Show I 1 I 1 blaak th beep 5 gold 1 by BEATRICE GRIMSHAW I 1 k 0 11 0 0 copy cwb richt by 0 by jk co 0 I 1 L striate I 1 ININ IRWIN MYERS 1 CHAPTER I IX continued ute atun 2 as we li it mi I 1 IT to desant d luto the lift pit hit that dy with pity I 1 bared tiow ornee race end ind jackson starving tick sick tit n lie the end lid of their cesati VIE L tind find stood here I 1 hood stood wv look inc ing like moes moses later a promised Ironi leed land lend on oil which they the nem neier were in to act set foot fan if it was hard fur lit me to WAI until morning only what roust II 11 have bein beta to them to see till 11 this know hit hat it meant and leave it 11 behind tel yet they had done right the descent was all of two iwo thousand fret feet the country mcky rocky end and grote and buckson and tie he wretched remnant of their boys boy even if it they had succeeded id in getting down to flint distant hole coald certainly never have found strength to climb up again agalli the route through the limestone limes tono coun try had been their destruction no one assuredly would ever to that way WIY again now that I 1 bud had shown another on alil tills I 1 remembered what for the lie moment had entirely escaped my ray the expedition I 1 had isusi thought much of it 11 in the dinst few doye and wondered where it rue was traces of a party ahead I 1 ad some time before lie fore but that vas was no serious puzzle a my very little deviation from front tile lh route I 1 followed might it I 1 find been eure sure hoever ho never flint I 1 ifould see or hear something ot of theal uben ben I 1 arrived it tile ill it blued seethed clued they were net there from end to end thre there waa was no sign of life I 1 could not understand hie tits it lokeil like trouble of some kind I 1 thought but even so n what bul bus brei nesi of mine as any trouble of Spice eal lie tie and his friend had hall made their own led bed let them lie ile art or it for me there the signs of gold old wealth too wealth bucl sl eu als cl ll 11 noi do one in ini ja a had ew evet dr eared of maybe for no one in hd bd ei eier or seen uch such a formation lit 10 cold gold bearing country you may be eure sure there waa n no iffrig late abed for anyone gunj one was n next e io t verning vir ning I 1 had the boys op up at four their mir food was wa cooked and eaten camp struck and every one ready to aart before the be first mysterious gray began be an to show above the basins farther rin progress waa was incredibly elow slow still we kept OD on at 14 it determined to reach the bottom of the pit before dark no midday bait hall was e ren en thought of through the ali beat tt t the day foodless without rest we plunged and struggled on and we had our reward it was not more than balf halt past four by my watch when we lopped topped a ridge of strange st ranga ly I 1 heaped wild rocks that for u while bad barred our view and saw 0 so o near that we could almost have taken a long leap into 14 it the I 1 alt IL I 1 left the carriers carde rs there on the rin rim of the little flat and plunged downward but I 1 took those rocks those stretches of sloping sand ond old gravel as a fairy fairytale tale wearer of seven league boota boots might hae base done it was ming rather than do de sc ending I 1 took a togs ton at the wy nery last and came come down with hands anil and feet outspread like a starfish oa on a bed of gravel mat cut my palms fairris pa irris and and tore the tile krs of my trousers I 1 raised myself op up I 1 hurt set ditched itched merely but mj lund and knees s were all over blood and grael gnu el and coll old the thing was don doni slid lid won the long ion fight over two b ft f golden gravel bad tagged my world 1 I 11 am black sheep no to more was first thought I 1 can eon remember ler it was out not pleasurable there are sweet pasture for or b ack fislid A alj elices and for them only this gold descove discovery ry 1 dd not doubt or minimize its value I 1 knew too much for fit meant no small fortune do inlet comfortable SuM sufficiency clenCY tt it meant perhaps mil tall lions hang and what millions brought with chent blac i sheer abee s aare WAnt wanderer lerer no more mom the wild places no how flow coald coi ld a man of nill rall lions live in what gin kinsling lin sling bad had caustically termed a bale hole la in the bush austri I 1 1 I went to supper and to rest fint first bo bolever wever I 1 wa washed thed from my hands the dirt and blood and gold that symbolical inseparable three examined the gold alth care as it scoped seeped to the bottom of the en and found its amount and a ad quality surprising theres b been deft nothing like It there never neter will be again I 1 thought and its that pinit of yellow tellow not anything I 1 aa act or might be that has made me orthy northy n of the tile most splendid giri girl on arth earth A mad world my mas feral tre ta peaks maks of the pla laurl laurier tr range far fairy bue blue la to the mounting looked down upon me as so I 1 slept CHAPTER X IT IT WAS tit alln ten which I 1 fit late to in the morning tor for people ho rise at five and ogo my bead head carrier and I 1 were at the end of a it long job no bad had left the other carriers carrier busl wooding and watering above had gone one down onto the flat tri tring ng ins ing as hll shovel