Show CF IC N G 4 AT ME T aa L LONDON OND ON ar lt colit of the alil ll il I 1 baut an carlm f den etc ec atatim by dearborn Dex aborn malvill av 1910 ia VY bo ja now koil heibel co lo 1910 bf the company SYNOPSIS 1 t s ull lill alas ala yurii I flight it t rai I 1 en h hb 1 Y h a trond of inari n at it mr it it the 4 n ne leeds cir in 1 ivr ter a 0 I 1 1 loreg 1114 monch and ran e but rut A na ns the i hr fio 0 rr il it trip with doe and 1 dins ling friend ili stint t tie ae vw v W III be r h v K ild 11 arike ot at th tatt lit a rqn 1 rim countr with inal r tl hr he divoll and ia 1 nw now raidy hi if in n dih I 1 to t tf now i hi lit A th that ut rd wt it b i ver er Irm tritt t 0 L o ions to atio 01 ir which he ile I 1 1 laflar lf belarr lar be b wor h b its ta ight tight t in imil h hul al he h lint af ae err m with ills sotir 0 flu 1 d I A 40 1 cow cm end and I 1 vioght reaps a rich taro t nr lit tn t rimson become iha h eromin ii fl tire in the klondike defea j a r imbi nallon of tt 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1 os hirr hint and anti yet vet hop honea to win in r f IN back into hn hf old aking g mv in 1 m nurry in n the th ney m but bill tf alls 11 D delft I 1 to I 1 14 colne 0 to o work nork on a ranch and r to hr h r ant ho hn haq formed reformed re dell pro married at n heru Is wet ithan edmo b hick bick ick to whole e nat afrim tirril alro nna chev fo orn to boune chig in R amt eln to to nature CHAPTER but there came the day ono one year early april when dede eat sat in an ay iy chair os on the porch sewing on an small giumenta gir g menta while day bt ead read aloud to her it wae in ernson and a bright eun sun was dida down on a world of new preen green the irrigation channels of the j getable ic garden streams of water 6 flowing wang and now and again 1 day t broke oke ov off from his reading lo 10 run rtin attl I 1 change the flow of water 0 he atas as teasingly interested in certain aln small garments on aich de corked while hile she was radiant chipy r over them though at lim throes es to als tender fun vaa as too insistent 0 wits 1 rosily confused or affection ly resentful it was a few er that daylight breaking off from reading g to change a tho the streams of gatlon found that the water bad ile shouldered a pick dit hovel PI took a hammer and a pipe ili from tho the tool too house and reb M to dede on he tie porch reckon n III have to go down and the ppe pipe out he told her its t slide itla hits 3 threatened all winter eel tibe es 9 rome come down dawn at last oil rend reid re id ahead now be tie retied as he e passed around the ind 3 took the trail that led down of the I 1 hairway way do down the trail he 11 cami cam the tide tilde it was as a small affair y 2 few tons of earth and aal crum va 2 rock but starting from otty fifty ble it bad had struck the water v with it force lelent to break it connection connect fon lon wor 0 o he proceeding de ide glanced up tip too the path ot of and he saw what made bis his 11 arv and eat fro cease for the not mot mallo arom ne he questing tarther farther 08 her communed aloud alond look hl lance lel i moved on up the steep 9 11 10 surface and across it trona from side ces hero and there in small te twisted d were if aar to acly but it in tho main th a needs 1118 ani alle grass that portion canyon was bare Is or of there were a 4 ell 11 13 the that had shifted rain fd 10 oh a now flow of rich fim rm 1 nyon yon above over tho the up lip of tnie true L mire he vein or I 1 never saw softly the tuch but hammer and pipe 1 enog clirA 11 bed tip tn og pick and shovel 0 line the slide to where a t or but mostly r it 1 aik out but could be seen lt it id tye 7 hail bad indiscernible but his 1 stacil sketched ch rk etched the hidden in here bab it hero here alik tit t aked tacked be the this via wall I 1 of the veti ve 1 l crumbling rock with soil ovelee ove led the an encumber climber ay 7 several ined Is times he ti x rock ll 11 that abi B bl 0 so 80 soft 1 l waa was some could break ll 11 in his tw ger shifting efting a ili dozen feet he hl agian attached attacked higher up 11 lib looked tho tile sell and froni from this a ainu t laibl abi ib e u pick he rubbed and il of 0 f looked he bienek ro rock ck and a ad gasping rasping with dell up suddenly delaru girt and then the a oper at a like enemies be drinking poo pu in n tea lea 0 of ita its flung n luick rjae around to eoe see if any e were upon him he it e griland gazing foolishness at bis his own on and returned to his naton of tile chunk ecail A slant of likht light wa bun fell on it and anti it ams all