Show wa jim L GIRL 09 T DAVO FRANCIS LYNDE CIO I 1 HT BY HARLES SONS SYNOPSIS CHAPTER lunder hll his grandfathers will stanford broughton society ller idler l nods finds hr his share of the estate valued at t something like liase vw fits in a safe ae repository Posit tory tary latitude and longitude lonel longi lude tuda described bed and nd that is 1 all it may m ay iy be identified by the presence nearby of a broino haired blue yd eyed girl a piebald hakso and A dog a split falle face hall half blade black find and halt half white stanford at first regards the th bequest do as a joe jaae but after consideration aon sets sels out to find iva his legacy CHAPTER il II un on hll his way ay to denver the th city nearest the meridian described in his grandfathers will tit stanford hears froni from a follow fellow traveler triv der a story alory having to lo do alth a ath a flooded mine mille CHAPTER III thinking things over he begins to imagine there may to be something in his bl bequest worth while his hi uj idea cant centering ering on file possibility ot of a mine as a a sa sale repository recalling the tl narrative on tile the train he ascertains that lita hi fellow ellow traveler was a mining engineer bul lerton lefton Buller loD refuses him information but from other sources braughlon Brough lon learns enough enouch to matr make him proceed pro ed to in the ih red desert CHAPTER IV on the platform at t atropia Ati opia opi just as a the train pulls out stanford stanford sees e ahat hat appear to be the identical heiss br aru ard aca 1 described in ill grandfathers grandfather mill aill impressed be leaves the th train at the next stop angels ebira he finds that atropia was originally placerville erville rule his hi destination unable to mature cure a conveyance convey anca at once to take him to nacor arrille rUle broughton Brough toa seizes a con gt ruction car arld eshem leaving the impression am on the tb town marshal beasly beasley that he h Is slightly demente demen domen td tod CHAPTER V pursued he h abandons the tha car which Is wrecked and escapes on toot foot fa ui the dark darkness be he Is overtaken by a ari on horseback and THE dog after he explains his presence she he in was mm him to her horne homo at the aw cinnabar mine to meet her father CHAPTER VI Brouth Brough tons hosts are hiram twombly caretaker of 0 the lh mine and nde hi his daughter seeing the girl stanford la is satis sat laflel ded he has located hla his property but does not reveal his identity identify CHAPTER viz VII next morning hiram he ha visits the mine hiram asks him ti ta look over the th machinery and hf he does so glad of 0 an excuse to be near Je jeakle atile in whom he has haa become becom interested and he be gages in the first r real ea work he be has ever done CHAPTER vill VIII broughton and hiram get ft the th pumps pump started hut but are unable to make an on the he water hul bul torten apparently an old friend of the visita the mine no ile he offers to drain it ir in consider allon of brough tons kovilic hum hm one per cent or of the property Allan llanora ll anord refuses tren duller ton amore to kuy tile mine outright for ato it bad baa cost Braugh Brough tona tons grand tathy more mar halt half a mildon stan fprd ard again refuses df chalin lum arx itts flie cautions brough van th mine andr any of J abow allows ad IZo him apparently to h hi 19 11 b br LD or a after spirit er witts dawdy hiram I 1 rea decides decide he be will suck stick to the carpten kneit day durin during V stan tn frd ab abac tc from the t a mine aa hit doubt fullerton Sul lerton wr brij the lh X mathi machinery nery brough ton elds r I 1 baa 1 II 11 out with him next day I 1 CHAPTER XI 11 in the morning he finds rol Bul fullerton lerton find and jeanie have bays dl disappeared red a app ap pp areni arny ir eloped ile he also disco that thai his deed dead to the mine hs has been stolen and IL as a lt it has not been recorded lie he lias bas no proof of ownership mysterious mi actions of trie the dog cause hiram and broughton Brough lon to ta take the trail in search of jeanie i CHAPTER XII They find Je jearles Jean anies les pony abandoned but no trace of the girl lanly when hen they get back to the cabin buller bellr ton Is there apparently awaiting th their return CHAPTER XIII Believing jeanie to have bales gone with fullerton Bul lerton the sight of tko ako aran ai Is too much for Bi aral he uses him roughly fullerton Bul lerlon lerton denies knowing the whereabouts of jeanse jeanie broughto Brough loa wo orders him ol of his property lad and he be departs vowing vengeance sails nod eted cullerton Bul nu lerton means mischief and hiram fortify themselves in the mine elaf and prepare tor for a siege sul lorton comes win will a crowd of deeper deaper abo ard on a their refusal to vacate be ilana an attack jall 11 right babl fullerton Buller Bul lerton toD again agnin but its lf only fair to say that we me outnumber aou OD six to one and veve got i the law and a tev few deputy sheriffs on our ur tide side you to tao hali ent as louth mah show as a ent cm in hell bell without claws and when tile the circus la is over both go to in jall if theres enough left of you to the trip then as lie he was turning to go he flipped the deed into the air so 0 o that it fell at our feet you