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' : . ' Copyright, iM. by B- tlyflMW Cl CONTINI'KD f'HOM LAST WBKK. , The oolonfl smiled indulently.ahruK (rtng il houliters. Clearly the (rlrl bent upon pursuing the subject to the esruh, "lie claims that the Grub stake levels have been carried beyond the side linen into tbe Mascot territory. St happens that he made a Tery rich Strike in the ground where tie Grub stake lode crosses his claim. He thought he had a distinct rein that it was his ore nil right; but when we be- pan drifting from our side we found that our vein made a turn at that point, that it was the Grubstake lode into vhich he had blundered that being the prior location. I was in no hurry to get involved m legal controversy preferred to go on quietly with the de velopment work until I could be abso lutely sure in the premises; and so it happened that Neil got ahead of me in this suit.. I think, however, that wc (.hall have little difficulty, when the time comes, in proving to him the error of his ways."' There was cool amuse merit in tbe smile that just lifted the ends of the blond mustache. "Do you think he can be honestly mis taken in the matter, this person?' Dorothy asked, her cheeks flushing a little with the question, eager interest in her eyes. "Oh, certainly. Why not? So much depends upon the point of view, you know. . In Neil's place I should think the same as he does, and make the very Bi-.me fight, without any question. Busi ness is business. We can't blame a man for taking what he can get." "Provided he gets it honestly," the young lady supplemented, in a tone of righteous severity. ' "Oh, of course, provided he gets it honestly, her father agreed, his smile rather sardonic. "Only in these times the world does not always bother itself to ask how he gets it." They rode along for awhile in silence, liut Dorothy was not yet ready to aban don the subject. "I thought you said St was a regular bunco game," she pres ently observed. . "Did I? I daresay." . "But that would be a swindle," she persisted. "And if this man thinks he is right if he is only mistaken " "Merciful heavens, Dorothy,' " you imike me tired ! " the colonel ejaculated, liis patience plainly exhausted. "The way you can harp on one string it is your mother right over again!" I CHAPTER V. Harvey Neil rode over to Tomtown the nest morning pursuing his way thence to Orodelphia. the county seat, and the one town of considerable im poitance in that part of the country, where he betook himself to his attor ney, Donald Bartels. "Brigham has gone back on us," was his abrupt announcement, as he sank wearily into the chair the lawyer had hospitably pushed forward. . "No!"said Bartels, looking verygrave "What are your reasons for thinking so?" "Col. Meredith rode over to see Jiijn yesterday. I found that out by acci dent,'' and of course my suspicions were aroused at once. To-day I rode over to '"omtown myself, and the first look at 'the fellow's face told me that I was right.:: .-v , "Did you put the question to him .straight?" : ,f t"No;' ' where . would have been the -use?. He was prepared to deny it, nat urally, : I thought.it more to the pur pose to raise my own bid and did not raise it high enough. I saw that in his face; too, although be was cannily non committal. Either be is intending to kip out before the trial or " "We can have a subpoena issued for Tiira," put in . Bartels, thoughtfully. "'But if he has gone over to the other ide he would be. of mighty little use it us. I believe you will have to raise 3'our ' bid again, Neil. What did you offer him?" ; "A thousand dollars if we win, and bis expenses from the time I got him here. I paid him good wages as long as he was working in the Grubstake, you know." yMU- "Yes; but you will have to make the figure a good deal more than that, I imagine, if" tbe colonel is iiiithe market against you. . We want him, if it is a possible thing," "Yes; but the question is, what is he worth to us?" "Well, with the average jury, he would be worth a good deal. He . not only worked the Grubstake long enough to have the lay of the land and nil his -figures down pat, but he bad that con versation with McCready ' which, is worth more to us than all the rest. If -we can bring him to swear that Mc Cready told him he didn't caro if they -were on Mascot ground that he owed you one, anyway, and he'd see that the ground wun stripped so clean that there would be mighty little left for you by the time the court could stop liim that might lie mighty good test! niony for us. In fact, Brigliam is our principal witness of course, and we've got to hold on to him if it is within the range of possibility,- You'd better see