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Show I THE LOST MINI Of TBiE EN CAS, Rarmn Cortice, 11 young Now j Knglander of Scotch-Irish descent. ! -J- glfmd with an altogether tincom- 4-- 4-- iiion mentality, possesses the un- -r - usual anl uncanny power, of viv- -.-v Idlv recalling vocnllecllons of his ! Ego passed In former rclncarna- lions, centuries apart, Including v maiiv strange adventures by Hood v and fiohl. simus of thorn connect- -. o,l Wlth Inng-forgction trnasure hoards, concerning which, by vlr- i tu of his weird Rift, he Is able 16 y instance- definite dates and exact lncalltlcs. At the beginning of v j these connected narratives Cortico y j happens to be stranded In Lon- -I- don. practically penniless, al- y though he has potonllally millions y. -I- In sight, lie Is reaching out for y : a man of means and Integrity. .J. who will evinro sufllclcnt faith In y v Ins oncer story to advance I lie v neeessarv capital for a critical and y actual tost. Such an "anger' turns y' ur In the person of West bury y .J. Wavnc. marquis of Scarsdale, a. y young peer of great wealth and y -r passionately fond of bizarre un- y deitakhigt. Helta Cortice. Bar- y v ton's sister. :i surprisingly heaull- v -! fill girl, who Is dependent upon t-lihi). t-lihi). believes In her brother to the -:- -: uttermost, liaving committed m y writing certain stories which fall v from his lips during his trance oh-sessions. oh-sessions. lAftor the successful, v ti rinliiutlon of his first adventure, v in which Cortice recovers the' long-lost ' treasure of King John, y :- Lord Wayne urges him to con- r 1 tlnue his j-evelatlons, the result r leing that they undertake to lo- ;- cate a prohisloric gold mine of. -- fabulous richness somewhere in I'crti. The .wolril 'nntl womlcrftil ; power ol'-Barton ol'-Barton (.'oil ieo, by 'which ho could pro .left himself into' the past and unlock the secrets o lon-t'Orgottcn. treasures', had been proved to the satisfaction ot Lord Wostbuiy Wayne. .Ret La Cortice. as nji'sht have been" ' expected from the loval and Jovinp- nature, had never doubled' her brother's, claims,. For my-, stlf. aven after the marvelous success nnent i ho discovery of King John's hoard at Swincshead "abbe I aeknowl-eilced aeknowl-eilced that I was still skeptical, i'ov that ntipht have been merely a lucky fluke. J had been trained in a hard and doubt in j: school; your seasoned uewKpapor hack f-oon comes io know that one swallow does not make a sum-mer sum-mer neither is alj that glitters pure K'ld. Vet I was all wronpr. as the se-quel se-quel proved. The younpr fellow really liosessed and cottUrcontrol Io practical advantage : ho. 'si range gift he claimed, and we were shortly to have auother. and more convincing proof thereof. Jn-cidontally Jn-cidontally il made mo a rich man. Barton Cortice was now comfortably well io-do. and might have gracefully re-B re-B tired on the proceeds of his first ven- fl tare. But this success had simply con- tinned his belief in his powers and whetted his appetite for further con-(piesis. con-(piesis. In those two directions he was encouraged and abetled by Wcstbury Arayue and Retta Cortice, "although at this stage of the game Lam inclined, to the belief that the adventurous 'young marqnis was largely influenced bv hi desire to sec the girl, and welcomed any device which would keep them in touch. Barton settled a third of his money 20,000 pounds un his sister, and the couple promptly removed to a very pret-fv pret-fv apartment on the embankment over-looking over-looking the Thames nowadays almost the "silver Thames'' of the poets where they lived on a scale befitting t heir improved fortunes. After a brier ro-r, Cortice began to ache and itch for jrew ventures. Kef erring to the money nettled on Ketta he said to her: "In case anything should happen to me, you will be provided fori" "1 snpnse that, means you're going awavj" said the girl. ' Well, yes. " replied Barlon. ' ' Wayne urges me to 'back my? luck.1 as h'; calls it. though actually