Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 903) (1923 01 19)

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JANUARY 19, 1923 ~« FAME... WEEKLY. MAKE MONE Y. The tub had almost reached the bottom of the shaft when the rope broke, throwing Mark and his companions out. Riley was standing in the shait looking on, and uttered an oath as he observed the failure of his plan to do away with the young mines owner

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2 - rs FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Issued weekly—Subscription price, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, Inc., 166 ese West 23d Street, New York, N. Y. ‘Entered ‘as Second-Ciass Matter, October 4, 1011, at 2 the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. No. 903 “Figit ¢emee™. Va CHAPTER I.—Dah Macraisy and His Pal. “Half a year to-day, by the notches I’ve cut in = this horse-trough I’ve been boy-of-all-work at this roadhouse, and hang me, Sally, if I see what I’ve gained by it,” said Bob Reynolds, in a discontent- ed tone, as he emptied the fourth pail of water into the trough which he had brought from the well in a corner of the yard at the rear of the house. “Gained by it!” ejaculated Sally Thompson, who officiated as maid-of-all-work at the road- house, which was no more than might be expected of a poor relation of Mr. and Mrs. Gummidge, who kept the road-house, which stood on the cliff road, running through a sparsely settled district, cut ug into farms, between two Maine seacoast villages, one of which—the one which was just in sight two miles away—was called Sparbolt, and the inner curve of a small, partly land-+ locked bay, the waters of which at that moment flashed in the rays of the setting sun. “Why, didn’t you tell me two days ago that you had - . gained ten pounds?” “Ten pounds!” sniffed Bob. pounds?” “Ten pounds is a lot for a boy, I wish I could say I had gained half as much, and I’ve been here more’n two years,” : _ “Why don’t you eat more?’ “TJ eat all I get. It ain’t the fault of not eat- ane.” “What is it, then?” “Too much work. I’m a regular slave.” _ “Ain’t I a slave, too?” -~*You!” Not by no means. time of it ‘longside of me.” _ #] have? You’re dreaming, Sally. Don’t I get up at five in the morning with the dickey birds, ” y er on ‘oT ae an Serer “ay So Ss a = z ~ = a 41 = - “What’s ten You have an easy and—— _- “Ain’t I up at five, too?” eS ___“$’pose you are. It’s healthy for a little girl like you to get up early. It makes you grow, and v eed it. Now, I’m seventeen and almost a ; nt , “You won’t be a man for five years yet.” ears! Where did you learn to count? to vote in less than four years. Then “Well, Tim only ah’, one year younger than you. I NEW YORK, JANUARY 19, 1923 Mark Milton’s Mine OR, A SCHOOLBOY’S INHERITANCE thing of you,” said Bob, in a per one. _ the finest boy that walks-on two : BSS ee ie ES ey eee Price 7 Cents By A SELF-MADE MAN BE ap ara icra ena “T’ll bet I could vote as good as you,” cried Sally, with a toss of her head. “Pooh! You wouldn’t know the first thing oe it. Women don’t know anything about poli- ics.” “What do you know about it?” “T know all I want to know. I'll bet you don’t know who’s President of the United States.” “Theodore Roosevelt.” : Sally was right, for Roosevelt had just suc- ceeded to the presidency on the recent death of William McKinley, a fact which will give the reader an idea of the date of this story. “Well, you don’t know who’s governor of this State,” said Bob. : “I’m not worrying about it. Do you know?” “Of course I know.” “Who?” “Never mind. You're only a girl and don’t need to know about, such things.” “You don’t-know! You don’t know! You don’t know!” cried Sally, clapping her hands gleefully, and dancing about. “I do know, but I ain’t telling everything I know,” growled Bob. . “You’re only a bluffer. You’ve gained ten pounds in six months because you eat like a pig and do as little work about the place aa you can.” “Don’t you insult me, Sally Thompsen! I won’t stand for it.” “What’ll you do?” asked Sally mischtevously. “T’ll tell my friend Mark Milton whea he comes over. Now what are you blushing abtut?” “I ain’t blushing,” protested the little girl, in some confusion. - “Yes, you are. Your face is as/red az a peony.” “Tt’s the sun.” f : - “Sun be jiggered! You're stuck on Milton; but you needn‘t be. He’s a gent and wouldn’t look at a common gir]-of-all-work like you.” - “That’s right. Sneer at me because I’tw an or- phan, and haven’t any home but this place with my mother’s cousin, which isn’t a real home, be- cause I have to work like a nigger from morning till night,” cried the girl, the tears springing into her pretty eyes, “That’s brave of you, Bob Rey- nolds. And you expect to be a man, and vote, in four years.” = “I take it back, Sally. I didn’t mean to hurt a your feelings. We bee Milton does think somes Sa =

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Bob energetically. “There’s nothing stuck-u about him. He treats me just like a friend, though he’s as superior to me as a racehorse is + to a huxter’s nag. That’s the kind of fellow I like to run across. What I wouldn’t do for him isn’t worth talking about.” : “I like to hear you talk that way, Bob,” said Sally, wiping her eyes. “You have feelings after all.” = ear, The man was much better dressed. His face was smoothly shaven and tanned by the weather. His eyes were rather shifty, and the expression of his face was in keeping with his eyes. He looked like an Irishman, and he whistled off and on as he came along. Bob did not wait for them to arrive, but went. for another bucket of water. The man stopped at the water-trough and looked at the road-house. “Peter Gummidge,” he muttered, reading the si sign over the door. “It’s port we’ve struck at last. It’s about time, faith, for I’ve nary a shot in the locker. I wonder if Peter will remember me? It won’t be my fault if I don’t prod his recollection. Sure he was a decent pal in his day, . and we always stuck together like a pair of pea- pods. He appears to have come up in the world. So much the better for you, Dan Macraisy—Mr. O’Connor, I mane. If there was a listener around I might have put me fut in it, like the divil’s imp, : Jimmy Twitcher, that’s forever behind like a 3 cow’s tail. I was a fool to take him in tow, and now I have him, it’s afraid I am to shake the young villain, for he’d be sure to slip his gab, and that might put the police on me track, as well as get himself in limbo. Where the dickens is he now? Oh, there he is, sitting foreninst the hedge as if he owned the road. The devil burn the fel- - jow! Jimmy—Jimmy Twitcher, is it coming ye - ate or not?” ‘ é The lad addressed as Jimmy Twitcher got up with an effort and came on. : _ “Now, Dan, vot’s the use a ’urryin’ a chap ven is leg: et ee Oa 2 <3 SS: young tTeproba’ cri Macraisy, seizing the boy by the arm and shaking him. “Haven't rou not to call me Dan in public, but Mr. I’d—hello! who’s com- let him know as ’ow a couple of we _ travelers, yishes te_samiple "is “ospitalt 2 MARK MILTON’S MINE “Blow the vind! It comes in ’ere at the back of me neck and goes hout through this ’ere ’ole ’ere in me helbow as if me jacket vos a public thor- oughfare. Vot did you vant to take this ’ere road along the cliffs for ven ve could ’ave taken the hother von and been more comfortable?” “Always grumbling, you yoyng villain! Faith, it’s amazed I am that I stand so much gab from ye. One of these fine nights when we’re alone on a country road I’ll forget meself and put a hole through that sconce of yours.” “Blow me tight, vot a glorious death that vould be, to be scragged by an ’igh tober like Dan Ma- craisy, who’s vanted by the bobbies for hevery- thing from ’ighvay robbery down to——” “Blame you! Will you be quiet? Don’t you see where we are?” “Vell, vot of it? ments.” “Look on that sign.” ‘Vell, I’m a-lookin’.” ‘You remember me telling you about me old pal, Peter Gummidge, don’t you?” “Vot; you don’t mean to say ’e’s the howner of this ’ere ’ouse?” “He is.” “Then dash my vig, ve’ve landed on our feet. I begin to feel a svell meal insinervatin’ itself un- der me veskit—the first I’ve ’ad since ve left Bos- tin. Vot luck! Let’s go in and interduce hour- selves vidout loss of time. Me stomach is that hempty it’s full of vind like a balloon.” “One minute. There may be strangers inside, so we've got to be cautious, do ye mind that. Re- member, you villain, that my name is O’Connor, and that I’m a gentleman of leisure, wid money, traveling for me health, and that ye are a poor re- lation I’ve taken in tow out of the generosity of me heart.: That’s your story now, so see that ye stick to it, or by the piper that played before Jeri- cho, I’ll be the death of you, which would save the hangman a job one of these fine days.” “Don’t vorry, Dan—Mister O’Connor, vich I meant to say, vith a fine meal in sight I von’t say - nothink I ’adn’t houghter.” “See that ye don’t. Now follow me in.” “Like a bird,” said Jimmy, andthe rascally pair entered the public room of the road-house just as Bob brought another pail of water to the trough. I honly vispered me senti- CHAPTER Il.—Gummidge Meets His Old Pal. There was no one in the public room of the road-house when the disreputable twain walked in with all the assurance in the world. Macraisy pounded on the bar with one of his fists. No one responded. “Are they all dead here, or is it dafe they are?” ejaculated the Irishman, staring at the back door “Go to that door and thump on it, do ye hear?* he added, addressing his companion. Jimmy walked over, and was about to pound on — the door, when it opened and Sally appeared in ~ the. agen a ry gall H | erickey, vot a pu ow are miss?" Ven ile. O'Connor and me—are | : = for the landlord of the ’ouse. Vill you kindly — 2

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MARK MILTON’S MINE “Mr. Gummidge is out in the barn. If you want drinks, I can serve you,” said the girl, starting for the bar. “Vell, I wouldn’t mind drinkin’ to them bloom- in’ heyes of yours, miss,” grinned Jimmy, “if Mr. O’Connor is villin’ to stand treat. I’m honly a poor relation of ’is, travelin’ vid ’im hout of the generosity of ’is ’eart. ‘E’s von of them real gents —toffers, they call ’em on the other side—vot you ‘read about, who’s inwestigatin’ the country for the benefit of ’is ’ealth.” - Sally turned up her nose at Twitcher and pre- sented herself before Macraisy. “What can I do for you, sir?” she asked. Dan regarded her with an admiring eye. : “Are ye Peter Gummidge’s daughter, may I - ask?” he said. . “No, sir. What will you have to drink?” “Then it’s the bar maid ye are.” “I’m the housemaid. I attend to the bar when Mr. Gummidge is away or busy outside.” “And is Mr. Gummidge away at present? What a pity! Sure it’s an old frind of him I am, and he’d be glad to see me, sure he would. When do ye expict him back?” “He is not away, sir. He’s busy out in the barn. If you particularly wish to see him I will tell him.” “Do so by.all means, me charmer. Tell him Mr. O’Connor, an old friend, is waiting to shake hands wid him, and renew old memories,” Sally said she would, and started for the door. Jimmy had, in the meanwhile, subsided into a chair. He looked longingly at the corner of the bar on which stood a plate of cheese, another of crackers, and a third of sliced beef. As Sally - shut the door after her, he followed her with his eyes. Then he looked at Macraisy, who was lean- ing upon the bar with his eyes on the road. The way to the free lunch appeared to be clear, and Jimmy took instant advantage of it. He glided over to it and helped himself with the avidity of a hungry boy. - . “Oh, mother!” he breathed. ‘“Vot a helegant - lay-hout. If Ihonly ’ad something-to drink now, T’d be as ’appy as a clam at ’igh vater.” Then Macraisy turned around and looked at “What are you doing, ye villain?” he cried. “Heatin’. Me innards are that hempty the -_-¥alls of me stomick was on the p’int of fallin’ in, __ Jike a ’ouse ’ose underpinnin’ vos shaky. Now if ‘you vould stand for a mug of ’arf-and-’arf, you’d do the right thing, Dan—Mr, O’Connor, I meant to say.” 3 “Get back to your seat before Gummidge comes or he'll think you’re robbing him.” - “Vy, I’m only mimisterin’ to the vants of na- ” protested Jimmy, esa 3 to the corner of the bar, for he hated to leave the-banquet. _ - “Sit down!” roared Macraisy, ina threatening tone. . Jimmy swept a bunch of meat and crackers into one of his capacious pockets and glided back to his chair. At that moment Peter Gummidge en- tered the room. He had a smooth face, an easy- ng suit and an air of moderate prcepestty. me forward to greet the caller who claimed friend.. The name-O’Connor, how- ‘no recollection with it. He could 1g who n was, and under os eed © IEE a pe Sere se ee eee nny 3 i they had been hind the bar, and what circumstances of the friends. He passed around then Macraisy looked at him. “Mr. O’Connor, I believe,” he began, and the next words he was about to utter died on his lips. There wa sthat in his visitor’s eyes which re- called the man’s identity, and he turned pale. “Dan*Macraisy!” he gurgled. Dan grinned. “Shake, Peter. It’s Dan, sure enough, though for reasons which ye may ss, I’m masquerad- ing under the name of O’Connor—it’s safer. It’s - glad I am to see ye once more after six years of separation. But what’s the matter with ye? You don’t look happy. Do ye doubt me identity?” “No, no,” cried Gummidge hastily. 7 “Thin shake, man!” “No, no; we must be strangers.” “Strangers, is it? Sure it’s joking ye are. Ye can’t have forgotten how ye grasped this old limb years ago, as if your heart were in your hand, and vowed ye’d share me good or evil fortune. And to prove it ye stuck by me till I was pinched for the Golding job, which ye had the good luck to slip out of yoursilf, the more power to ye, for a smart chap ye proved yoursilf at the time, and that was the last we saw of each other till me lucky star guided me to ye ag’in, and I find ye proprietor of a house of entertainment, and it’s mesilf that congratulates ye on your good for- tune.’ Gummidge, clearly ill at ease, stared fixedly at his old pal, whom he had hoped never to set eyes on again. Jimmy Twitcher was not such a dum- my but he saw that his companion was not so wel- come as he had anticipated. Fearing that their stay would be brief, and that he would lose the banquet he had been figuring on, he decided to slip away and see what he could pick up about the house in a quiet way, fox Jimmy was a most accomplished sneak thief—that being as high as his talents soared, though he often dreamed of accomplishing a burglary or highway robbery some day when he grew older and more experi- enced. With that object in view the young k glided over to the back door and vanished through a like a shadow flitting across g patch of sun- shine. ‘Look you, Macraisy—I vowed that when blind- "ed by guilt; but I’ve seen my error, and have turned over a new leaf.” Macraisy stared at him in astonishment. “Ye have turned over a/new leaf—you have! Is it draming-I am or do I translate your words aright? Why, man alive, ye were as fine a high tober as iver stood on two fate. Faith, it’s mon ye are giving me, Peter Gummidge. Turn over a new leaf, bedad! It isn’t in ye, no more than it’s in a leopard to change his spots. Id as soon suspict mesilf of turning parson as ye or be- coming honest.” res “It’s true,” replied Gummidge, in a hoarse whisper. Macraisy gave him a hard, unbelieving look. “May I take the liberty of an old friend and ask ye how this miracle has come about? Sure, ky fi bbergasted I am to hear it from your own ips. Gummidge hesitated and cast an“uneasy look toward the door. Macraisy noticed his action and looked at the dooy too, but it ‘was shut... — wig a ote a th a ake eon en es