with agli r tiny specks of unmistakable kold gold tr from thu tile arasi root 4 down doan muttered in in awe stricken bolce no he 0 as swung bis his surface pick dick into the yielding sometime he be started small of earth that covered up lip bis III work and compelled him to die dig again onre once he wits swept fifty feet reet down the can carl yun yon aide but he be floundered and scram bled tit III again without pausing for belh ile bit hit upon uvon that waa was so rotten that it ans almost like chy cly and here the gold was richer rich or than ever it was a veritable treasure trea sure chimber for a hundred foot feet up tip and rv own h aniced the walls of the vein he ile acri climbed over the cabron tip to look along the brow of the bill for signs of if the outcrop hut but that could nil ri it ind he hurried back to hta his find he ile lulled on in fn the same mad baste haste until exhaustion ond and an tin ablo iche ache in ili ants 1 back belled comi him to giuse ile straightened up aitu even a richer piece of sold gold laden quira qu irtz stooping the sweat seat froni front his for cheal had fallen to tho the ground it now nn rin into bis his ees blinding him ile wiped it iron from him with the ack of his hand and returned to a of the sold gold 41 IV 17 1 if xo 1 at 0 7 nil here alck chick chick knickl it would run thirty thousand to the ton fifty thousand anything he knew that and as he be gazed upon the yel yet low lure and panted for air and tind wiped the sweat away his quick vision leaped and set to nork work ho ito saw the spur track that must run up from the valley and across the upland pastures and tind he ran the grades and built the bridge that would span the canyon until it was real before bh his eyes across the canyon was the place for the mill and there he erected it and he be erected also the endless chain of buckets suspended from a cable and operated by gravity that would cross the canyon vi tri the crusher likewise the whole mine grew grow before him and beneath harn tunnel lR shafts and galleries and holstin nol stin planta plants the blasts of the miners were in his ears and from acoss the canyon he could hear bear the roa of the stamps toe the hand that he d the lump jump of quartz was trembling and thee the e as a 9 tired nervous palpitation apparently in the pit of bis his it camo to him abruptly abrupt IT that what he mandod was a drink whisky cocktail cock 4 anything a drink and even then with this new hot yearning for the alcohol him he heard faint and far drI drifting down the green abyss of the canyon dedes voice crying here chica chick c chick bick chick here chick chick checkl ho was astounded ft of the lapse of time lima rhe bad loft ft her alog on the porch po b and d was will repa feeding tr p agick rag aa preparatory e ry to getting afternoon aupper u the was gone lie ile collet ke could ool that be had been iona away that agalli rani the call here chick hick chick chief C chic chick chick chick hakl hero thick it t wa a ili he way cne phe called first five and then three he ile hail hall long bince noticed it and froni from these thought thoughts of her arose a roe e other hat that caused a great fear lo 10 grow in hi his taco face for it deemed to him that he had almost lost her not once had in he thought of her those frenzied hours bourn anil ant for that cucil at lea least had she truly been lost to him lie ile dropped the piece of quartz slid doon the ilide and start ed el UD the trail running heavily at the edge of the clearing he do alon n and almost eased crept to a point of whence ho he could peer out himself unseen she was as feeding the chicken chen toxins to them handfuls of grain and flushing laughing at their antica antics rhe sigh eight of her seemed to tho the panic fei reak into which be he ha hat been flung luni and he turned tura d td ran mn back down the aral again he climbed the slide but this timo time he climbed higher carrying the pick and shovel falth ith him and agnan he tolled frenziedly frenzl edly but this lime time with a different purpose he ile worked artfully loosing elide slide after elide slide of he the red soil no no pending duding it streaming down and cohering co bering up all he bad had uncovered hiding biding from the light of diy daiy abe be trea nire lie tie had discovered HP ile even e ven event ment into the woods and scooped arrn flits of last year years a fillen fallen leaves aich he scattered over the elide slide nut but this he tie gave up as its a j vain task and nd he sent more slides of soil down upon the scene of bia bi labor I 1 