Show 0 DAD 4 ua lint FRANCIS L V v s i co COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES LES SCRIBNERS NERS SONS SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I 1 under his grandfather will M stanford broughton society wier teller finds ads his snare or the estate valued at som eming like oi lies liell in a sale repository tory latitude and ana longitude described bed and that is all ail it nay may be wend ned fled by the he presence nearby of a broun bronn I 1 hatred alra blue eyed sin a piebald noise eloise find and a dog with it a split taie late half black i i and nd ha halt it while stanford at firby lesaius tile ati bequest alquest its As a juke uke but after considers non on sets out to rind pits legacy CHAPTER ilon il 11 on his way to denver the city nearest the mer marioan merla ioan ian described in his grandfathers hlll ill stanford hears irom from a fellow Lla veler a atory having to do with a nine mine CHAPTER ill III thinking things over he begins to imagine there mere may be something 1 in fix his grund grandfather fathers bec bequest tuest worth I 1 while his idea finally center mg on tile me possibility of a mine as a sate repository recalling the nai on tile the train he ascertains that thai ills his fellow tr irav 1 I v eler was a mining engineer charles B bul u 1 lerton buller on refuses hin hani infozina uon tion but from other soun es learns enough to make him proceed to placerville erville in the th red desert CHAPTER IV on the he station platform at agopia Af opia as tile the train pulls polls ou oui st stanford tl aford sees hat appear to be the cie hen beik hise and dr described in ills gr grandfathers a n deathers df athers will nili he leive leaves the train at the next stop slop angels eller he alno that thai atropia was originally placerville Placer erville vUle his destination unable to lo secure a con veane at once to take him to placerville erville broughton Brou gliton seizes a construction st car and escapes leaving tile the impression on tile the town marshal bealey that thai he Is slightly dement demented rd CHAPTER V pursued lie he avan abandons dons the car which Is wrecked ked and escapes on foot in the darkness he h Is overtaken by a girl on horseback and THE dog I 1 after ne lie explains hs his presents present e she invites him to her horne home at the alie old cinna canna bar mine to meet her father i CHAPTER VI Brough tons hosts are hiram twombly caretaker of the mine and his daughter jeanie seeing the girl stanford Stant Stan foid oid Is satisfied he has located lite hl property but does not reveal his identity CHAPTER VII Next morning mor hian lilt hiram he visits the mine gillrain asks him to loo oer the machinery and he does so on glad of an excuse to co be near jeanie in whom he has become beckma interested und and he engages in the first real work he be has ever done CHAPTER vill VIII Pr and hiram t get the rumps started aneil Bt but are unable to make an impression on the water bul bill lerton apparently an old friend of the ys visits the mine ile he offers to drain it ir IP ration of broush brough tons hm fifty one per cent of the properly stanford tord ref refuses UlleS turn tien buller ton offers affers to buy we arrine outright for soca zt it had cost s grandfather more than half a million stanford again a aln refuses CHAPTER IX cautions broughton against aea ast selling the mine under any circumstances anu and abia apia antly lit in a uplift of net allows him to kiss her after j il conver conversation on with deddy daddy hiram i y roughton iton decides he will stick to the property CHAPTER X next day during stanford fords s temporary absence from the mine an enc neni m arf w phout doubt Buli erton ur wrecks ec its tile me pumping machinery croughton decides to have it out with will him next day daddy hiram AN as shaking ills his head sorrowfully after we had run this last bunch ot of straw through the machine I 1 with walli things looking as blue ns lis the bluest whetstone that bior clicked upon scythe we e wed tried to tile I 1 oil some title line of 0 action hopah w ans if the count seat and the obvious fi fail I step would have bave licen for me to po go there for a search in the duniy bounty reco ilis for evidence of tile the sale ale of the mine to lo MY grandfather but thi lilt minute I 1 A should hould show liow t myself on till the ral rall rond id ile he i nabbed for the theft of that internal i inspection car dailly fuffered fiffe red to po go in my biaco hut but that alter altern natlie attio E appeal to meat fill all I 1 knew perfectly I 1 viell vell how hipless hed ile be in illy any such lawyerlike us its would have to lie ile made in the county rii nty recorders ollice being stopped olf off short in ID eiery bolher dire cliva we finally gravitated liver iver to the shaft haft house anil and went to ork li in l i an aimless sort of up ull hc bc wreck wreckage ago lot ft the abashed ibia shei gar train and putting things alp hape again with up ill we turned the mac machinery hnery over cpr n i tow times just to op tant was I 1 in n iti order aguati and i eirew threw in he clutch of tin the covaia fit als merely for the sails artion tit of hearing tile the lood ensling through hie file outlet when lie he pumps ert bollig alii at ruh fill pei il I 1 went to look down tin tile shaft As belore before I 1 when we had run ann tile the pumps pump for a week on end ellere was nas n as a slight disturbance tur bance of the water hut but nothing nore sly itly inake makeshift shift noat float dauie showed no change in ohp level suddenly a freak seized tile me hat il like e to know just vit tt was on down don in those mack hack depths nto willell tle tile inic suction tion pipes of the ig pumps led daddy Dodi lv ili kolne going to try to find out I 1 declared and for timith degain to strip my clothes off NN weve c ve een the waier titer coming coining out ut lit at tile the othor r end of thinas and now by georget george I 1 mean to make sure that its going in it this end lie he try very hard to dissuade ne ie and a minute rr cr 0 so o later I 1 was raw ling ding dovin alp alf chatt ladder in the habiliments that od mother nature gaie me it was ry first exploration es of the abaft rl aft and I 1 was vas surprised to find it so well clod and tightly timbered boxed Is the bettor better word since the timbering was really a substantial wooden box built within the square V 1 I 1 T out linings of the pit bommon mon sense serla told me that bat this must leave lve 1 b een do done to prevent the caving in of the sides find afterward I 1 remembered wonder liis frig at the time that the hie shaft I have been sunk in caving cavane material mieu alien the remainder of the bench upon which the buildings stood appealed app emd to be little else than solid rock dy by feeling with a free foot I 1 could determine that the pump suction pipes client wt on still farther tin narl then men tile rodl real adventure began the ladder bidder i suddenly gave out quit ended there were no more rounds below the lite one upon which I 1 was standing tha ehlt being betha tile the case there was hotl I 1 lor r I 1 it bul but t to dive feet feel foremost an and T I 1 taking I 1 it a deep I 1 let go of the ladd ladder er and began to swim downward donward almost before I 1 realized it I 1 was fighting desperately pera tely for dear life one of tile hie big suction pipes had taken hold of a foot and leg like a tentacle tit of an enormous octopus and I 1 was unable to get loose after all it was D di dildy addy hiram who saved my illy life suddenly the thunder of tile the pumps mag magnified n idled a for me in that icy pit of death stopped short rind and the mechanical squid let go of my leg g with lungs burst bursting lag I 1 shot to the surface surl ace and weakly clutched the lie ladder adder framed tit in the square of batill ht a dozen feet I 1 I 1 I 1 it 0 11 4 11 i I 1 I 1 it i r J il 1 it P framed in the of daylight I 1 coula S sic daday hanging over the i meuth of the pit I 1 over overhead licad I 1 could bee daddy brinzing over he lilo mouth of tile pit flit si balo ei and lind li nd his 1 clouted VIO voids ds ivcec il Ii cec to tin adder boy vin ini ii a oiin candir down doin after afier ye I 1 was freezing all right in both senses of tle woid avoid litt nt I 1 faunl 1 anath I all to hini him back find and presently luan managed W r cia cial up tit tile the ladder and roll out upon the shaft hoube how floor ln in sla the file old nuin ninn plumed upon apon me file buffe slapping and rubbing rul rub liine binz nigul ing mv ink worse murie that any Turl li liadi pirate would hill h lindsl it to it ft as keen torture torii irr hiir lit it tnt m d tile tark and by the fis is vav III li lavallie lo lin vallie comfortably again I 1 lind a beautiful spanked parl ked blush eliere i hall been blue all but the great grelet artine rul su d cibere the suction pipe pipa had bit site ni of course coure daddy wall wa chock full of sympathy and concern coi con norn corn mixed up lip with a bit of curiosity curlo curl ozity sity one of the suction pipes I 1 explained pla ined beginning to 1 l cra crawl I 1 hak bak into my clothes 1 I was is foolish enough I 1 to 0 get under it tin anil 1 it lir grabbed ribbed and held me it if you stopped slopped the pumps id have been a gone goose gooe I 1 was v as just about all lit in as it was well you found out the puli pumps ps are till all right widow en haw lie remarked they sure are thinie so if been where wits was 1 tari I I 1 began beean to recall some soine of of those mixed and mingled impressions I 1 hall l what kill kind of soil hull I 1 U there under this floo paddy daddy I 1 fi asked sIzed I huh luh lie snorted what soil chece Is on oil tills here leaze you could ty near put in your eye I 1 reckon taint hothir but rock and blame hard rock nt at that was my notion nation but if tile the shaft I 1 is in rock why by did they it so strongly with timber surely there ile be any danger of a cave cave in wald stolle ioie well now im fro ding danged dinged edt 1 lie he re earned aurnel musingly long its as ae been monkey ln round mines and such it tiet ln tr er once collie to nc lie tu to bowler allmut hat I 1 of tile wooden bulkly bling I 1 renewed I 1 hat other impression r rather two ot of them one of ila ing if alie ie feeling ahat I 1 was shut in a tight I 1 lna x at hie file nacim moment ent of the fiercest struggling und and tile the titer other of fancying that I 1 hall had felt a swirling inrush of 0 the liquid ice is as well as the sucking suching lit but the le ie cl lection was its so that I 1 attached attar lied no importance to it when it man is