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me rale name bekase ‘are beating up the country after me. ' down this way to throw dust in their eyes, seeing as cme an idea I’m bound the other way.” 4 | MARK MILTON’S MINE. “In Hivin’s name, man, what’s the matter wid ye? Ye’re as changed as a lobster after it’s been piling in a pot. Speak, for it’s puzzled I am en- tirely.” “I’m sorry you have come here, Dan,” said the landlord, in a troubled voice. “I can’t forget that once we were old friends—pals, and perhaps for that reason my heart warms toward you; but you must go—for do you understand?” he added, with energy. “She must not meet you,” “She! Who do yq,mane?” “My wife—as fine a woman as ever lived.” Macraisy whistled. “So that’s the way the wind blows, is it?” he said. “There’s a woman back of it, eh? I might have suspicioned it, for the sex have always been the ruination of man from the days of Adam down. So ye are married?” : : *Yeru.= “Then it’s my sympathy I extind to ye. How did it happen, me old friend?” : “Soon after we parted—you were sent up for ten years, while I escaped detection, though I didn’t go back on you, as you should remember— I met and courted a woman in whom I found vir- tue was not a name, but part and parcel of her- self; and the force of example has wrought a greater change in me than all the sermons that were ever preached. Still, unknown to her, and tempted by the love of gain, I occasionally fol- lowed my old courses, till I had amassed a sum sufficient to purchase this old road-house, then I quit for good the business which, more than once, brought me under the shadow of a felon’s cell. That’s the whole story, and I am bound to say life has gone easier with me ever since.” “That’s a very fine story, Peter, but it isn’t me that would fall to 2a woman’s wiles in that same way, do ye mind. However, I’m not going to quarrel wid ye about it. Ye have the right to suit yoursilf, and as ye always did the right thing b me, I won’t cross ye now. But one thing I as ye—shelter for the night for mesilf and that cub of mine behind me. e made it,” “What cub?” “Sure that young pal I brought along wid me, and it’s an eyesore he is to me, bad luck to the young ruffian.” Macraisy turned around to indicate Jimmy, but Jimmy, as the reader knows, was not there. “Where in thunder has the villaingone? He was seated at that table a moment ago.” “He must have walked outside while we were talking.” ’ ; “Maybe he did, but I didn’t see him do it. Well yell kape us for the night and give us a good supper and breakfast, wid a dollar or two in the morning to see us on our way, eh?” “J’]} do that, of course, for old times’ sake, Dan,” said Gummidge reluctantly. “Whist now, ye must drop the Dan. I’m Mr. - @’Connor, an Irish gentleman, traveling under the doctor’s orders afoot for me health. I’ve sunk (T’ll trust ye wid me sacret) T’ve escaped from the State prison, and the gk z came * en you haven’t served all your time?” on me hands, and 4- = as it wasn’t to me taste I took advantage of the first chance to give the place the slip.” 2 “If you should be caught here I am likely to get in trouble for harboring you,” “Not at all, for how should ye know who I am? Anyway, it’s a small risk for ye to take for old times’ sake.” “Let it go. You shall have a room and your meals for yourself and your companion, on one condition.” F “What is that?” tesa we treat each other as strangers lest my wife “Be it so, Peter. It’s safe for me. Ye can in- troduce me to your wife as Mr. O’Connor, a gen- tleman you knew before you met her, and thin she will have no reason to suspect that I ain’t as re- spectable as yersilf.” “Very well. Make yourself at home. have dinner served shortly in your room.” “Why in me room?” “Because I shall have company in the dining- room in an hour or so.” “Company, is it? Ain’t I good enough to mate your company?” “Tt’s a private party. A lawyer is to meet and dine with a lad from the private school in this neighborhood. The boy has finished his educa- tion and has reached his eighteenth year, when he is to receive the lagecy left him by his father.” “Legacy, is it?” said the Irishman, pricking wu his ears, “And he gets here to-night, does he Sure he’s a fortunate b’y, so he is. -It would do me a power of good to make his acquaintance.” ~ “No, no, Dan. You mustn’t interfere with him. ae fine boy, and nothing must happen to im. “Sure, why should anything happen to him? What name does he sail under?” “Mark Milton. His father was a prospector out West, and when he died left him the title deed to a mine, which, I understand, is valuable.” “Thin his legacy isn’t in the shape of money?” “T believe there is some money coming to him, but his inheritance is really the mine.” “And the lawyer is to settle wid him to-night?” “That’s the arrangement. He comes from the school and the lawyer from the village. They ‘meet here, dine, and after the business is over he * will return to school, pack his trunk and leave to-morrow for the West.” . ‘Pass out the bottle, Peter, and we'll drink to his health. A b’y wid a fine legacy in prospect is an object to be toasted.” Gummidge placed two glasses on the bar and handed out a whisky bottle. ° 3 “Here’s hoping the schoolboy’s inheritance will lade him to fortune,” said Macraisy, with a shifty glint in his eyes, = As he raised the glass to his lips a loud howl. burst upon their ears. 3 CHAPTER III.—Mark Milton and His Trustee. The back door of the public room opened with © “a bang, and Jimmy Twister shot in, followed by. — a good-looking, athletic young fellow, with Sally — at his heels. * «Wow!” cried Jimmy as he started to pick him self up es = Pee, ¥ 55 I will . 3 = = . , ; : = Z : => = aor Y biden at -

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ip,’ 4 . MARK MILTON’S MINE 5 In this operation he was assisted by the boy behind, who grabbed him by the collar and yanked him on his legs. ; “Oh, I say, go heasy, will you?” protested Jim- my. “I hain’t no punchin’ bag.” “You’re a sneak thief, that’s what you are, and Tl see that you land in the lock-up,” said the boy, who was Mark Milton, the schoolboy hero of our story. c : “Powder me blue, if I hever eard the like. I never boned nothin’ in me ’ull life, so ’elp me ” “What a liar you are!” cried Sally. ‘“Didn’t I catch you in the missus’ room looking through the ' drawers of her dresser?” i “Vell, vot of it?) Me and me pal—Mr. O’Con- nor I meant to say—is goin’ to stop ’ere to-night, and I vos just pickin’ hout a room to suit ’im, for ’c’s that partic’lar ’e must ’ave vot suits im or ’e gets a-valkin’ in ’is sleep, vich is bad for ’im, as ’es hunder the doctor’s horders.” = “Hello, what’s the trouble?” said Macraisy, stepping forward, : : ; Mark explained that Sally had caught Jimmy in Mrs. Gummidge’s chambers rifling the draws of her dresser. ; : c: “T found this coral necklace in his pocket, added Mark. ‘“He’s a thief.” ‘ “Tt must ’ave fallen into me pocket by haxi- dent,” said Jimmy. ; = “The idea! Just as if it could,” sniffed Sally. _ There must be some mistake,” said Macraisy. “The young man is my traveling companion, and it’s mesilf that’ll vouch for him.” _ .“Ther@ do you ’ear that?” grinned Jimmy. _ “Vhy, I’m that respectable butter wouldn’t melt - gm me mouth. That’s vot me grandmother used _ to say, and she vos a wery religious old lady who _ alvays vent to meetin’ on Sundays.” : ; “Tf this chap is your traveling companion, sir, = Ya keep a sharp eye on him, or he and some of . : r prope may be missing some day,” said ely ote TP was Mr. Gummidge, I’d hand him ever to the village constable.” : “Faith, young man, it’s mighty free ye are wid your advice, Perhaps ye’ll let me know whom I we the honor of addressing?” said Macraisy. “My name, sir, is Milton, Mark Milton.” - “Indade! Thin ye are the young gent who——” - Hysh!” cried Gummidge, in a hoarse whisper. ned I regret that and I e move out of your what happens to you,” said Macraisy, push- Jimmy into a chair. . ark looked at the Irishman rather doubtfully. “say the truth, he did not take much stock in se Romeri He was satisfied that Jimmy sneak thief, and he thought Mr. some action in the mat- th wed no disposition to do A te before I say the word, I’ll not be responsible _ wasn’t his house, and Jimmy hadn’t.stolen any- thing from him. The uproar had brought Bob Reynolds to the front door, so Mark joined him on the porch, while Sally returned to the kitchen to inform Mrs. Gummidge what had taken place. After a brief interchange of words, in which Gummidge implored Macraisy to be cautious and to keep his pal within bounds, the landlord went back to arrange for the temporary accommoda- tion of his unwelcome visitors. The Irishman read the riot act to Jimmy, and the boy promised to behave. Darkness was fall- ing by this time, and Bob entered the public room + and lighted the lamps. Sally was in the dining- room setting the table there for the dinner which Lawyer Peabody had invited Mark Milton to. She felt quite down in the mouth because the school- boy was going to leave that neighborhood for the wild and woolly West where his mine was. Mark had been very kind to her ever since he grew friendly with Bob, and came over frequently ‘to» the road-house to see him. She was well treated by Mrs. Gummidge, who was a good Christian woman, but for all that she had to work very hard, for which she only received her board and clothes, and a small sum for spending money, and so she was impressed with the idea that she was being imposed upon because she was an orphan and a distant relative. She and Bob were always scraping and making up again, but never an un- kind word came from Mark, nor an insinuation that she wasn’t as good as he was himself. E: “He’s just as good as gold,” she often told her- self. “How I do love him! I wish he was my brother.” : About the time Lawyer Peabody arrived, Bob showed Macraisy and Jimmy to their room in a wing of the house, and immediately afterward brought up their supper on a tray and laid it out on a table, *Vot a plummy supper!” ejaculated Jimmy, his eyes bulging when they rested on a plate of hum and eggs, another of friend sliced potatoes, a loaf of bread partially cut in slices, a plate of butter, two cups of coffee, and two large slices of pie. “Blow me tight, if this ’ere hain’t.a layhout for a hemperor. Vill I ’elp meself, Dan? I’m that *ungry that me-tongue is ’angin’ hout.” “Y’ll help you. Pass your plate. There are four eggs, faith, wid their yellow bellies turned to the sky. Seeing as I’m twice as big as you, three will be about right for me, wid two-thirds of the ham,” said Macraisy. “Oh, mother, do you_vant me to faint? Vot’s von egg to a growing boy like me? Vhy, [I vouldn’é know I vos heatin’ it.” “Well, thin, to kape your mouth shut, ye shall have two, wid a fair half of the ham, and Ill or- der more.” “Dat’s right, Dan... Horder it all hover ag’in. If I vas alone I could heat the ’ull layhout and tink nothink of it.” Macraisy helped Jimmy, and agi proceeded to eat like the brace of hungry folks t were. The Irishman considered the repast sufficient, and with the rest pie. Soon after the tray and 3 longingly, he had to content hi of the bread and butter, and the eight aimee. though Jimmy eyed the empty ham and eggs plate — “oi ms

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~ ‘alert against >. 6 MARK MILTON’S MINE “Well, you chaps didn’t leave much,” he said, viewing the°empty appearance of things. “Vould you if you vos as ’ungry as two hou- rang-houtangs?” replied Jimmy. “You must have walked some ways to-day.” “Vell, you can take your oath ve did. Vh od “Choke off,” interposed Macraisy. “Have you got eg a thing as a newspaper in the house, may 1 ask?’ “We have the Sparbolt News, published yester- day, and the Boston Post, which comes every morning,” said Bob. “Bring the Boston paper. Sure it’s the latest intelligence I am always looking for.” “T will fetch it presently,” said Bob, gathering up the dishes. i In ten minutes: he brought the newspaper and handed it to Macraisy. “Is there hanythink in it about us?” ventured Jimmy after Bob had gone. . “Are ye anxious to know, bedad?” grinned the crook. “T- alvays feels better ven I ’ave the hidea that the bobbies aren’t troublin’ their ’eads habout * me » “Don’t worry, me boy. It’s of small importance ye are to the police. Ye might get six months or so if they got hold of you. A mere bagateel, faith. But wid me it’s different. I’ve broken jail, and the laste I can expict is me full sintence widout me rebate; and I belave there’s another indictment out agin me on which I can be tried, wid the prospicet of five or six years more.” “Oh, mother! If I ’ad dat ’angin’ hover me *ead I’d ship for furrin parts as quick as a vink, so ’elp me bob.” “Shut up now and let me read the news.” Jimmy pocket, filled the bowl with the stray bits of to- bacco he found in his vest pocket, and began to smoke with his feet on the table. At the end of fifteen minutes Macraisy threw the paper on the table and said he was going down to take the air. “Don’t ye move out of here while I’m away or it’ll be worse for ye, that’s me advice to ye.” “Me move! Vhy, I’m dat tired I couldn’t lift. vun foot over t’other.” “T’}l be back in ten minutes, and I hope to find ye aslape.” - + walked out of the room, but not to take the air. He was bound for the entry outside of the dining-room to see what he could find out about the young schoolboy and his mining inheri- tance. If there was a batch of money connected with it, and the lawyer passed it over to him that night, Mr. Macraisy knew what his plan of action would be. In any event, he hoped to make something out of the young heir if he had to fol- low him ali the way out West, which was a prom- ising country for gentlemen of the Macraisy stamp. Mark Milton and Lawyer Peabody had finished their dinner, and all the dishes had been removed from the table, when the rascally Irish- man ensconced himself outside of the entry door, and alternately applied his ear and his eye to the keyhole, which commanded an excellent, though limited, view of the interior of the room. One of Macraisy’s ears was ingreeps | on the possible interruption and liscovery . oan Sa : pulled a small black pipe out of his ee ae ee from the direction of the kitchen on the one hand .and the public room on the other. He was poisted on his tiptoes so that he could assume a perpendicular attitude in the fraction of a moment, and he depended on his ready wit, which seldom failed him in an emergency, to ac- count for his presence in the entry in the event that he was surprised there. He was in no great danger, however, for when Bob Reynolds removed the last of the dishes, the lawyer requested him to see that he and his young friend were not dis- turbed, as they had business of importance to vhs abe gie Psibgd ; s Lawyer Peabody had previously given simi- lar directions to Mr. Guests, that individual ” was not likely to intrude on them, particularly as he had no business in the kitchen, while he had quite a bit of business to attend to in the public room. Bob and Sally were eating their supper in the kitchen and talking about Mark Milton, while Mrs. Gummidge had gone to her room by way of the back stairs. “My young friend,” said Lawyer Peabody to Mark, “you are eighteen years old to-day.” “Yes, sir,” replied the lad, with a smile. “T congratulate you on your birthday, and I wish you a long and prosperous life, toward which everything seems to point, for you are blessed with a good constitution, have acquired a very fair education, and are on the point of taking hold of an inheritance which promises a fortune. “Thank you, sir.” “This inheritance, as you have already been in- formed, consists of a mining property, located in Blank County, in the State of Caacenh. It is on the outskirts of a mining camp called Poker Flat, a rough hamlet in a pocket of the mountain range. The camp did not exist at the time your father went prospecting through the district, but it came into being as soon as the news spread to the county seat, twenty odd miles away, that he had discovered gold and silver in the pocket. Fortu- nately, he staked out all the ground permitted one man by law before the rush began, and the gold seekers who came after him took up claims all around his own. Having registered his claims, he proceeded to do the preliminary work of exca- vation required by the mining law, and then he secured his title deed to the property, which was duly recorded in the county clerk’s office at Silver Plume. I have here a certified copy of the deed. Although your father died without making a will, you being heir at law, the property naturally passed to you, though not directly, owing to the fact of you being a minor. The court appointed me trustee to act for you until you became of age. Although you will not attain your majority for three years yet, and during that interval the title will not actually devolve upon you, the time — has come when, prompted by expert opinion, I ,have deemed it advisable for your interests to place you in nominal possession of the property. You are now through ice schooling, and must* take a serious view of life. I have decided that — since it is out of the question for me to go West — and take charge of your interests, the next best — thing is for you to go there yourself and start — the ball rolling. The mines about your prop- | erty are doing well, and there is no reason why the Milton e should not also become a pro a ere ee ee ee re

