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ry my FREDERICK j ADAMS author of the th kidnapped alres 9 colonel doctrine etc 1003 BY all axa BT hufham ADAMS A J CHAPTER XII continued two hundert I 1 feet fact from he file house hous thedoe the dok paused and sniffed the air then with a ye yip p h aluni d to the right moda for a rock roch which showed dim t limich the he snow know and burrowed burrow rd franti III ilav into a drift on its leward side in thi white mass make saw a dali dak ol 01 i el cl and as an he be reached tin rock roch it moved th next instant a beard I 1 fau fact op appi pared arod from the folds of alit a hi avi tur fur ovin oven at and a man uneit adely to his foot fact can caa you vou walh shouted blake grasi mf him film by abc arm I 1 thin bo gold tho the sl Rt ranger ah ho he the ropo rope how far in 19 iff it not to fai 1 I 1 r plied blake enczur acini iv IN pull on th hi rope it will holp ou one in tin tb cabin the stran stranger gir r seand hlin f n ar the stove ahl blake a flaak fiall and heaped fuel un on th the ill ftp our hands and feet away from tho tofe it if they are frozen cautioned make I 1 ni not frost front bitten was the stran rs eph its as he clapped ills his hands bands oioi iHly and lin i inched clied his him oars cars I 1 wan wag completely dono done fur it if you haddi found roe me when oil did ho be said with much f fating feting as ag ho be ox tended hla his hand I 1 should never have left ahto hue aliv all vi I 1 P at tho the gound of 0 the mans man s voice jamos james ninke mahe stall batail d and gazed in at him when the bearded str stranger antor rala raised 1 I lils aties and offered lis lid land tho the was corn jolin john burt or I 1 in a ghosal don t you know me ino jobst 1 ill 11 i i th nw la Is not lemon demon str atrat atlo fo in his i motions or but the joy walli danced in the es of roun reunited fled fric arlinda rids ai they shook hook handi and slapped each other A Z N cay raj cy j deay on the back was us more eloquent than words this seems acorns too rood good to bo be true trite biml jim I 1 exclaimed john his hand bond on jim a shoulder hut dot for you old chum roy my california empet lence would ham bait been ended how small the world la is that we a should moot meet here of all places on oil earth take olt off lour our clothes clott iea and got get into bod bed john directed dir eted make blake as he be i pushed john into a chair and tugged at his frozen boots do as I 1 tell you and be all right lie quiet and rest real nn don I 1 talk but rep keep awake times during the next two hours john fell into a drowse but by of will he roused himself the reaction after the awful struggle in UK the drifts tas as se severe ero uit bat u it he mas bared it and was himself again make blake exhausted exhaust eI the resources of his larder in PA dinner which john enjoyed as aa never before in his hie life and dog did not so go huntr yr choa pipes wre produced produce and seated near the red hot stove the two friends recounted some of the events had lied their lives during the preceding six alt bears ears it seemed ages to both v ut them tho the striplings strip lings f of 0 devent en were now stalwart mn alalie eagerly to lits hta friend a 8 recital of the events eventa loading leading up to tho the quarrel with arthur jim clenched his bis hauda bands and leaned ex orward forward when john told of the 0 struggled ith morris in the tavern 1 11 l haye have sometimes thought said eald john that I 1 should hao hane remained and faced the he ch caga ge of murder m which aich might bavo been mado me ine that was my first impulse I 1 did not mil Bi orrs and it la Is only by chance that he did not kill roe me the revolver was still A hla his land hand when im w fell though I 1 had bent his wrist so that hc hat could not turn it against roe me it of those now naw self cocking 1 ex and morris shot himself but and grandfather t and others advised me to y t bt bivon 4 ha the reach of a y in ahlf chall all the money ifland hiiro baon against sine rue dv tell efte ot yourself y jim what Wha have ou it done dona ila california and abat has golden state done for vol ft L t IS it woul ta gme to jen ot tl t af pf A 0 last five alve ye year ial alm lelake bakey 40 toss ingi an tb jojn 0 aji r I 1 I 1 ot rite iest you me amus bod era make you mad I 1 ve bee rufh ahre ti in e 2 hobt and iti lov iwic no umes 1 H I w rich and h w baill in lovi 1 mi I tr i s f f and my love