Show r I 1 ih TIP drejd E 1 11 RL 9 A AIL HOR 1 iby 1 1 i as E A A ND nj V S i A aral A doka by FRANCIS LYNDE coper by charles scribner a son SIT ITS A HOLDUP lt 11 synopsis under his grandea will stanford broughton society idler finds his share of the estate valued at something like slewo 91 les 1 es in a sate safe repository latitude and described saud that Is all it may be didenti ced by the presence nearby of a haired blue eyed girl a pie bald horse and a dog with ith a split face bait half black and halt white blanford anford Bt at first regards the be wiest wit as a joke but after consider tion sets out to find his legacy on his wai to renver stanford hears from a fellow traveler charles fullerton Bul lerton a mining engi neer a story having to do with a flooded mine he lie has bas a hunch this mine Is the sate safe repository et of the will fullerton Bul Bui lerton refuses him information on the station plat farm form at atropia just as the tra n u colls 0 it stanford sees what ap pear to be the identical horse and dos dog described in his grandfather grandfathers s will III imbres ed he leaves the train at t the next stop angels unable to amure a conveyance brauhton seizes a track inspection car and escapes leaving the impression on the town marshal beasley that he be te demented pursued he aban dons the car which is wrecked and escapes on foot in the dark mesa he Is oNer overtaken taken by the girl the horse and the dog after he exola his presence she invites eftim to he hot home at the old cinna bar nar mine broughton s hosts are hiram a caretaker of the bine ine and hia daughter jeanie stanford does not reveal hia his iden fly 11 ram rain and stanford go put tiring string about the ale m ie stanford sets gets interested in the work and falls in love vl 1 I h jeanie who saves his I 1 te fe bul erton shows up at the nine CHAPTER vill VI 11 continued 5 yon you re not the only pebble on the baelli SH idi cullerton bul Lul lerton I 1 said looking him barely squarely in tz tie e ea eje e what you ou can elo ido is ith this mine anoil er mining en can do quite as well mell and the ther other mm min mil probably be willing filing to do it it will out asking tl ti e fenced in arth earth for I 1 is rev rem ar I 1 ll be grunted so that s yew your Is if tl TI en after a scowl lin pause loure licked before vou you begin you youre re fighting without ammu admix rr Pr lou lion any vioney and 3 aull on 11 look a long time be ia fore boull find an engineer eng neer able to I 1 Is 0 in experiment on your allro ed proposition atiat 17 at way be I 1 retorted but if you told me the story straight that ciau in ji the pullman y ou on cant can t turn a wheel until I 1 tell jou you to go abbad so your contract if youve you ve got one t amo int to a I 1 ill of beans that nat point may make a nice little question ques tiou for the courts to decide he cut but I 1 don t v ant to go 90 to liw about this aling tl ing and neither do yon yom As a matter of fact you haven t amy money to throw away in a legal arapi you make me a deed to fifty one per cent of the cinnabar property just ns as it stands and then you may go oil if you want to go to law sa I 1 in ua bast kast and enjoy yourself playing u or of pitch and toss or red dog your pet divers on mav may en to be fifty one per cent and yon you fw give me a clear field not stick I 1 mean that goes as it lies I 1 I 1 scoffed A wl lie tie back O 0 n wei e talking about pulling tl it e law ebu a me I 1 lou on cant make anything like stal 1 stand in tl it e courts and 5 ou on kno v it fuegi y niel ft ell affa be not but I 1 can make it stand roum rou m hicl is much more to it tie e you said a minute ago that t real lot turn a wheel your t lou ou cant turn a wheel at idl will out money his flis rul rut bing the poverty gibe into me aoude me ni madder than evor and I 1 bought it was about e tv to tell him etere he got ff if thea by jove joie the wheels need tt t turn ti I 1 I 1 countered and that lets yva pa oat out if V POU vdu want to go to law about that contract sail in that s au all I 1 ive ie got to say oh ob hold out on he protested with mith mock concern then I 1 ie e showed me plainly what he hed d teen do ng in the interval internal between his first and this sec see ond appearance in the red desert region ii I 1 e had tim time to look 3 ou on up vou you know 3 asure zu re ehfe aged to a girl back east and vou you cant marry I 1 er because you hagent money enough half a loaf is better than no bread and im I 1 in offering von very nt arly the half loaf take a day or so t tt think it ov over er I 1 im in in no hurry and ia with ith tl ti at he went back to the cabin across the dump and left me warming the ant ann 11 I 1 cues cue aes ues s it will mill ay itself flat tl at the next few day davs s stad ed up about as wretched an interval interial as I 1 had ever I 1 een called upon to put over fullerton Bul lerton hid had a masterful sort of grip that seemed to give glie him a stran gle le hold upon PierS everything thing ie lc tackled at table and in the een evenings ings before tl e fire he be monopolized the talk and tl it e rest of us at around III e stough ton bottles and let him do it it d ant t help matters out much when daddy hiram chasing me up on cr e of the dais day s m wien I 1 en I 1 ni was as dodging I 1 ul