liim and have a. perfectly clear wider- fit finding nt once. - Find out what the ..colonel's figure was, and go him one Ibetler." ' "And nextthingtbecolonelwillbeout Wdding me again, and I shaJJ be facing the same proposition with an lidded cipher, I HupiWHC,'' Neil gloomily re joined. ."The poor old Mascot seems to have been hoodooed from the ttrst to last." "Oh, I don't know. I am not particu larly concerned about the results in this case, I can tell you. The decision of the United States supreme court in the A.my-8ilrersmifh cam has put a stop to all controversy in respect to an owner's right to follow his lode in its downward course beyond his side lines. " You b. It was e corker." XoCraadr acreed The ruling is clear beyond question that the owner of a claim, where the apex of his vein crosses the side lines snd not its end lines, has no extra-lateral rights at all; that is, he cannot go outside his lines upon any pretext whatever. The fact that tbe Grubstake was the prior location cuts no figure. As was held hi the case of the Iron Silver versus Uie Elgin Mining company, if the original locator of a claim cannot or does not make the explorations necessary to as certain the true trend of his vein and draws his end lines ignorantly he must take the consequences. The claim of the Grubstake that its rein makes a turn at the point where it crosses the Mascot, assuming that it would hold water, effectually disposes of any extra lateral rights by virtually conceding that the apex of the vein crosses the side line. It only remains for us lo prove the continuance of the Mascot vein, which, with the developments yon have been making, should be easy enough. Oh, no; if we only get the right kind of a jury, I have no appre hensions as to the verdict." "But what possible chance have we to get the right kind of a jury?" re turned the young man, dejectedly, re garding the cigar he was nervously turning in his fingers as though the fact that it had gone 03 was one more happening in the train of ill luck that pursued him. "It seems to me that the average jury is simply a pack of asses." - r' . . . "Too true. But asses may sometimes be led by the nose, you know." "And sometimes they are up for sale to the highest bidder." i : "Oh, as to that, you know the sheriff. and if you think that Meredith is going to touch him with any ordinary fig ures " - . "In the case of Brigham we seem to have evidence that the colonel is ca pable of extraordinary figures upon oc casion." ' Well, he can afford to pay a pretty liberal percentage to. win, for a fact," Bartels imperturbably rejoined. "But you carry a check-book as well as he. To tell tbe truth, though, the jury is not troubling me; I am a. good deal more disposed to be doubtful about the judge; although as to him well, I may be borrowing trouble." Why, what's the matter with him?" And the match which he bad lighted was allowed to burn Nells fingers In his surprise. "I thought Duval was all right." ;" . "Well, so he Is, probably, returned the lawyer, .with some embarrassment. "Only well, I accidentally discovered the other day that he had been mixed up with the colonel in some mining deals down in Mexico. I don't know what it amounts to; I don't know that he would dare go too for. anyway; but-" "Can't we get a, change of venue?" demanded Neil, looking worn and sick. "Oh,, I don't think it would do to go as far as that. It would prejudiee him against the cose; and if he were pre disposed against us of course he would oppose the motion, and Oh, no; it would hardly pay u to make such a break as that, all things considered. But I was thinking, if he could be ap proached just rights-" "Again the check-book might prove mightier thnn pen or sword," ex claimed Neil, bitterly,- as he bent to scratch a new match against his boot sole. He relighted his cigar, smoking for a moment in gloomy silence before he added: "And this Is justice in Colo rado!"; ' j - r-..'.V ' ! "It is life; not much worse in Colo rado than In the rest of these United States, I fancy j ;As Senator Ingalls puts it, 'Purity in polities Js an iridca-. cent" dream. He might" have gone further and said that purity in any thing is a dream little likely to be real ized before the millennium. But dtm't take it all too seriously, Neil. As I said before, I doubt, f Duval would dare go to far la any case, . lit li working for reeleotlon. And our main reliance, is on the jury, anyway, and with them you certainly have an equal chance with the other aide. , "For which I should be lifting my eyes in thank to hottveu and devoting myself to burnt offerings and suurlflnns, 1 suppose," rejoined Nell, hotly, "lly love, Uartrla, look ut III Can you Imagine