| Show ya A A chance I 1 investment I 1 by walter joseph delaney f fifty watt copyright 1915 by W 0 Chap chapman inam I 1 do not wish you to become alarmed or change your plans I 1 wrote tho the father of eleanor gwynne to his only daughter two thousand miles away front from home 1 I tell you of at the possible trouble in my business only because you might hear of it through other sources I 1 may be able to weather through if not it means our living on a i more inore moderate seale scale that la is all you still have the income from your mothers mother a estate no BO we w cannot exactly starve I 1 poor dear I 1 lapal apa I 1 and always thinks think ing of my comtois and happiness muied eleanor with some agitation lot of courso course I 1 shall not remain licie with him alono alone with his trouble no there Is a stage monday pud and tt it will ow boe me homeward bound how different this her second visit from the first she had made to the pine laden breezes and exquisite soil sell tudo of an arizona health resorts the year at exactly this same sea bea son of the year she and glicr fattier had spent three weeks together at this romantic mantic spot only then everything hab prospering there wore were no cares carea of business to annoy eleanor folded the letter when she noticed soma addition al lines comprising a posto copt on tho the reverse side of tho the sheet dy by the way it ran I 1 it is IB a forlorn hope but I 1 mention it that scamp dcamp warren drill brill I 1 I 1 don dont t know it if you re member him but lie ho Is that likely looking young fellow who acted as our guide for a time I 1 never told yon but I 1 was so taken with his manliness and energy that I 1 waa as in deuced by him to trust him with five thousand dollars to buy a mine lie asked ft a year in which to develop it find and make us both rich I 1 have never gouid bjorn him since but a few months ngo ago I 1 wrote to some people at crofutt pass about him they could tell wo roo nothing about drill but said that the mine lie he purchased or pre tended to purchase was abandoned boi bozanio anio it was flooded and absolutely it Is a vain quest I 1 im agine but boti ou might make sowe in quirles and let mo me know the result niva the squaw produced a keem bladed knife that me ho thousand dollars would pretty mealii my business salva balva coil just now chora was a certain animation in tho the e oca cs of the pretty girl as she rend read these lines those these were not to at once invoke a kemem vonce h tinco of the person thea the named aleanor retains d a vivid memora mamoo of alii i bright gentlemanly young follow vao v no had been their companion for nei nearly a week lie was waa musical od ad tit in harmony with their ideas of courtesy and ie and had biad loft left it a distinctly pleasing impression on it the lie mind of eleanor blie was inas astounded at the Itu flon of dishonesty made by her fa thor site she lind hall regarded brill as the soul of honor mole moie thin th in once in egiy li Ii holous holois social circles she had corn com hind hir flippant flipi flip lant ant admirers admi roia reis with thia in mobil 1 I ung westerner es terne and not at to his aliat exiling made inqui les ies at a tourist hotel as to drill iia he was wan remembered but had dro dropped plied out of ight months since she was in toi fol 11 mod lod there was a great friend of his savage advised the land landlady lad II 11 he Is a clerk or something at tt 0 c mall station thore eleanor went the next morn ing it was as to locate this savage a young man a cripple whose eos and whose face glowed at tho the mention of a name eudenah dished mr lr drill brill la is across tho the range some where near inca he e said and then ho he hurst borst forth into extras ngang eulogies gies co teeming concerning the tinn mm lie he dasig narod as aa hla his best beet mend lt it appeared that drill hall had saved his hie lire life tit in a great freshet disaster and had secured him his present resent position the landlady when eleanor began to mako make inquiries regarding the route over the range seriously advised her n not tt to make ke the journey alone You niall you should h not attempt it gnp ra she bhe warned eleanor the country Is IB wild and infested with vi tl cloua clou a half balt breeds and even outlaws outlaw but eleanor E I 1 canor was fearless and willful she equipped herself in stanch walk ing trim and noontide saw her pass ing down a lonely mountain gully and recognizing marks in the landscape described to her which indicated that she abo was nearing crofutt pass sud denly turning past a dense thicket she ebe recoiled with a start as a tawny skinned woman darted directly in front of her ahe stranger a halfbreed half balf breed squaw was Bl slovenly half intoxicated and vl 1 clous looking iler her eyes glowed as sho she made out the small netted hand bag suspended from the belt that eleanor wore she thrust out her hand seized it and tore it loose el eanor put out a detaining hand for the bag contained some money and valuable jewelry tho the squaw produced ft a keen bladed knife and showed her teeth then she alio quickly uncoiled a stort start lariat from her waist eleanor read her pur gosp to bind her hand and foot and leave her helpless while she tied fled hafely with her spoils eleanor sought bought to defend herself she stooped suddenly seized a heavy stick lying in the path swung it around and swept her despoiler des off her feet with an angry snarl the squaw regained her feet but eleanor led fled precipitately she fancied she bhe heard a masculine voice shouting out after her but she feared an accomplice of the squaw and terror lent fleetness to her actions eleimon Illean oi doi donated from the gully seeking shelter in rushing up a side elde path at the top she paused breath less lea A view of the spot where she had been robbed was waa now shut out fl aiom om her view eleanor made out a cabin its door open she rushed through the aperture and sank bank to a chair in a rudely furnished room nearly at the point of at fainting I 1 lor ifer eyes opened wide as wandering about the room they fell upon a picture on a stand it was her own near to it was a tiny vase and in this as it if replaced freeh every morning was a mountain daisy her favorite flower she recalled having her picture taken the year before in this very district by a traveling photographer was this one printed from the same negative lost in anger balague half balf gue guess ing the truth site she started up as a otal wart form crossed the threshold it was mas that scamp warren briell ile he greeted her with manifest repression pr ossion and respect she wondered if pate fate was in all this as he told of witnessing the robbery of recovering the booty from the squaw I 1 found this on the ground he explained and he handed eleanor with the handbag the letter she had bad received from her father the day previous there was a queer twinkle in his eye she flushed deeply it is just a year lacking throe three days since your father loaned me the money to purchase the old mine miss wynne I 1 he said it turned out a heartless swindle but my defeat urged me up to new efforts to make md amends to my genelous gene ious backer I 1 struck a new rich prospect see and he exhibited receipts from the branch mint for or over fifty thousand dollars drill brill saw hei safely back to town ile he saw her too every day after that during her stay then the last evening but one lie he told his love dear papa spoke eleanor home returned a week later after their greetings were over you asked me to find that scamp warren brill for you yes eleanor well I 1 have brought him with me to explain all about his bla terrible du and eleanor wont into the hallway and beckoned to warren brill and led into the presence of her amazed sire her future husband |
