Show artl 0 1 a 1 arh I 1 eluin e lair I 1 APE t aa d daft L V d 04 1 d boa L coq copyright by charles scribner 9 son I 1 SHE S GONE TOO tool synopsis under Ms his grandea ther there a will stanford broughton society idler finds bis his share of the estate valued at something like OW lies ties in la a safe repository latitude and described and that is to all it may inay be lied tied by the presence nearby of a brown haired hatred blue eyed girl a pie bum bald horse and a doe dog with a split fate ae a e calf balf black and half white bt anford at first regards the be faucet as a joke but after consider buon beta sets out to find his legacy on he h s way to denier den er stanford Stan tord hears heare from a fellow traveler arles fullerton Bul lerton a mining en engi eni I liver a story having to do with a hooded mine he lie has a hunch thia this m mile ne Is the safe repository of 01 the will fullerton Bul Bui lerton refuses hm h m information on the station plat form at atrop a just aa as the train puls pu is out stanford sees what appear lo 10 be ll 11 e identical horse and dog described describe a in his grandfather a wl 1 1 u he leaves the train at the 1 ext text stop angela angels unable to deture a convey ai ce broughton beiges a track inspection car and obbes belvi g the tile impression on if lie v lt irvn n india dl al beas ey that he Is in ile tie ameti pursued fur he aban done dona tie tl e car ar wn wit lb lh is wrecked aid M d ea on foot in the dark deus nu n a overtaken by the g rl U e no be a d lie t ie dog after he exola d I 1 la is presence she invites til lit i lu to I 1 er ho nc lic at the old cinna bar mil mit e L liton a hosts are H rani I 1 wo u y caretaker of the mine ind I 1 la is daughter jean e stanford Sl antor does dots not reveal his iden t ty H ram and stanford go put bertna about the mine stanford gels gets interested in the work and falls in love with jeanie who saves bis his I 1 11 ft but erton shows shown up at the mine he offers tor for the cinnabar bt blan anford tord says no b j CHAPTER continued IX 6 can you carry it any further I 1 nope I 1 reckon I 1 cant can t there a too many darned things a puzzling me one of em ein Is where in sam hill did charley fullerton Bul lerton get all the money that he hes a clashin around so peacocky 1 I don dont t know where he got it but be has it all right carries it with him I 1 said sourly yes but see here St annl son ill III bet a fice flee dog worth a hundred dol lars S that it nia ain t his money what makes yeu you say that well for one thing because I 1 know charley fullerton Bul lerton been know in him ince since adam was as a little boy in knee breeches he cant can t keep any money of his own onn lust just naturally aUy ain aint t built that an ay gambles it I 1 suggested big gambles yea yes stocks and that ton nort 0 truck no sir air ee these yeller backs he a a clashin around aln t his n not bv a long chalk and I 1 d bet on it somebody else Is bettin era em up and if that a so stannic stannie there a a reason for it sure I 1 conceded then could you rou make male a long high running jump and guess at the reason daddy not eo so a it ltd d hold together I 1 reckon he replied dubiously but H 11 ere a a few little notions at I 1 ve bricked up from folks that a older in this neck 0 woods than I 1 am been here longer the old cinnabar never ras r as ft hat you d call a bonanza plen f of ore to be sure but mostly low rde f ie hepting them rich little pockets row and then I 1 those hose rich pockets I 1 put in 4 strike of one of them would be about the he time to sell would t it ke ile nodded lou re now I 1 reckon about how they caught your a gran paw but buddy fuller ruller be he a tl e telegraph operator and a sort V half way nephew 0 mine says there a more to it than that long back couple 0 years r so there was nina a copper strike made in little cinnabar gulch about four mile west eat 0 here and fol mollerin lerin ln it there was a heap 4 talk about the railroad a branch to it that there branch if it was built r when nhen its built lor for its broin oin to be some day to open them copper mines that there branch 11 go right along our bench within a bun him fired yards yard of the old cinnabar so close you could mighty near dump from the ore sheds into the cars I 1 began to see more croo brookings kings in the sacrificial road over which grand father jasper had been led many more and more devious ones in that case even the tile low lom gra grale le cinnabar would mould come a bit nearer being a bonanza it I 1 asked she sure would mould stannie that long hard wagon magon haul to was nag what was nas puffin the cuss in the cost 9 handlin and with mith the railroad right at the door so to speak peak it might even pay to at three quarters of a mil lon ton and drive flat long drainage tun bd gel we I 1 an ave e been figuring on something So methin like that yes can you mee any farder into the millstone wy my I 1 ive ve got about to the end of my I 1 refilled my pipe and did a bit of cogitating togi tating supposing I 1 had been the boss figurer in the bunch that did grandfather jasper the honor to bilk him as conscienceless as that pirate whoever he was as and in the secret 0 be the conditions as daddy had just ou lined thim wt would mould I 1 have done donel me incer alp qs s