lov affair 1 ar ill jumel 1 d I tol io thor t x plain 1 aft laughing dirtily you 11 hav a bad opinion of me in john but I 1 v r t i in 1 d I and am going to in load 1 iid a li it 11 r I 1 mad mv first in n th I 1 I 1 ml rai tall about lin ill k h rii fit ti il wa was a funny fonny thiap I 1 hr il if it in i n k nd ind 11 II covi cov r d a roli fold mint tin an I 1 a w v III ih art in doing it dr br lie ke monr our nick surely your ji j seln till it B R firt ln t the santo as ah s rt arti 1 th rubb rubbing the bilo bu it t f his n lu it 1 which showed no no 11 r ft fi ictus I 1 niah w ah ft a tre greenborn enborn th n and i N I 1 i r sp q tn tit A f r thi th j at 1 f thi id std tai rs I 1 b in iii it hi a hors hon and a M 1 I lean icon adde an I 1 I 1 1 d I thi iiii mth all th moun taint ind antl ro othil bt bi h 1 of rb raf I 1 1 fill ielli cola cala ram on at aft t i loon I 1 waw wag tol ful owing lowing it a trail that 1 d I aloni ill ih sid ld of a mountain ill alln I 1 a lot ot of in IN h HP hills and inbur rowing around one of them boosi nd n d a rock mach caroo carno rolling down own in my dire tion my mv horse saw anti and hear lapard it and milled off th du trail rail ile he slid about twenty ft and then fil and as ai 1 IK I w wint tit my foot wont w nt through the th stirrup II ID rolli roald d over me and w wi started town down the slope SomI nih I 1 was wag on top and some times time 4 he ha mai on top I 1 lour our or ill i hundred fp fe t blow I 1 saw a thin row of friis and I 1 knew they thi di if of a cliff for some reason thi th I 1 i m it always a franf of tr r nt itt th ih jumping off on pla i 4 W w i ing ID III liki likht lightning ning just JUKI as ar w n ti n 1 d I th ill i IKI ig uio horie hore rolled over m aien A I 1 came on oil top I 1 saw that w wi w I 1 r f to pass two dinall tra A big rock 1 1 I vi 1 d I tho th hors around and h b went town down had bond first I 1 grabbed at a tree and by the merest borost chance threw roy free log leg around it I 1 held like grim death to a coon and hoard heard the leather snap as tho the horse wont the precipice if it had bacu aca a first class saddle I 1 be here to tell the title I 1 was aas hanging down over the cliff it vaa eighteen ight een hun bun dred foot feet deep to the first stopping place anti anil I 1 so baft that horse all straddled out win over and over in the air I 1 closed my eyes so OH as not to see him strike then I 1 crawled back a few foot feet and pat bat down behind a rock that a the last thing I 1 re member until I 1 hioko boko up tip in bed an old doctori chose whoso breath smiled of liquor was inas bonding bending over me and rio nar ar him was ans ono one of the prettiest girls girla I 1 ever saw she and her father inere pro approaching nie ilia when ahen I 1 started to slide down the mountain her rame NI va jenny ropers rogers jim sighed and paused abis la Is growing romantic but how about the broken neck meek I 1 asked john I 1 it waa m as broken or dislocated which la Is about the same thing continued blake jennys father knew of an old spanish doctor about forty miles awa and went tor for him lie he was a wonder on bonesi bones ile he vac ar black as an indian and uglier than stil sin he felt wound my swore softly ile in n spanish rolled me 0 over on my face climbed on my bak jibbed bibbed his k kopea nees into my shoulder blades and grabbed me by the laws jaws ile he gave my head a quick wrench I 1 saw a thousand sky lockets dockets lock ets something cracked and I 1 became sen sena elos when I 1 aw ok he be had my neck in splints and was vaa jab hiring haring spanish tn ile he said bald lie he was the only whito man in the world who could sot set a broken neck and I 1 gum guess lie ho was ile he had learned the irice from an indian medicine man ito ho charged it b arged roe me twenty five dollars do and told me to lie he auf bulit t for a week jenny rogers nursed me and of course I 1 foil fell in love with her I 1 was in their cabin and near ly mr rogers hud located some valuable claims here Is the most remarkable part a this story wake clake went on I 1 wh i I 1 was able to dress I 1 picked up that cursed mexican stirrup to see how the leather to break it was sag a steel affair tind and I 1 noticed some bright elow ellow spots in the crevices blamed e d jf it it gold I 1 I 1 dian didn it say a wor word d but when I 1 was strong enough I 1 went ent back und climbed scowl down the place ebore ruy my horse fell it was t aa to homow tollow lt t ederea 4 found an io ap pp I 1 n g r or gold id biarl ng lor ore and und unith th I 1 markot kt 0 f rw e no fal j had ebed it I 1 naked out a clot claim az and sold it to anny J anny to father ti V I 1 a hundred and twenty fl fi thousand dollars iles lie a made two millions out of it I 1 made love to I 1 and I 1 think she would hav 11 hid id nit mc but 1 I went to S san n francisco and dropped a UK 1114 hundred and tw nty five thou thousand gand on th raining mining ex nghanh chani I 1 mint tit barl bad and atilt aak I 1 finny to wait until I 1 ml anothy fortun sh suld said slit d about it I 1 guess wh did A a latr lati r shi sh 1 l a man ft ho to la now a I st tit it s I so I 1 broke my tit ni I 1 I 1 t st t my fortune and my nw hw tit hi ii i t i all in less than a year acor and hav you nowa now this ibis mountain hot hat au an replied blak blah ith a laidly of his arm and a holo hol in thi th ground around back liace of it th n I 1 li am ti a fini ln vio w of the vally valley a bood Eipp appetite etite a Hl alu inhering con acu icu tie nc and and DOR dog here who n vi r la IS me for being seven kind of a fool jilin told the he stoby of the dying sailor ailor anil and his mar map and real an ex rat hom P t i burt a letter then it in produce 1 I the map and they spread it out on oil the table and examined it by th tb light of tie he lantern lantan I 1 follo followed wod th UK biall nil all right ex plain I 1 john J hn until the storm set in mil th a I 1 ha I 1 to 0 o I 1 I 1 my iny way lie ile fore I 1 ait 1 ast rny my bearings I 1 nas ft as about I 1 iwo mno s from thi th point m where here thi this 8 sailor ailor to baat found got goll I 1 it lei pt n nf or ar the idge of the din cliff until 1 I could jo no further lier and then coiled cm led up that rock in the hope that tho the toini would cease make studied the map with prow grow fig 1 ig int rest and excle ment with a splinter flom a log as a marlor marker he be traced the th trail I 1 know every toot foot ot or it he ex chilmos resting the boint of tho the plant r on a round spot on the map II 11 re la Is fish r s lake you came that far by litre la Is the creek which ou folk v m tor for seven ichen miles un tit til ou oil rome come to the ol 01 oil I 1 woi trail you tahe that to th cliffa and go along the cliff until you vou four brooks and come to the fifth ont oni you wm w a hundred bards of that fifth str am john now I 1 itts t 9 sel sec th thac ki itt v to this thing I 1 john handed him the letter trona the HIP east cast face of the square rok on the north bank of tho the bicok in ook at the edge of the cliff read mad ellalie I 1 know th rock will wil let lets s see I 1 lanm h no mat ast at al ng th tin bank of tho the brook in a tin tour hundred and two lenti ION 1 N tiit ct and then coith at ii erht lit nil inki itty aen en feet to the ia bas if A tit tin tal pine in the riligh I 1 make rut liefl to the door forgetful of the tofal ito iiii to vilify his suspicions lie ile pu pushed hed it open an inch but a solid bank atilt of snow block blocked til the wai ahei do ou oil suppose the base ft ct that pine ilea lia 10 he demanded demand pd without wal trig for a ho bo found a hatchet and topped tapped the clay aloir flor until he located a spot which gancia eada don dpn denett sound bound then tie he clio chopel t I 1 away a few hights of packed dirt jl I 1 sank the blala into a solid su Bub b staja t tl TI ere cro a tho base 0 of f th the a b alfi I 1 P al pa e tri ane a des describe I 1 by your tip id pallor bailor ond ill hot bat my life on it he shouted and her hen ore are of the iho tice cioe ha I 1 c continue 1 pol pointing ting to the R 1053 qs cabill formed tho the foundation of the cabar I 1 im ni d dad dead ad sm a of it john it its s aboul a hundred and forty ards arda biorn aiom here to the edge of the cliff I 1 know for I 1 measured it and its about twenty saida to the ilia brook what ahat Is more conclusive this was by far the largist five anywhere around that a 9 why ully I 1 located the cabin here ut lets s see what comes next ilia ekes ees glia ells with excitement the instructions were to measure three hundis d and eighteen feet north from the base of the tree and thence east cast to a carefully described rock abich make biale remembered chig was waa tho the base of the incline within a hun bun dred red yards of this rock the key to lo fed three golo goll bearing quartz lodges ledges to be continued |