there's no luclc about it at all. Two and two make four every time. I tell him it's like betting on 'a sure thing." ftctta nodded her prettv head under-standingly. under-standingly. If her faitlnin Barton had j e:r neeiied justification, their present surroundings and the comfortablo assur-an assur-an cp of a snug bank account, against a rainy day would have done the tiTck. "Which case will you take up next?" clie asked. -une ot in1 higgest. i ou remember thai legendary mine in . South Amer- "The .Cold.en Cross?" she' exclaimed. "Exactly. Of course it 's a long Ava v off -the other sido of the world, in fact -and there'll probablv be all sorts of difficulties and obstacles -in the war. But that 's jiiff what I want the harder the 1 better. That King John affair wtos al- j mnsf ridiculously easv. T ;d welcome a really supreme test; and I'm cnnally certain of the final result.-'' "When wilt vou start?" Ttctta in-quired in-quired "T!ie instant we can make the ncces wiry arrangements. I expect Lord ayne and John Dare: here any moment H - hMi you'll hear all about ii. Of j co"r1sr -'rt, !ko to have you with us." 1 his. I .behove, must have boon wl-coioe wl-coioe nou's' fo Ketia.. but before she could reply-the callers were announced, 1 and the four of us plunged into a warm discussion of wavs and means. Wavne wn: as enthusiastic as a bov over'hi.s hrst hun;,ing trip with a now gun. j ' I hieo idjecrs Xor the Golden rt'oss! " Hi oxc aiiiiPd,- after Ihe first greetings '"V r"js timp next venr we'll all be milMonatres. including" our gronchv old H skontio hero. Jack Dare'" MilloiiB!,' I growled. "Wliv. only- 'L1? , r,fllay -vo.". sni, 'n Didn't spend half, your income! How much more do you wnnt?" "Nothing for myself, dear bov." he answered. "I'm an altruist. Others are not so fortunate. Besides, if (.here's a fortune; or several fortunes, going loggij,g, I'm for coraiiing th'0. H.ooting-match." Vor n "peer of ' To realm Wavn.e could be verV slangv 7u Mines He included us, all 'i his bad V J'j.'.f ' bMt 110 Tcaly t:lllt nt Hss "o,-' - 'iI-V,'pn,i il',,erp ait? tjifse wonderful lulhoiiM I.yjng around loose?'-' I i,,. quired, more graciously. No ono'.ConW hp .glum or moroso with WefAlmrv Wavne around. w J ''(ortice will tell us.abont jt," said the marquis, .sinking into 'a chair by iv-itn's side. "Co ahead, Bart." i I "or response Corlieo selected two , H olosely-wntten sheets of .foolscap from the old letter-case. 'Firstas tp facts," he beaan. "I will condense for you an extract from the ;u1 ven arcs of old Pizurro, v.-lin voyaged, oxiilored. and fopght up and down the South American western sea-board sea-board in (he lime of Cortcz. L "Tn about the year so-and so, '.- L ' arro found himself at what is now the H city of Haeua in Peru, hike all the H Spam's) couqiiirJadores. from Columbus H on, Prnrro way after gold- all he could H get. At Tacim he obtained-, Ijy fair i means or foul, a large qiianlily of bullion bul-lion in the shape of small oblong bars, the gold being of exquisite fineness and voO" pale in color. Trying to discover the source from whence the specie came ho learned that it was a slate secret, known onlj to a few priests and to the reigning Inca himself. Whether by cajolery. , by threats, or by harsher harsh-er means, the Spaniard learned from an old Indian priest that the bars came from a fabulously rich mine in the mountains several days7 inarch from the coast. The priest himself was ignorant of the location, or professed pro-fessed to be and could give only this clew that the mine was , situated in a narrow rock-walled valley or canyon can-yon running east and west. That the native Indian" laborers were blindfolded j before going in and coming out of the valley, so that none but the priests knew the secret way. The month of the ( mine consisted of 'a half-natural cave, high up on the northern wall of the J canyon. For avfew minutes each day. whon the sun was in the south, his ravs were: focussed on two shining veins of virgin gold in the form of a cross