ar R NU please with inith a railroad in prospect which would mould turn a small profit into a big one I 1 should quite probably have shut the mine down to wait alt until I 1 could hear the whistle of the lococo tive this conclusion led promptly and logically to another supposing at the moment avi wien ell I 1 had decided upon the shut down dovin some doddering old gentleman had come along and offered to buy the mine add as a corollary the supposition that the water problem was daily groN growing ving more insistent with tl ft e ultimate threat of flood As an or binary garden arlecy mining shark wl at would mould I 1 I 1 lave ave done that answer came pat also I 1 should bai have e taken the old gentleman a money trusting to the rising fl if od to make him sick stel of I 1 is bargain in due course of time and thus willing to sell out for anything I 1 e could get I 1 I 1 el e eve e I 1 hav have e it doped out I 1 told daddy at the end of the cg cog gitin piuse aid then I 1 parsed passed the infer ei et lea es aloag to him hlin tie tt e im fill difed ate effect was nits to evol e a couple of his quaint substitutes for pr tai fat ity fly beho a I 1 im till to breakfast I 1 I 1 e ex linn e el I 1 III be if I 1 it d t tellene bouve struck tie true ie le I 1 bani ie my pont sun if vou you lave lae h i ea e w hat rollers toilers charley bul but er i I 1 i I 1 lne 1 I e todo I 1 lie I 1 e dickering dic kerin fur for that su a e old high bandin china ai at outfit tl if at did your gi gian an paw up tl TI ey old foi ro I 1 alf air a million r so and now they re will MII it i to buy back for thirty or forty or fifty thousand by jezebel I 1 I 1 just knew tl ti at slick tongued boosier was mas bryin to iv work ork some skin kin gai gabiel ie I 1 A let et he Is going to marry your daughter daub liter I 1 put in grimly at tl it Is the old man turned gloomy serious in the batting of an eye di aw ing it a mouth down at the corner and sucking hard at the pipe which had long since burned out that q been a p achin me like a tight boot stannie be he admitted if you of d ast me afore he come I 1 id d a told you she hadn haan t a morsel 0 use for that con bummed blow hard but just you look at the way may things are stac klif up bowl now hes iles round her mighty near all the whole time and she I 1 ain t never once give me the wink to send him a kitin like rm hitchin tol to he ile told me to look I 1 had been look ing until my eves eyes ached the anoll woe eie all one way nay tons of them with only one little impulsive kiss to put in the other pan of the scale I 1 dunt t tell daddy about the kiss hiss but I 1 did vell him that jeanie had told me not to sell the cinnabar sot so he commented ItNe nin up a little that brings on more talk beckon reckon you can mal e out to hang bang onto the old cow cows s tall for a spell longer I 1 I 1 took time to consider my answer I 1 v e been wondering if all tl ings given their due footing it were worth north while hile to bang on daddy As matters stand now fullerton Bul lerton is stuck unless I 1 sell out to him if I 1 should take my foot in my hand and walk out hed he of be left up in the air but on the oth er hand there a s jeanie it if she a going to marry fullerton Bul lerton why a ft horse of another color I 1 in not enough of a dog in the manger to bite her nose off to spite fullerton Bul lerton a face urn um 0 was nas the grunted response then with nith a R side swipe snipe that I 1 viat looking for charley barley fullerton Bul lerton a bi bt en ell round that 3 ou oure re tied up N with jib a girl back east last Is that so or Is it on y another one 0 his big frilly lies iles I 1 laughed I 1 m wish ish I 1 knew daddy I 1 id of sure tell you if I 1 would mould anybody we were leally lenity engaged the back east girl and I 1 but I 1 don t think w u e are now and I 1 don t think she thinks so anyway anyn ay she called it all off when we me found out t thought we me found out that roy my gran grandfather ieather baan hadn it left me anything in Ms his will she a like jeanie says ehe she is you know she 9 got to marry money jus so he said with mith a rather grim glint in the mild blue eves eyes all the same it if you had the old cinnabar in slap up order I 1 reckon vou on of d have to go back yonder and marry her ve I 1 id of be in honor bound to offer to that don t sound much like you m was as carin a whole lot for her he ob ejected gravely 1 I despaired in advance of making him understand the lack of sentiment in the case or the vien viewpoint point from which n aich any such condition could be con as a human possibility he ile was nas much too simple hearted so I 1 got rid of the lisette obstacle or got around it as best I 1 could she has been free for several weeks now in all probability she Is wearing some other fellow a ring by this time but about the cinnabar assuming tl ti at my string of guesses la Is hitched up to the true state of affairs what would mould you advise me to do shall I 1 hing liing on with no prospect that I 1 can see of getting anyn anywhere here on nav mi own hook or shall I 1 sell out to bul but lerton and thus let your daughter in for a wife a share of a possible for tune gosh all hemlock I 1 he be e I 1 when you line it up tl ft it a av al I 1 reckon I 1 ain t the min to tell v 0 i 1 wl 1 it it to do