agreuter outrage? Here I give up iionie of the best years of my life to tolling and inolliug lu Hint mine, labor- tug like a convict, until nt last 1 make a strike, A rich atrlkc; but what luui it cost me?. Nobody know who has nut tried it, what it takes out of a man. to live and work for years like that. He paya the price of aucoeaa out of his very artenea; lie is just ao much, the poorer in actual 1 life-blood; he has burned out that nuieh of his candle of life, and It Is goue, never to be regained. He to old and all the wealth of the world will never give him back hi squandered youth. It would seem, eon' siderlng all things, that he should be entitled to hi paltry wages; but far from that, every highwayman in the land is at liberty to harass and despoil him, provided only the methods are chosen with ref.'rvuee to the accommo dating blindness of the law. Col Meredith walks Into my mine and steals my ore; I call upou the courts for re dress, and justice. In beautiful Impar tiality, grants Col. Meredith as well as myself an injunction, shutting me out of my own ore body until uii uddle pntcd jury con decide to whom It really belongs. If a tramp should come along dud steal my coat, 1 could have him sent up for sixty days, with hardly the de lay of an hour; but tills high-toned thief can rob me of thousands, and my only redress seems to be to allow judge and jury and witnesses to rob me of thousands more. It is enough to make a man swear." "Well,- swear, then. It may do vou good," laughed the lawyer, but his glance was sympathetic. "It Is tough. for a fact, .Neil. But you've gone a lit tle too far over to the pessimistic side now. It might be worse." "That' is such a consolation 1" ejacu lated the young roan, savagely. They smoked on in silence for a few moments, when in a milder tone he went on to say; "And, by the way of course It might be worse " "You don't mean that there is allot her item of trouble!" ejaculated the lawyer, with a laugh of joking dismay. "Well, I don't wonder you are down." "I should say not. And in this In stance another fellow is down as well; The superintendent has inflammatory rheumatism, and from the doctor's re port to-day it looks as though there would hardly be a chance in a hundred of his getting upon his legs again in time to be in court when the case is called. His testimony doesn't amount to much, to be sure; but to have it hap pen goes to prove, as I said before, thot the case is hoodooed from first to Inst." . . "We need all the help we can get," rejoined Bartels, gravely. "We can take bis deposition de bene esse, of course; but we would hnve to apply to the courts for leave and give the other side time for cross-examination, you know. It would make delay." "Then, in heaven's name, let us do without him!" exclaimed Neil, with an air of desperation. "I would rather run my chances than drag along this way a day longer thnn necessary. Let us know the worst and be done with it." "Ob, in this case it will be the best. Never fear, old fellow. Only wc want to make as good a fight as we can. Per Imps we can get along without your man, though; I will think it over nnd decide. Meantime, remember that a man is never undone till he Is hanged; and a case is not to be counted lost till it has passed the court of appeals." CHAPTER VI. Windy Gulch seemed bare and bak ing in the sultry afternoon sunshine as Dorothy Meredith Idly looked out upon its one dusty street from her window at the Palace hotel. Tbe Palace, a flimsy, two-storied frame structure, wholly un pretentious except as to name, occupied a position well to the center of the place, its back to the creek which dis puted with the rued for right of way all through the narrow defile in which tbe camp bad located itself. Across tbe street was a general store, which also served as post office, flanked 'on cither side by saloons, that to tbe west being joined to an Unfinished -building of which the sun-browned timbers told of work long since abandoned, the one on the east followed by a small log house set well back from the street, which gave it an air of burrowing Into the steep hillside behind. Farther along, as one looked in either direction, were to be seen other stores and saloons, the latter considerably predominating, their lines broken at near intervals by the door yards of modest residences where the honiemaking instinct strug gled against heavy climatic odds in o sickly showing of geraniums and morn ing glories. There were a- Chinese laundry and a bakery; a rickety frame blacksmith shop flaunting a coveringof out-of-date circus posters, nnd an un pretentious drug store, developed out of the office of the one physician, who generally nttestcd the