lerton gave gaie me it tie e sealed enve I 1 pe winch minch my grandfather lad left with ith I 1 allm tin As will mill be xe it was on the night of fullerton Bul lerton s arrival at that I 1 had told daddy and his daggi ter who inho I 1 was mas and the sul eject I 1 aan t been again ed to by any ot of us but no v daddy I 1 abing taken me on one of tie trails above the mine at beside me on a flat rock and we me had it out togeal er you I 1 new vv in ho I 1 mas w as from the first daddy I 1 asked sot not rigl t plumb at first arto he qualified I 1 lou on see I 1 didn dian t know NN who ho I 1 was looking for at aldays nays reckoned somebody d be along I 1 course but I 1 I 1 aan t had any idea who r w I 1 en I 1 in afraid I 1 ve been a pretty sorry disappointment to you I 1 muttered I 1 haie hav e no money and I 1 don t know enough to be any good at the mining game and tl at reminds me raj my grandfather paid you a regular salary for the c didn dian t he uh but blat tl at his has been discontinued since his death I 1 reckon so I 1 have bane a little income of my own not much witch but enough for the way may aele living liing lere it must be under stood that I 1 share it with you and jeanie so long as I 1 stay with vou you ain t no need 0 your doln that stannie I 1 got a little stake hid out for a pinch in all this you ou will notice there w m as no w m ord said about fullerton Bul lerton we sat in silence for a chile w alle daddy chew ing a spear of grass after a time he called attention to the enN envelope elope which I 1 still held unopened in my hands dont don t y ve e m want ant to know what your gran paw say s he asked mildly at this I 1 slit the end of the envelope its contents were ere a deed in fee simple to the cinnabar and a note to me written in grandfather jasper s cramped old fashioned handwriting in the note he merely said tl it at he was wag leaving me a property which had cost him pretty well mell up to half a million and that he hoped I 1 d brace up and go to work mork ind and make something out of it adding that if I 1 hadn haan t been such a hopeless idler all my life I 1 e might have haie considered the propriety of add ing an experimental fund to the gift As it was I 1 must work t ork out my 0 bah salvation aaion if I 1 m were ere anxious to possess any of that commodity I 1 think it m was as on the fourth day after his arrival that fullerton Bul lerton cornered me again and again it was mas in the deserted blacksmith shop well broughton I 1 e began abrupt ly seating himself hemsi if once more upon the empty box I 1 ive i e given you plenty of tin e to think it over A where here do you stand no nov v night exactly where I 1 did tn in the beginning I 1 snipped 1 I don dont t ia want ant any forty nine fifty one per cent part with you beitl er that noi not any other kind all right he rejoined brusquely we 11 call that chise of it a back num her ber and go on to something else ill buy your mine just as it stands water and all ind and that s m blat I 1 at nobody else w do aoud v ou d better believe for P or ho hov v much 9 for fifty thousand tIo tl usand dollars cash 0 no o I 1 grated I 1 don dont t need a lit tie ie n oney noney tint that badly fifty thousand ign t a little at a good safe investment interest it will gh e y v ou on an income of three tt it busand a vear year and ti biats at s more tl it an vou re getting no nov v out of NN blat I 1 at y bour our father left 3 vou ou I 1 iou on seem to know a good bit about my private affairs I 1 growled lou ion said a mouthful ful then ive lie made it mv mi bu business sines fo to find out about them there s nothing much to you brouil ton when in hen you come right doii down n to briss brass tacks you I 1 ad a good aduca tion but v ou on hav han en t 11 I 1 a d I 1 get up and get enough in you to make iny ny use of it the less 3 v oil ou dig in my arh private ate gar den patch the bette better we me shall get along I 1 told him he ile was mas ellent silent for a moment he lie I 1 ad p cl e I 1 up tip a bit of iron rod and I 1 vas as gracin tracing figures with it in the dust of the shop floor pres antly he looked up ii with ith a sort of mock lug ing leer been trying to carry sentimental m water ater on both shoulders I 1 aven t 3 sou on I 1 in telling 3 on right nov no v broughton its no use I 1 filed flied on the little blue eves eyes claim over yonder in twombly ys s cabin a it long long time before j jou ou ever saw or heard beard of it blat tl it remark of his carried things over the edge for me see I 1 leie cie fullerton Bul lerton I 1 said and I 1 suppose I 1 stuck out my HI jaw jain at him as say I 1 do N when nhen hen I 1 im in beginning to feel feet ugly there are limits and III pay you the compliment of assum ing tl it at y vou ou are not quite a born fool we are going to leave miss twombly out of it completely and absolutely out of it you may but I 1 st an t he grinned back at me in point of fact my dear fello v now nom that I 1 come to think of it boull vou 11 have to leave leaie her on out it not for anything vou on may ay zay or do or leive leie unsaid or undone les vou you will and for something tl ti at I 1 may siy say and I 1 guess tl is Is as good a time as any to mention it have you forgotten that you have ad mr broughton stannie are you here I 1 ei tided yourself