until ao no sign d of the out on jut ting walla walls of the velu veli next ho he repaired the broken pipe Ka gathered tools together sad vad itar tild up the trail he ile walker walked slowly feeling a great ae as oj of a man who baa bad passed through a frightful fright fal he ile put the tools too away took a great of the water that again flowed through the pipes nod nd bat nt down on ithe the bench by the open kitchen door dede was inside preparing upper supper and be the sourd of her footsteps gave him a vast content lie ile breathed the balmy mountain air in great gulps like a diver fresh risen from the be sea and aa as he drank in the air he gated gazed with alt all bla his eyes at the clouds and sky and valley aa as if it he were drinking in to that too alone along with the air dede did not know ho he had come crime back and at times imes t be turned bis his lead and stole glances in at her at her efficient banes bands at ibi thi bronze of her brown harir ed with ore are when ebe she crossed the path of or sunshine that streamed through the window at the prom promise ise of her figure buat shot through him blin a pang most strangely sweet and sweetly dear beard her approaching the door ind kept hie his bead head turned resolutely toward the valley and next be he thrilled as no bad had always thrilled when bo be felt the caressing ca gentleness of her a bis his hair O 0 E M 1 I know you w were ere back be aid said waa was it arout 9 bad tout elide title a be he anoker cd ed antill till rating gating anay and to her touch more alore serious than I 1 brtek abed rut out ive sot got the pan plan do yom know hat im going to doll vin R ito in ing to plant eucalyptus atuk up all till over it hold it ill plant theat thick aa as grase grass so that even a auntry rabbit cant squeeze between their and cheo ben hey they gel got heir their roote roots going nothing to in creation will over that dirt again why Is it as bad ae as hat that he ile hie his head nothing ecI exciting tIng out 11 u t id eure sure tide 11 ke to seu any blamed rt lanie old ade undo get the I 1 best of roe me all im a going to goal that slide down dow n so s D that it 11 elay stay there for a Tn liton years and whoa when the last trump trum P ili undo and sonoma mountain and ail all tho the other pas into nothingness that uld slide will be cutill a standing there hold bold up by tho the roots lie ile pained hia his arm around her und palled her down on bla his knoos say sa Y little woman you euro sure raise miss a lot by b y living here bore on the ranch music mu le and theaters and such things D don one ou ever bavo have a hankering to drop d rop it all unit go back so great ss hia his anxiety that ne no dared not look at her and when ebe she laughed and shook her head he was aware of tit a great relief alao also he noted the undiminished youth that rang through that same uld bid time boyish laugh of hers hem I 1 sy say bo ho eald said with sudden alerce ness dont you go fooling tooling around that slide until after I 1 got the trees in 3 and tid it its mighty dangerous danger oua and I 1 eure sure cavit aford to loso lose you now ie drew her lips to his and kissed her hungrily and passionately what a covol I 1 she eald said and pride in him and anti in her own womanhood was in her olce look at that dode he ile removed ono one encircling arm and it U in it wide gesture over river the valley and the mountains beyond rhe valley or ot tho the moon aloon a good name VAMO a good name do ou au know when I 1 look out over it all and end think of and of all it means it kind of 01 macei ine inc ache in the throat and I 1 have things in my ray heart I 1 cant find the tile words to any say and I 1 have a feeling that I 1 can almost understand fd pid those other high flying poet follows look at hood flood mountain there just where the sun a striking it was down in that creaso that we found the spring and that was the night you didn dian t milk tho the cone cons till ten eho aho laughed and if it you keep me tere much longer supper wont bo be any earlier than it was that night doth both rose rosc from the bench and daylight caught up the milk poll from tho the nn nall by aba door ilo ile paced a moment longer longcr to look out over the valley ita its eure sure grand he sahi said its euro auto grand she he echoed laughing joyously at bim and with him nod ond herself und end a alm the world ns as ebo in through the door and daylight like the ille old man no once had bad met himself went down thy the bill hill through the tire of sunset with a milk pall on his arm THE END |