on the face of the .almost perpendicular wall. This golden cross invisible at other times served as a 'beacon and a guide. Tint Pizarro's informant had never been there himself, and this seems to have constituted the su-t total of his knowledge.. k "Of course. Pizarro tried to locate this treasure-house, but without avail. In thp succeeding centuries, owing to the extermination of the native. Indians In-dians and the Tncas, the mine was either forgotten or its secret lost, al- , though from, time lo time we find men j lion o'f the legend of. the Golden Cross j for a -legend it became and periodical exploring parties wore sent out by the) Spanish ' governors of Peru. , . For at j least a century, so far as 1 can learn,, nothing has been heard of or done about , the Golden Cross mine. Yet it is un-j doubtedlv in-exisiencc. unless- the site h.is been obliterated by an earthquake. earth-quake. J "Now I come, to the theory which, of course, to me possess all fho verily of indubitable fact. Tlero " picking iip the; second paper "is a record of my own recoiled ions concerning this very matter, taken down almost verbatim ver-batim by my sister. Tn this descriptive recollection of myself in a previous ex istence I seem clearly to have been in some wa3- mixed up' with this prehistoric, prehis-toric, mine in the Andes perhaps ages before the time 6f Pizarro, because I see myself clad in the barbaric garb of a priest, toiling over the mountain footpaths, foot-paths, and passes to and fro from the cave-mouth, guarding a pack-train of Indians, laden- with provisions and fruits going in, and with a burden of gold coining out. So vivid is my recollection rec-ollection that. I should have no difficulty diffi-culty in piloting a party or in recognizing recog-nizing the valle or canyon, and oner there the Golden Cross on the rock wall would. do the rest. Undoubtedly the mine is there; perhaps it was worked out, and therefore forgotten; but at any rate' it. strikes mo the venture ven-ture is worth trying." "TIow far is the valley from the coast?" inquired Lord Wa'yne. "There you've- got me," admitted Corlieo with complete candor. "Maybe "May-be a week s journey on foot. But I know the way. ' ' "Wonderful!'-' exclaimed the martinis, mar-tinis, his eyes on Rctta's face. During her brother's recital she had listened rapturously to every word. "How do you account for, it, .-Mr. Cortice?" 1 put in. "Have you n working hypothesis which will explain your strange powers.?" , My question met with almost instant response, for I'm bound lo admit that Barlon Cortico was no crazy trickster or selfTdeluded enthusiast. In all his sayings nnd doings outside of this reincarnation re-incarnation business he was clean, sane, and heallhy-minded as any man of his years. aud education. "flu this way," he answered. "You know that the belief in reincarnation is thousands of years old, both individuals indi-viduals aud nations returning to earth in regularly recurring cycles. My personal opinion is that, in each con-" tury there arc individuals reincarnated who reproduce special or remarkable gifts possessed, in .a previous career hereon earth' soldiers, artists, musicians, musi-cians, statesmen.' or .inventors. So far. broadly speaking. -To a special few. now and again, is vouchsafed the power of recalling -or piecing out the events of their former sojourn oil this planet, as in my own case. That's as far as 1 can go, -Mr. Dtire. " lie spoke quietly, lucidly, and with supreme confidence. It. was impossible impos-sible to remain unconvinced of the man's personal integrity. Lord Wayne put an end . to' what: niign.l have proved a tedious discussion by exclaiming: "I'm convinced that the Golden f'ross mine was and is an actual fact, and I move, we go after it!" '"T hoped -you'd say that." admitted! Barton; "but how? It would be a big enterprise. "We'll fake Ihe yacht," says Wayne, "A first-class mining ejigineer must be secured an -expert whose opinion will carry weight, and will amount to something some-thing