Show 200 STUDENT LIFE infinite splendor And after all — they centered in the girl They had struck it rich a week k Uncovered was a before out-rivthat bade fair to the richest run of gold that the Northern realm could boast William Bailey a rich claim owner who had acquired extensive interests on all the producing creeks on the Tanana had heard of Dome and these men that panned were his representatives who were sent to take advantage of Murane’s absence They had entered his workings and finished the hole Thev had made discovery and struck it fabulously rich One witnessbelow had been ed and duly recorded in the name of William Bailey The admirable Winchester days of old were gone How well and in justice to struggling humanity could its role have been played here! Jack Murane sought justice in the courts of law He had no money but he gave a half interest in the claim to Jim Garrett mining lawyer should he win to fight the case pay-strea- al A month had passed since Jack went away leaving that creek where man might toil and starve He had made a grubstake and was coming back to finish tlje hole The trail was unusually good It appeared to have been much traveled recently and lie wondered why That grub laden sled pulled hard and the rope blistered round his neck but that happy mind was engrossed with the thoughts of slabby bedrock and a rich strike future clean-u- p days and other resultant things The breath of the toiler was taken The first beautiful day of turned dark Hot springtime blood flooded his brain and all the sorrow that had gone before was as nothing compared with the exquisite agony that he knew at this moment He had read the meaning of the change in things on the claim as by instinct and wished for a time that he had never lived As he approached the shaft he saw a number of men bending over a panning tub They were so engrossed in the work of the panner that the joining stranger came unnoticed As he bent low to see he turned and breathed unconsciously: “Done Muranc done” The whirling water was following the centrifugal rim of the gold pan washing through its diminutive course leaving a bed of gold w m re-stak- ed The judge's decision was founded on precedent and the statute defining “discovery” By the laws of Alaska no man can record a claim unless discovery has been made Discovery is defined as being the finding of gold in such quantities as would warrant a prudent man in working the ground In the eyes of the law Jack Murane Wil- had never made discoverv¥ liam Bailey had |