly. Her love going out to him
more every day, demonstrated it by
close attention to his comforts. His
manner scared her. at first, but she
learned to know that big heart lay
under that broad chest. After he had
gotten so he could get around again, he
called her to take a walk in the moon
light away from observing eyes.
Dora, he said, taking her hands
in his and looking down into her eyes
i am not man to say much that
is not so. | have learned to love you
VII you marry me?" She dropped
her head and then looked up into his
face and said kiss me, dear" He
took her in his arms and held her
close to him. A coyote let out a sharp
staccato cry near them, which startl-
ed them from their dream.
Dora, | want to know how you got
yourself united after those fellows
held you up in the Canyon. l have in
tended to ask you several times about
IT,
well, it was this way. You know
they laid me to one side of the Can
yon near some sharp rocks which pro-
jected above the surface. My knees
being freed, I could move my limbs
up and down as lay on my back. Sc
| worked my feet over on these SHARP
rocks and sawed the rope in two. AT
ter getting on my feet and resting my
self | then backed up against ledge
and sawed the rope from my wrists
Then l was free. The pony had stood
nearby. | Immediately mounted him
and rode up the trail as hard as
could. l heard the shooting before
got there"
After watching the glorious scenes
of night in the mountains they wan
dered back to the hotel. Fisher told
Hartz that if he would return after
recovering he would show him some
mineral land that he could locate on
which was rich in silver, copper and
gold. Hartz left the hotel the next
morning and went up the Saltwater
trail to Fishers cabin. Fisher was
glad to see him, and after exchanging
greetings Hartz asked what had be-
come of the bandits. "The sheriff
posse took them over to Cooke, buried
Biff there. Scarface and Skinner are
in Jail at Helena. Jack Deering, the
government officials recognized as one
of the men who helped to hold up the
stage in the park and sent him to
Leavenworth." Fisher told Hartz
that he had promised him to show him
home mineral locations. They would
get ready and go up the Saltwater to
the Lake. Before going he took Hartz
over to the tunnel and there he showed
him tunnel one thousand feet long
with ore piled up in neat piles, esti-
mated in value of one hundred thous.
and dollars, gold, silver and copper.
"Thirty-one years have been getting
this out. My hopes and ambitions are
represented in this. You see my youth
aud the best years of a mans life.
sacrificed opportunities and society.
My race ends with me. | had hopes
that we would have railroad or
smelter to take my ores and turn my
labor into money, for which all men
strive. Who shall reap of this, my
life? | hear that Doc GRANGER is up
in Cooke and says he will put in
smelter sure. l may live to see it but
hope does not shine so bright to me
as in the days of my youth. Wild
eating and the concentrating of cap
ital has its effects in holding us down.
Granzer may be able to win out"
Leaving the cabin, the two men, equip
ped for several days tramp, struck the
trail to the lake. In arriving at the
canyon Hartz cast his eye up toward