should we find what we're after. Our port will be this very Taena, right, around '.the Horn, and homo by wav of Suez around- he world voyage. IT Mis? Cortice 'will accept Iho hospilalitv of The Lassie, I'll prevail on my siller, hady Blanche, to make one of the party. We.MI want you. Jack, " ' he ' went on, turning to me. "and you'll have, a fine chance to send grind copy to your paper. The yacht's pr.aetira '.y ready aud we'll sail the. instant you give the word," By thus making-ihe girl tin focus -point of the little expedition Way fie did 71 ver3 graceful thing in a er'y ploawnil j manner. There was really no reason why anyone any-one should object, and so it was arranged. ar-ranged. Lassie was at the moment in the Solent, with crew aud stores aboard and steam up, for "Wayne was veiy fond of thus dashing off to Norway, the West. Indies or the Mediterranean, according to the season. So. promising'to make all needed arrangements, ar-rangements, lo hire a iniAing expert, and to call with his sister the following follow-ing dny.-Wayne and Taaid good-bye. "You've taken a large contract this tune," I Isuggeslod, as wc.'.vcnt down in the liff "The bigger the bettor!" he retorted, re-torted, gayly. "We'll have 110 end of' .sport! Kver been 'round the Horn?" ' ' Never. ' ' ' "Well, neither Jiave J never had a good reason , till now.v . . "You moan -' reasons," T chuckled, emphasizing the plural "two. of 'em a pair of melting brown oves." "That's all tommy-rot. 'Jack! " ho ifrotrsted but 1 knew better, and so, I suspect, did AVtslbnrv Wayne. -Jt is siiuply ma-rxelo'us to a:poor man how the command of unlimited money greases the wheels when you want something done in a hurry. Within .the week Lord Wayne had secured a competent mining expert named Mal-comb Mal-comb Forbes the highest-priced man in London agreeing to pay him a bonus bo-nus of 10,000 pounds for -the trip and to make him an equal shar-M- wirh the rest of us should we relocate the lost Golden Cross, Also there was sent on board The Lassie some requisite tools and machinery: the yacht herself was fully coaled and provisioned for a long cruise, and every possible detail had been thought. of. On the morning of, April 10 our party par-ty of eight two ladies, their maids, and "we, tour men1 met al, Victoria station. sta-tion. By 2 o'clock ye were aboard, .and Lassie's prow was ripping Iho azure blue of Southainpjou water, outward bound for the' Horn, only stopping for coal at Trinidad, Ifiu aud Punta Arenas. Are-nas. Well, this is norccord of a mere pleasure trip, or 1' might descant in raptures over Uic supreme comfort we found on board. The Lassie measured nearly a thousand tons as big as many cargo-carriers well olliiiercd and manned, carried twin-screws and turbine tur-bine engines, with sufficient sail-spread to give her eight knots in any kind, of a breeze, should steam- 'fail us. Wcstbury Wcst-bury Wayne was himself -a good navigator, navi-gator, a 'member of the Royal naval leserve, but Jhero was on board a competent com-petent captain and' two mates. Our host never shone to better advantage than on the Lassie's bridge and the dog knew it! In passing, it may bo noted that nowhere no-where save on an ocdan .voyage can a man discover so many opportunities of showerinp attentions "on t )" woman he admires or adores. It was so in this case. The marquis was incessant, in his solicitude for the comfort of Helta Goriic.p. Every possible want seemed to be anticipated but always with the. quiet and unobtrusive 'gallantry of the true Mnglish gentleman. - Lady Blanche JDoering the widow' of a. wealthy brewerwas, brew-erwas, as hor brother 'said "a good follow." Forbes proved eminently clubnblc, and altogether wc were a happy hap-py ship. -We ran down our latitude in the North Atlantic, took on coal at Trinidad, Trini-dad, then pushed into the .southern parallels, bought more coal at Rio, and headed for the bleak Capo Horn, and on Juno 15 entered Magellan's stormy si rait, the passage of which wc accomplished accom-plished