Show MADE BilE A BI6 OfffR Two Ladies Want Him to Go With Them to Alaska HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A ALL FOB EXPENSES A Pair of Widows Who Seek Adventure Adven-ture and Gold I the Foreign Regions Re-gions of the Klondyke Purpose That He Shall Guide Them and Have Half the Results A Tale Which Savors of Romance He Will Give Them An Answer Tomorrow To-morrow Evening Will Cass Hite so to Alaska That query is perplexingno less a person than Cass himself and the old prospector Is in a quandary Cass has been invited to go to Dawson City and the details of the invitation are so tinged with romance as to make the relation of the circumstances circum-stances a charming task I I is because of the incidents connected con-nected with the same that Cass is halt I ing between two opinions to go or not to go He has some interests here and lin Colorado which demand his attention and can ill afford to leave right at this time but those who want him to go have offered him such flattering inducements induce-ments that he believes it would be the biggest kind of good luck fQr him to accept Cass lives at the Walker House but on Saturday was loafing around the Cullen talking to some friends from the Green River country who had just come in when a bell boy from the Walker came up and said Mr Hite you are wanted down at the hotel Who wants me inquired Cass Come along and Ill tell you replied I re-plied the boy and when the pair were out of earshot of the crowd he added Two ladies are there who want to see you youTwo Two ladies said Hite two ladies What two ladies Dunno said Buttons They came in and asked for you and one of em gave me a dollar to go out and look for you youCass Cass repaired to the hotel When he arrived the clerk said They are in the parlor above waiting for you and then Cass combed his hair by running his fingers through it and ambled up the staircase TWO HANDSOME WOMEN In the parlor he found two well dressed women one apparently about 35 years of age with just a few threads of silver running through < her dark hair tne other possibly five years younger and a blonde but not so blonde as to be light They were both of them beauties well formed and bright and intelligent Cass pulled off his hat and was twirling it in his hands and about to say Good morning ladies when the oldest advanced a pace or two and said Is this Mr Hite I am the identical person responded Cass To print all the dialogue would be to string out a half hours conversation in typeS type-S The elder lady introduced herself asa as-a woman from New York City and the other her niece She said they had read of Cass in one of Cy Warmans stories as being an oldjjjiacer miner and they wanted to make him a proposition We have inquired about you in Denver Den-ver and have been told that you are a practical miner with a world of experience ex-perience We were also told by a Mr Arkins on the Rocky Mountain News that you were a man who had a reputation repu-tation for being honest in your dealings with others Now what we want to know is are you acquainted with the frozen regions of the north have you ever been in Alaska Cass confessed that the farthest he had ever been north was to Frazier vIe which is 3000 miles or such a matter this side of the gold diggings where everyone is rushing Well said the lady with a manifestation mani-festation of firmness I do not know that that makes any difference You are an old prospector and one who is used to hardship and I do not doubt that we would get along all right with I you in any climate My niece here and myself have money We have 5000 which we want to spend maybe more if it is demanded to go to Dawson City We want to go ourselves and want a man like you to go with us We will pay all the expenses give you 1000 and shall expect to have a half interest in all the claims you may discover dis-cover I there Is anything needed In the working any machinery or anything any-thing of the sort we will pay i TAKEN BY SURPRISE Old man Hite stared at the woman a few moments absolutely speechless He was about to open his mouth and say something when she Interrupted him with I know you are wondering if we are sane or not Let me convince you that we are I have here and saying the words she extracted a roll of bills from 0 place where a man I would never think of carrying his money an even thousand in cash My niece has but 3 few dollars with her just enough for little personal expenses but here is a certificate of deposit on Wells Fargo Co for 4000 We can get more if we need I never fear about that Now the question is will you go with us for we want to go clear I believe that through to the diggings beleve is what you call them just as soon as we can We are both well ana strong never were sick a day in our lives and can stand all the hardships which will I foilow j c 0 S 1 Old man Hite was knocked clear off his feet by the proposition He stammered I stam-mered in his utterances He got his conversation all balled up as it were Girls I mean ladies he began I dont know what to say to you I you were two men I could have made a I answer right offhand I havent been thinking of going to Alaska at all have some mining interests right herein here-in Utah sme which I ought not to leave J two men had asked me to go I would have said No and that would have settled it But with vou BOUND T GO TO ALASKA Do not figure us other than two men for we have mens determination in this interrupted the eldest We are bound to go to Alaska That is what we are here for said the younger speaking for the first time What aunt says is true and if you tme not go with us some other god to the chance man is going get I admire your spunk little one retorted re-torted Cass but a I said I have interests in-terests here which I would not like to forsake right away and I need a few hours to think this matter over You can have a week if you like said the eldest t only we would not care to wait longer than that Now resumed Hite I dont know what to say in this matter In the first place I see you are heeled all right with money But who are you You I are two very beg pardon very good Joeking ladies and I want to be sure its all right before I i start I dont want to be followed by some man and shot at for running away with his wife or anything cl that sort You need have no fear replied the elder woman we are both of us and here her vplce lowered a little we are both of us widows We can convince you of our identity all right Our friends in the east have urged us not to go but we have made up our minds < tog H egolng I wewin we will b s much ahead if we lose we can afford the money we shall expend but she added with determination with you along I am sure we shall succeed And I to am satisfied that we shall succeed added the younger S Have you thought o all the dangers dan-gers and trials which you will have to endure and pass through asked Cass Have youthought of the chances between be-tween life and death you will have to take and all that We know that women have gone there and where women have been we can go Look you Mr Rite said the elder beginning to grow very earnest we are not weakly women but are two strong creatures I misdoubt but we could stand very nearly as much hardship a yourself and we want togo to-go goWell Well replied Cass when two ladies like you ask an old man like me to take a trip of this kind I Is rather rough to refuse I will think this matter mat-ter over tomorrow and on Monday evening I will give or Tuesday evening il give you an answer Come to think about it I will make it Tuesday I have a partner here whom I will have to consul con-sul first The ladies then gave Hite the address ad-dress of the private boarding house at which they are stopping and tomorrow evening he will make them an answer A THIRST FOR GOLD Rite said last night that he would not divulge the names of the ladies bu was assured they were two respectafol people with a fancy for adventure ama am-a thirst for gold I cannot say whether I will go or not he said but I I do not I will get some good man to go with them That amount o money will see them through all rIght and put them where they can do some god With an old prospector along they can get to Dawson and buy some good claims as there are always those who want to sell and get out and they can make a stake Now that I have though this matter over I am blessed I I do not believe they would be better to travel with than some men for they would take everything a a matter of course where a man would b crumbling crum-bling and kicking What annoys me Is that if I cannot get away I do not know of a firstclass man to send with them I promise you it will be no scrub who gets the contract if old Gas doesnt get to go |