lighting fighting tor for ills bla life 11 tei ell or ilI Nelve test under water pipe dimanis uie tile nothing to the lie things lie can ail imagine it was while sitting at tile shaft house door liamin ering nany fit at lie old puzzle of hy by the water level ill ineer maled so much as a fraction of an III ID tile shaft in viet met seasons seba ains or cor it dry ry a AS dafid daddy testified it neier nee did clid und and way the subtraction of 0 two six inch enli til leonis lit at a velocity sufficient to to stir tai ui a veritable verl tale whirlpool at tile sut suction yn intakes should make no tin pies sion upon it ahat I 1 began to no it tice the quer queer actions ot of the pie faced collie first l arst he would come and stick liis ills cold nose into my hand and 0 then hell hed trot over to the cabin and back and maybe loaf f a little way down the road toward the bench lei leel el copi com l to till the shaf shaft bouse abald hed bed sit beside diddy daddy hiram rain dawnine and p as if lie he were inere wu voul iliin lint lot lir patiently for us its to stop talking and pay sunie sonie atten attention tinn to him poor ioor old dainels Pa Da meys ineys homesick and I 1 ilont blame him I 1 said im feelen feel lii n I 1 good ME hit that way lovay myself daddy then to the dog avnie ceic old lioy III the collie came to lick my hand and while title I 1 was vas petting him I 1 found a I 1 p I 1 etty had bad gash ash jast belil behind tid tine one of lil lili his i ears see here daddy I 1 broke out ont the dogs huit we ve examined the wound and decided tit at once that it was as not a bite it was vi its a bruised cut looking as it if it had been nide nf bi b some blunt instrument or capon tapon ii ta pon ion I 1 had a hot bot flash dash vision of if luiei ion licking kicking the do dog with lits his u siuai on shod heel beel in an attempt to drie hin lack buck home anil and it was so real that I 1 shake it oft off when it began to grow dusk lit in the huft house we vie shut up oil shop and went arr r to the cabin to coo our or supper ilie he log dog went N ent along but evidently with avith white while we were ci dossing i lie he herod hend lie he turned back and once more stained ore oil down donlin the road ad tol io ard are the lie bench below but when lie he that thai we were not following him he enone can to 0 o alicel again still neither it if it ia had dog sense dilou ai li to guess ul its the ali matter with min jilin boidi lilliain and 1 I being merely supid hun humans ians mere commenting in upon ills queer nt actions ious and laying them to II 11 time s absence ab serice when volien again lie dog d og smiled uc off down the road looking back and harking barking when hen he found that we vie still sitting on oil the doorstep at chat since eien een solid ivory can call be ponc if the would be driller of if it san ks on it tile lie job long enough we vie final caught oil 1111 ti stannie St nnnie ii inic lies a to tell lell is to buum on oil daddy exclaimed liri ing to lo his feet Ale thusel ahto ah to gracious gia cious did it hae balie to take us a lin hui 1 l so o figger out eliat much dog talk it loos 1004 that wity way I 1 admitted but 0 i kimii I 1 ed it out we made i iti 0 lii ill i DI bililly lilly kot gilt ills his ralle 1111 e und till cart ridge belt anil and told me to take jentilet Jen tiles pistol for blitch I 1 did and thus equipped w anif f took the trail lit in dian filing down doma rhe mountain ro rond ad in the darkness daddy allram with lit his gun lit in the ilie crook of liis ills left firm set ling ing tin pace and the collie running on in ahad to point the way CHAPTER XII around robin hoods barn after we p hall had covered possibly two of the four miles between tile cinnabar and the railroad station the dog ore off to tile the left it ft abong tile lie on a road that was little bettor better than a bridle path through the forest unil and which for the time kept its lei ve el on it the slope neither ascending nor descending illow how about li it daddy I 1 asked ahde tiros chips this trail go 0 he it time thile enough it comes coines out cont lit tile old haversack on giesser Ciell ser lins ilni you mean att nl it ir tir as 1 I know it ends tile iceie e what is the haerinck it tothill nol no liin thill now used to lie it a twili li ino eight r ten tell year ago i gilt ot lai fill to co lie 1 1 I alle it py tell are it iiii ceita certainly singular that tile the log flog be leading lendini lend iii us to an ahan aban boned mining pi eject but bat barney nl to tip know perfectly factly well ell nairne ali ie i ra it ov nr of of tile lie gulch gnich headings there is as it 11 patch of ato aali sit sard ltd in ill hat wits ni lit wet el r a 21 bunay ay iy for but chich its now only a ates lal luvine lille lilt it 11 few damp spots lit in it biere duddy daddy calar called d a halt ail ancl while the flog dog sat down find and bained yawned tit lit us its it 11 i t manifested ills inilla in i ie i delaa the lie till nan gatha gailla crid i it plue pine cones and twigs bittick it a awl lighted a lire fire call fionin lio nin me coie iri nut not to walk ori on the hie dailly sand patch rii I 1 t the ilie sligh slightest lest idea of what bat III he was diling ing at and he didt explain but after lilt 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