in this out of tl e NN dav av coiner of the world rather successful ly as one of two things a pretty sort of lunatic or a crim inal As a matter of fact the rail road detectives have haie been looking high 1 lw w and lei level ea for vou on ei ever er since you stole that inspection motor at the an gels Ilat i latford form and got it smashed twombly knows about that and so does miss twombly I 1 cut in they give glie you away of course in a certain sense you are twombly a guest and in another you re his employ er bat but you 11 notice that nelt er of these restrictions apply to me N biow om perhaps bod you can understand just why you aie ate obliged in ordinary prudence to leave tl e girl out of it and wl ml y I 1 am not so obliged abs twombly herself has the casting vote note on that is what I 1 flung at I 1 in SI e I 1 as already voted he said coolly then loure I 1 ou re not in the game brouil ton 3 ou on don t hold any tl ti ing I 1 eigher than a seven spot and ou on aie ate bucking a straight flush do you on take fifty thousand and vanish 11 ll at is tie tl e one live question of the moment 0 0 very ver well mell III give you another day da to think it over but I 1 im m warning vou you heie and now that the price will mill sl rink it is fifty thousand today say up to sunset tomorrow it will be for ty thousand I 1 slid arcin the anvil and half un consciously picked up the blacksmith blacksmiths s I 1 and I 1 ammer lou go straight to h I 1 I 1 said aid ai d at that I 1 e left me I 1 sat down domn to try once more to think ahli gs out to some sort of an action acus t cus should sl I 1 take fullerton Bul Bull lerton ertons s fit ty it and q ailt ailt common sense sence said yes spelling it v mith ith a capital and underscoring it tor for empi empl asis what was nias the use in I 1 on haan hadn t m we e pro proved ed tl ti at the r nine ine ii was as able save perhaps at the enormous cost of driving an tunnel fiora a lower lomer slope of the mountain tien tl en there m was as jeanie tien again there was lisette fifty tl ti busand dollars at six per cent would buy der hats bit it luy I 1 uy much else 1 could picture the calm and collected I 1 way may in wl ml ich she would say ies les stamie stam ie bouve succeeded nicely in financing the hats but vou you know as NN well ell as I 1 do tl it at m we e coulden t buy hats and keep a car on threes tl busand ausin d a year I 1 I 1 ad just climbed down donn to this hot bot ton to n round of the ladder of dejection wl iii en I 1 heard a bit of noise an I 1 loot 1001 ed up to see see a R small trim figure larken ng the engine room door tl TI en a voice at I 1 would mould have relo nixed ll 11 i i th voices all speaking at once said mr broughton stannie are jou you I 1 ere CHAPTER IX k to fish or cut bait it 1 iq kotbin nothing short of mond wonderful erful how the sourest grouch can sometimes be ed I 1 y a single worl m or I 1 that word NN ord stannie stannic vou nou know she lad nevel tailed called m me tl it at before though I 1 er father had been using the familiar han ban tilea este n in lie ne i ight along almost arrn fr ra the d 43 1 I landed on the cli ch nat dal ar 1 es I 1 eaid said and jumped up and went nent to her did vou i on ever I 1 car of such a thing as a bear with mith a sore head she asked aked in the tone of a schoolman scho olma am asking the dull boy if he hed d ever eier heard beard of the letter A often I 1 admitted well isn t that the v wa ay 3 jou on ve been acting ilai en r I 1 some little cause mabbe of course im ira willing milling to make some allo allowances mances it does seem sern provoking that your grandfather should have haie left things in such a dreadful die adful mud he ile how ilow much do a you know about the muddle I 1 asked I 1 know that old mr dudley duffley let or partly let a contract fer for ta tte e drain ing of the mine to a man who mho was mas almost a total stranger to him I 1 saw how it was m as fullerton Bul lerton almas readier to talk than a stuck pig is to bleed had been giving her lit hb own version of things but I 1 let that part of it go grandfather jasper was mas laboring for the good of my soul lie ile knew his medium as the artists ay lie ile wanted to make me work something that nobody else las ever eier been able to do dont don t you like to work NN hy by e e I 1 guess I 1 m like other folk in that respect I 1 don dont t mind NN working it if I 1 can p ck my job and my corn com pan ive been I 1 laving a bully good time hammering around tl ti Is old bunch of junk with mith your father or I 1 was mas having one until batan satan came also meaning mr fullerton Bul lerton quite so meaning mr I 1 ul lerton christened charles bugl t I 1 to stay here and listen if you re go ng to say things about him lot IN of it if 3 a ou are go ng to marry him you houlan t well evly NN I 1 y I 1 marry him it if I 1 want mant to ilasa t he plenty of money and I 1 told you that I 1 id d marry for moi mot ey humph said I 1 avlen m I 1 en you talk that way may you are saving out loud just N wl I 1 at lisette say davs s to herself only 0 01 i don t mean it and she does 13 it tell me how d d y vou on get perm quion to come over oner here and talk with cef me i whose permission daddy s no fullerton Bul Bull lerton ertons s of 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