I 1 then a as upon a evenn I 1 an all h 1 1 I for vo 0 I 1 I 1 not to sell if she u said that to me I 1 id of hang on till the cows come home I 1 would so I 1 I 1 got up and knocked the ashes from mv pipe and thit th it daddy Is precisely what nhat I 1 in going to do I 1 said and tl it e ay ing of it ended the conference in the abandoned of the little jean ie le CHAPTER X the deep wells the next borni ig I 1 turned out at break of day before anybody else ele was nag up slipped into my clothes t pried up my bunk and croppe I 1 tl ft rough the molder gitchway nitch way ay to tie main led I 1 hat ha 1 told myself that the reison for the dabi eik turn out was nag a desire to see if the rill road pe pie really h I 1 11 I 1 been sufficiently in eirnest ab ut th proposed copper fat ne tie branch t i ille i it e a survey for it b t the true un li it riv ing push was mas a biting nee tf to have any anth th ng more t do to n with ith IS it iller ton or even to sit at table with him film tiptoeing ahr ugh tl ft e c mi i if 11 ro it n so as not to t ake like di I 1 iv illi if i I 1 broke into jeanie a aitel en ell in I 1 r I 1 ie le I 1 the 1 cupl card oard for a I 1 ite of or a i eti it to eat alere tl ere mas w as plenta of libil 11 e 11 ind some cold trie me I 1 I 1 am and cuttina couple of generous gene ious san icicles cies I 1 hiked out to make my breakfast in jn the tile open the sanan sandwiches iches I 1 si 1 I ose I 1 of I 1 I 1 eg if to quarter the I 1 ench n MOO oo 00 hand vand I 1 lid let ind forth birching seir ching for s q me tile in li if i lions of ta tie e raier a 11 I 1 ur uney ey in due tin e I 1 found one of the locati n stal fat cs eg and from its rating an I 1 the markin s on it got the due title tl ft if of tl if e pr i sed line and was nag able t tra e it f r a lie dist distance anfe along the I 1 ench As D oil i I 1 ili had said it I 1 nn in n ill in a few fen I 1 inn lilt dred yards ards of the cinn full il it ir r dali fall i i if I 1 a short sidetrack ild male I 1 is is ig perfectly beasil ie le our ol 01 e could be shot into the cars with but if 11 single handling from tracing the raier ad suriel sune I 1 edged around to take an ill er I 1 A k it the possibilities of the drainage tunnel daddy and I 1 had figured on oil G ain if over the ground this second tl if ie an tin I 1 with vv till some better n ledge of tl ft e dif faculties it appeared tint thit we e iiii must it 1 ave ae ridiculously underestimated the pr I 1 able cost pacing the tile distan es e care fully and gue guessing sang at the ducci in altitude attitude by the heigl ts of the trees I 1 saw that it wouldn t he a ife ire to co c upon less thin a mile of tunneling and this in the solid porphyry of cinnabar and in a situation rein te from the nearest base of supplies would run no it run it would fairly gallop into mone money was this what fullerton Bul lerton meant to do if he be could oust me that he u was as ut tit terly confident of his ability to diaan di alii the cinnabar was mas evident but h w was nas it to be done would he r 11 1 Is backers be willing to spend a q lar far ter of a million or more and the I 1 etter port pirt of a years time driving ft tint at mile long tunnel the longer I 1 tho ight about it tl ft e larger the convict n diew tl ft it 11 such expensive expedient was vas t le te resorted to fullerton Bul lerton or his I 1 let ei s or both knew a me other and far ra ded the cupboard Cup bord for a bite of something to eat cheaper and more expeditious way may of getting rid of the water nater sitting on a big rock that had in some former earth convulsion tumbled from the broken cliffs above the mine I 1 gave the me ch anical fraction jf if my brain it was nag a small fraction and sadly under developed ve free rein two pos es suggested them selves A ca on a big lit pipe starting arting si it the bottom of the shift and leading ut ON 0 er the top and down it tie e moun tain to a point lower ioner than the bottom wo no ild after it was oaie barted automatically discharge a stream of its ow i bigness whatever whit ever hat sl at be but the cost of over i mue ot such pipe was beyond m mi I 1 means and if two six inch pumps driven night and diy daiy had failed to make any impression upon tie tl e flood what could be expected of a siphon which in the nature of things t be much bigger than an ordinary street water main TI tie e other possibility m was as ev even en less hopeful it was m as the driving of a short tunnel which daddy and I 1 might un dermake without additional help from the level of the high bench straight in i to an intersection with tl ft e mine halt bait this I 1 estimated might tap the mater w ater at a point possibly twenty feet below its plesent level in the shaft its sue less as I 1 saw at once would depend el upon the cocat on and volume of the underground jake lake which was cupl ased to be supplying the flood if tt if is re ern air nei e sl at allow and high rf it the mountain tl it e short tunnel if igl it t tit deain ain it if it were deep and to lov v noti ing would mould be accomplished I 1 II 11 I 1 e n ni was as still I 1 an anding ing hope ie sh t ip p in it tie e air when nhen I 1 made my n around to tl tie e mine build by tl it e left liar hat of d g ilch itch path 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