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ducer under proper management. I have received several offers to dispose of the property, any one of which, with the authority of the court, I have _. the right to accept; but I have turned them all down as not being for your best interests. I may say that a number of attempts have been made to jump your claims by unscrupulous persons who produced forged deeds and alleged bills of sale. Several rascals were in possession a number of months, long enough to sink a shaft, and bore a couple of short tunnels, before I was advised of the state of affairs. I- took measures to oust them, but I have lately received word that they are hoyering around the Flat with the view of taking aiventege of the deserted state of things to renew their efforts. It is, therefore, vitally _ necessary that some one should be on the scene to protect the property, and since I cannot go, you must,” said the lawyer, : ; -“T am ready go there, sir,” said Mark. “I Rave already told you that.” : : - “Yes, and the matter is settled_in my mind. = ou shall have authority from me, as your trus- tee, to work the mine, and once you get things in operation, I do not believe you will be molested _ by outside influences. Here fed me reel one = ‘wn up empowering you act as you - = site dictates,” and Me Peabody laid another document on top of the copy of the deed. : “Thank you, sir.” : : “Jl this business I should have transacted with you at my office, but for the fact that I have been called upon to defend an important action which : comes to trial at Rockland to-morrow, and is like- ly to keep me\away from Sparbolt for a week. Sooner than delay your departure I decided to have you meet me here and have the matter over with. ‘ou will need money for your expenses, and a sum.to enable you to start operations at * Poker Flat. Here is $100 to: pay your way out West and meet any small emergency expenditures, and here’is a draft on the Silver Plume National Bank for $900. You will kindly sign that receipt -acknowledging haying received from me the sum of $1,000, as I shall need it as a voucher in the final settlement of my trusteeship.” : _- Mark took the bills and the draft, and signed the rs Mies! Pihink that is all now, and I wish you every ~ success in your business operations. Write me as - often as you can, for as your trustee it is neces- sary I should be kept fully informed as to how maatters are going on about the property,” “TI will, sir: oS Sy idyary cook: I will walk with you as far as school, and then wish you God-speed on your Sa . You are on the point of entering upon a, ates life wholly different from what you have been accustomed to; and you are about to assume grave responsibilities, on which your fu- e largely depends; but I am not afraid of the ou are a bright, courageous and enter- sing —— a true type of a young American. not fail to meet my expectations—I feel in my bones—and so I send you forth inte sw world to fight your own way, confident you will meet the issue as your father met and clasped hands across the table, the dsoe the Sy! Mie HY OL! ton and Lawyer Peabody were ae door of the pt room talking to Mr. Gun tthe as a eS =: =e z aa a. fae: = po MARK MILTON’S MINE s 7 from the spot, his brain filled with a rascally de sign he intended to put in immediate operation. CHAPTER IV.—The Crime on the Road. Macraisy returned to his room and was pleased to find that his companion, overcome with fatigue, had fallen asleep as he sat at the table. He went to the window and looked out. During the last hour the sky had gradually clouded up, and there were indications in the air of an approaching thunder storm. The storm was coming in from the Atlantic, the waters of which were beating against the base of the long line of cliffs in that neighborhood. The road-house was about half a mile from the edge of the cliffs, and on a level with them. From the roof, on a sunny day, one could catch a view of the broad, sparkling sea, and on a bright moonlight night the same was possible. On this occasion Macraisy could make out nothing but a dark void, frequently lighted up for a moment by red streaks of lightning, while to his ears came the muttered growl of thunder, gradually growing louder and more ominous. “Tis a fine night, faith, for an enterprise that calls for a little nerve and expedition,” he mut- tered, with a glance over his shoulder at the sleeping Jimmy. “For once that young imp is safe from interfering wid me plans. I want no witness to me actions to-night. A hundred dol- lars and a bank draft I may be able to turn to advantage is too good to let get by me. And thin the mine. It will be a cold day, Dan Macraisy, whin ye can’t make something of your opportuni- ties. The West is the place to hide mesilf in. I’m not safe East wid the officers on me-track. : If I could only. shake me companion all would be plain sailing. It’s a fool ye were to take the likes of him in tow. That’s what I get for having a soft heart for a pal in the dumps.” He crossed over to the table and turned the lamp low. “Perhaps I’d better remove it to that bureau. The fool might get the nightmare over that swell feed he’s had and kick it over, and thin the house would go up and leave Peter on his uppers once more,” He changed the position of the lamp, then glid- ing to the door, opened it and listened. The only sounds came in a subdued way from the public room, where a party of farmers Were drinking and having a good time after the labors of the day. He shut the door, and would have lecked it if he could. Then he went to the window and opened it cautiously. A gust of cool wind blew in and flowed around Jimmy Twitcher’s head. He moved in his chair and muttered in his sleep. Macraisy shut the window, grabbed a towel and threw it over the back of the sneak thief’s head. Then turning to the window, he opened it again ; and cautiously got-out. = A brilliant flash of lightning threw his figure - into momentary relief, then it died out. When the next flash came the window was shut and the — Irishman was standing on the roof of the kitchen — addition below. At the same moment Mark Mil-

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“ rapidly overtook him. * ee 8 MARK MILTON’S MINE They were debating whether they could reach their several destinations before the storm swept over the landscape. Mark had persuated the legal gentleman not to go out of his way to see him to the school, which was but half a mile or so away, while the lawyer lived on the suburbs of the village about a mile in the opposite direc- tion. They bade the landlord good-night and stepped into the road. “Y'll be over in the morning to bid you all good- by,” said Mark to Gummidge. “We'll look for you,” replied the landlord, tak- ing a look at the dark sky and going back to the bar, where his services were in demand. Mark and Lawyer Peabody were swallowed up in the darkness, but a minute later an electric flash showed them parting in the middle of the road. A crash of thunder followed, awaking the echoes of the firmament, and showing how rapidly the storm was coming that way. The lawyer went on toward the village jas fast as he could,: while Mark hurried in the \opposite direction. From the gloom of the road-house yard shot a tall, ath- letic figure. It was Macraisy on the trail of his victim. He was just in time to see the.boy_and the lawyer going in different directions, He was not pear enough to distinguish one from the other, but having the idea that the school was near the village, he hurried after Lawyer Peabody, believ- ing he was the lad he aimed to do up, Having longer legs than the little legal gentleman, he The lightning fiashes showed the lawyer at intervals ahead, but did not disclose his real identity to the crook. Macraisy saw that by crossing a corner of a field he would come out ahead of his supposed victim, and he adopted that plan. He came out on the road where a great oak tree threw its shadow in the surshine halfway across the road, A flash of lightning showed him the lawyer hustling along on that side of the road, and only a short dis- tance away. He drew a slung-shot and crouched “beside the tree trunk. As the advancing shadow eame up and was passing the’ tree, Macraisy sprang upon him like a tiger. A blow, and Law- yer Peabody sank senseless to the ground with a groan. “*Tis done. Now for the money and the draft, and the deed of the mine as well,” he cried. “Sure. this will be a fine night’s job for me, and no one will ever be the wiser, faith.” , As he bent gver the little man a brilliant flash illuminated the read and the surrounding land- scape, and a terrible crash shattered the sky above. Then Macraisy saw the lawyer’s features, and he started back aghast. Thunder and turf! I’ve killed the wrong party,” he gasped, The light went out and he stared at the mo- tionless shadow at his feet. “Bad luck on me stupidity!” he gritted. “It’s ill luck that’s on me to-night whin thought me fortune was made. What shall I do now? The _ b’y has escaped, and it’s too late to catch him now. The school must be in the opposite direc- tion, and sure I thought it was close to the vil- lage ahead. Bad cess to me brains! They never dece: me before. Well, I can’t stay here-cry- __ Ing over spilled milk. Let me see what the feller ee has in his clothes. A few dollars is better than pte While he went through his victim’s pockets the lightning flashed and the thunder rolled louder than ever. Macraisy transferred the lawyer’s wallet, watch and cuff-buttons to his pockets with the celerity of one accustomed to the business, then springing up he abandoned the senseless man and started back hurriedly for the road- house. The first rain-drops were falling when he gilded into the yard of the road-house hostelry and made for the kitthen extension. Springing upon the rim of a big water butt, he gained the roof, threw up the window of his room and re-en- tered the house. A flash of lightning and a crash of thunder accompanied him. The latter aroused the sleeping Jimmy, and the young thief started u “Vhy, Dan, vere have you been?” he asked, see- ing the hat on his companion’s head, and noticing the man’s crumpled appearance. . “Been, ye thafe of the night!” roared Macraisy, seizing him by the throat and forcing him back in the chair. ‘Nowhere, but looking out of the windy at the storm. Don’t ye dare whisper that I’ve been anywhere. What would I be doing out on such a night wid a comfortable room at me disposal?” “Oh, mother! Don’t scragg me! I never seen you look that way before, Dan. I ’ope you ain’t took a fit. Let go me*neck or you'll ’ave all the wind hout of me, and vill ’ave to hanswer for me death.” That brought Macraisy to his senses, and he let go of his companion. « “Don’t mind me,” he said, flinging his hat on the floor. “It’s dazed I was by the thunder and lightning, and I grabbed ye widout knowing what I was doing.” “Vell, don’t do it ag’in. ’ed a ’alter ’round me neck before. I shall never fee! heasy after this ven I read of a ’angin’. It vill give me a crick in me neck.” “Shut up and come to bed, It’s time we turned in for the night.” Five minutes later both were under the sheets, I never felt so like I ‘while the storm was howling like mad around the road-house, the wind shaking the window-panes which faced seaward and the rain pouring down in a perfect flood. A quarter of a mile down the road the pitiless storm was beating down on the white, upturned face of Lawyer Peabody, who had fallen a victim to a scoundrel’s error. And there he lay for an hour, when he was found by a party of farmhands on their way back from the village after the storm had spent its rapid course and gone on its way inland. They bore him to the road-house, where his unexpected return in such a eondition was viewed by the landlord with aston- ishment. He was brought to his senses and found. not to be badly hurt. He declared he had been assaulted by a big man in the dark, who had sprung upon him unexpectedly from behind the big oak. Who the man-was he could not say, for the night was too dark for him to identify him. That he had been robbed was easily proven by his missing watch, cufi-buttons and wallet. It hap- | poe however, that in his clenched hand had een ffound a slight clue—a bit of necktie torn — from the rascal who did him up. This was os ? to Gummidge by one of the farmhands, who told — ’ 4 * oO « fa cs a" HO f= ax “ a eb « F* 77 sy e™.

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MARK MILTON’S MINE 9 him to turn it over to the constable in the morn- ing, as it might lead to the detection of the foot- pad who was guilty of the deed. The landlord examined it curiously, and then his face paled. * “Dan wears a tie like that,” et breathed; a ' deadly fear gripping his heart at the thought of the consequences that might weave themselves about himself if his old pal was apprehended for the crime. “Can it be that he is the guilty Lawyer Peabody was put to bed after his wound was bound up, and Gummidge hastened to close his house. He remained in the bar-room for near- ly an hour, a prey to acute reflections, then tak- ing the lamp in his hand, he went upstairs, Pausing at the door of his guests’ room, he softly turned the handle and slipped inside. He flashed the light around until it rested on the bed. Ma- . eraisy and Jimmy were fast asleep, and had ap- parently been so for some time. Putting down - the lamp, the landlord fumbled over Macraisy’s - garments till he fished out the tie. One end of it had been torn off, and the piece Gummidge held in his fingers fitted in the break to a nicety. “The scoundrel!” breathed the landlord. “ the man. I must save him for my own sake.” He put the tie in his pocket, intending to de- stroy it. Then he went through the Irishman’s pockets and found all the stolen property. Shak- ing his fist at his old pal, he turned and left the room as noiselessly as he entered it. : ~ ‘CHAPTER V.—The Arrest. Morning broke warm and bright over the neighborhood, and the sunshine resting on Ma- ’ eraisy’s face awoke him. He sat BD. : “Where am I, at all at all?” he ejaculated. “Ah! I remember now. At Peter Gummidge’s _. _road-house, as warm breakfast in prospect, | please the pi : ecwkien eau out of bed and seized his trousers. He dressed himself in a hurry. “Where the dickens is me tie? Sure I can’t find it at all at all. Niver mind for the prisint. The _. pocketbook first.” _, But to the Irishman’s amazement the results 3 4 = __ of his crime had vanished completely. .. _ “By the hoof of Balaam’s rabbit, where have __ they ‘gone to? Did-I drop thim along the road? - Sure there isn’t any hole in me pockets. Holy murder! did I have all me trouble for nothing? And where the mischief is the tie?” - Macraisy was satisfied he couldn’t have lost that, too. He,sateon the bed and stared in per- plexity at the‘vall. Finally he picked up Jimmy’s tie and put it on, for he couldn’t show himself ‘without one, Macraisy decided that something was wrong, and it behooved him and his compan- ion to get on their way before the investigation Ss Angie over the lawyer. = up, ye limb of Satan,” he cried, shaking boy into wakefulness. ot’s. the matter, Dan? Has the ’ouse took the boy. 2 ; "Hl take fire if you don’t get into your ! nto dally when Dan e is: 2 sist the temptatic “Vere’s me tie?” he said, looking around. for it. “Vhy, if you hain’t got it on yourself, Dan. Vot did you do vith your hown?”: “It blew out of the windy last night. Ye can hunt for it after breakfast.” _The word breakfast had a pees sound to Jimmy, and he let the tie go. Such a small item as that never worried him. They went down to the public room and found Gummidge alone be- hind the bar. ~ “TF ye’ll serve breakfast to us, Peter, we’ll be on our way.” . “You shall have it right away,” said the land- lord, not looking at him. “It was a fine bit of a storm we had last night, Peter,” went on Macraisy, “Jimmy and me had just turned in whin it began, and sure it rocked us to slape as nice as ye plase.” “Tm glad to hear it.” “Why 7 “Because a.crime was committed in the neigh- berhood during the storm.” “A crime, is it? What happened, faith?” “Lawyer Peabody, who dined here last evening with Mark Milton, was assaulted on his way home along the road and robbed of his wallet, watch and cuff-buttons.” : “Is that a fact, Peter?” said Macraisy coolly. “Ye astonish me.” “Tm glad you had no hand in it,” “Me, is it? Sure ye wouldn’t suspect me of sich a thing, Peter. The man is not dead, is he?” “No, fortunately. The blow he received was a glancing one, and so he escaped injury. He could give no information. concerning the man who struck him down, so the chap is safe if he is not discovered by accident.” Gummidge had delayed notifying the village constable about the outrage on Lawyer Peabody in order to give Macraisy and his companion a chance to beat it out of the neighborhood. Even at that he was afraid the pair would be over- hauled. He comforted himself with the reflection that he had relieved his old pal of all incriminat- ing evidence, so that in case he was arrested on suspicion nothing could be proved against him. _In the course of twenty minutes breakfast was provided for the Irishman and his cockney com- panion, Fi they were called to it by Bob Rey- nolds. They ate in the dining-room, and at the conclusion of the meal. adjourned to the public room to take leave of Gummidge. They found him waiting on two strangers, and stood around till he was disengaged. z “Well, Peter, it’s going we are now, and if ye stand treat we'll drink to your continued health and prosperity,” said Macraisy. The landlord passed out the bottle and three glasses. After they had had a couple of drinks, the Irishman said: eS ee ee jas

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‘to me office for years, t 10 wallet, for he reasoned that one bill being like another, identification of that particular note was impossible. - At that moment the head constable of the vil- lage, accompanied by a deputy, walked into the public room. He had received word of the out- rage on Lawyer Peabody through one of the farm hands who had been sent early that morning to the village. As the lawyer was one of the most important and best respected citizens of Sparbolt, the constable lost no time in proceeding to the road-house to investigate the affair.. The unex- pected coming to the two constables rattled Gum- midge a bit, for he easily guessed the reason for their appearance. “Dan,” he whispered, “the constables. Skip!” The Irishman looked startled for a moment, but quickly recovered himself, “Come, Jimmy, it’s time we were after getting p gait on,” he said, its) for the door. The head constable regarded the pair with some suspicion. “{ shall have to trouble you to remain,” he said brusquely. : “And who are ye who presumes to interfere with the freedom of an American gintleman like mesilf?” “I’m. the head constable of this district,” and the officer threw back his coat and displayed his silver-plated star. “The head constable, are ye? that got to do wid us?” “Nothing, perhaps, but as a crime was commit- ted in this neighborhood last night, it is my duty to examine all strangers.” At that point Gummidge chipped in. “T guess these people are all right, Mr. Smith,” he said to the head constable. “They applied here last evening about dark for supper and a bed, and went to bed directly after their supper. When the’ storm came on I went up to their rooms to see if their window, which faced in the direction the storm was coming, was closed. It was, and they were both asleep in bed.” “At what hour was the crime committed?” asked the constable. “About nine o’clock, soon after Mr, Peabody and Mark Milton left this place. The storm was coming up fast then. The lawyer and his young friend calculated that they had just about time to reach their destinations before it would burst upon the landscape.” “What’s your name?” the officer asked Ma- craisy. “Terrence O’Connor.” : “What business brings you in this neighbor- And what has hood?” “Sure_it’s traveling on foot I am for me health.” “Indeed!” said the constable suspiciously. “Me occupation having confined me too closely the doctor ordered me to travel from Boston to Rockport and back ag’in, by aisy stages, on foot.” ~“You live in Boston, then?” MARK MILTON’S MINE is F mer strate,” replied the Irishman glibly, giving a fictitious address. The constable made a note of all his answers in his memorandum book. “And this young man who is with you—who is he?” ° : “Me clark and office b’y, I took him wid me for company.” “His name is——” “Jimmy Brown.” “He is an American, eh?” “No, he’s an Englishman.” At that moment, by an odd coincident. Lawyer Peabody entered through the rear door, and Mark Milton walked in at the front door. Both stopped and surveyed the scene before them. “So you’re from England, young man,” said the constable, looking hard at the sneak thief. “What part, may I ask?” : ’“HI’m from Lunnon. I vos raised by me grand- mother, a werry religious old voman, who took me to meetin’ hev’ry Sunday, and told me never to prig vot didn’t belong to me, so ’elp me bob,” said Jimmy quite glibly, in spite of a warning glare from Macraisy. “T see,” replied Constable Smith “You’re a cockney.” - “Vell and vot of it? I couldn’t ’elp bein’ born vithin ’earin’ of the Bow Bells, could I?” said the young thief flippantly. “That will do,” said the officer, taking a printed bill from his pocket. “You people may have nothing to do with the highway outrage last night, but nevertheless I arrest you both in the name of the law.” “What's that?” roared Macraisy. ““Arrist us! What is the maning of this?” -“The meaning is that I regard it as my duty to take you both into custody on suspicion of being the parties called for in this bill which was for- warded to me yesterday by the Boston police, You, as one Dan Macraisy, an Irishman and pro- fessional crook, who escaped from the Massachu- setts State prison a week ago, and has been seen in company with a young cockney sneak thief known to the authorities as Jimmy Twitcher, wanted for various small thefts in the Charles- town district. You both tally pretty well with the descriptions printed in this bill.” coolly. Smith made a sign to his deputy, who pulled - out a pair of handcuffs and slipped one of them on the Irishman’s wrist. The. touch of the steel darbies galvanized Macraisy into wild fury. He tore the other end of the fetters out of the depu- ty’s hand, swung it in the air, and struck the man — down as flat asa pancake. “By the piper that played before Moses, I'll not be taken alive!” he roared? He sprang at Constable Smith like a tiger and flung him aside. Before he could make his escape, Mark Milton, alive to the situation, grabbed him around the Then he dashed for the door. body and tripped him up. They fell to the floor — in a desperate struggle amid a scene of great con- fusion. Jimmy Twitcher made good his escape in the ss confusion. Macraisy fought like a lion and in the melee the marked bill pocket. Macraisy managed to pull laose from tors and es or and up the ss . = - ell out of the villain’s — hes aa .