in something less than a week. Then, the third week in June, the last grim headland faded astern, v'ind the Lassie's keen stem was shearing the blue wafers "of the Pacific. Although Iho weather had been horribly cold while in the straits for il was winter in Ihe southern hemisphere wo had not been uncomfortable, and had made a record passage for the time, of year. Wo had 2000 miles of steaming yet ahead of us about ten days, barring accidents. Well, there were no untoward .events, and after the inclement South Atlantic parallels and the fog ami storm of old Magellan's short-cut, we fairly reveled in the true Pacific weather. We had discussed our mode of procedure on reaching Taena, and nnticinaf eda no hindrance hin-drance on the part of tho Peruvian government; gov-ernment; officials. We were' to represent repre-sent ourselves as a company of Kuro-pean Kuro-pean capitalists and mining experts looking for profitable investments, and in this guise expected a quite cordial welcome. Loi;d Wayne had armed himself him-self with the proper letters from 'tho Peruvian minister in London, also from the British foreign office to the English consul and charge d'affaires. Aud the beauty of it was that our partv was really what il claimed to be. Should we succeed in locating the Golden Gross there would probably be no difficulty diffi-culty in Hocuriiig (ho requisite mining concessions. Our one fear was that the old 111 i 11 0 might have disappeared or been rediscovered. Of course, wc pro posed 'to preserve the utmost secrecy as to our real destination and our special and secret information. Tecna possesses a fair harbor backed by the most inspiring Andean scenery. Of the town itself, (he people, and the native officials, the less said the better. Dirt, laziness and incompetence are thp only adjectives a truthful scribe can use in speaking of them. The one chief holel proved so uninviting that we decided de-cided to leave the ladies on the yacht while avo men made our dash into the interior. I suppose if. has occurred fo most ! of us, at some time in our lives, upon! visiting a certain locality, fo find our- ' solves exclaiming: "Why. I've been i hero before!" It; has happened to, 1110. personally, yet until I met up with Barton Cortico, fho matter never 1 possessed any special significance. But ' I'm told (hat is one of the evidences j in favor of reincarnation and 'm con- I tent to let it. go at Unit. 1 However. I was curious fo note how t the town itself and its sights would im . press Cortice, who was supposedly re ! visiting the place that he had once in 1 habited. j "How docs it. all strike you?" I in quired of him as we walked up 1 ho j main avenue, the f'nlle dos Andes. " H 's as completely new and '"atrange to me as the rest of you," he replied. ' ' Hemoniber, T don't know how many hundreds of years have elapsed since 1 was here before. Probably it was long prior to tho Spanish conquest, whon fho place would havo been little more (ban a collection of huts or buildings al 4 (hough T judge some portions here and 1 1 hero 'arc prefty ancient. No, I lon 't j see a familiar feature, nor do I expect ex-pect to until wo get into the mountains.'' One of tho things that made you be- j Hove in Barton Cortice. in spite, of! yourself, was fho fact thai, he never! claimed fno much. So far his powers, could and would carry him, but 110 i farther. ' j Wayne and Forbes attended lo all (he shore details, interviewing the necessary officials, and arranging for the. transport of ourselves, our fools, machinery and commissary. Cortice absented himself for two whole days, returning very dusty, and excessively weary, but with a. quite contented expression ex-pression on his face. That, evening! at dinner in the Lassie's saloon he un-j burdened his soul. J "It's all right," ho nodded; "I've located the road; in fact, there's only one highway out of the town leading duo cast, and that, runs right up into the mountains. I tell you, if s a highly curious sensation, going over a route that you haven't; seen for more centuries, cen-turies, perhaps, than there are days in the week!" f'Pick up any news?" inquired West bury Wayne, holding a glass of Burgundy to fho light. "Nol a word." answered Corlieo. "But I. discovered a rather curious fact. I ft ti into a native village about tea miles out Indians, dogs and fleas and 1 discovered that I could make out fheir lingo, a word here and there the real native parts, you know for fhev chaffer chaf-fer a vile pafois of mongrel Spanish and Portuguese, interlarded with a few native words." "That's all right, old mnn!" nodded Wavne. "By Jupiter!" exclaimed Forbes. "This beats the Dutch!" For, although al-though the mining expert had been lured from London to Peru on Way no's representations that ho possessed pos-sessed secret information as lo an ex cocdingly rich and forgotten gold mine, it; was not until he was safely on board that he learned the somewhat tenuous nature of that knowledge. I am inclined in-clined lo boliovo that, although he was too polite to voice 1; is opinion, he regarded re-garded Barton Cortice as a visionary madman. "Of course. I never h( on," said Barton, grinning. " f those beggars thought ii gringo could understand their lingo complications might ensue. We don't want any spies on our trail, 1 take it." "You're all right. Barton!" laughed his lordship. "Ladies and gentlemen, I think wo mav confidently drink to tho Golden Cross!" We honored the toast, and then Lady Blanch convulsed the tablo'by remarking remark-ing naively to "Retta: t "I can't make head or tail of it, my dear can you?" "Oh, yes," gurgled the girl, "I'm not the least; bit surprised." '.Indeed, it needed just a little touch like that to convince the most skeptical, as she flashed a challenging glance, across the table at Forbes and mvself. "By Jupiter!" was all that Forbes could say. For myself, I know when I '111 beat en. ! On a glorious spring morning, then, vou may picture a little cavalcade riding rid-ing on' mule-back out. of Tecna, and taking tho old mountain road into the interior. There were six Europeans in all. for wc had pressed into service two of tho yacht's crow, besides four na-tivo na-tivo Peruvians to drive tho pack-mules. Up and up went the .highway and those old lucas certainly knew how to build roads and temples. Forbes snid it was the finest bit of grading and metaling he had ever seen, though badly gullied here and there by the rains and a total lack of repairs. Four days we followed that road. winding around towering peaks and horrible precipices, overv fool of the way becoming rougher "and fho Andean An-dean scoucry wilder. Cortice rodo at tho head of the procession, seemingly suro of tho route, sometimes trotting ou ahead by himself and then waiting wait-ing for us to come up. By tliis time the road had narrowed to a" morn trail, and we Averu forced to travel iu single file. Shortly after breakfast on fho fifth day we camo to a frail at right angles an-gles to tho one we were traveling, and our leader promptly turned into the new path. Instantly tho drivers of Iho paok-mnlos stopped their animals aud came huiryiug forward. By Iheir gestures we could make out flint the main road led straight ou, for they shook their touseled heads violently at the dobranehiug (rail. "'I'liey say no one ever goes this way," Cortice informed us; "but for once . I hey 're wrong." Turning to tho head man he spoke two or three guttural words, which sounded like the clicking of his teeth, pointed to the north and motioned for us.to follow. We of course obeyed, and the jingling mule-bells fell into line once more. "That's a good sign," said Wayne to 1110 over his shoulder. "Burton's got tho scent all right." And so it proved. Inside of an hour the roek scrown track, rapidly descending descend-ing all the while suddenly "debouched midway into a valley walled by nearly perpendicular cliffs, carpeted with lush grass and watered by a little snow-fc I 1 1 vulei. "fs this your happy valloy?" inquired in-quired Wayne, removing his pith helmet hel-met and mopping his forehead, for it was insufferably hot down there, wiLh the rock walls reflecting the noontide sun. "Sure thing!" nodded Cortice. And " he was going on, when we wore all startled by an exclamation like a rifle shot from Forbes. "By Jupiter, Mr. Cortice! There's your Goljlen Cross ' ' He pointed excitedly to the opposite wall of the canyon, and the rest of us, following his linger with our eyes, saw what we had come so many thousand miles to find an' irregular, ragged cross oi" gold glittering in the afternoon sun I after all these centuries. At the sight. I the superstitious Indians fell on their knees and began to say their prayers. ! Barton Cortice was fho least , excited among the whole bunch, Peruvians and .Europeans. Well, we made camp, ale our dinner, aad then by mutual consent, tho four I of us waded the little stream and set out to reach the month of the mine which, we doubted not, lay below tho sign of the cross. The face of the cliff ! we found quite practicable, for there were traces here and there of a rudely hewn path. "There used fo be a rope balustrade here," remarked Cortice as wc scrambled scram-bled up foot by foot, often dragging ourselves forward by moans of bushes and rock hand-holds, as one might say. "There was a honvv rain lnsl nirrhf."" The mouth of the mine finally yawned in front of. us a flat, natural arch under which we "had to crawl on all fours. , Once inside, we found we could stand upright without cracking our skulls. Wc flashed our electric torches, revealing a vaulted chamber as big as St. Paul s cathedral, from whence, rani-ifviug rani-ifviug in every direction, ran little tunnels delving into tho heart of the mountain. A I one side stood a mass of rude Tmfl pjjg smelting apparatus, the woodwork loyfp 10 since crumbled into dust, with hcTff'--' of ore lying at I he furnace mouth. W Sol'f the most surprising find of all consis'ftfuiliiir of a regularly stacked pile of metalllVine cC1 gots, like thoso flat vitrified brici1 kvoi used nowadays. & JS ,( Cortico, with characteristic eoolnnw ply had lighted a cigar and stood, feet wiw'-sitf'1 apart, puffing out great clouds of sm'wjtitfjiflD and looking about him. He must hajt! iat had curious thoughts just then, nn'duSjsjJc almost envied him. witok Wayne kicked at the pile 'of ingfj5ilJi0r shouting: 'TifJr.ti "Here, Forbes, what's all thisfioni The expert picked up one of the bric-Tytip' tt6 weighed it in his hands, scraped at .tjot if dulled and tarnished surface with.'rfSf5 JL pen knife and answered in awed toiieVf ' "Gold! Pure gold! Gcntlcm'Ejjfet.J (here's a million sterling in I hat bojTjsi jir of ingots! Even if the mine's playf: ' nut, we are all rich men!" But jt!irC ' wonderful old mine was by no mea exhausted, and is "paving good (Hyfi. dends to this daw Then. turninp-"f-litot'un Barton, he held out his hand, sayinf " My congratulations, Mr, Cortigjr After "this, I'm ready to believe arPtistf3''' thing!" Sio "Thanks." drawled Cortice. "BS jfi'c from my point of view, you know, tfSjel matter was very simple." ftpc That practically ends the storyfT,)' jorm how we recovered the lost mino of tl .bisst Tucas. Yet, to properly round out llflUblf yarn, the reader ought perhaps to Av,,ksd ' told that wo secured from the Peruvij'ht there government a regular and bona fiJy.jjlazi mining concession to work what thVjLfeccr supposed was a totalis' new and virgj'j.ic In discovery. Ijfe- Upon returning fo London Fteps wolTj- C taken to float a stock companv, ftjrL in none of us desired to bo burdened wl ar the actual and practical management! the new enterprise. So, if you arc cvv- in the neighborhood of the roval cww-if change nnd the old Lady of ThrcnfW'11 needle slreoPi you may sec cniblazoriwtpnV in gilt scrip on a certain platc-'gljwSl"" window in Kino- William street th magic name: "The Golden Cross Mifot. iiir company. Limited." -lIVi101 But you cannot buy a single shafedc'I1 for love or for money I j(rA P0'1 (Next week: "The Yalmond DjSac monds.") fby |