ton may have that lie sneered wed like nothing better than to have you produce it in court it seem just fitting to let alan have the last word so 0 o I 1 pitched a small mall ultimatum of my own after him as aa he herded his two looking witnesses into the downward road one thing more fullerton Bul lerton I 1 called out your flag of truce holds baldg only until you get back to your army if you yon or any of your men are lit in sleat if if cinnabar property ten minutes after you reach your camp we open ire fire since the truce was thus ended we retired into our fortress ant alij put pot up the bars As vie me were closing the doors and mahln everything snug I 1 asked daddy what kind of human timber bulerson Bul Bu lerton was wag likely to hare love in his hi army and it if there were any 4 athance chance that his boast about having deputy sheriffs in the lie crowd was to be aken at its face value theres to the do deputy auty brag ike bearley Is the chief deputy for this end 0 the county and hed be here himself if that was a posse com myta down yonder As for what lie he has baa got ot theres no ne most likely hes he picked up a fistful 0 toughs and onto ont out o e works down IL ib angels angela theres always plenty or 0 drift 0 that kind Iia round a miran camu fighters I 1 queried oil yes I 1 reckon so it if figh fightlin tin comes ealer than with the doors shut and barred I 1 climbed up tip on our breastwork to bring my m eyes on oil a level with one ot of the high window holes the ten minute ultimatum interval bad come to an end hut the raiders were vere making no move to vacate the premises on the contrary their cooking fire was now burning briskly mid and they were apparently milking making leisurely preparations to eat cat it fairly made me schoolboy furious to see those fellows calmly getting their noon meal ineal ready and ignoring my warn warning ng iland hand me up one of those dynamite cartridges I 1 barked at a daddy hl HI rain all and when he compiled I 1 lighted if math and stuck it to the split end of the fuse there was at a fizz a cloud of acrid to make we me turn my face dice away amay and tin cough and then a frenzied yell from the old man throw it gosh to friday throw it 1 I I 1 contil ved to get it out ahr through ough the ivin window dm opening in some way tray and lot my balance on the earth bags doing it 0 throw good gosh to friday I 1 throw lit tumbling awkwardly into I 1 aims ss as I 1 fell coincident with will the tumble the stout old house rocket rocked to the llie cruski of un an explosion that vias N us still echoing front the cliffs of the lie mountain ahme aboe when the sour fumes of tile the dynamite rose to flent in at the I 1 window didow holes boles glod G gizzards giz stuttered daddy jairm II Irain did you reckon I 1 cut them fuses lung iong enough ellough so t you could told lem cm lit in your hands and vatch match em cm burnt burn what do I 1 know about fuses I 1 asked grinning at him then I 1 mounted the breastwork and looked out prepared to see iee the entire landscape blown into sih reds aside from a few sheets of corrugated iron irod torn from froia the roof of the adjacent ore shed the landscape op reared to be fairly intact and still with us but down on the bench below tile the lately kindled cooking ire fire was I 1 turning burning in solitary confinement the raiders to a man had bad disappeared CHAPTER XIV applied hydraulics skipped I 1 reported to daddy as I 1 climbed down from the earth sacks and that shows us its the qun quality ty of the hinn humanity anity stuff we have to benl with Bul fullerton lerton will mill rever never get that limich hunch to rush us in flip open gained anyway 11 said tin tile old man and ever bit helps rut but it if they aint doln to t take ake of t stand ln up we got to look out for ijen boins the snake ln in the ernes kind charley laul lerton aint goin coin to quit none so easy nevertheless for an hour or inore it looked us as if HIP ohp jumpers Juin had quit in duo due time the cooking sie file in III the little litlie glode glade burned out aud and no one sine to ci rekindle it around and at out the fole silence of the mountain wilderness ringed us in and it vai liard hard to realize that the filepe had not heen been abandoned though ve m e knew well v ell enough it we pill in the time as best we could tinkering up our defenses and trying to provide for nil ali the lie contingencies for one thing daddy found a big auger and used it to tip bore loopholes loup hites at various places through tit the wall mall by ul tIll of we cowd command tile to tile the 01 on two of the three exposed sides eastwardly the intervened b be tween us and the holler shed it was built as a leanto lean to against that bat side of the shaft house and in that direction we were necessarily blind the fourth side as I 1 have said faced an abrupt cliff of the mountain a rocky wall rising to maybe twice the height of the buildings and almost overhanging them at its summit this cliff tapered off into a steep upward slope bare of timber hence bence we were com secure from attack in that quarter As to provisioning we were not so badly off daddy niram well used in ills his long experience as a prospector to figuring upon the longevity of grub stampa sta iipp estimated that what with the cache 4 stuff part