| Show the house he built her BY E I 1 irom right liw by dally daily story pub co yes said the elder wan inan you ma may y but only a after you have compiled alt with h it certain condition the other leaned forward hoping the condition would be within hla hits powers to perform ills eyes glowed his lips parted his bis hands clasped and big fingers twisted acx an x during the he pause that ensued ensue d then the condition came short ble and abrupt birst I 1 iret build her a house bouse anell 11 it was mas a hard requirement at best beet lind and almost an impossible one yet he be made up his mind at once that be would mould comply m with fib the ondi condition tion jarries james burton was a boung engineer trying to make hla his fortune in the in mines ines of mexico ile he had no money with which to start independently so BO he had engaged as an assistant in the amplo of a large company operating near mexico city ile he had now been in the country six months and dining that period had bad gion to love the daughter of a wealthy ranch owner the ranchero had practically no education bini himself self but b had a d provided a way for the iho education of life his children chil dien en in both english and span lah ish ills eldest daughter aurora had attended a boarding school la in phala delphia amora was as sensible as site she was bright none of the tickle fickle flirty character of the spanish race seemed to belong to her ter her dirk dark eyes hid hat plenty of fire in them but there was never any duplicity back of it burton loved her not merely be cause she he was nas captivating but because she combined amb ined those hose sterling qualities admired by eiery man of se be clotin n atme when he met her he be knew at once it was a ruse ease of settle down and grow up tip with the he cou countey for bete wai wag wa i not only life his professional work lut but his hearts ideal also lie ile hal riot not yet et proposed to amora lie he had a theory that it should not be necessary except as a matter of bolm arid and that any man who was refused was waa a fool and ought to he be lie ile claimed that hat lovers should learn to un nn dere der tand stand each other in the language of love beffie attempting to make use of any other language he knew auroia loved him and all he wanted was mas the parental pai sanction now ho he had bad obtained it but with a difficult condition imposed how flow could he build her a house ile he was nine drawing only per month on oil say remember member ite that this la Is the sebasti de bastI curie nev ot of index me ito and that the things that must be purchased pin pui chased with it aio aie all marked away up tip to the standard of the united states currency A min imn who li Is worth t atto 0 dollars a day in fit the united states acts only two tao dollars in mexico but a pair of shoes worth two dollars in the united states rosta costs eight or ten dollars in mexico itow how then say coil can the native Alexi mexicans cans me iho on from fifty cents to a dollar it 11 di in mexican Nex ican moneys rhe wear a shirt a pair of overalls oveia lla a blanket arid and a a pair of sandals no more end and they oat eat pancakes and beans pancakes and beans pancakes anti and beans and beans so how m was as james durton burton to s sup lip himself on an a month and build a house bouse besides you don t know and neither did lie he hut but lie he de terin ter mined ined to do it just the same finally he got an idea lie ile waited for a good opportunity and then broached bio ached the subject to the manager of the company a nir mr langdon mr T langdon he said bald it you 11 II build me a little adobe house ill stand halt half the cost you been petting getting married not yet no but I 1 want to as soon as I 1 can get a house sorry my boy sorry but the corn com pony pany wont A on t allow me to make such an expenditure at this time later on oil w when ben our di lftIng reathea reaches those itch veins that show on oil the surface ot of tho hill and we get to running that rich stuff through the mill here may be a dlf dIf frent story to tell but just now I 1 cannot do it ile he went back to tile his vork mork in the as say room lie he thought about it all day night came and he be era cra viled led into his bunk ahat could ho he lot dol there must be some way may of solving this problem pio blem lie ile had solved other lonis mining many efthem why coulden couldn rit t he solve sole tills this by of many man inquiries he had satisfied himself that mexican w wai aa a safo safe est estimate linaLe ot of tho cost of a three room adobe house built so BO ns as to he be barly comfortable A ridiculously low figure to be sure stirs but it would talc take him a long time to save that much and it the acobes adobes wei en t in tle ide during march april and may bed e d have to valt malt another year ear it still lacked ano weeks to the first of march birne dougli to build tho the roun foundation dation and the company had bad plenty of lime and stone on hand ma ila be nir mr I 1 anadon mould let him have lime and stone alone for the foun dation it if lie he assumed the iha ity of paeng the wags chete was ii a mason on a small addition to tile the mill brilling bu illing mabbe maibe lie ho would work ork on the foundation or of the little honce during spate time burton figured that the mages on the foundation would cost him twenty dol dollar lans that the adobas adobes would cost him folly dol laia and that he could pet got half bait the quantity in march and the other half in april 1 then he be could got get about twenty dollars dollar worth of work done each month until the house houle wai as completed t As aa A site for her house he selected elilee eli led the blow biow of a little hill about a mile little from tho reduction plan plina and about t A 1 bivia ll 11 th line of ri abe at corni ap parly s property ther tip lip started a man excavating ex avatine ava ting for he had heldal f 1 I 1 to deviate from the mexican custom u and lid have a little cellar earv evening he would trot out on hot hoi s bai ba k and take a look at the rexa ress being made lie was mas rather dla dis appointed at the slow rate of 0 advance wit but could nt lit bilime the workman for the he cause of the trouble was d 1 nt in the middle 0 of the hole stuck a point pin of rock formed in a per feet cone the workman had tiled to lo dig it out but as he dug the rock seemed to grow and by this ahli time it was n a 1 plain 1 l n tase t i i 0 e 0 of f 1 blast 1 a t 01 asi G getting e t t 1 n g this h I 1 a big b 1 g r rock 0 e out t 0 of f t the h e way a Y meant more expense and the of it made burton blue bille As he be stood there here musing on how much extra the lock would mould cost him he kicked at it absent mind mindedly edly and vindictively the sun still was aas just setting belting and its ita ras on the place where his boot had scraped oft off the earth from the stone ly a mighty bright sort of 0 f stone thought durton burton to himself guess knock off a bit and seo see what ahat it looks like inside the house he built her was not fin dished till two tao sears later but it was ma s located in the american section of the city of mexico instead of out in the M wilderness it was built of cut stone instead ot of baked mud mild and contained thirty rooms instead of 0 three its lights electric instead of tallow its windows were trimmed with onyx and its mir robed halls with marble many an opal decked its boudoirs bou doirs many a guest adorned its ita dining room tor for its hof etess entertained with ith a lavish hand and was never called on to economize one of these functions I 1 was per emitted to attend and I 1 heard her father say durton you ve mad a fine sue site celsi cess I 1 owe it all to ion oil he replied you made me attempt to build her a house and then I 1 8 struck tr U ck the mine I 1 |