pegs pem pros p r 0 3 waln peeling dish and lone ion steel me meas s 5 ablog ape jape worked about a bit among ibo rifles rice made by sunken rocks and taken sand and grava from promising I 1 had washed out a few dishes and fouad them to 90 like ehret of fine gold old to a diah with mill I 1 ingitti ing ieti to sl ner oser ami tail above oil nn an im about dalem pounds worth to emy clith ae e washed 11 no 0 veti h lable ji alere ll ere attiq hp p yea you could klik hie file and sand up bilth bour lore uses alid ire see it filler pl Iller I 1 hid ind ei right as discoverer for orae slid his ills hail never altun lu tun found kohl gold to out ft for area nf rif a hundred ket by tiff efly fend and it prospecting pros petting lna claim due to me ine ai as of i a f eld forty miles from any othe olde r of thin further claims till tills left dillile fir fr on aar one cle who might come box truy bli its I 1 I 1 I 1 old sold iet let them wait iney they to let me some of the tile ground judel by bp A hat we wished washed will a little richer heber than lie rut rest i I 1 picked lint that measured nailed up my ruy mollte and rind was done the tile warden of lie the field allen heo appointed at hare have to cliett and the work but for all allanic tacal purposed I 1 bud bad my round ground secure acu ecu re the eun sun was high now and down in lh airless wilma of the pit it had arollo own iown i but hot so tint hot thol the file went ran to in down doun my arma ann and find dripped from my forehead furel send into linto my mouth enie till oh I 1 said to 0 ao 00 0 O con tem plating with pleasure the neat tit t 6 afsa pe 3 flint marked fill iff rny my fotune we ive fun con pet get pigs pi in or food for I 1 was mind cj cl to lead load v carrier or two tn o alah lih g gild gid id opy lt y wre were trat trai cling light now t adans paten up a greil part of their loud 0 0 to drew tit st hit his bamboo pipe lie wae wils fill happy Tr at lit bac resting tedious ind and unnecessary vork work I 1 watched him blin as jig I 1 flit silt perth tl in n a ax li it all D face toward the lorg long hard wil by which we had cilin hed dow a e day before ogo an nna lockar up the enst ide side of the ard thi sangest A clina e came over hie his to face it came come very quickly q it seemed ai h an instant to set et his stiff 17 like waitr aroun by nn tin icy ley what do yol see ce I 1 asked him not turning my head heal Tati bala la tie sitting upon lie ile see two white men flanly yew new gurnei mar be he come I 1 looked behind me now up the long iong slops th hit thit it ran to eadward ea I 1 conid c ald tee see il test liing bing at tit first then I 1 could n seini sr uis way down the ides aides of ti cie ansin dark its is amov ing white while dote dots folin hing lein they were going fast muting making the tilt beet best of their way tow toward ard the hot toni torn like sugar ante onto raiding a bowl and very anxious to it get to the eugne na lq quickly as wil possible it was beyond nil fill doubt apher aid 3 their carriers carri cre for when I 1 ht of spicer ind hie his patron of all ili hit it the brute m must 9 t hp to known and of the if 1 len lence cepa ellebre ce doubtless that he haj k kt 14 or bow he bad had balked balled me once ind and had just fallen abort of ruining me now welt well it wag was not astonishing that my fingers half hall cor crept toward my left hip and the stock of the revolver without lilan no nise ise man travel travels through unknown papua I 1 have said that my mind like my body had cere to maturity on the red odds of the war there ure tire near my age wh feho 0 will and just what alin mean meant abd lvir war Is dead forgotten as are its millions of dead and forgotten fighters Bi bur the pemon a alistes shaped by it remain rein aln it hi has never been possible for me to gard alilin inevitably as murder 1 hen ben spicer and caton came fairly into eight sight i a little later litter when they the were well ell rifle shot nothing restrained me from pitting off tiff the tall fair air cian man with the ank avik ward wari and ridding earth of a bruit brute 11 little fil fit to 11 lle e as ansh aw himself eel f had etva ante aho knowledge knowle knowl drs edve that I 1 should certainly hang fur for it and hat that if I 1 hinged winged I 1 could nut not marry pla laurier they did nm not hurry burry as a I 1 haa ha dune done ohp N not clot 1 ioa p n ton t on the gravelly nat oat flint bi more tress ure tire than all tie tl e older goldfields it rew new culnen put to gefter 1 e niel wei at leisure in he tie of hie itie glach of ot rocke rocks tha fringed fring ged the boilo boito a of the rit PIL calon a silent felloe a mays nodded to ine me an ant I 1 rat sat donn dnn on a 1 bunds hands in poca ete ets sum elfing file lie flat with a sharp eye uhlee assuredly assured lj did not mim my ray peg pr or my notice spicer couie up grinning held oui out bis his bund hand and quoted door dotor l I 1 I 1 that in the moment an III defined presentiment of inis misfortune fortune seized me 1 suppose 1 I have felt vaguely that thie this defeated spicer had bad no to reasonable h 1 to look cheerful certainly none to crack jokes nut but if I 1 did feel any thing filing of the tort it waa was sabra ried by my personal dislike of himself I 1 wanted to abue hina him strike him what I 1 did say wj was left many of be the plaus for you yo I 1 in n afraid are there plomar he said fool tool ashly ai As if he had come up tip into the bean heart of wild gild new ew culnen for a wall ills yes wera a alle he lie spoke I 1 aw theia them rest on my aly pegs and for i moment they opened owned wide and thoner a as I 1 malay cupl bilings I 1 as a I 1 the windows windol 3 of a convict j jail allt I 1 it wa s clion who poke spoke however bat docs does it 0 go to the dish he asked he lit was 33 sitting as 83 he always did sit 14 ch with legs leg faull flang ulde a ide apart and arms akimbo oft hat pulled right into bis big eyes ey es nd ind insolent lip ID stuck 0 out ut of the fear fe 0 eld I 1 d kimt biffl 1 re 1 ili L kaiding in n new guinea I 1 bad had al ways liked trion crown the leat least nevertheless I 1 answered him there was wa no ne use dennins patent silt fads farls about four our ounce ounces to the daisv dish I 1 mid said spicer lei let out a whinnying alfing cockle of delight but made DO no elm SIM 01 1 I suppose he slid ild presently we had better hole ulner 11 buc us three they hadas had as I 1 afterward heard cainie rrt part way ay down the he crater on tie ile pre previous ilous night nod and traveled since adisto it as by a ury iery short hem hend that I 1 bin bad won I 1 illner either so we joined our it would have ha tw been contrary to new guinea huh bush cus eus oni onti to 0 o to do hn tiling else and while we vie ate and drunk md and watched each other i her olly from nit eyelids there will wn just one thought in the minds of every ore gold Oo hH I 1 aut not ant aery ery far for from 14 it 1 I think was the thought of the biller than that ha mad maddens Jens too tta ft ten I 1 en teen seen hat that crici out too ion when duns dung upon the ground blood aletter ll elter he careful of accident accidents in the buith I 1 thou tho lit even n as I 1 pressed the two to share my food ita its a big strain on any mans man self felt restraint nothing open of court course I 1 11 d respect hat that hut so many little sneaky wals of killing are ro possible Ible mint kept yoa you hick on the goodr I 1 asked the two I 1 wanted anted to know beside besides this silence wae alto irritating me they looked so well of pleased asad then thenis nelva elies bad so 0 o little right to be pl metal 1 foolery cason ht lit mouth choked clinked by bli cult spicer here won realize that im 1 lender leader and quite incorrect bleated in hut hill I 1 fancy he ism rb k to be an oxford arent at lie ilse death ot of sir It ichard the deol devolved ved on me I 1 decided hit thil the inter ois o Is of the would best be served by up filial vie had tren led to until a as a ahle able of hie tile atry you were ere out for cah cash to so go on the tile same at myself coin com a caron and if fired just about two more into that crowd of natives we met neither of us 09 ever have seen blare you snarled the whole crowd on us u and then I 1 had to und and we voled them out of course we ne had bad to go round after thac that 11 me result of your alle alleged ed lead erstill er patronized spicer being 1 in sum that flint we se base arrived afier all the valuable ground Is ii pegged lea les eald gall simply and burld his tuce face in his pint plat size pan pall ailin I 1 knew the he papuan miner too well to question him hiru hut hat there something about the whole deal that flint I 1 did not understand it doean I 1 nutter mitter I 1 thought if it they fancy chev tan oot out sue soule how or other in to the bush they e got another think con coming ilog ive sot got the place in pile spite of them all and III keep it ae e hid bid finished OnIs lied oar our meal now and the two ers without further parley went down to the flat and began walking about it was fairly late in he the afternoon by now the pair started on off on what was ei evently a brief pro trip I 1 heard the tile clink of cason a pick no now and ad then and the sharp tap of a ham roer truer I 1 did not trouble much about them I 1 I 1 was too busy making use of the opportunity to wash out a few more dishes ot of gravel there could be no question now of load ing in carriers with gold for the home burd ard trip but I 1 wanted at leuba au a food sample I 1 do not of th think I 1 k I 1 hall ever fo to get got that ho her rec ecstasy stasy of wa Rising out dish after ahi lifted almost anywhere on the cat flat and findan sure as day dayl at of the bottom of ever every y one a rich sediment of yellow dust and lakes nature Sa ture amazingly had done its work orl my claim might wight be tc I 1 a etter for sluicing later on but at th moment one could collect enough to male make any man colzy trunk wisa gold lust out of the simple washing of a dozen dishes I 1 ached a hed them collected the gold it was about thirty ore ance un cc and put it away in one of stings for caton and spicer were now returning from what I 1 ejk to be a quest and I 1 lid not want ant them to see my ciar clous elous glins they came straight glit up to me evidently eil detilly a MAN to a crevon plan they looked tired and still dirty discounted too spicer 8 mouth dragged op alln n and there was a nap bartt tv look about his ills pretty blue bloe eyes I 1 had seen more than on once before 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