New Britain herald., 1928-02-23
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 Jill Justin. ultra modern and as lambently lovely at 20 as a Saga lily, starts out on moon-lit night 1 in August, accompanied by her brother Tony. to attend harvest festival.
 The two run into an automobile hold-up. Jill is kidnaped by bandits, but later rescued by Jack stuart and returned to her home in Elliston, W. Va.
 It is the old story retold. Jack stops for a visit and remains 10 wed the adorable Jill.
 Life is kind to Jack and his bride. tue first three years of their mar riage finding them parents to pair ot twin toys and girl
 Now comes the Great Event. stuart and Tony Justin buy a tax title to property in the hills, in cooperating an old abandoned silver mine.
 One day in the following April Tony meets a pretty flapper who tells him her name is Mary. but she is called Mike" She Is driving sport roadster and asks him to guide her to place in the hills known as The pevila Luck. Here Mike lakes the lead and pilots Tony into m electrically lighted chamber from which she suddenly disappears to rcappear a few minutes later. ac- companieI by a large man whom she introduces as Dad" or Pat Sweeney. She then conducts Tony through a secret door in the rocky wall into laboratory. He has all ready learned their tax title mine yields q tungsten bearing ore, rich in content. After listening to an offer of S1oo,o0 from Pat Sweeney Ter a one fourth interest in the mine. Tony rides back to town with Mike. finds his father, Peter Justin. md tells the story of his days ex- ,teriencc That evening the SWee- rieys. Pat and his daughter, visit the stuart Justin home, and Jack Stu art, after hearing the proposition. accepts-with a provision. Mike and Jill. for some reason unexplained. seem to form an instantaneous dis like for each other.
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 CHAPTER XIV
 ''H'm. I see, commented Pat when ae had absorbed the gist Of his .Ia,s hter's plain-spoken opinion of nf bo ayoDipU 'Wpn then, how do you like Peter. and Peters son. your boy friend. and th' husband av tn ioidy ye don't loike:'
 T rather like tn old Frenchman." replied the girl, musinsly. her gaze still buried in the depths of the red eoals, As for Tony. I don't just know what to think of him. At times he's quite amusing. Then. again. he seems oddly stupid. Still. he's not % bad. Perhaps he'll improve upon acquaintance"
 An tn husband. Jack Stuart prompted her father. his shrewd eyes bent inquisitiyely on the clear- cut outlines of her attractive pro- filn. She continued to stare into the fire for a long minute before she finally replied to his question.
 Y liked him - instantly she frankly stated, without looking up. Hes a man that woman-almost any woman-could love very easily. [ would say. His wife loves him; of that there is no doubt. And shes frightfully jealous of him. too. He seems to care a great deal for her and he adores his children. could love tn Riddles myself. They are wonderfully sweet"
 Pat Sweeney studied his daugh- ter's half-averted face in the ruddy .-low from the grate. She had always been more or less of mystery 10 him. although he loved her with all the affection of his big Irish heart. she was to him much like the pro- ycrbial frog which never jumped in the manner and direction for which it was scheduled, but always hopped off some other way. This Mike ot his rarely went the way he had planned for her. She simply would not run true to form. She kept him guessing.
 And that. as Solomon is alleged to have said. is a wise Womans strongest weapon against the sup posedly stronger will of the opposite sex-the talent and ability to keep Man etcrnally guessing. Once she ceases to keep him guessing. accord ing to Soly's philosophy. she might ps we'll quit and go out and get her self another for he is already on lis way
 Pat Sweeney had trained in T city where. perhaps. self-preservation has come to be not only the first, but the most essential law of nature. This city also is the leading city in tho game of hi-iacking. Here the practice has been reduced to a fine art. IT there were any tricks in tho game with which Pat. during the .eriod Of his political activity had aot become familiar with, they had been invented since his departure rom the old stamping grounds.
 Since it is necessary" hr re i marked in discussing "h" prclmi- | Harics of their "ioh' with Jack and Tony. flor ye to 20 oyer th' ground Mith mr in advance, we moight as well make it party. ioull all l." my guests: tn limousine Il carry us Fl comfortably, Mike wants to 90 70 we'll arrange 10 stay over noight, take in show. and como back by another route thus combining busi- ness wit pleasure
 A If flo mako enrc thai Ti'asur' would h" kept within tho buunds Of circum>pcction. 'hanc' ordained that F4thcr Ryan. during Mir. SWc,ney's call that morning. should also favor the Justins with q visit.
 This. in its.lf. was of no partiou lar iltuortJpcr II Nds n'hn0 tho -p.