Show ENOCH DA ONLY HOPE if imite only finds that lost mine enoch davis tho the murderer whoso choso days on earth aro are rapidly draw ing ing to an end is hold bald in solitary confinement the only persons persona permitted to communicate with him being the guards who preside over the station adjoining his hia cell the prisoner as has boon his conduct from the very first is very retiring shrinka before the gaze of the visitor and keeps his bis reflections p actie to himself for he bo has cherished a hope that the expedition which he bent cass hi hite to in search of a lost mine mina of fabulous riches would develop something to heck check th the course coarse of the law fl decree his first inquiry in in the morning his last at night is is for mail but nono none save an occasional let tor lor from his lawyer has reached him he states that hito hite promised to write him concerning the search and his hia failure to do so has made the doomed doornen man very severe on him davis feels feela confident that if hite kept hept in tho the trail marked out by him upon maps that were improvised in his cell and jealously guarded until tho the batters lat tors release that tho the mine which lies on a line duo east eighty miles from salt lake has boon been recovered tho the more reason reasonable reasonably ablo con conjecture jectura would bo be that it had not been discovered although thou 0 ii n no course of reasoning 0 can convince him of it daviss story to hito hite was either an unparalleled marvel of fact or an example of fiction that few have achieved not a link in it was missing da and when hite left it was with maps upon which ho he expected logo to go straight to the treasure which the prisoner says is in one of tho recesses of the uintah reservation dayis davis claims to have discovered the whereabouts of the misi erious bonanza years ago but for reasons as mitori ons to as tho the of hito hite is to him t absolute silence until cou con evicted of murder and sentenced to death ho he begin began to cost cast about for somo some means to cheat tho the executioner at the tamo time caas hite was doing time for having killed a man and davis awoke one morning to learn that hite was his collimate cell coll mate it was not J long ong until he found himself an eager listener to hitos tales of adventure upon the riotous i cataracts of the colorado river the canyons of which he has explored as no other and davit davis himself ston boon began to talk he told hite of how in boyhood days he had been tho the playmate of giant rhodes sony sons and how hovy he had seen the hercules whom he be reg regarded ardad in childish awe issue from the mountains bearing with him nuggets of gold that soon filled a wooden bowl how all offers to hunt out tho the source of those riches had been baffled by the wary ary old giant who had withheld it from his sons they acquired years yeara when thoy they might appreciate prec preci ate inte the value of his set secret rot hite was electrified and urged the doomed man on davis davia told hini him how finally ho left rodos rodes plateau and wont went to a fort in the uintah reservation where he began his apprenticeship at the anvil several years tears n ont by and davis da vis finally a graduate of the forge was made smithy at tho the fort one sultry afternoon said davig davie the sweat pouring from his brow while he stood puffing on his pipe without tho the shop a traveler rods rod up and dismounting asked that his aai animal bep be shodo shod ho he had seen the face before and as he bo fitted the iron and drove the nails it came back to him that his unexpected cu customer stonier was none other than one of the sons of giant rhodes rhodea with whom he bad played in youth adatia revealed his suspicions to the traveler and work was temporarily suspended whilo while they sought the fort canteen to celebrate the reunion giant rhodes said his bis son had to the awful embrace R of a giant cinnamon bear but not before the boys had bad been shows shown the trail to la the mysterious mina mine davia da vis says be h sc EC i zed the hour of golden opportunity and with his hia old playmate went mysterious mine the doomed man swears he saw the riches of which he had often drea drei dreimer m med ed in all their matchless abundance and withdrawing with young rhodes returned return od to the fort whore where ho he renewed his labors at the anvil rhodes continued his jour journey noy said davis and a few months lator later followed his brother to the grave thus was all knowledge of tho the mya ter aeilous ous mine obliterated save that in possession of davis verify this exclaimed hito hite and I 1 you are a free man davis seized tho the ethaw that offered made the maps and with thorn them hite who had meanwhile been pardoned par donod started on his journey in search of the lost bonanza davis relies upon its as the only thing that will save bave him from the sentence that hovers over him and having hoard heard nothing from hite ia almost a madman at times with the proceeds from the mine lo ho feels convinced that thoro there is overy every show for outwitting tho executioner whose dreaded voice ho he listens for by day and night salt lake tribune |