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MARK MILTON’S MINE the mended bill and looked at it. Lawyer Pea- body recognized it as his papery and said so. Gummidge nearly had a fit, for fear that he would be brought into the affair. The hunt for the thieves, however, had proved a failure so far. Mark had departed for Boston and things had settled down at the roadhouse, when one morning Bob Reynolds was missing. He had departed, bag and baggage, during the night. Sally was greatly depressed when this was found out. Another boy was hired in Bob’s place at the roadhouse. A few days later a letter came from Bob to Sally informing her that Mark had gone out to Poker Flat in Colorado, and that he (Bob) was following him. Sally was tickled to death to think Bob had thought enough of her to write. Mark Milton got his first view of Poker Flat from the top of a stage coach. A half-hour later the stage drew up before the hotel. Of course as Mark descended from the stage every one present saw he was a tenderfoot. Mark registered at the counter, and it was only a few minutes later that everybody around knew that the heir of the Mil- ton mine had come to look after his property. He naturally became an object of much curiosity. As dinner was announced and Mark was about to enter the dining-room the proprietor, Moses Taggart, introduced him to a man by the name of Jim Wagner, whom Taggart stated was Mark’s father’s friend. Mark was seated at the table be- side Wagner and they were soon engaged in con- versation, duritg which: Wagner assured Mark that he could rely upon him to give him all the necessary points in regards to the business he was about to enter. Mark thanked him and the meal was proceeded ~ ‘with. CHAPTER VI.—Mark Visits the Palace. By that time everybody in the room, even to | waitress and the cook in the kitchen, knew _ the identity of the stalwart, good-looking - boy, whose father was the argonaut of Poker Flat, and who was heir to the largest claim in the camp, and one which was suspected to be the best. Naturally, he was regarded as a person of no lit- tle consequence. All the girls looked his way, and rather envied the one whose place it was to Wait on him, They swapped opinions about him in*the kitchen, and as the girls could size up a Stranger as well as anybody, they agreed that he Possessed the grit and determination indispensable _ to one in that wild and woolly district. ; _ . “He looks awfully new, Sall,” said one, “but = it from me, he’s got the stuff. Wait till he Gets inte a soft shirt and shakes his stiff collar and patent leathers and gets a coat‘ of tan on; | _ You won't know him as the same boy.” : __ “He’s mighty good-looking,” said Sally. “They he’s come here straight from school. I s’pose s one of those college boys I’ve heard about.” aD > you think Luke Brandon will do anything » said another girl. “He’s been howling ‘a tenderfoot ever since he and his friends over to Coyote Bend and shet up the camp.” ndo1 to be trusted, but as Jim Wag- ; to be ag ‘wife, and he didn had kept away from his claim, He wo 11 ner has taken the boy in tow, I guess it ‘wouldn’t be safe for Luke to get too gay. Wagner is the boss of this ranch, and eerie knows it. I’ve seen him draw his gun so quick on a man it made me dizzy. He didn’t shoot, for the fellow caved, but if he had there would have been a funeral.” “They say Luke is as quick as greased light- ning with his gun.” “Maybe so, but he hasn’t shot anybody yet,” “It’s a wonder, for he’s as bad as they come out here.” “T’ve heard he’s sweet on Ruby Ray, Mitchell’s new importation at his concert hall. “I’m not surprised, fer half the men in the camp are sweet on her. She has got the loveliest face I ever saw on a girl of her years—she’s only , a child. And she’s got the voice of an angel. I/ wonder where Mitchell picked her up?” : “Search me? The Palace is crowded every night now when she comes on.” “Mitchell made a ten-strike in getting her all right. They say he and his wife keep a sharp eye on her. She’s not allowed to go around alone. Her fame got over to Silver Plume, which is not surprising, and Casey, who runs the Varieties there, was over the other day to see if he could engage her, but heavens! Mitchell wouldn’t hear to such a thing. No man is going to let a gold mine get away from him, not that you could no- tice it.” ; So the waitresses talked while getting the food for the guests, and they were pretty well posted about matters and things in the camp. The mea! over, Wagner took Mark up to his room. “Have a cigar, Milton?” he said, but the boy declined the weed. “Your father was the first man to open up these diggings,” he went on, “We used to pal together, that’s why I consider it my duty to stand by you. He came over here alone prospecting and struck luck. After he had staked out.all the law allowed him to, he returned to Silver Plume to: get his papers out. Jhen it was he put me on, and I came back with him and picked out the claim I am working. Word was passed to sundry other chaps we knew, and they . responded in a hurry. Then the news got around and there was a rush from different places to get | in on what promised to be a good thing. The pocket was filled up until all the good spots had been pre-empted, and what was left over not prov- ing to be worth much, the camp settled down to business with the population it had acquired.” “How came it tg be called’ Poker Flat?” asked Mark. “Well, the boys ran a poker game nightly down here on the level, and when some one dubbed the camp Poker Flat, the name stuck,” answered Wagner. “Your father was getting things in shape to sink a shaft when he was took down with the mountain fever. I proposed carting him over to Silver Plume to see a doctor, but he wouldn’t have it. He said a doctor had killed his want to put himself in the hands of one. I noted down his symptoms and, sneaking over to Silver Plume. saw a doctor, and put the case up to him. He didn’t want to pre- scribe without seeing his patient, but he finally gave me a paper which I had filled at a drugstore and brought back with me. Your father rallied for a while; and might have pulled woulda if he : : “. eee So

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- Palace. 12 a relapse~set in, which carried him off in two days, and we buried him on the southern slope overlooking his claim. I'll take you there to-mor- row.” “Poor father!” said Mark. he struck luck.” The conversation then turned on what Mark proposed to do. The boy said he had come to take possession of his property and work it under the legal authority of Lawyer Peabody, his guardian. He showed the papers to Wagner. “Very good,” said the mine owner. brought money enough, I suppose, things?” “T have a special deposit in the First National Bank at Silver Plume for $900.” “That is hardly enough to more than start the ball rolling. However, that need not worry you. You can go slow, and devote your attention to opening up the mine by degrees. The main thing is for you, the heir and practical owner of the mine, to be on the ground to protecst your in- terests by your presence. When you run short of funds I will advance you-enough to keep you busy.” “Thank you, Mr. Wagner.” “Don’t mention it. I have an idea you may be able to get along without having to ask for a loan. If you hit a pay streak right off, you will be in a position to take out ore enough to meet your running expenses and something over. It will depend on luck as much as anything else. At any rate, I will see you through. Now we will go out and see the camp by night, unless you are tired and prefer to turn in.” “T’ll go with you.” “There isn’t mueh to see outside of the Silver That’s where all hands go during the evening. It’s a combined saloon, gambling joint and music hall. They have a show therefrom eight till twelve—a variety entertainment, the zature of which at present is a very pretty little “He died just when “You have to begin girl billed as Ruby Ray. She is an unusual fine’ singer for her age, which I should judge is fifteen. Ske has caught on like wildfire, and is making money if she gets all the coin and nuggets thrown at her during her two turns.” “T should like to see her.” “She makes her first appearance at nine, so we have lots of time, The place doesn’t begin to fill up till then.” ; They walked downstairs, where Mark was in- troduced to several more of the puree of Poker Flat. He received many invitations to drink, but as he didn’t indulge in alcoholic stimulants,. he’ asked to be excused. He and Wagner strolled up and down the “street,” and finally landed before the brilliantly illuminated Palace. As there was noe gas or electricity in the camp, the illumination consisted of a row of lamps with vari-colored shades over the entrance, and a number of gaso- line torches, the flame and smoke from which waved about in the night wind. Inside, lamps supplied a very bright light, for there were lots of them, and keeping these in order furnished the hotel loungers with a couple of hours’ work " < each morning. It wanted a quarter of nine when Mark and agnet aed the big outer room, given over to a ‘bar. - Te. place wis. fol of smoke. and roughly men, To the right was a longer room, the os = ee MARK MILTON’S MINE the found the situation reversed, He eect, is far end equipped with a small stage. There were fully one hundred chairs, and the floor was laid with narrow, smooth boards, for dancing was in- dulged in-every Saturday night after the show was over. The hotel waitresses always attended, ; and to ensure their coming, Mitchell, the pro- ~~ prietor, maintained the strictest order. Intoxi- : cated men were barred from the floor, and a com- plaint from any of-the girls against a man re- sulted in the chap being thrown out without cere- mony. These iron-clad rules were posted up on ~ the walls in big print, and Mitchell was always on hand to enforce them with the aid of his as- sistants. No charge was made at the Palace for admission. Admission was as free as the wind, The profit came from the bar, and the drinks and cigars served around to the audience. The music was good, and was supplied by a pianist, a vio- linist and a cornet player. The “talent” who gave the show was only fair; that is why the coming of a real artist like Ruby Ray created a furore. The appearance of Mark with a stiff white shirt, vest, striking necktie, derby hat and patent leathers created something of a sensation. among those who until then had been ignorant of the arrival of a tenderfoot at the Flat. A buzz of comment went up in the bar- room, and he probably would have been held up before he got as far as the concert room but for the fact that Jim Wagner was with ihm. In‘spite of Mark’s. manly air and good looks his city ap- pearance operated against him. Poker Flat ob- jected to dudes, and under that heading the boy was classed. The orchestra was discoursing a quickstep to which the audience was keeping time, when Mark walked up the center aisle to a front seat. Wagner was*detained for a few moments _ by a friend, who wanted to see him about some ~ business matter. Seated by the aisle was Luke Brandon and a crony. The moment he caught sight of the newcomer he nearly had a fit. “Holy smoke!” he roared, springing on his feet. _ “A tenderfoot, by the livin’ jingo!” : Mark passed on, but Brandon followed him. Z “Up on thar stage and give us a quickstep!” he roared, grabbing the boy by the arm, “Upthar, — ane , quick erbout it, or I'll blow yer full of r oles P Mark turned and looked straight into the glis- it = tening barrel of a cocked six-shooter. — a4 CHAPTER VII.—“Won’t You Be My Teddy ; Bear?” “Did you speak to me?” Mark said quietly. = “Who do yer s’pose I spoke to, tenderfoot? Up — with you on the stage and shake a leg. Up.with you!” and Luke pushed the boy forward a foot. Quick as a wink Mark seized the hand by the wrist, pushed fhe revolver up and smashed the ruffian on the point of the jaw with all his might. The weapon exploded with a whip-like report as Luke fell over against a man behind him, and the — bullet bored its flight through the curtain. The — rascal was momentarily dazed by the blow, and Mark took advantage of the fact to wrest the re- — volver from his fingers. When Brandon sprang — up, livid with rage, and with blood in his eyes, he _ lo oking “ ” inte < a a

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. ¥ : the muzzle of his own gun. He foamed at the _ mouth, but dared not make a move. Through the mob in the aisle pushed Wagner, _ with two bouncers at his heels. _ “What’s the meaning of this?” cried the owner -_ of the “Blue Streak.” “Brandon tried to shoot up the tenderfoot, but it didn’t work,” said one of the spectators. Wagner seized the ruffian in a grasp of steel. “You scoundrel! Do you want to hang?” he eried. The bouncers came up, “Throw him out!” said Wagner. < There was a scuffle, but Brandon was dragged down the aisle. On the way they encountered Mitchell, who had been attracted by the shot. The roprietor did not ask for an explanation. He ew Luke, and was satisfied he was-at the bot- -tom of the trouble. : Z “Take him into the yard and tie him up there. _ Stand guard over him till I see what damage he’s done. Did he shoot any one?” asked Mitchell. “No. He tried to, I guess,” replied one of the bouncers. “Take him away.’ : : randon was hustled. into the yard and _ tied “up. He was subsequently removed to the lock-up, a small building where offenders were sometimes left to cool themselves all night. There he was . left till the next morning, when Wagner visited him and ordered him to leave the camp at once, s “Three cheers for the boy!” cried a miner. They were given with a will, and then things subsided and the show went on. The curtain rose and Ruby Ray came on amid a burst of applause. “Mark was greatly impressed by her girlish beau- ty, at he couldn’t take his eyes off of her. Ruby swept the audience with a smile, and then her __prilliant eyes rested on the young stranger, whose city looks naturally attracted her attention. Then came the introductory notes of her first song from the piano and violin. It was a brand new song she had got that morning called “Will You Be My Teddy Bear?” and she resognized its pos- sibilities with her audience. The chorus she could “sing directly at different people, and the embar- -- rassment she was likely to << to those parties _ did not greatly worry her. All her plans, how- ever, went to the winds when she encountered _ Mark’s earnest eyes resting on her face. Some- thing like an electric shock passed through her. _ She mechanically commenced her song, and its swing caught on at once, but when she came to chorus, she extended her arms toward Mark sang: ‘Come and play with me—be my ted- yay ‘Ye ; ~~ ae, , MARK MILTON’S MINE ng. “It ought to be easy to put the quietus on a ‘S young tenderfoot. og. as genes tot Fs 13° got up and went outside, and during the time sev- eral other performers were on the stage there were few additions to the crowd. As eleven o’clock drew near, when Ruby did her second turn, which was a dance, the hall began filling up again, and when she came out it was crowded once more. After her final exit the house fell to bss: = Se yey ark an agner left with the majority and returned to the hotel, when the boy won = his room, turned in and was presently in the land of dreams, whither he was accompanied by the pret- ty singer, who once more sang “Won’t You Be My Teddy Bear?” to him. Next morning Mark visited his property with Jim Wagner and one of the latter’s men. There wasn’t much to see— merely a twenty-foot shaft and two short tunnels leading off from it, an open shed with a light hoisting rig, and a closed shed with a few tools, bags, and such things in it, The hoisting ap- paratus consisted of a rope attached to a wind- lass and run over an iron pulley in the roof of the shed, the other end being connected with a large iron bucket. This arrangement had been put in by the bunclr of men who tried to work the prop- erty to their own profit, without having any legal right to do so. They sunk the shaft from ten feet to twenty, and opened up the tunnels. That was as far as they got when Wagner put a spoke in their wheel. The owner of the “Blue Streak” took Mark around the boundaries of his claim so the boy would get an idea of the extent of his property, and then introduced him to his own mine, where work was going on in avery indus- trious way. Ore and dirt were coming up the shaft, the hoisting being done by a winch. Wag- ner said he was going to bring a small steam-en- gine from Silver Plume shortly to do the hoisting. CHAPTER VIII.—Fresh Arrivals at Poker Flat. The arrival of Mark Milton at Poker Flat to take possession of his property was speedily known to the bunch of men who were working a doubtful claim up on the southern slope of the range. The fact created-some excitement smong them and drew forth many imprecations from their lips.. Whatever plans they had in sight, the - coming of the boy put a spoke in them. The leader of the crowd was a man named Riley. He had been the head and front of the scheme to jump the Milton mine, and his plans would have gone through but for Jim Wagner. Naturally, he hated Wagner, and would have tried to get back at hira but for Jim’s bold personality and influence in the camp. A meeting was held in the living apart- ments of the Riley faction. The purpose of the gathering was to consider what was to be done in view of the arrival of the Milton heir on the ground. : . “T don’t see what we kin do,” said a man named Daley. “The boy is under the protection of Jim Wagner, and if we make any move against him _ there is sure to be trouble for us.” 2 If we make a “Yes. We'll have to go now. mistake it will be all up.”

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14 “Easy!” put in another, who had been at the music hall on the night before and noted Mark’s conduct when up against Luke Brandon. “Not so easy as ap think, my bullies. That boy has grit. You ought to have seen him last night when Bran- don shoved his gun in his face and tried to make him get on the stage and dance. He pulled out of as tight a hole with flying colors as ever ten- derfoot found himself in. If you chaps think he’s a marker, you never made a greater mistake in your lives.” Riley uttered an imprecation. ; “T heard about it,” he said; “but I guessed the matter was exaggerated.” “Brandon has nm forced to leave the camp, and warned not to return.” TS ge was Wagner’s work, I s’pose?” gritted iley. “Of course. What Wagner says goes here, as you ought to know.” “Yes, I know it, blame him! I'd give $100 to any one who would put Wagner on his back.” “Where did Brandon go?” Riley asked, after a pause. “He took the stage this morning for Silver Plume.” “T think I'll go there and have a‘talk with him.” “TI don’t believe it will do you any good. Luke is not anxious to run the chance of swinging. There’s more bluff than sand about him.” “That’s the reason the boy got him, eh?” * “Tt helped some. He never intended shooting Milton, and the boy probably saw that in his eye. Had he shot the Jad there would have been a hanging bee in the camp inside of thirty minutes, and he’d have been shot full of holes as he swung.” The outcome of the meeting was unsatisfac- tory to Riley, and it finally broke up without any plan being arrived at. A few days later work ‘was begun on the Milton claim with the deepening of the shaft. Two men were employed to do the digging, while Mark attended to the hoisting. There was no rock at that point to interfere wit the rapid pro s of the work. The walls were shored up with rough boards as the digging pro- ceeded, and ten days after Mark made his appear- ance in the camp the measured a depth of The work was aeeene daily by Wagner, and that practical individual finally told \in the precious metals. The Riley crowd had pro- ‘ceeded differently, Riley having been misied by MARK MILTON’S MINE Palace concert hall two or three times a week. The magnet that attracted him was little Ruby Ray. He occupied the same seat when he could get it, and the girl knew when he was there be- fore she came on. This information she got through a peep-hole in the curtain. She invari- ably flashed him a smile on making her entrance, and frequently kissed her finger tips at him on doing so. All this could not fail of observation by the audience, and it soon became an open se- cret in the camp that the young gate were sweet on each other, although so far they had not come. together. As Mark had become a popular young personage in the community, and Ruby Ray was the idol of the Flat, the miners began to speculate on the outcome of what they called the silent courtship between the pair, and they became deeply interested in the affair. Such was the state of affairs when the yellow stage-coach ar- rived in front of the hotel one Saturday afternoon and dumped out a couple of fresh arrivals. One was a tall and well-built man with a Hibernian cast of countenance. He sported a heavy dark beard, a cowboy hat, and the rest of his garments _ were in keeping with the statement he made when he signed the register as “William Mulligan, Den- ver, Colo.,” that he was a prospector and mining expert. His companion, who apppeared to be in no way connected with him had a smooth and shifty countenance, and found some difficulty in placing his signature on the book. After he had done so, Mr. Taggart could not decipher it to save his life, and he was accustomed to studying some pretty weird signatures. “What’s your name?” he asked his new guest. “Vell, hain’t I writ it down dere?” was ike re- ply in a pronounced cockney accent. “Vere’s yer hedication?” “Never mind that. I can’t read your writing. Hand it to me plain.” “My name’s James Twitcher. I’m English.” Taggart marked the number of a room opposite each of the names. tESS “Fetch a trunk?” he asked. “Vell, blow me! Vot ud I be doin’ vith a trunk?” ® “Tll have to. charge you transient rates unless you remain a full week.” “A yeek hain’t nothink. I’ll be ’ere till I leave. ‘Ow long that'll be’ll depends on vot ’appens. It might be a year for hall I know.’ The visitor’s statement was rather indefinite, but the conclusion Taggart drew was that he could count on the party staying a week, and as Twitcher had only a grip, he told him he’d have to produce $10 in advance. Twitcher brought out a roll, peeled off two fives, and tossed them to the — : proprietor. 4 “There yer are,” he said. heat?” yea will not be served for over two hours yet.” “Oh, mother! And me ’arf starved.” “Didn’t you dine at Silver Plume?” “Vot of it? I’m ’ungry ag’in.” “T’ll provide you with a bite presently.” “Vith a glass of hale, if yer ’ave it.” William Mulligan, whom the reader wil) recog- nize as Dan Macraisy, had in the meanwhile gone “Now vhen do ve . outside to look around., He made inquiries about he visited the Silver the various claims that were being worked in th Rik -s spa ME + ~ met A a

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= a and incidentally found out just where the = ilton mine was situated. He learned that Mark had been’ in Poker Flat about three weeks, and had begun operations on his oa mage He went -_- up in that direction and saw the boy working his windlass. He went over to him and said: 3 “How are ye making out wid your claim?” ' ‘Mark looked hard at him. He saw the man was - a strangershere, but his voice had a familiar ring. S “Pm just getting started,” answered the boy. “You are a newcomer to the Flat?” = “Faith I am.” z “How did you know this was my claim?” = “Sure I was told it was owned by a b’y, and it _ struck me ye was that party.” . ‘$ “Yes, I am the owner of this claim.” _. “Tt’s.a good one, they say.” “T hope so, but that remains to be proved.” “Tt came to ye from your father, I belave?”. “Tt did. He was the man who first found gold in this pocket.” _ “Tf he found gold, it must be im the ground. Do ye want any help on the property?” “Not just now. Are you a miner?” “I’m a prospjctor and mining expert. Me name js Wiltiamm Mullig’an.” _. “Glad to know you, Mr. Mulligan. If you are - looking for something to do, I would suggest that you go over to the “Blue Streak” mine yonder and see the owner, Jim Wagner. If he can’t use you, he can put you in the way of a job.” “Tt’s kind ye are, young man. I will go over _ there.” - _‘The bogus Mulligan then wished Mark good af- - ternoon and took his way toward the “Blue Streak ”. . “Seems to me I’ve met that man before,” thought the boy; “but where?” He tried to think as he worked on, but could not place Mulligan. And yet hé“Was sure he had met him somewhere, - S Asl tn Peed - CHAPTER IX.—Macraisy Tries To Pug It Over 2 Jimmy. = : The sun went down, and shortly afterward dusk ‘came on. Work was knocked off at the mines, and the men began to gravitate toward the hotel boarding places on the street. The majority ~ Were men well qualified for that duty, and the ere approach of one was sufficient of itself to an incipient row. Once in a while tough citi- from ‘Yuba Dam, Paradise Fork and sundry smal] mountain camps rode into the Flat Mie wecstree cies toe dil paces }; but ong as they amage - hey Pipedecg mes ve MARK MILTON’S MINE. -ner, ‘miners, and had a lot to say. ae en 15 ace,” where such parties invariably stepped to drink, and were ready to make things interesting in case the invaders got too gay. Every man of them was a dead shot, and it would have gone hard with any bunch that showed an ugly streak. Mark and Jim Wagner reached the hotel, went _ into the wash-room, and were ready for supper when, the Mongolian pounded on the gong. Then the boy saw that there was another stranger in camp. It took him about half a minute to iden- tify this party as Jimmy Twitcher, and then, like a flash, he knew that Mulligan was the crook Ma- craisy. He wondered what had brought them to Poker Flat. Nothing good, he argued. He took the first chance to pass the news to Wagner. “Crooks, are they?” said Wagner. “They will have to dust, then. We don’t want such individ- uals here. You are sure you are making no mis- take about them?” Mark told him about what happened at the road-house on the outskirts of Sparbolt. “T will have a watch put on them,” said Wag- “The man’s name you say js Dan Macraisy ?” “Yes,” “And the other chap?” rs “His name is Jimmy Twitcher. He is an Eng- lish sneak thief. -He can be identified by his cock- ney accent.” After supper Wagner asked Taggart about his new guests. “One is William Mulligan, a prospector and mining expert. The other is an odd kind of fel- low, whose writing is rotten. He told me his name was James Twitcher, but declined to say what business brought him here.” “The two are companions, I believe?” “Not at all. They merely came over together on the stage.” “They appear to be strangers to each other, then?” “They are.” é Wagner said nothing more, and walked off. “Blow me! if I hever struck sich a place in me life,” Mark heard Twitcher say to one of the loun- gers outside. “I ’ad an hidea of hopenin’ a ’otel, but blame me jf I see a chance at all.” Mark guessed Twitch>r would rather open a cash-box than anything eise if he could do it with- =< out getting caught. Macraisy and Twitcher were both at the Palace that evening. Wagner, who ‘was observing them, noticed that they did not come together or show any sign of palship. The Irishman did not attempt to make himself promi. nent in any way, but the réverse was the case with Twitcher. He hobnobbed with a dozea : Sunday was the one holiday of the week, and the miners put on their best ciothes and went around enjoying them- selves. The gaming tables at the Palace were open at full blast during the afternoon and even- ' ing, and, in fact, as late as the miners chose to stay. This was one of the biggest sources of revenue to MitcheJl. He didn’t run the games, but he got a rake-off on all the profits the _ gamblers made. He furnished the rooms, while — gamblers supplied the outfits. Those gentlemen also paid him a good price for their board and ~ lodging. Mitchell also boarded and lodged his vaudeville talent. His wife looked after this end_of the business, and she knew how to do i oo _ Mark spent Sunday quietly, as did the 3 b 53 v a3 TP ER Sad ee 3 ~

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16 owners and the better grade of the Flat people. In the afternoon he usually walked out up the mountains in the direction opposite to the pocket. This’ was what he did after dinner on the day after the arrival of Macraisy and Jimmy Twit- cher at the camp. After going a mile or two he sat down with his back to a rock and mopped his forehead with his handkerchief, for it was a warm day. Presently he heard voices approaching from behind. He easily recognized the tones as be- longing to Dan Macraisy and Jimmy Twitcher, the sneak thief. “T tell yer; Dan, this here scheme of yours is dangerous,” said Jimmy. “Arrah, what are ye talking about?” replied the big crook, impatiently. “Don’t ye s’pose I know what I’m about?” “If yer do I’m blow’d if I can make hour ’ow you’re goin’ to vork it. Yer told me to pick hup hall th2 p’mts I could, v’ich I ’ave done, and there hain’t no doubt but dat boy is pertected by the ’ead chap of this ’ere place, v’ich ’is name is Jim Vagner, an’ if yer laid yer ’ands on the young feller yer’d catch it ’ot.” “Do ye take me for a baby, you meally-mouthed calf? D’ye s’pose I’m afraid of this Wagner? Tare and hounds! Sure I’m a match for any man — walks on two fate!” roared Macraisy, an- ily. ats hain’t ‘a-sayin’ yer ain’t, Dan; but Vagner is honly von of ’arf a dozen coves vot carry guns vithin heasy reach, and you vouldn’t stand no show vith them. Better give up the hidea of tryin’ to hocus dat boy and makin’ him sign avay a- share of ’is property. Ven ’e got back his senses he’d swear dat yer vorked de game on im, and vot Vagner vouldn’t ’ave to say to yer I "ate to think about. Maybe ’e’d ’ave yer ’anged _ has an example, vich I hunderstand is a pop’lar vay of dealin’ hout justice in this part of the country.” “Blame your advice, and ye, too, ye omadhaun! Sure it’s a clog instead of a help ye are to me schames.” “<‘Bre’s gratitood, blow me! If yer vishes to dissolve the partner, I’m villin’. Say the vord and I'll tip me rags a-gallop in the mornin’ ven the stage starts.. This ’ere place hain’t safe for heither of us. At hany rate it don’t hoffer no- think in my line. Denver vould soot me better, dash my vig if it vouldn’t. A chap vith my. ooliar talents vould stand a show of pickin’ somethin’ vorth v’ile.” “Sure it’s an ungrateful scoundrel ye are to talk about leaving me in the lurch,” said Ma- eraisy. “Ain’t I payin your board and tratin’ ye. to a swell time as a gintleman of leisure?_ After all me lessons-have ye picked one pocket since ye landed here yisterday afternon?” “Tf I ’ave I hain’t said nothink about it. If yer diskivered ’ere-makin’ free vith other cove’s valu- ables it vould go vorser vith yer dan if a bobby got ’is ’ands on yer.” Soe “So ye Avant to lave me, ye villain!” went on . Macraisy, deliberately. “And the nixt thing ye’d, do would be to betray me.” ; “No, no, Dan, so ’elp me bob!” protested Jimmy. ~ “Ye think I don’t know ye, me darling. Haven’t I heard ye talk in your slape? Don’t I know __ . what’s passing in that bullet head of yours ivery minute of the day? I'll tell you what it is— < - < MARK MILTON’S MINE you know of me breaking into the sheriff’s house at Silver Plume, and putting a ball into the head of his nephew who tried to stop me. Ye didn’t have the sand to join me in that affair, though maybe ye’d find the courage to peach on me if I gave ye the chance.” ; “Vy, Dan, blow me tight hif I’d hever go back on a pal for nothink.” “I don’t intend to give ye a chance, ye villain! I intend to protect mesilf, do ye mirfd that?” “Vot do yer mean, Dan?” asked Jimmy, un- easily. “The sheriff and his posse may be this way be- fore morning.” Vell, vot of it? You ain’t suspected, are yer? No vun knows who done the business.” “Ye know it, don’t you?” “J vouldn’t say nothink. If I vos hasked I’d be as dumb as a mop-stick.” “Do ye know what I brought ye out here for— two miles from camp?” “To talk about yer scheme to rob Mark Milton.” “Not at all, me darling.” “But you’ve been a-doin’ it, ’aven’t yer?” “Ttat was only to throw sand in your eyes, faith.” “T don’t understand yer, Dan. You talk haw- fully queer—not like you’ve been hin the ’abit of doin’. Vot’s come hover yer?” “Ha, ha, ha! Is it afeard of me ye are gettin’ all of a sudden?” “Don’t laugh dat way, Dan. It don’t sound natural. If yer vants me'\to take a ’and in yer scheme I'll do it even at the risk of me neck.” “Of course ye will—now.” “I’m halvays at yer service, Dan.” - “Do ye see that flat rock at your elbow?” “Vell, I hain’t blind. Of course I sees it.” “Do ye see this bit of paper?” “Yes, Dan.” “Lay it down there. Now take this fountain- pin in your fingers and write what I tell ye.” “Go on, Dan.” “This is the sivinteenth of July, nineteen hun- dred and two. Put that down.” “Tt’s down, Dan.” “It’s a fine scholar ye are, faith. Now see that ye write what I’ve got to say plain enough for a —S— to read, or I'll put a ball pee s that skull of yours that’ll let a bit of daylight into it.” “Don’t, Dan. P’int dat gun avay from me, or I'll ’ave a fit.” “Write, now—I confess I entered the house of Sheriff Craig on the night of July 15th with the intintion of claning the place out.” ; “You hain’t goin’ to confess yer done dat, are yer, Dan?” ) - “Niver mind what I’m going to do. Perhaps it’s repinting. of me crime I am, and I wish to turn over a new leaf. Have ye got that down, ye villam?” : “Yes, Dan.” “Being discovered in the aet, I further confess that I shot the young man through the head and then made me escape from the house.” Jimmy, after some difficulty, wrote that down, “Vell, Dan?” he said. “Vot’s the hobject of this ’ere paper?” , ; oe ’ io =

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“Niver mind. Go on wid your writing. Put iown—this is only one of me many: crimes, for vhich I’m wanted by the police in the East, since T came to this country, and being overtaken wid morse, and faling that open repintence is good = me soul, I put all this, which I swear is e, down on paper in me own handwritin *T say, Dan, it’s me dat’s writin’ dis,” said Jimmy, stopping. : “Go on!” thundered Macraisy, clapping the re- _ volver against his companion’s head.; “Do as 1 . bid ye, or by the hoof cf Balaam’s——” : _ “Oh, mother!” gasped Jimmy. “I feels an ’alter as neatly ‘round me neck as hif it was made to fit.” ; “Have ye got ivery word down?” ; “Yes. Vot am I to do next?” “Sign that paper!” “Vot! Me sign it! ; “Sign it, I tell ye.” Ge “T’ve lost the pen.” “You’ve dropped it beside the rock. Pick it up and sign instantly or ye are a dead thafe.” “Vot vill become of me?” blubbered Jimmy. “Sign!” “TJ can’t vith dat pistol again me ’ead.” — “There, thin, I'll hold it away from yer; but if ye don’t put your fist down so it can be recog- nuized—tare and hounds! what’s this?” The speaker rested his hand holding the revolver on the rock behind which Mark was listening to all that had transpired, and the last sentence was forced from him by the action of Milton. The boy seized his wrist with one hand and pulled the gun from his. hand with the other, then he covered the rascally Irishman with his own weapon. . CHAPTER X.—Another New Arrival. “Qh, mother! It’s Mark Milton!” cried Jimmy. “What do ye mane by snatching me gun out of me hands, young man?” said the big crook in a blustering tone. ot : : aa from committing another crime,” replied Mark. ? . “Another crime, is it? What do ye mane?” : < “You have just compelled your pal to write down a confession of the last crime you com- mitted—the murder of. Sheriff Craig’s nephew. At the point of the revolver you were forcing him to sign his name to the paper. I knew from the tone of your voice and the glint in your eye you meant to shoot him the moment he had written his name, for in no other way could you ~ noes him from repudiating the forced con- % on, Oh, Dan, yer vouldn’t——” so I felt it my duty to save his life.“ me word, it’s a mg conclusion ye i to,” said PRS hg our name is Dan Macraisy, crook and essed murderer. : : Irishman ae out an imprecation. If could have Mark, the boy would have ddead. F it’s a liar ye are ca The ' if there ever was one,” — MARK MILTON’S MINE 17 “Twitcher,” said Mark. “Vell?” said the sneak thief. “Hand that pen to your pal.” Jimmy did so. “Now, Macraisy, oblige me by signing your own confession,” said Mark. “Me sign that paper? for?” “Sign it, or I'll put a ball through your leg so you can’t make your escape, and then I'll hand you over to the committee of safety. I shall hold your pal as a witness against you, and when Sheriff Craig gets hold of you I don’t think he’ll waste much time over you.” . “And if I do sign it, do you think me life will What de ye take me - be any safer?” “Perhaps ‘not, but it will be a decent act on your part, for I heard you say that open con- fession is good for the soul.” ‘ “If I sign it, will ye give me a chance for me life?” “You don’t deserve it.” “Sure it isn’t yersilf, Mark Milton, mine owner and fortune’s favorite, who would have the heart to put the rope over a fellow creature’s neck.” “What chance do you want?” “The chance to fly to the mountains and save me life if I can.” “You ask that of me after coming to the camp to rob me if you could?” “Since the deed has missed fire ye can afford to be ginerous. .If ye turn me over to the sheriff me blood will be on your head.” “Are you not guilty of the assault on m guardian, Lawyer Peabody, whom you strue down and xobbed that night in the thunder storm on the outskirts of Sparbolt?” “I admit I am, but it was a mistake, sure.” “A mistake!” “Yes. It was ye I was after.” “Me!” = “I confess it. I listened that evening to all that passed bechune ye and your guardian in the dining-room of the inn, and I made up me mind to rob ye of the $100 he gave ye, the draft for $900, and the copy of the deed of your mine. In the darkness I followed the lawyer instead of ye, and so ye escaped.” eee ripe all = ghd me?” “IT might as well, hoping ye will give me th benefit of me oes Coin e = es “You are certainly a scoundrel, Macraisy.” “A man is, as circumstances makes him. Since I’ve made me bed I must lie in it,” = “I shall be lax in my duty if I give you a chance to get away, and yet I am disposed to do = believing that the law will get you before ong. , “Let me go and I'll take me chance wid. the law. “Very well.. Put your name to that paper.” “T have your word I can go, thin?” we have.” ae os acraisy signed the paper with a flourish. : “Twitcher,” said Mark, “put your name to the per as a witness.”= ~ : < “Oh, mother! I'll be hanged for the murder, =a too.” : “You were not a party to it, were you?” “I should ’ope not. Blow me if me talents : oe = oe ie OH Zs red ——

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45 = hever gst as ’igh as‘dat. I’m honly a hamachure - at _the business.” | “Then you’re safe so far as that crime is con- cerned. Sign the paper, and put the word ‘wit- ness’ over your name.” “"Ow do yer spell the vord. : hess or two?” + “Two. Now hand me the paper.” “I can go now, I hope?” said Macraisy. “You-can,” nodded Mark. “And me revolver?” “Remains with me.” “Are ye coming wid me?” said the crook to “Jimmy. : "As it got vun “And yer yer a chance to blow me bloomin’’ _ ead hoff? Not if I know it. No one can prove dat I ain’t a ’ighly respectable young gent wot is travelin’ for me ’ealth. Me grandmudder alwus said dat he who prigged vot isn’t his’n, he is sure to go-to prison, v’ich ’ighly moral hobservation I’ve halvays followed, blow me if I ’aven’t.” “Then bad luck follow ye for the snivelin’ cur ye are!” rodred Dan. . He turned about and made for a nearby gorge at a rapid rate. : “Follow me, Twitcher, and don’t try to get away,” said Mark. “Oh, I say, yer hain’t goin’ to have me put in jail, are yer?” protested Jimmy. : “You are the witness to this paper, and as you are a slippery customer, you will have to be “4 kept track of until you are no longer “wanted.” - Twitcher insisted that he had no intention of < running away, but Mark did not intend taking E any chances with him. He landed the sneak . thief in Wagner’s hands with a full explanation ef what had happened, and Jimmy was locked np to await the coming of the sheriff. Sheriff Craig turned up that evening with a posse, in search for the murderer cf his nephew. As he had no line on the scoundrel who committed the crime, he felt that his work was cut out for him. He was agreeably surprised by the intelligence which awaited him at Poker Flat. After inter- viewing Wagner and Mark Milton, who handed him Maeraisy’s confession, which he was obliged to admit the man had signed under conpulsion, he had Jimmy Twitcher brought before him. He put the young thief through a sort of Third De- ‘gree, and elicited enough from him to show that the Irishman was guilty of the crime. Finding eut the direction the big crook had taken, he started. at once in pursuit, leaving Twitcher in confinement until his return. We may as well say here that Macraisy was not caught. Whether he got clear off, or perished in the wilds for want of food, was never learned. He never was heard of aga: Jimmy was taken to Silver Plume and locked up as a suspicious _ character, but at the end of thirty days he was xe -and he at once “cut his stick” for Den- ver, where he was arrested for stealing, and was A week later the outh at A vt aed ew a "ae rane A, ryt\ba feat: Rie aL Mae WUE as? 4 i! MARK MILTON’S MINE will doubtless recognize the boy as Bob Reynolds! He had had a rocky time beating his way out West, but he stuck to it like grim death, and his persistency won cut. f As he entered the hotel he did not look like a satisfactory guest, and Taggart asked him where he came from, and what he wanted at the Flat. : “I came from Sparbolt, Maine, and I want to see Mark Milton,” replied Bob. “You claim acquaintance with young Milton, then?” “He knows me well,” nodded Bob. all the way here to work for him.” ““You’ll find him over at his mine,” gart. “How will I find the mine?” The hotel-keeper took him to the door. “Do you see those two small sheds up the pocket about a mile away?” “T guess I do.” . ; “They’re on the Milton claim. Go there and you will find the owner.” ps Bob started off with alacrity. In the course of twenty minutes he reached his destination. A man was sewing up the mouth of a bag of ore, and he was the only person about that Bob could see, “Is this Mark Milton’s mine?” he asked the man. “It is,” was the reply. “Is Mark around?” ; “He’s down in the tunnel,” “How can I see him?” “Wait till he comes up.” “When will he come up?” “When he’s ready to do so.” “Can’t I go down?” “Tll let you down after I pull up the next bucketful of ore.” “T’ve come said Tag- That was satisfactory to Bob: Ten minutes . later ‘a bell tapped. The man went to the wind- lass, turned it, and up come, not a bucketful of ore, but Mark himself, . “Here’s a chap who’s waiting to see you,” said the man. 3 Mark looked at the ragged Bob, and for the moment did not know him, for Bob was about. the last person he expected to see out there in Poker Flat. Then he recognized him with not a little surprise. - “Put it there, Bob. I’m awfully glad to see . you. What brought you out here?” “T couldn’t stay at the road-house after you left, so I packed my grip and followed you. {I want to work for you if you’ll let me.” ‘guess wrote Ss . f a :

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MARK MILTON’S MINE “®coming out here to join you, so I guess it’s all right,” said Bob. Z “Are you hungry, Bob? You look famished to me.” “Qh, my, don’t mention it. I’m half starved.” “[’l] give you a note to the proprietor of the hotel. ell give you something to tide you over till supper. Then take a chair out front and wait till I come,” said Mark. . Bob took the note and made tracks back to the hotel. CHAPTER XI.—Conclusion. A week passed, and then Mark received a let- ter from Lawyer Peabody saying he was coming out to Poker Flat to see Mark and the mine. Mark was greatly pleased to learn of his guardian’s roposed visit. He was particularly anxious to introduce him to Jim Wagnet, who had been so kind to him. Soon after Bob’s arrival Mark made the acquaintance of Ruby Ray, and in view of the young mine owner’s standing in camp, Mitchell permitted them to see each other every night at the back of the stage. Something warmer than mere friendship rapidly ripened yetween them. Mark learned that she was an orphan and a distant relation of Mrs. Mitchell. That lady encouraged the young lovers, fod she saw that it would be a fine thing for Ruby if she married the owner = such a promising prop- erty as the Milton claim.. During all this time Riley and his bunch up the mountainside had failed to do anything to getethe better of Mark. The fact of the matter was they found it too dangerous, though Riley did not wholly abandon his intentions. At last an idea struck him. He went to Silver Plume and had his beard shaved off. Then he made some other mene in his face, returned to Poker Flat and asked Mark for a job in the mine. It happened that the boy wanted an experienced ~ man, and Riley was that. He was put to work. That afternoon Lawyer Peabody arrived at the camp and received a royal welcome from his men § That evening he was introduced to Wag- ner, and he go sce gratitude to the owner of the “Blue Streak” miné for the aid he had so ‘ rously given Mark. Next morning Mark took ent ant to his mine. Riley was down in the mine at the time, but he had an accomplice at the mouth of the shaft. Mark and the lawyer into the tub to go down. Bob Reynolds was at the windlass, and the bucket slowly descended. _ The accomplice and Riley exchanged signals. The tub had almost reached the bottom of the shaft when the rope broke, throwing Mark and _ his _ eompanions out. Riley was standing in the shaft loo! on, and uttered an oath as he observed the failure of his plan to do away with the young mine owner. Mark and the lawyer picked them- ‘selves up and brushed off their clothes. They -_-were shook up a little, but not at all hurt. The boy and his guardian regarded the breaking of 5 rope as an accident. ‘re was one person, other than the two con- ‘ Wires. SN es i tas fe ns. is . 19 and hack’ at the rope. He dared not leave the windless till the rope suddenly slackened, then he rushed upon the rascal and hit him a heavy blow on the head. The man staggered, lost his balance and pitched head foremost down the shaft. His falling body struck Riley on the head and shoulders and bore him to the ground, and there the two lay motionless. When they were picked up both were found to be dead, their necks broken. Bob had to go over to the “Blue Streak” mine to borrow a rope, and he told Jim Wagner what had happened. That man returned with him to the Milton mine and helped get the new rope over the pulley and attach it to the drum of the wind- lass. Bob then lowered him down the shaft with His foot in the noose. He found the two dead men laid out, and he recognized Riley as the head of the crowd which had jumped the mine a few months before. He told Mark what had hap- pened above, and that the breaking of the rope was not an accident, but a dastardly attempt to kill both him and the lawyer. Of course, the boy was much surprised, while Lawyer Peabody was greatly disturbed. “The rescals met their fate unexpectedly,” said Wagner; “but no sympathy need be wasted on them, for they only got what they deserved.” The news of the tragedy and Mark and the lawyer’s escape soon spread through the camp and created something of a sensation. The dead scoundrels were soon provided with rough box coffins and buried with little ceremony or loss of time. Before the end of the week the bunch who had been working unprofitably up on the side of the mountain packed up their things and departed during the: night. No one was inter- ested in their destination, but it afterwards was learned that they had taken up a claim in Yuba Dam, and were working it. Lawyer Peabody re- mained a week in the camp, and then started back East. The further the tunnel was pushed forward in the Milton mine tht better the results became. Mark had been take ore out in increasing quantity for some time back, and now he had 100 bags ready to ship to the smelter at Silver Plume. He had been obliged to borrow some funds of Wagner, but that act did not worry him any, since the prospects of his mine grew brighter day by day. He had no team to transport his. bags of ore. This difficulty was bridged over by Wagner, who loaned him the two he owned. put him that the Riley adherents had trouble time with the ruling powers in Yuba Dam, and they were given twenty-four hours to make themselves - scarce or take the consequenses. They left and went over to Paradise Bend. This diggings were becoming de- te mf . Se ab

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~ 20 good thing of it by capturing an ore wagon or two between Poker Flat and Silver Plume, and carrying the results to a private smelter down at Yellow Fork, the proprietor of which was-a man who would ask no unpleasant questions if silence was made an object to him. One of the erowd was-sent to Poker Flat. He found out that ‘Mark Milton was going to ship two wagon loads in a few days, and that two other mine owners were going to add their wagons to the train. Preparations were at once begun to in- tercept the convoy, and a wild ravine in the hills about. midway between the Flat.and Silver Plume was selected as the point where it was to be surprised. On one Saturday afternoon Mark had his hands load his bags of ore on the two wagons, in readi- ness to start for Silver Plume on Monday morn- ing. Similar preparations were made by the other two small mine owners whose wagons were to make up the limited train. The two conspiring mine owners who felt a grouch against Mark were unaware of what was on the tapis as concerned the contemplated hold-up of the train at the ravine along the road. They were ready to put a dastardly project into,execution of their own account. One of them had been to Denver, and when he came back he brought a small quan- tity of dynamite with him. He could have got j all the dynamite he wanted in Silver Plume, - but did not deem it advisable to purchase it there. On Sunday night he and his partner in rascal- ity went to the Milton mine with the intention of planting it where it woujg do the most good in the tunnel. The sight of the two loaded wagons suggested that if they were invelved in the gen- eral destruction it would help the good work along. Under each wagon they placed a package F: of explosive, to which was attached a slow match. They intended to touch the matches off after _ finishing their nefarious work in the tunnel. One ef them went down the shaft, while the other 2 remained on the surface to pull him up. In some way the dynamite exploded in the hands ef the man on his-way down the shaft, and a trembled and the sound reached all the way to the camp, and brought an alarmed crowd on the run up the pocket. The man at the windlass who was lowering his accomplice was found uncon- ‘scious, and the shaft of the Milton mine a com- _ sheet of flame shut up the shaft, while the ground. MARK MILTON’S MINE made to demoralize the Milton mine. The un- conscious man was brought to, subjected to a_ Third Degree, and confessed the whole plot. In the end he was compelled to make good the dam- age, and then he was ordered to sell out his mine’ and dust. When Mark and Wagner went down into the ruins of the shaft to make an investiga- . tion of .the damage, they found that the dynamite had opened up an unsuspected silver lode of re- markable richness, and this discovery proved to be the best thing that could have happened to the boy. The ore train was delayed a day by the explosion, and that day sufficed to spoil the scheme of the men who had ambushed themselves in the ravine. They were seen and driven off by a sheriff’s posse, and several of them were “caught. Their project came to light through the weak- ness of one of the prisoners, and the bunch which escaped were pursued for several days, and finally rounded up in the mountains. Half of them were killed and wounded in the fight that followed, and that ended the project to hold up ore enroute to Silver Plume. Two months later the Poker Flat smelter went into operation and after that no more ore was sent to the county seat. The discovery of the silver lode on the Milton property started a new era in the boy’s affairs, and from that time pronounced success crowned a schoolboy’s inheritance, and within six months the biggest producer in Poker Flat was admitted to be Mark Milton’s mine. —“~ Next week’s issue will contain “THE YOUNG BANKER; or, THE MYSTERY OF A MONEY- Box oemPaeaeajeaoaeoooooooooo oo __—S=S= YAKIMA INDIANS MOURN LOSS OF HUCKLEBERRY. CROP Yakima Indians in the State of Washington are highly incensed because sheep grazing on Mount Adams huckleberry fields have destroyed their age old natural resourse. The red men who each year make trips to the wild berry fields of the mountainous regions have appealed to Governor Hart to protest the pastur- ing of livestock in certain parts of the national forest reserves where wild fruit abounds. Klickitat and Yakima Indians from the earliest traditions of these tribes have annually depended upon the products of the berry fields for part of grow pre Bie

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T SEO ee - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 21 CURRENT NEWS A PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS France has had a grasshopper pest of unperal- leled severity. They have not only destroyed crops but, according to cable dispatches, they have interferred with train service as well. The in- sects appeared in such numbers that they blocked train service between Niort and Fontenay-Le- Comte, a distance of over thirty miles. So thickly were they massed in this region that it was neces- sary to stop trains frequently to clear the tracks. The train crews were supplied with special imple- ments for this purpose. 29 SNOWBOUND AUTOISTS After having been snowbound for five days, with nothing but potatoes and beans to keep them from starving, twenty-nine persons, including seven women and six children, were brought to Cheyenne. Wyo., from a ranch home eighteen miles north of the city. Fa The autoists, mostly residents of Southern Wy- oming and Colorado, who left Wheatland for the South in twelve automobiles, were caught by a . gas ‘LOOK! blizzard. They managed to reach the nezrest house, where they were marooned until a rescue party, using a ten-ton army tractor, succeeded in plowing through the snow and rescued them. POISONING OF THAMES GULLS STIRS LONDON Proof that the average Londoner is ardently fond of birds was furnished when the report of the death of several scores of Thames gulls was given prominent space in the newspapers and called forth general indignation. An old custom is feeding the gulls along the Thames embankment, where hundreds of persons daily stand, throwing bread crumbs into the air and watching the birds catch the morsels on the wing. The other day the bodies of a number of gulls were found floating in the river. An investiga- tion disclosed that some person, instead of throw- ing bread crumbs to the birds, had fed them matches, the phosphorous ends of which poisoned and killed them. LOOK! “3 A CASH PRIZE LIMERICK CONTEST NOW RUNNING IN MOVING PICTURE STORIES GET A COPY AND READ THE CONDITIONS . fan magazine is giving away prizes in the form of money and autographed portraits of film stars to writers of the best T = snappy little limericks. Do not miss body is eligible. is good. It won’t last forever. Picture Stories” No. one. this chance to get some easy money. Every- Tell all your friends about it. Get in while the getting You can read the conditions in “Moving 523, out January 5, 1923, and all issues after that If you eannot get a copy from your newsdealer send us the price, 7 cents, in money or postage stamps and we will mail a copy to you, postage free. Address HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., 166 West 23d Street, New York S think will read our publications: West Weekly,” “Secret Service,” “Pluck and Luck,” “Liberty Boys,” END us. the names and addresses of five of your friends whom you “Moving Picture Stories,” “Wild “Work and Win,” “Fame and Fortune” and “Happy Days.” ‘We will send you for your trouble, without charge, one of the snappiest, cleverest detective-story magazines you ever read. ; > HARRY E. WOLFF, PUBLISHER, Inc., 166 W. 23d St., New York City

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22 Held Down By Poverty — OR — ‘A POOR BOY’S STRUGGLE FOR SUCCESS By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) “\ CHAPTER XII. Whe Bookkeeper And The Porter Act In Such A Way As To Arouse Suspicion. Knowing this, the boy fought like a tiger to beat them off until aid in some form should come, -_ for he knew that in that part of the city people were passing to and fro within a hundred feet or so of him, and he was quite sure that the yell emitted by the man he had butted in the stomach _- ‘aust have been heard. His bedy was aching from the blows he had sustained, and his face was cut and bleeding, but he was still hopeful of keeping on his feet until others came up to the spot, when one of the gang- sters who had been knocked down, caught the brave lad by the ankle and with a strong tug brought him to the ground. Then Harry gave himself up for lost. : Up to this instant Harry had saved every bit of his breath for the hard fight he knew he had to put up, but when he found himself going down to the sidewalk he drew in a deep breath and shouted at the top of his voice: ~ “Police! Help!” = Then he was down. Nevertheless, he struggled and squirmed like an eel, trying to evade further injury. The gangsters, most of whom had felt the weight of Harry’s hard fists, had no doubt ex- pected an easy victory with the boy when he passed through the dark and narrow street where they had lain in wait for him, and his spirited resistance, and the punches he had given them, had theroughly angered them, and when he was down on the sidewalk they broke silence and ex- pressed themselves vindictively. “Now let him have it.” = “Give him the boots!” = But it was not so easy done as said, for the plucky and powerful boy was twisting and squirm- jing, and having now become accustomed to the _ faint light of the narrow street, was able to see _ what was going on and to evade the boots he saw coming down on him. So far he had been fortun- ate, but he knew it could not last, and it was with a great sense of relief that he heard the rapping of police clubs at either end of the street. That settled the fight. 3 _ The gangsters had no desire to be arrested, and when they heard the tapping at both sides of the block they were instantly alarmed. - “Cut it,” said a voice that Harry recognized as ha Monk Wardman, “and follow me. Keep ose together, and smash through.” | Without bestowing another glance at the boy on : t cals formed in a solid body be- De a O64 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY hind their leader, and rushed for one end of the narrow street. A policeman was coming down, as they could plainly see, for the officer was be- tween them and the light at the end ofthe street, but they did not pause an instant in their rush. The unfortunate officer was bowled over and left stunned in the roadway, and the gangsters dashed out of sight. Battered and bruised from the many fists that had landed on him, but not seriously damaged, Harry. Hale got on his feet as two policemen rushed up from the other end of the narrow street, followed by passing citizens who wanted to see what it was all about. : “What’s up?” asked one of the policemen. “I was tackled by the Swamp gang,” replied Harry. “Over yonder from the leather district?” "¥en." “For what reason? Do you know?” “Oh, it’s because I’ve interfered with them,” said Harry. “They had me down and would have kicked me to pulp in another minute.” The offcer who had been bowled over came up at this moment, rubbing his head and dusting off his uniform, and then Harry walked with them to the next street, where the officers stared at him = he stood under the full glare of an electric ight. Well, you are a sight!” said one. “Why, they’ve battered you to pieces,” said an- other. “Your nose is bleeding, your face is all marked up, and you’ve got lumps on your fore- head as big as hen’s eggs.” “I guess you’@e right,” said Harry, “but they’ve got something to show as well, you can be sure of it.” “And there -couldn’t have been less than eight or nine of them,” said the officer who had been bowled over by the gang in their mad rush to es- cape arrest. “Well, kid, you certainly are a good one, and no mistake.” : “Better come into the drugstere with me and get something done to you before you go home,” kindly advised one of the policemen, and as Harry did not want to alarm his mother more than was unavoidable, he followed the policeman’s advice. The druggist was a clever man, and removed many traces of the battle, but for all that when Harry left the place he carried two large lumps. on his forehead, and bore traces of scratches on his cheeks, while no less than six different places on his neck and face were covered with~ small patches of adhesive plaster. ‘Still, the blood had been wiped and washed away, and Harry knew his appearance would not be alarming. } On the way home, although he no longer abandoned himself to the reflective attitude that had cost him so dearly, oe could not heip thinking over the recent aftack. Everything had seemed settled between him and the —_ gang after he had so thoroughly thrashed Mo Wardman, and the members of the gang had met him again and again under conditions that would have given them a decided advantage, and had done nothing more than to glare at him. ; ; f And now, shortly after his affair with Marty in West street, he was attacked in force. BaN 3505 Akae continued.) > ——— Ske ee, ee

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RECORD FOSSIL FOUND > Discovery of the thigh bones of a Patagonian _ dinosaur, each bone measuring 2 metres, 70 centi- metres (nearly nine feet) in tengtn, and claimed to be the largest unearthed in any part of the world, was announced by La Plata Museum, » Buenos Ayres. ; The skeleton of the great diplodocus assembled at the Carnegi¢é Museum in Pittsburg has thigh bones only 1 metre, 50 centimetres long, although the entire skeleton measures 25 metres, and from these-figures it is conjectured that when the Pat- agonian dinosaur roamed the Mesozoic forests he was at least 45 metres, or about 140 feet long. THE CONQUEST OF KILIMANJARO Kilimanjaro, Africa’s two-headed giant, has again been climbed; this time by two English- men, Gillman and Nason. Moufit Kibo, the higher of the two heads by some 2,000 feet, was,selected for the adventure. The slopes covered by loose shingle, afforded but a slippery foothold; above this zone, progress could only be made by chop- _ ping steps in the ice. Persevering with super- human efforts, the rim of the ice-filled crater was finally reached; here were found, in a good state of preservation, the cards of German climbers who had forestalled the Englishmen. At about 19,500 feet the pulse was 120 to 130, and breath- ing was 35 to the minute. Boiling-point observa- tions were also made, and many photographs were taken. * REWARD FOR 3 DETECTIVES Inspector John L. Coughlin, head of the De- tective Division, New York, recently summoned Detective Sergeants Edward A. Kiley, John L. - O’Brien and Frederick Stepat to his office and - tendered each man a check for $1,000 as a re- ‘ ward from the Post-office Department for their part in the capture of three robbers who, on Oct. 2 24, 1921, held up a mail truck in Leonard street, + near Broadway, and escaped with more than $2,- 3 000,000 in money, jewelry and securities. Each of the criminals was sentenced to twenty-five w years in prison in the Federal Court several pies Ly months ago. ; Under fhe rules of the Police Department each detective was. permitted to receive only $750 of - the reward, 15 per cent. of the $3,000 going to the - Police Relief Fund and tle remaining 10 per cent. China’ il service, dating back to the Chou dy (1122-249 B. C.) undoubtedly holds first k sang the world of a emoepsrineon for un- s ] methods. Trafic over streams in i Province is accomplished by a round tub the postman stands witht his sacks while Last year an FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST rial route was 23 maintained for a time between the capital and ‘’sinaufu, in Shantung. _ Away off in Chinese Turkestan ‘four-wheel wagons drawn by ponies carry the mails, while in Shensi mule litters and bullock carts serve the purpose. In Manchuria horse-drawn sledges skim over the ice and on the Kaligan-Urea route slow-trudging camel trains constitute the mail transport. There are certain places on the Yangtse where the mail-man puils himself by hand along a cable stretched’from one side of a gorge to the other with the mail sacks strapped to his back. Across the Yellow River in Shensi a - square raft made of water-bufialo skins carries the courier. In modernized China fast steam trains and motortrucks have superseded the ancient methods. The annual report of the post-office for 1921 shows that from 1905 to 1920 the bulk of mailed matter has increased from 3,000,000 pieces to 400,000,000, and the area covered from 20,000 li to 475,000 li. During 1921 there were 442,116,- 858 pieces of mail matter handled, averaging slightly mare than one piece to every inhabitant. e63a“aa*wa>s*>=~=qQqoaS NS “Mystery Magazine” SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY — LATEST ISSUES —— A CLUE BY RADIO, by Capt. Jack Static. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S SECRET, by Chas, F. Oursler. = th wee FROM HEADQUARTERS, by Hamilton raigie. THE GIRL IN THE CASE, by Carl Glick. A SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE, by Donald George McDonald. NUMBER NINE QUEER STREET, by Jack Bechdolt. . TRAILED BY A PRIVATE DETECTIVE, by Gottlieb Jacobs. THE MOUSE TRAP, by Edith Sessions Tupper. A*RADIO MYSTERY, by Capt. Jack Static. THD CLAWING DEATH, by Beulah Poynter. A MASTER OF MILLIONS, by Chas. F.-: Oursler. The Famous Detective Story Out Today In 124 Is THE SECRET OF ROOM 13 By HAMILTON CRAIGIE HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. 166 West 23d ‘Street, New York City 113 114 115 116 ni7 118 “Moving Picture Stories A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players ; » PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY = Each number contains Four Stories of the Best Films on the Screens— Elegant Half-tone Scenes from the Plays — Interesting Articles About Prominent People : in the Films— Doings of Actors and Actresses in +z Studio and Lessons in Scenario Writing. : PES HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc,

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A Strange Case 'I was on a mission at Chillington, and my headquarters were at Melcham Court during the time. JF was not sure of being a welcome guest, but for this I did not care, since it was the public I sought to serve and not a single individual. Joab Melcham was reputed wealthy. He was master of Melcham Court, and lived in a style be- coming the blue-blooded aristocracy from which he sprang. He was also president of Chillington Bank, and a stockholder in various other enter- pons of importance. Among the common people was not liked.~ He chilled and repulsed them with his frown, and people will not overlook such things. 4 At the time of which I am writing Andrew Mayne was cashier of the bank at Chillington, and he was in difficulty. It was a difficulty that promised to land the cashier in state prison for a term of years. It was his wife’s tears and earnest protestations of her husband’s innocence that induced me to look-into the matter at all, Perhaps the reader will wonder why, since I am _a detective, and at home in cases of crime in its every phase. | The reason was simply this: Andrew Mayne was in jail, charged with appropriating money : not his own to the amount of forty thousand dol- _ lars, and he admitted his guilt with the coolest indifference, seemingly, as to his fate. And yet his wife positively. assured me that Andrew was innocent. : I of course received her assurance with a large degree of allowance. *Your husband, madam, must be a queer man to confess guilt if he is really innocent. I have read of cases of this kind, but have always con- sidered them myths. In my own experience I never met with such a case. I cannot see how Andrew Mayne can remain te, outside of prison. If he is the man he admits himself to be, the state prison is the place for him!” . I fixed a cold glance on the wife’s face while I talked. -It was possible, I thought, that she knew - her husband was guilty, but hoped in some way to save him from merited doom. _ There was that in the pale. face and pleading eyes, however, that assured me that whatever = Andrew Mayne was, his wife was an honest, earn- est woman and devoted wife, and really a believer in the innocence of her unfortunate husband.. “How do you explain your husband’s confes- - sion?” said I at length. “I canmet reconcile it _-with a theory of innocence.” E “T know, sir, how strange it seems; but An- drew never took the money, There’s a conspiracy somewhere to ruin Andrew.” = _ And he lends himself to it—for his own de- struction?” I remarked, with an incredulous look. . *Tt does seem strange. You will attempt to ferret out the robber, sir?” _ There were tears in the comely little woman’s es as she put the question. will see a ig SS Soe any you may depen: 98 gas em 4 | A FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY With this assurance I left the Mayne cottage and repaired to the city jail. I found Andrew Mayne in anything but a pleasant mood. His . d f d k did not By COL, RALPH FENTON. / peepee: ace and sunken eyes did not serve to prepossess me in favor of his innocence. His whole demeanor was that of a man laboring under some great mental trouble. “T am guilty. The sooner the farce is over the Better.” ; This was his answer to my inquiries. “Why did you'take the money? You had a living salary, with none but a wife to support be- side yourself.” “Don’t ask me. I plead guilty; I can say no more” With those words ringing in my ears I left the jail. Surely there was no chance for a case here. I had best return home at once and let the law take its course. When I uttered these words mentally, the pale, tear-wet face of Mollie Mayne came suddenly to haunt me, and to shake my faith in things visible both to the eye and ear. After pacing up and down for a time I con- cluded that I would look into the matter a little further, and if I could find the least excuse for remaining on the case, I would do so. Court would not convene for four weeks, and this would give me ample time to investigate. y next move was to interview the president of the bank, Joab Meicham. Since Mr. Melcham was one of those most interested in the defalca- tion, and, as I was, as a detective, no respecter of persons, I did not make the visit in the shape of an officer of justice. I wished to make the ac- quaintance of the wealthy owner of Melcham Count without reserve. As a detective I would be received graciously as a matter of course. I learned that Melcham Court was minus a. butler, the man who had filled the position for many years having departed this life very sud- denly but a few weeks before the opening of this narrative. -It was for the vacant place I applied. I had recommendations without number. I was always careful to supply myself with such neces- sities when needed, and they come in good stead just now, \ While the banker read my credentials, I mental- ly reviewed him. He was rather a handsome man, with silky beard and bright blue eyes, and not far from forty. His every movement was quick and ener- getic, showing great nervous force. I was made up for the occasion, with mutton- chops and the dress of one who had seen better days. In fact, I represented myself as a broken- down English gentleman, who had sought Amer- ica for the opportunity of regaining a portion of my lost fortune, etc. I will not tire the reader with repeating my story here. ; Joab Melcham cast a keen glance into my face, over my person, and then said: “You will do.” That was sufficient, and I was installed as but- ler at Melcham Court. a It was an English house, and its master was English. I learned the weak side of the peters nature—love for all things English— = once ingratiated myself. ae. tleman an were on an ext diy footing. Me Nadine famity, save a family of servants Ty "y py i = ge aa ~

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~ \ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 25 was a widower, and I did not wonder that I often found him indulging a fit of blues. What was I to gain by all this? One morning something occurred that. set me to thinking deeply. I always delivered the banker’s mail, morning and evening, usually to him in the library. On the morning in question, however, Melcham was late in-rising, and I. hav- » ing received several letters from the. postman, went to the banker’s chamber. The hour was late. The ry door was lightly ajar, and as I had on cloth slippers, my feet made little noise. I came to a halt at the door, held for a moment by a strange sound from within—a deep goan, that seemed to come from the heart of one in ter- rible mental agony. “Heavens! if this is true, and Andrew Mayne hears of it I am ruined. He must never know it—never!” In husky accents came the words to my ears, and I knew they fell from the lips of Joab Mel- cham. I waited a moment at the door, when, hearing a servant in the hall approaching it, I at once pushed open the chamber door and advanced into the room. x “Ah, it is you, John? Mail? Oh, yes, I am glad you brought it. I will be down soon,” He took the letter from the salver and I no- ticed that his hand trembled as he did it. I was fully convinced that Joab Melcham was laboring under some terrible excitement. He possessed great powers of self-control, however, and rap- idly became calm. It was after twelve when the banker came down. Partaking of a hasty lunch, he left the house and walked briskly toward the bank. Noth- ing but a slight paleness indicated the recent ex- fe, el DS citement that had possessed him. After he was gone I again visited his room. I found nothing of the Morning Chronicle, yet I __ kne® the paper had been taken in his room that _. morning. Evidently the banker had taken the paper with him; in this there-‘was nothing strange, however. It was an easy matter to se- cure another from a passing newsboy, and I was soon examining its contents with lynx eyes. < I could discover nothing that could in any pos- _ sible way cause the banker such excitement. was on the point of laying down the paper, when my eye caught a familiar name. It was under the head of “Obituary.” “Charles J. Mayne, a . highly-respected citizen, died very suddenly at his home in —— street, Montreal. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. Mr, Mayne was nearly ~ seventy, and a citizen of worth. He has rela- tives in the States.” : : ; That very day I sought an interview with Mrs. Mzyne, the prisoner’s hee wife. I showed her the obituary notice an questioned her regarding ~“e@harles J. Mayne was my husband’s father,” she said. “They have not met for years. I think Andrew will feel even worse than he does now when he learns the truth. Would it not be best to keep it from him for the present?” . “1 will see.” st ‘ - _ When I showed the obituary notice to Andrew Mayne he came near falling under the blow. : has come at last,” he said, in a voice husky - Melcham know of this?” “T am not able to state,” was my evasive re- ply. “Would it affect him in any way if he did?” “T wish to send a written word to the banker. Can I trust you to take it, Mr. Sharp?” This was his answer to my question. He was deeply excited, and trembled not a little. I tried to get the fellow to confide in me what he wished to say to the banker, his late employer, but he persistently refused. At length I consented to be the bearer of a sealed letter to Joab Melcham. Paper and envelope were obtained of the jailer, La da was permitted to write a note to the anker. Joab Melcham came in late that night. I placed Andrew Mayne’s letter in his hand and stood back respectfully while he perused it. I watched him narrowly, and saw that his face paled, and that he looked deeply annoyed. “TI am going to Boston,” he said, addressing me. “I shall drive out a few miles to see a man, and take a train there. You will explain to all who may call.” Soon after Mr. Melcham vanished, and his car- riage wheels rattled away. I was determined on a bold move, and made it. When Joab Melcham stepped upon the platform of the little way station, I was not far behind him. He did not buy a ticket—he was too cun- ning for that. In ten minutes the train would be due, “Mr. Melcham?” c The fleeing banker turned and faced me quickly. He looked into the muzzle of a revolver. “Not Canada, but a prison, my friend,” I said coolly. At the same time I produced a pair of steel bracelets. “The young fiend has peached!” But he submitted, nevertheless, I knew then I had made no mistake. My man was near by with a light wagon, and Melcham went back ¢o Chil- lington, instead of proceeding across the border. On the following day Chillington was aston- ished at the intelligence that the banker, Mel- cham, was under arrest for embezzlement. The case was plain enough after that. Andrew Mayne had made no statement, but I knew that he had warned the banker of what he might expect, and it was not the young cashiev’s fault that Melcham had not escaped. ’ On learning of the bank president’s arrest, Mayne did make a statement, which was after- ward proved in court. _ The cashier had taken upon himself the crime of which he knew Melcham was guilty, in order to shield his old father, who, some years before, would have gone to prison for the misappropria- tion of a few thousands, had not Melcham, then a young men, fled from the place in order not to testify against one who had befriended him. When Andrew Mayne caught Melcham in the act of rob- bing the bank of which he was himself president, Melcham pleaded for mercy, and reminded him of the elder Mayne’s case, which the banker said was not too old to be resurrected. To save his father, : Andrew Mayne consented to.shoulder his em- ployer’s villainy. : Andrew Mayne was set free. Melcham con- ~ fessed his guilt and threw himself on the mercy of the court. He got ten years in the penitentia- — = ry, nevertheless.

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= Sod ee That the average 26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, JANUARY 19, 1923 TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Single Copies..........-es+0++ Postage Free 7 Cents One Copy Three Months..... = - 90 Cenis One Copy Six Months....... a a $1.25 One Copy One Year........-- us bn 3.50 Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. piney Order, Check or Kegistered Letter; remittances ll aby other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending ver wrap the Coin in a maperate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. rite your name and address plainly. Address letters to } ITEMS OF INTEREST PAYS HER 4-CENT INCOME TAX ONE CENT EACH QUARTER : John T. Rafferty, collector of internal revenue for Brooklyn, told recently of a woman whose total tax for the year was 4 cents, and who paid 1 cent every three months. He added that the postage used in notifying her of the amounts due was far in excess of the tax. HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., 166 W. 23d St., N.Y. Harry E. Wolff, Pres. Charies KE. Nylander, L. FE. Wiizin, Treas, - THE KILLING OF LOBO, THE WOLF For three long years Lobo fattened on the cat- tle of the Arizona plains; from one ranch alone, in one year, he seized 50 fine white-faced yearl- ings. A government hunter, in an automobile, has at last brought Lobo down with a single shot from a rifle with the rear sight missing... The wolf wefghed 78 pounds after the skin from shoulders to head was removed, and was the largest ever seen on the range; his disposal means a saving of several thousand dollars in stock an- nually. BOYS FIGHT ee pe A igores FILL COAL A band of boys, 12 and 14 years ‘old, the other ‘day solved the problem in Yonkers, N. Y., of ob- taining coal. Shortly after daylight the boys, carrying sacks, descended en masse on the coal ‘yard of William 8. Harrigan Company in River street, Yonkers. When the surprised watchman tried to run them away.the boys chased him back ate the building, attacking him with chunks of coal. - The-watchman telephoned police, and when a* cordon of patrolmen arrived the boys split into two groups. One group held off the police by throwing coal while the other members of the band continued to fill their sacks. When the fill- ing was completed they gave a signal to their companions and all fled. None of the boys was caught. ~ > “FACTORY EMPLOYEES ATTEND OWN NIGHT SCHOOL man desires to better his con- FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY to do so is indicated by the success that has at- tended the inauguration of night school classes —— the tire builders at a big factory in Akron, 10, “ og Several hundred men have enrolled in the classes. Many of these are men in mechanical de- partments, who are interested in such subjects as arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry,. mechanics, physics, blue print reading, mechanical drawing and the like. However, general classes covering such subjects as organization and management, business law, finance, and economics have also proved widely - popular. ‘Married men seem to stick better than single ones,” says H. K. Carpenter, in charge. “Less than 10 per cent. of those who enrolled twe months ago have dropped out, and all of these were single men. Ninety per cent. of the men taking the school. work are married, and are men who are working to better themselves.” LAUGHS “Ma has solved the servant girl roblem.” eae How?” “She’s decided to ious ae erself. : ¢ He (nervously) —Margaret, there’s been some- thing trembling on my lips for months and — She—Yes, so I see; why don’t you shave it off? Commercial—If a man has an income of two millions a year, what is his principal? Cynic— A man with such an income usually has not prin- cipal. | “Tt is always well to humor women,” says Count, of Chiggerbite. “I let my wife think oe knows more about running a furnace than I do and as a result I haven’t been in my own cellar in five years.” : 4 Pe old illie. “He’s a year old,” reqlied Tommy. “Huh I’ve got a'dog a year old, and he can walk re 2 as well as your brother.” “That’s nothing. Your dog’s got twice as many legs.” First Tramps—Strange how few of ou a ful dreams come true. Second trans oe don’t know. I remember how I once yearned. to wear long trousers. Now, I guess I wear them longer than almost anybody in the country, “Son, why don’t you play circus? It’s great fun. First you make a sawdust ring.” “Where’ll I get any sawdust, dad?” “Here’s the saw. Just saw some of that cordwood into stove lengths. You can have all the sawdust you make.” “My father and I know everything in~the is your little brother?” inquired world,” boasted a small boy to his boon compan- ions. “All right,” answered the latter. ‘“Where’s Asia?” Then the first speaker proved himself a true if budding diplomat. “That is one of the — _ questions that my father knows.” eee Bee

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ) GOOD READING MINE 4%2 TONS OF GOLD ‘ Four and one-half tons of gold were obtained by the Soviet Government from its gold mines during the twelve months ended Oct. 31. The Lena gold fields alone yielded more than three and a half tons, while the remainder was ob- tained from seven other gold fields. The number of workmen engaged in these fields, according to the Supreme Economic Council, is 11,789. BABY TOSSED IN MAIL SACK Amid the hustle and bustle of a large crowd of Christmas shéppers in the main post-office in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 22, came the cries of a mother for her lost infant. While the mother was addressing Christmas packages’ at a table in the lobby she placed the child in 2 market basket, whith she placed under the table. Her packages ready to be mailed, she looked for the baby. It had disappeared. The basket, with its contents, had been picked up by a post-office employee and thrown into a mail sack. Cries from the child as the sack was about to be placed on a mail truck led te its dis- covery. The woman refused to divulge her identity. ANCIENT FOREST Ee ars WASHINGTON, Evidence of the existence of an ancient swamp in which great trees flourished in days long past, possibly contemporaneous with earliest man in America, has been discovered in a deep excava- tion made for the foundation of a hotel under con- struction in Washington, D. C., says Science. At a depth of about twenty-five feet below the street level the excavation disclosed a layer of black swamp muck, containing large quantities of wood, tree trunks and stumps. Some of the stumps are of great size, @few of them reaching a diameter of nine or ten feet. Much of the wood is well preserved, showing clearly the woody structure and the external markings of the bark. A pre- liminary examination indicates that one of the more common trees of this ancient swamp was ress. Th story of these trees, however, is only a - prief chapter of the whole geologic history shown in the excavation, which has just been examined by sere K. Wentworth for the United States when the northern part of North America, as far south as Northern Pennsylvania, was covered with immense sheets of thick ice, showing that the trees lived in the latter part of the Great Ice Age, which is variously estimated to have ended from 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. WHAT CAUSED THE CHILEAN QUAKE? How Chili’s death-dealing earthquake, which shattered cities and engulfed their helpless inhab- itants with tremendous tidal waves, originated at sea off the coast of that country, is explained by Dr. J. Humphreys’ meteorological physicist of the United States Weather Bureau, from the seis- mographic records made by the earth’s tremors at this point. His report is given out by Science Service. For four hours the pen of the highly sensitive instrument drew the picture of the move-. ments in the earth, which wrought such havoc, among the Chilian towns in a few minutes. Earthquakes, Dr. Humphreys said, are pro- duced by a slipping or breaking of the crust of: the earth as a result of strains. These strains may be caused by the shrinking of" the interior of the earth through temperature changes, changes in loads due to rapid erosion taking ma- terial from one place to another in the course of a few hundred years, or from the tendency of higher land to flow out to sea. rom what is known of the present quake, iv seems to have been caused by higher land coming out to sea. The actual break in the crust oc- curred at some distance from shore, and this sud- den change in the ocean floor at that point pro- duced a tidal wave. As there were several such waves, there must have been several faults or breaks in the earth’s crust at the sea bottom which created the different huge billows-in the in- compressible water. It is probable that this crack extended for a hundred miles or more and that the wave created was detected in the Philippines or other distant Pacific pdints. Breaks, such as caused the shocks and waves in Chili, have left their mark on the physical geography of our own country. For instance, there is a break in the earth’s crust which can be seen at Great Falls, Va., near Washington. It has been traced from near Boston, through New York to the James River in Virginia. The Hud- son River Valley was created by a similar slip-_ ping in the earth’s crust. : An earthquake may occur anywhere on the earth’s surface and no place is immune, yet they are most likely to happen at the presest time in the newly formed geological regions such as are found along the Western Coast of South America, . our own Western Coast, up to Alaska and down the other side of the Pacific by way of Japan, the Philippines and Java. Because an earthquake occurs in one place is no _ indication that it will be followed by another in — some other quakey regions. They do not run in- series, unless the changes made in the load at oné a point may be so great as to cause _ strain at another place sufficient to cause a a ~ Se * PP. ot <x ees

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No. Ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES E BOGUS ANTIQUE IVORIES Many returning tourists delight in having ac- quired antique ivories, packed in leather-covered boxes, often bearing the crest of some noble French family. They are, however, the victims of a new school of “bone sculptors” which is mak~ ing Paris its centre. The “artists” are specializ- ing in imitations of carvings executed between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. It has been found that by simply boiling in infusions of to- bacco juice and an alcoholic infusion of raisin seeds or washing in hydrogen peroxide, followed by an oven treatment, it is possible to give the finest coloring of age in a short time. PARROT TAKES GAS George, a Panama parrot belonging to W. O. Brecken, Pittsburgh, Pa., is ill, out of sorts and wants to die. George has a cold, and when his owner took heroic measures to rid him of the malady the arrot lost all interest in life. One day recently e was found near a gas jet unconscious, with the gas escaping into the room. - Again the next Sunday, when no person was in the studio where George is kept, he twisted the catch off his cage door with his powerful beak and a short time later Brecken entered the studio to find George “nearly all in” and stretched on his back. The gas jet was again wide open. Now George went on a hunger strike and threw his seed can at Socrates, the erstwhile Airedale buddy. “HOT DOGS” POPULAR WITH CUBANS | Education is a wonderful thing. Wonderful to relate, even the appetite of the Cubans may be educated, the same as their taste for racing and for the one step. Two years ago the populace of Havana had never indulged in the popular Amer- ican food “hot dog.” Last year Hal Stevens, the grand stand restau- ranteur, introduced to the Cuban natives the “hot dogs” he serves to thousands of Polo Grounds bugs and Saratoga turf devotees, and these boys down here go to the imported diet with as much relish as their Northern neighbors. : E That the “dogs” may be served in the identical ‘way they are fished out at the Polo Grounds, Mr. Stevens imports the frankfurters, receptacles they are boiled in and even the man who serves them—D. W. Scott—from Gotham. Only the rolls are Havana products in the serving of the ever popular “hot dogs.” WATCH YOUR $50 BILLS A Treasury Department circular announces the discovery of a new counterfeit $50 Federal _ Reserve note. 32 The note is on the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, with the check letter A and face plate 7. The names of William G. McAdoo, Sec- the Treasury, and John Burke, Treas- United States, set saee to the note, r of the ne a photogeapbie: 1 _ tinet peop on two pieces which I found. of paper between which silk threads have been distrinuted. Coloring matter has been applied to the seal and numbers on the face of the note, the back being subjected to a green toned solution. The number of the specimen is D 1050729A. A careful examination of the face of the bill will indicate its character, as the fine lines of the lathe work are missing and in their stead in most of the border solid black appears. CANNIBAL TRIBES ONCE OCCUPIED MISSOURI VALLEY The bones: of a thousand prehistoric cannibals are sticking out of a big hill near Blair, Neb.; a few miles above Omaha. “The bones are so numerous it looks like a last year’s cornfield,” says Dr. Robert F. Gilder, former archaeologist. of the University of Nebraska. Dr. Gilder was called to investigate the fiend as soon as the discovery was made. He spent several days in the district but because of the frozen condition of the earth he was unable to made any excavations, So the real investigation has been postponed until spring warmth thaws the frozen ground. Dr. Gilder was unable to determine how deep- ly the burials were originally made, and, further- more, he is not sure that the bodies were not washed down to their final resting place during the prehistoric flood which caused the death of so many monsters of an early date and deposited their bodies along the Nebraska rivers and plains where they are so often dug up. Dr. Gilder believes some other bones he has just seen near Tekamah to be similar to those he is now engaged in excavating near Bellevue, Neb. ten miles below Omaha. 3 In the Bellevue excavations Dr. Gilder has dis- - covered absolute proof gf cannibalism on the part of the early inhabitants of the Missouri Valley. In a number of these excavations Dr. Gilder has found piles of roasted human bones. Sometimes ‘these bones still retain marks of implements used in scraping off the flesh. The bones were under piles of wood ashes which acted as a preservative, Dr. Gilder has obtained permission to make ex- cavations in a particularly fine ancient house site near his discoveries in the Bellevue district, Un- der the formula of Charles Darwin as to the length of time required for nature to fill exca- vations out in the open Dr. Gilder says this par- ticular house was occupied when Egypt was in its glory. “At least 4,000 years have passed since this house was first.occupied,” says Gilder, Se giebor gs Gilder has discovered that two dis- es, from 3,000 to 4,000 years apart, have occupjed that housesite. “As I dug downward I was rather disappointed to find that the housesite was occupied as recently as 1,000 years ago by ancestors of-the Omaha and Pawnee Indians,” says Dr. Gilder. “But upon going still further downward, I discovered that some 3,000 or 4,000 years before these later peo- ple lived in the house, it had been —_— by a people of a vastly different culture. 1 ne garlir : people had used extremely primitive implemer —

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