hcalthfulncss of the place by sitting all day long before his door, idly occupied with literature which bore no outward resemblance to medical treatises. , i . The houses were generally of logs, the few of frame for the most part left un palnted, and, like their more primitive neighbors, wearing an air of premature age and decrepitude from the dark brown stains which the fierce Colorado sunshine had wrought on those sides which looked to east, and west. Few were of more thun a single story in height, although the stores and saloons, as, a' rule, had reached after more im posing effect In the square, sham fronts so popular In mlnlng-camp architecture, while these' had further emphasized their pretensions to style by washes oi paint in which a preference for pure white bad with the passage of tiine aitiktoi H," "Hf"!!!'!!1 fr"Tf"7r j t.'.Hll llllJ in JACOBS nnnniroft iiin ATirriirAA ucum ouncHcoo Amu o brought a painfully bedraggled appear ance to the dusty place. Rising abruptly behind the shubby procession ' of buildings ou that aide facing the hotel was a mighty hill ter minating In castellated height of red SHiiditoue, a mass of color showing In merlmlticed brilliancy above the faded loeH which iippem-cd dead beyondnuy hope of resurrect lou; and the stunted, dull-lined pities, sparsely dulling the expanse, gave scarce more vivid show ing uf life. All up ami down this color starved surface yawned prospect-hole beyond counting, a few gray dump piles at Intervals telling of ' deiHr work; the smaller number still that had gone so fur as to erect sluift-housiMi showing nun' for the most part deserted, It Is the eommou background of the mining camp, this disproportionate showing of failure and success; and es pecially were failure and gaunt -woe most In evidence In Windy (itilch In this sunimer-tiuie of I MM, for Its veins wore mostly but rich in silver, the Ill- omened metal at tills time cast into liinlH) by the Mjver that httie the financial policy of the world. Hut the camp wore nn alrof tetluirgle indifference to nil its ills on this warm August afternoon, Itsriiiy liegnii early, wuen the steam whistles of the working mliics shrilly cried out for change of "shifts," anil up and down the hills on every side the miners, always with tin dinner-pails swinging in their hands, might be seen going to or coming from their labors like straggling procemiomt of overgrown ants. 1 hen women, bare headed and bore-armed, came out to fetch water from the creek or to stund gossiping at their doors, while with loud cracking of the driver's whip the stage lor orodelphia would wheel up before the ost office to have the leun mail-sack heaved on bourd with mighty show of linKrtance. And after the stage would come a disjointed follow ing of men on horseback mid dusty couples in open carU; more often still heavy freight-wagons laden with ore and others piled high with fresh lumber exhaling clean, resinous odors; all these cumbrous conveyances with a gny jangling of bells nt the horses' heads. for the rood down the canyon was nar row, und for safety's sake it liehuuved that all give warning of their coming. Ml this wu in the curly morning, for the majority would chooc to have the day before (hem for the long, hard trip to town, making their homeward way wheu the shadows had begun to length en and the air had grown cool. Now In mid-afternoon nothing disturbed the sleepy calm of the place save a few children and chickens pottering about in the thick dust of the street, the one rood apparently as listless and void of purpose as the other. Across the wny, the postmaster, secure In belief that no body would eonio lxt hering him for either mail or merchandise at this hour of the day. smoked In dreamy content, his thin form luxuriously telescoped In a wooden arm-chair. Ills long legs dis posed across on Iron wheetlarrow, which was evidently a jmrt of his stock In trade. The snloon man next door was visibly snoring, his- mouth a very cavern of escaping sound; while so long a time had elapsed since the doctor had turned a page of his book that It would seem he might well have commit ted the last to memory. There was u soft, broken murmur from the creek, a drowsy swish of leaves among the cot tonwoods along Its banks, and the stamp-mill at the far end of the place went on In a dull monotone, like a devil's tattoo that would never stop; but withal it seemed deadly quint. . Dorothy Meredith yawned helplessly as she turned from her outlook behind the dusty lace curtains of the Palace hotel parlor to purposeless survey of the large, bare room. Khe hud brought her book here in the hope of finding a cooler place than her room on the floor above; it was cooler, but