Show ahe G I 1 JORS am DAD eppi e FRANCIS L YNDE 5 r 47 0 G H T BY Is Z SYNOPSIS CHATTER bunder tie hie grandfathers grand fathera will 11 ll Drouth broughton lon society idler nodi his b share of tile the malt estate valued at tin ining f lui ur iles in a sate bate re dikty t arid and longitude do de aud le la all it may b be identa ned ay iy y the ix yire nearby rat at a bion haired blue eyed girl a piebald ald horse and a lg dog with a split taie fate halt black and half white stanford at arst art regards regard the benuit be bee ruit fuest to a joke but after considers amia aerie out ut to and ills legacy CHAYTER 11 uon his bit way to denver the uy the th in meridian aidian described in me will stanford ki hearie hear from rm a fur traveler at a s lary liming to lo do with a flooded roin min DI thinking things thine over oo 00 aiato se spilt burrt may b be som thi ling th ta bis bequest worth willis hll tal lion la im finally centering tent trinK on ilia of t a mn mine as aa a safe ae repository Noci alling uie the narrative on ill the ile ti he ascertains that its fellow trall irav eler lr was wa a ro Lining engineer charles charlea but bul lotion refuses him In forma ban but vern char other bro u ilton irain truth to make mak him proceed to lii in the red fred desert IV ivon on the station platform at a Alia pla jid as the ali train pulls pulli out stanford sees ht appear to be tile the iden horse hn anil ani dc acla described in hl his kill ill ina prid tie he leaves leavea atzis U at the top angels ihor rt ar uial that Attro atropia pla was originally orld nally arvial wal uj unable to art 10 IL a nr mc at once to take him kik ur a con at got r aal sapos ci leaving the th im tir as B the U towo marshal beasley Be osley UM be 6 its slightly demented dmn td T he abandons andona ab the th er eat which la Is wrecked rc ka and escapes on tot is 1 wi dark he h to la overtaken by br a rr on and THE doz doe altair A tr ve rr 67 no Ns his presence pr Bence ell ehe e in vow ablate kin toker to bor korn horns at the be old cinnabar pole to be reset aft her father TL hosts are alfau twombly caretaker of 0 the mine mi and hi big seeing the girl ti onford lie ij abbed waged he h has located ills his property prep ny but blit doles dc not reveal hla his identity VIL VII next morning lin in karam h lit talt the mint mine hiram aska him to too look over the machinery and he does so 0 o clait ot of an eliouse to be near jeanie lit I 1 whom he ha hits ha become becom inter aled led and he engages in tile the first real work h he ills evor ever done dona CHAPTER VIII Ti Pr roughton and hiram got get the pumps acted but are ara unable to make an n Impre salon on the water but lowton apparently an alil of friend ot of the Tonn bly visits the mine ile he offers to t drain it in consideration of tons giving hm fifty ono one per cent cant of th the s property rO perty stanford anford Sl refuses then butler fen tn offers offer to buy tha mine outright for tiM lOO it r t had oost cost Brough tons grand aher m mora re than h half a if a million stanford again refuses chaiten CHAPT Etl IX feanle cautions brough ton against selling the mine under any circumstances fin and apparently in a spirit of hief allows allowa him to kiss her aft after a alth daedy hiram ara 0 decides he will stick to the property CHAPTER X next day during stan fords absence from tile mine acx a not without W aouda doubt fullerton Bul fullerton lerton lerton the iho pumping machinery chinery crough ton decides to have it out with hlin him next day CHAPTER XI jiin in the morning he find fenili fullerton Bul lorton lerton and feanle jea ale have disappeared eloped ile he also hat hill doal to llie mino has ha been bean stolen and art ail it hail ha not hn h n revor reworded ded lie ho liua hus no ito proof sit of ai alons of the tha dog cause eliam arid and Brou Bliton to take the trail in search of jeanie XII XH they find jeaniel jc Je adloe anies frony abandoned but no trace biaco of the kill kill I 1 kolly whon thy they got get buck bach to lo the cabin cisal erton ertan is IJ there awan drig their return XHI jeanie to have hav gone with bu 1 tirton ila baht of tile th art rao Is I 1 tea fj fur for broughton arid he h Us him Mull eltun denier ks atie th whort of J 1 artio kair koscs rr tin mm aai on ilia property mf so towing satis tied J mischief broghton 4 bar fortify thema pelves in the lite M maki and nd prepare for a bleg lege a aa baida alss anissia a ord of desper doas do as 64 refusal to natate vaLi ite beom beda vt batal CH chartron ArTion XIV darlng the day and the th two successfully aucLess tully defend tit alia li arthue against attacks at including an attempt to drown them out CHAPTER XV almost reidy to rive give up is 1 Icart heartened ened by iiAMS miser bertlon tion that the bunds lunds a of llie lie tiring neut have tea c h tit J atropia AtTO opla PIR and an I 1 investigating aves ti party parly V 1 l soon noon appear irow row a trine trifle hurden VI to it the clamor topped ax as abruptly as it had begun kind and the th silence which succeeded was ven inore deafening than the noise liall been willie while I 1 funded fancied I 1 could k ce dim fleuri liguri ta stalling ito alln down the road that led to the bench below I 1 heard daddy say now what in the numa name 0 lie n had bad turned away from his peephole and I 1 could bense rather than tree nee that he h was rubbing hla his eyes then i I 1 rallied rall zed that upon me also ajo a suddon sudden blindness had fallen the interior of the lt had become as dark as the inside of a pocket the effect was so 8 stupefying that it took both of ve its a minute or so go to understand I 1 that tome some change an n yet had been wrought either in us or in our surroundings during the noisy interlude ter lude great jehu exclaimed the old id i roan man chouch he was mathin arms reach I 1 could make him out only as a 0 nl shadow b a d w great jehu I 1 I 1 I 1 Ib lil lp e m tg el 0 ln blind stannic lel 1 1 I 1 I cant see ee a baill dont worry I 1 hastened to say im in the brime boat weve been looking too long and Ister ten dlly viny through thona auger holes pass in a minute but it pass anil and presently t tho clice of my old side partner came again out of the darkness araps its cloudin up some lie he p ailed lit in a liala 1 I cant se see iri nit stars through them windows at this I 1 booked toward the window openings but the interior blackness bluck Dc I 1 ad blotted them out completely almost instinctively I 1 turned back to the door and put an eyt eye to a loophole one glance was enough the trouble whatever it might be ats wit with 11 u lit A not with the sky the mars w v shining at as brightly as i ever dont move daddy I 1 cont and then groped my way along the th wall and climbed to the top of out our earth sack breastwork at a polut point which 11 I 1 guessed to be under the nearest ol of the two windows when I 1 drew myself up and tried to thrust a band through the opening the mysterious darkness was explained pla ined the window embrasures embra were stopped up both of them on the outside by something that felt like a heavy canvas curtain though how the curtain wn was held in place I 1 could not da determine termine rut but it was firmly braced in some way with all the purchase I 1 could get which want much I 1 dislodge it or push it aside aide making my way back to the door I 1 told daddy what I 1 had found huh lie said that old tarpaulin that was out aonder onder in the ore shed ilow how dye reckon they got it there cherf St stannic arinto its hoisted on a framework of some kind and they did it while we were lubbering rub bering find and trying to find out what all that noise was about we were not kept very ieng in doubt as to what the next ebern move was waa to be with tile the cessation of if the tont turn tom clatter the collie had grown grow curiously restless we see fee hini but we could hear him running front from otist to pillar sniffing nt at the cracks all and occa gheng a whining geovil presently he began to cough and sneeze no eze then lie he caule racing back to us flattening himself to hold ills his nose to the crack under the door an and taking long breaths ns as if lie wore were half stilled I 1 stooped to pat him and immediately filed lately I 1 was ills strip smelling rig burning sulphur matches got get down donin here daddy find anil smell this dog I 1 Is it of old fashioned matches or fir what lint one SLIM was all that the old nd man oto b 1 to 1 o gee whiz brin brimstone istone I 1 he choked choke them dails are ua its out 1 ahrns I botts wily why they stopped up lit them thela window holes so we get any air there appeared to lie little enough time for any defens hie amov tile as feas was coining stiv ilger every moment ino ment and tiny any search M arili fill Us its source seemed utterly hopeless yet we alit wr lt at it it coughing and ill boking bilking arid and stumbling over tiling in the darkness lar kness as a mailer of course after till all it af ata barney who ho 1 I honor him film with wilh the burnan pronoun lie he ceita certainly derverl dt it it wits ilar ney who showed shoed us the devils dilta way the red glow us now sending enough light through clucks and arev lees ices and the bullet ripping q oveil wad to wace make our inner darkness a derce degree or so less than stygian Sty glan missing MI asing the ilog dog for a moment at our tinnon rr ro ninon breathing belle we saw him film circling i a particular spot in the floor anil and emirl ing tit at it as if it were SOUl something ething eiliv lily at that we both remembered that the ahat shaf floor was wag raised it foul fool IT fir so front the rocky ledge on tile the blown own mountain side and thul that tile HIP apac underneath was partly open daddy pointed to the circling dog barneys barneis Bar pot got it 1 lie panted run their chimney up tip under the floor 1 then where in ili yun sam huc did you leave that ax ar the ax was near at hail hand and I 1 ran fur it holding my arenth I 1 began to chop madly ut at the floor plunking planking ity by this time the arr ahr was so bad that it if was impossible to breathe it and after a few blows I 1 had to drop the ax oil and run to the breathing gnp gap daddy took ills his cue instantly antly snatching up the ux air its as I 1 flung it down dovin and hacking backing away as long ions as a he be could hold his hi breath when lie was forced to make a bolt for 1 ur the lifesaving life saving hole in the door I 1 ran in again thus got a couple of the floor planks loose and pried them out in the beace beneath the open cracked floor wo we found Bull ertons chimney end an all old discarded als carded buller boller flue it seemed to be leading up from the bench below from unearthing the deadly thing to muzzling it with one of our wet blankets was the breathless work mork of only a minute or two and with the gas main thus shut off tire the air in the shat shaf soon became bearable again the hole bole we ve had chopped through the floor serving na at a ventilator through which the cool I 1 crisp night air came rushing in a re vilifying vivifying vivify ing blast our first care after a prolonged I 1 silence led us to believe that the raid cria c had bad withdrawn to study up some fresh scheme for netting getting rid of us WM was to get a bar arid and ply our two loom boora L lk 11 I 1 I 1 D M r daddy took his hl cue instantly open so that the lie breeze might blow through anil and air the place out a bit closing and tinning barking tile doors after tile lie sulphur lind had heen been reduced to it n mere inere hintch box odor we e fished our night watch daddy briddy hiram taking the first trick under a solemn promise to call me tit at tire the end of n couple of hours tills this time he behaved better rousing me a little before mid slight lie he reported everything quiet nud and pointed to the sleeping dog na as evidence that there were no intruders intruder within smelling distance been that avay ever since you turned lu in he said meaning as I 1 took it that the dog had been resting easy you can just keep au an eye on barney it if anything gos goes to hell know it afore you will nothing id III stir and lifter after daddy hall gone to wrap lit in ills his damp blankets I 1 had my work cut out for tile me keeping awake in fact I 1 want to swear that I 1 wits was fully awake luring during all of the oil OIK hundred fruit and tei twenty ity minutes that my sentry po go lasted it no nil matter about that but Bul lerlon e I 1 II Int spring any more surprises on us us dui hiring lug my watch find and when I 1 turned hie file fortress over to 0 o daddy fit at two awu clock I 1 virts able to pass tho the till nil quiet buck back to him tin and go to the hie binski ta will an eny easy I 1 lind hall jait dropped asleep as it to m me lit in reality I 1 hill had slept like a log fur for more than two mo houis when hen daddy allram came to shake me lj leake ake dolit 11 he announced qui vily und and her I 1 sat up tip I 1 saw that lie hie colice was moving uneasily un easly from one me ilir door to tile the other stopping now told IN ini it fit i to stand maud mole moi Idess with will his fins cocked arid his head bead on one side vioney hears s something 1 I 1 ven are and it 11 moment later diddy daddy broke in I 1 1 I aih aits ite plain enough for or my old ears cars now its a wagon comin across tile bench 11 now new the hie presence f a wagon on our nar bench he lich nt at tills this early hour lit in the alie morning might inezn elther either one of two dlabik etric nily opposite likings lings ti our deliverance ivera alpe or the upcoming of reinforcements for th raiders we aeri ieri err nor mil left ifft long in intuit doii it shortly sifter after file arick rack of the wagon ul wheels icell stopped tip 0 o e heard find tile the hair stiffened on itri nr meys back nt we board oice just jum out ahle and nil apparently tinder our andow henings pen ings Brough tori I 1 the voice calle callol d can call you blur tile me so sn all thill lond better korp keep n ut of anggi rl I 1 snape ti liik hink all youve got to get out ia ri hints lint I 1 to lo go to for per factly iilo fons kind commonplace rell sons I 1 dont tilina to 10 line have to 1111 you to lo get lit of if you mit iu R are not lint going to gentle hi it tiny any more youve aliv tidy hurt burt four of my iny nien men and two of th four ere crippled the next neit time little WP wi lilt ou tie te for a finish yes sald 1 I yoli tile new clila up lit in a wagon you I 1 lit he ignored tills we could starve you out if we rhose chone to tit take tilt time I 1 know pretty ell mist bouve auve got to eat or rather what fill got its your privilege to irk aalf your life in your own hands lb shotts up to you hut but how about tile the old man tile the old oil mails a planty good lind able to prak peak for hIssel ft capped I paddy you to do our durn durr deat idest charley I 1 all right once more hear front froni it directly now low drift and its as I 1 said lit in fore mev quit gentling you lily last word lr a time after this the silence find it nil the flar darkness kness since it was the hour before dim dann u acre ere thick enough to be cut ith an ax lint the dog was more restless than limn ever and we ne knew that Ling we coal rould neither see nor hear must he be going on oil after n I 1 uski ahkim il the question that lint had ben worrying in me ever since I 1 hail had heard hear the wagon vil ml eels bial i did they bring up tip in that wagon daddy a tle ite lord only knows stannic and tie he wont tell was the tie old prospectors reply ninde mode with no touch of irreverence mid and tile lie words were were out of his big mouth month before a thunderbolt struck the CHAPTER XVI 1 tit for tat that word it Is hardly a figure of speech the thing that tilt lilt ug as he be coin compared to anything miller 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