of a sack of flour and mother another of cornmeal we could live for a week though the cooking was going to be rather inconvenient F for or a firt etro we should have to resort to the forge in the blacksmith shop and the shop wan nothing but an open cracked shot shed ns as I 1 have described it entirely indefensible it if the raiders should conclude to rush it in the aulne falness qs of time the period of suspense come came to an end and we we were re given audible proof that fullerton Bul lerton hall had finally made his bis dispositions as an army roan man would say the announcement came in the form of a rifle bullet ripping through the root roof of the shaft house as it the stout iron roofing had been so much paper the fulls a beginning said daddy and an d the words were hardly out of his mouth before another bullet came cam ti ahli 1 time from the opposite dIrect direction Io and ti it also tore through the roof got us surrounded daddy daddy grimaced when a third shot came from still another point of the compass and i I 1 within the next fifteen minutes buller tons tonn demonstration was mas made cor complete the shots fired one at a time and at intervals Inte rials of a minute or so came from all three of the exposed sides of the building and the time alap elapsing rang between the ripping era crashes dies on the roof and the crack of the gains told old us is that the marksmen were viere all well ell beyond the range of our win chesters even it if we could have seen thern them which we fullerton Bul lenon lerton lind evidently given his hl men orders to aim tit at the root roof for it was only a stray bullet now nod anil then that came through the wails after a time the purpose of the bombardment I 1 became obvious fullerton Bul lerton seemed to have absorbed the idea that he could break our nerve wear us out after the first fusillade the shots came at antem intervals als of maybe five minutes minute just often enough to keep us on the strain and I 1 dont mind admitting that the object was mas handsomely gained I 1 cant speak tor for daddy barans or the dog hut but at the end of tile the first hour I 1 wits was little better than a bunch of raw nerves As all days must this wearisome first day came to an end at last and with the coming of dusk the bombardment stopped sto pred with our root roof looking like a ale e but after darkness had settled down e were mere made to feel in another way now acutely helpless we were we rould see nothing hear bear nothing though we me knew we were surrounded the silence and solitude were unbroken and the strolls strain was greater than that of a pitched battle if we vve to get any sleep at all a night watch could be maintained by only one of us at a time and with mith our utmost vigilance a surprise attack would be uie the t islean tiling thing in the world for bullert Buller tou on to pull off there are no night flight noises in III the high altitudes unless tile the happens to e blowing no frogs or atiee toads no insects and the silence was nas fairly deafening den fening arld and nut not wishing to strike a match to determine terr alne the exact end of my watch Lier period lod I 1 stuck it out ruea meaning to give laddy daddy good me mett sure scare sri sl I 1 think it must halie hae been somewhere around ten tea when the cille woke with a 11 start jumped up took the kinks out of ills his back with a little whining hining callin und mid trotted to the door the one peu open hig toward the th cabin across the dump i head did Sc screwing tin nn uie ee to one of dad dys auger buzed loop loopholes loi Loles I 1 tried 11 i lichow lie outer darkness durk nena which 1 I ch was only a degree or so egyptian Ngy than that of the kloft houst house interior 11 ough I 1 could bet hv nothing clotem it was ins very eileent that the dog could hear something he land had his nose to 0 o the rack crack under the door and was er growling I 1 quieted him and listened something was w as going on either inside of of the cabin or back of it in the dead silence I 1 could distinguish a low murmur of voices and a moment latar a sound like that which would be made by the cautious ope altz of one of the win window doms while I 1 still had mi 1123 eye to the peephole peep hole a jet of hame flame tip spurted u rt ed from the nark dark bulk of the cabi in and im dy a bullet tore through the home licau te root roof the I 1 had captured our outworks out works the report and the bullet clatter aron aroused sed daddy and when I 1 turned he waa 4 as nt at rny ray elbow I 1 done ceope up on us have they son he said in his usual unruffled ed manner then maybe this Is lust a sort 0 false nation over here spose shoie you try find and get a squint at things over on the khop side stannie stannic I 1 tumbled ness to the other door taking tile collie estille with mith me I 1 could see sec nothing in that direction less thun nothing since the leanto lean to shop build ing ine cut off what little light the stars gave but the black darkness hamper barneys barneis Bar ears or his now and bib eagerness to get back to the real battle front was a good proof that there was as yet nothing stirring on our side of things groping my wy may back to daddy I 1 found that he had one of the winches tm and lemed 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