the atmos phere seemed oppressively close, while j there was that in the stiff arrange ment of the conventional pnrlor suit of cheap furniture which somehow con veyed the impression that the fcparl ment was not intended for everydoy use. Now that she was here, Dorothy found herself instinctively stepping shout on tiptoe, with n viiguc sense of Intru sion, very soon deciding that even as a choice of evils the place would not do. She only halted while fretfully consid ering whether she should return to her room and take a nap or slruke off creep ing lethargy by going for n. walk, de termining finally to take her chances out of doors, although it seemed well nigh like courting sunstroke. But she loitered by the window a moment longer, now moved to Idle curi osity, by the sound of hoof-heals com ing down thc roud, a small mischievous hope stirring in hor mind that it might be. somebody to pester the postmaster for mall or rouse the saloon-man from his dreams. But the rider hod nought to do with either, of these, as it soon appeared.; He. rode straight on to the doctor's office, a man wha snt his horse with the ensy, slouching grace of one accustomed to much riding, ai youmg man at sight of whom Dorothy drew back hastily behind hor sheltering curtain, her face . all a warm, pink glow. It hod been thre.is dnys since her ad venture In the storm, and, indisposed to ride by reason of the lingering lame ness of her wrist,, she lint kept rather closely to her room, until now seeing nothing of Harvey Nell. She caught her breath sharply, the hot Hush deup oniiig tiKn her checkw iis she saw him sweeping the hotel with a Itcnn gltince, guessing that hiH thought might be of har, ; and devoutly thankful for- the screen of lace which afforded her safe covert to watoh him undetected, He had exchanged hi miner's clothes for Sbkr. row i irrncoo. v:;-. n well-llttlng suit of gray Willi russet legglnir to his knees, wearing a. soft gray lint by no means so disreputable in appearance us the one that luul framed hi head the other day. lie had been good-looking then, but lie was handsome uow asuie tood talking with the doctor, hi attitude Insllnel with the unconscious gruetiof splendid ly dcvcloK-d strength, as ho slightly li nurd acalnsl his horse, with one hand enivsslitu' lis neck, Something was evi dently nuilss with one of the animal's liluil le.tr, nl wltlo'.i the doctor wtialonk 1 li V. 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Kt.l Pisiimi, Adjutant, W. v. T, tt. -Moots every Wediioadagr nfier iloou In tho llulloy lllaok. , , Ma. Ki.1 Kisilkli, I'rea. ura. I. r. WIU4AM, Hoe. A. O. I), w.. Ix-uroe of llonor-u.ihtir lodve, No. hi, nioolsevciy Tuesday evoulu at A. O. U. W, ball, . . Al.1.1 K. Kl.ll'l-KL, U. of II. h. A. JonrMiN, lloe. OHUBOBES OV HBOrOBO. Haint Marks Kplaeopa. Hunilav fK-tvooi meets at Kplaoopul Church orory Sunday uornlnx at luu'olnnk. Kcv. Wei, Hart, Itootori b. . 1'enti. Hupetir.U'iidvnt Mnthodnt Kplsoopal Churcn-Kdw, Oitlina, pasKir, I'roat'hln uvery Habbalh al II a. tu., aud 7:M) p. ui. Sunday aohool at ID a. in., K. K, Thompson, aupt. Class mootlnn evoryMabbalh at uluaoof aeruion, I.orl Fauoott, loader, Kp wurlh Irouuo every Hahballl ovoalns al r):, II. I. Ullkoy, pre. l. Junior loauo every Habltalh at Hp. in., Ml.. May I'hlpps, supk llottular wookly weekly pruyor meollux every Thursday evonlni ai 7J, I.adloa aowlns elrele every twowooka. 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The pooule wolooiue. r.i r nun rM.ur. immiupb m ino onuroo. MothndUtKplsoopalRburchHouth-Kev.J.A. (.rutobrtold, pastor. Horvioea at II a. rn. and 7 p. m.oOthelsU Und and lrd Hatihath: HantiBtK aohonl al 10 a, m. and Kpwurth liairue at 0 p . in. every Habbath at Modturd. Bervlonson 4ih Habbuth at Hoda Spnnits at II . rn. and Noll t.'rrok sobool house al I p. m. A hearty wel ootnoloall. . ... . u , m miuH., ni'iimi 11 1 inj , J, 1 W.wlfa bull at 10 a, m., every Buuday. Mra. Mollrldo, BcoroUry, M,irnr.l U...i , . h..h,,. u.t. i . . V?ORTHERN JL PACIFIC RY. R U c Pullman Elegant Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Cars Tourists FREE -: COLONIST SLEEPERS vis INNKAPOLia ossno rana CnooHSTON J 1 hilina an BUTTC THROUGH TICKETS' o T0- CHjCAQO 7 WAOHINOTON PHILADELPHIA . NEVVYOHk 5.8IP.!l.N.Pi!-k ' POINT8.EA8T.ANO SOUTH A.: D. CHARLTON, . . Assistant Onncirnl I'nsHonKor Aunnt. . . No, KTio Morrison Bt., anr. Third. "Fr-i-WT-T. A Tjm. as Or W, T. Yoiik, Tlokot Ag-ont, iriouioru, vruguu, 3. P. Cahb, Tloket Affont, ,1' ii'fli in ut 'i utiuK, tit-ants I'nsB, uro,, Hotel Nsah Barber Shop Bates Bros., Props First oliwn work In all branohda of Uio totieorlal nrt. Htitlafaotlon -. ..gutirantood.., HOT AND COLD BATHS imi or Ami: