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sifmnir, aprii . nt, GHivrn 102.1. — . ...................... mediately Imagined I was I smelling burning kulphur match»». old. burning sulphur tustches. HIM "Get down here, Imddy, and smell this dog!" I whispered. “Is It h» fashioned mat <•!>»«, or what?" I One sniff was all that the Ud st opped up them needed. couldn't get any FRANCIS LYNDE-^ 1*; __ •COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS SYNOPSIS. CHARTER t —Under hle grnndfather'S wlil, Stanford Hniughtun, society liller, nude ala I.r ilio «Stato, vai md al Somethlng llke Hv .uuu. Uva In a "sale re- posttory.*T latltud» and loiigltu»!« *)•■ a. rlbed, and tirai la all II m»y t.e Idehtl- fled by ilio prvaance nearby uf a Munti- l.alred, blua-eyerl girl, a pianalo borav. end a dog alili a split fave, hall block end hall whlte. Stanford al tirai reao'ia thè bv.|ueat aa a Ione, bui after ronaaJ* re- Uun seta uni tu fina hla lagasy. CHARTER II <>n hla way lo Denver, thè city malvai thè merldian Uva* rlbed In hla grnndfaiher'a wlll, Stanford boaro frum a follile trnvalor a aioli liavlug lu du aliti a flouded mine. CHAPTER III Thinking thins» over, he begin« lu imagine theie may be e«»me- thing in HU gi Jfathvr'e bequest wui lb while, big Id»« fl null/ centering un I be iMjaelblltty of a mine, a« a rcpoel“ turv.** lteA3»illng the narrative on th« train, he ax-erialna thut hi« fellow trav- •ler wag a mining •ng'nevr, ChaTlvg liul- lertun Huliertun rafuM> birn Infortna- tlun, but from olhor auur« Hiuughlon leaina enough to iiiako him piuxeed lu FIa<erviHe, In th« daaeit I’KAITEK IV -On th« etatIon platform at Aliopia, Ju«t as ths Hain pulls uut, Ftarifurd sees what appuar to be the Idsh- that hots« and <)ua d«S<Flb«d In hie grandfather'a will. Imprvesrd, lie lea* «-a m« Ira n at the nest atop, Angsle Flier« he rK -« tl al Atropia waa ortg l'la<-«t % ill«, |.is destination. Unable lu secure a conveyance al one« tu lake him to Placerville, Broughton seires a cun* etru< tlun car and • st apes, having th« Im* ptr.*B»..n on the U>WR nu»tahu|. Hoaalw), that h« Is slightly d«meni«d. <"T!AI*rdl V. Pursued, h« abandons the car. whu h Is wr«u k«d, ami ««capes on foot In the darkness, he is overtaken by a girl un hurst-hat k. and THE d<»g. After he explains hla preaen»'o. she in* \ lies him tu her home, at the Old Clnna* Lar mine, tu meet her father. CHAlTril VI.—Broughton's boats see Hlrnct Twornbly, c<*r»tuM»r of the mina, and hla daughter Jranla. Seeing the girl. Stanford Is natlan<-<1 he has liH-nted Ids properly, but does nut reveal hie Identity. CHAPTER VII—Next morning, with tllrum. he visile th* mine. Hiram neks hltn Io louk uver the machinery. and he faM eo, glad of an excuse to be near Jeanie, In whom he lute become Inter- ewied, nnd ho rngiigna In Hie that real w i rk he has ever done. CMyPTRTl VITI Tlroughton and Hiram get the pumps started, but are unable to make an Impresemn on the water. Hut- lerton. apparently nn old friend of the Twomhlya, visile the mine. lie offers to drain It In consideration of Brough ton's giving lia nrty-i-ne per rent uf the prop»rtv Stanford tert see Then Inlier ton offri« to buy the mine outright f -r It had cost Brought..n • grund- father more than half a million. Stan ford again refum-a. CHARTER IX Jeanie caution» I'rough ton against sailing the mine, under at.y elrrumstancea, and. apparently In a spirit of nils. h'ef. allows him to kiss her. Attar a i onvsreatinn with I t.tdtly Hiram. Htoiigl ton decides he will stick to the property. ly tuippom-d would be mude Under cover of the dlatrnctlng racket. But tfii-rv was no ussuult, though the meun- liigli-MX clamor kept up without nbule- mriit. By the time we were beginning to grow a trifle hardened to II the i-lamor ■.topped ns abruptly us It hud lu-gun and the silence which succeeded was even mure deafening than the noise hud been. While 1 funclrd 1 could see dint figures stealing down the roud Hint led to the befleh below, 1 heard Daddy say: "Now, w hat In ths mime o' Jeholuehlm—" lie had turned away from tils peep hole and I could sense, rather than see. that lie was rubbing his eyes. Then I realised that u|iun me. also, a sudden blindness bail fallen; the Interior of the aim ft house bad become us dark ns tin* Inside of n pocket. The effect WM hu stupefying thut It took troth of us u minute or so to understand fbut route change us yet umleflnubls had been wrought either In us or In our mirrouiidlug« during the noisy In terlmle. "tlreut Jehu I” exclaimed I itie old man— though he was within I n mis reach 1 could make him out only ns a dim shadow- "(¡rent Joint! J—1 b'lleva liti g<dn* blind, Sluunle! 1—I canT o-e nothin' s tall!" "Don't worry," I hastened to say; “I'm In the rume bout. We’ve been looking tiro long anil steadily through those auger-holes. It'U puss In n mln- Ute." But It didn't pass and presently the voice of my ulti alili* partner cam« again out of the durktiesH. “P'raps It's cloudin' up some,*' lie stt/gesied In h lialf-whls|ter. "I can't see no stars through them windows.” At this I looked towurd the window openings, hut the Interior blackness had blotted litem out completely. Al most Instinctively I turned back to the door mid put an eye to u loophole. Hue glance was enough. The trouble, whatever It might be, was with us nnd not with the stay. The stats were shining as brightly as ever. "Don't move. Daddy." I cautioned. i rrp c ■* fei CHAPTER X.—Nest day. during Htan ford's temporary absence from the mine, an enemy. without doubt Bullerion. wreck» the pumping machinery. Brough ton decides io l.avu It out with him twat day. C1IAPTKR XI- In the morning hs fln.ls Bullrrtnn anil Jennie have duuit>pnarr<1, apparently eloped He also discovers that hla deed lu the mlns has been Stolen, and as II his nut bean recorded he has no priait ut ownership Mysterious actions of the <li‘K causo lllrarn and Broughton to take the trail In search ut Jeanie. CHAPTER XII.—They find Jrardr's pony, abandoned, nut no trac» of lite girl V, ban they gat back to iba cabin. Bollar lo n la llivrv. apparently awaiting their return. CHAPTER XIII -Relieving Jeanie to have gone with IltillrrtOn, the sight of th * man la too much (or Broughton, and he uses hhti roughly. Bullerton demes knowing the whereabouts ut Jeanie. Broughton aiders him off hla property, and hr departs vowing vengeance. Satis- fled Bullerton means mischief, Broughton an<1 Hiram fortify themaelves In the mine shafthouse and prepare for a siege. Bullerton cornea wth a crowd of deeper* adorn am! on their refusal to xacate, be gins an attack. CHAPTER XIV.—During the day and night the two successfully defend the ehnfthousr itgidnst atlacka, including an attempt to drown them out (Continued from last week) CHAPTER XVI Burnt Matches. Following the dog to the door, we Could neither see nor hear anything going on outside, though Burney's snlfllngs under the door mid Ids low growl warned us Hint something tv ns afoot, either on Hie dump bend or In the partly wrecked cabin beyond. While we were still peeping and peer ing, each lit bls auger-hole anil each reatly io take an offhand shot at any thing tluil seemed susplclotis, the si lence of the mountain night was ripped ami torn by the most hideous clamor imaginable, arising, apparently, In the cabin or perhaps from the gloving of trees Just behind It. The rm'kbt was deafening; comparable tn nothing that I'd ever heard; a magnified orchestra tion, so to apeak, of the pandemonium made by a crowd of country hoys serenading a newly married pair with tin pans and .sucli-llke noise milking implements. "What In the name o' Joab!" stut tered Dndtly Hiram. "Reckon them gosh-dnniined plrateera *ve gone pluiu* loony J" "Walt," I qualified, anil I had to shout to make myself heard. “There'll bo more to follow. Tills Is only the curtain-raiser." But my guess appeared to be no good. For quite some little time we crouched, guiiN nt the ready, prepared to repel the aasault which we uutural- Daddy Took His Cue Instantly. and then groped my way along the wall nnd climbed to the top of our earth-suck breastwork ut a point which I guessed to lie under the nearest of the two windows. When 1 drew myself up nnd tried to thrust a hand through the opening the mysterious darkness was ex plained. The window embrasures were stopped up, both of them, on the out side by something that felt like a heavy ennvus curtain, though how the curtain was held In place I could not determine. But It was firmly braced In some way. With all the purchase I could get—which wasn’t much—I couldn’t dislodge It or push It aside. Making my way back to the door I told Daddy what I had found. ”Huh!’’ lie said; "that old tarpaulin that was out yonder In the ore shed, llow d'ye reckou they got It there, Stnnnle?” "It's hoisted on a framework of some kind, and they did It while wo wore rubbering and trying to find out what sll that noise was nbout.” We were not kept very long In doubt as to what the next enemy move was to b* With the cessation of the tom tom clatter the collie had grown curl- ously restless. We couldn't see him, but we could hear hint running from post to pillar, snllllng at the cracks and occasionally giving a whining growl. Presently he begnn to cough and sneeze; then he came racing back to us, flattening himself to hold his nose to the crack under the door and taking long breaths us If lie were half stifled. 1 stooped to pat him and Im- nm,r rornrrn r vrtr -hrnrr ■— ............. ... 1 Hutt» Wff lilt you. It'll I* fur a St>lsh " "Yea,” sultl I. "You brought the nru club up In a wugon, didn't you?" Hr Ignored tl Is, "IVt* could »larva you out If wr chu««- to tak» the time. I know pretty • uell uhut yuu've got to rut or ru ttvrr wbut you haven't gut. It's your privi- leg* tu take your life In your own hands. Broniditon; that's up to you Hut buw uliuut the old man?" "The old man'» u itimt/ good and able to speak for blsself!” yupped Duddy. “You du your durndest. > Charley Bullerton!” "All right, once more. You'll hear from us directly, how ; and as I »aid before, we've quit gentling you. That'» ! mv lust word." For a time after this the silence, and the darknesa, since It xu> the hour before dawn, were thick enough tn be cut «lilt an ax. But the dog was more restless than ever, and we knew that aomcthlng we could neither see nor hear must be going on. After a while 1 asked the question that had been worrying me ever since I had beard the wagon wheels. "What did they bring up In that wagon. Daddy—a Gatling?" "’llie Lord only know». Stannle—and he won't tall," was the old prospector's reply, made with no touch of Irrever ence ; and the words were scarcely out of his mouth before a thunderbolt struck the shafthouse. he little I" enough "tlosh-to-gee whiz—brimstone TTe as- Choked; "them devil» are amokln* us out I That's why they window holes; so we air I” There appeared to (line for any defensive move, pliyxlatlng gaa was coming stronger every moment, am! any search fur Its source seemed utterly hupvk-aa. Yet we" went kt it, coughing and choking, and stumbling over everything tn the darktie»«, us u matter of course. After all it was Burney who (I honor Idtn with the human pronoun because he certainly deserved It) It was Bar ney who showed us the devil'» door way. The red glow was now sending enough light hruugti cracks and crev ices and the bullet rlpplugs overhead to make our Inner darkness a degree or so less than Stygian. Missing that the dug fur a moment at our com foot mo □ breathing hole, we saw him circling the a the particular spot In the floor and snarl (Continued next Saturday) ing at It na If It were something alive. At that we both remembered the slmfthomte floor wan raised a or so from the rocky ledge on GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY down-mountain aide, and that ■pace underneath was partly open. Daddy polote<l to the circling dog. "Barney’s got It!" he panted. "Tliey've run their chimney up under the floor!" Then: "Where tn Sam HUI did you leuve that ax?" The ax was n*-ar at hand and I ran for It. Holding my breath I began to chop madly at the floor plunking. By thin time (lie ntr was so bad that tt .„.^u»»iuie to breathe it, ana arter a few blows I had to drop the ax and run to the breathing gap. Daddy took Ida cue Instantly, snatching up the ux at 1 flung It down and hacking away as long ns be could hold hla breath. When lie was forced to make a bolt for the life saving hole In the door, I run In again; thus got a couple of (he fluor planks loose and pried them out. In the space beneath the open- cracked floor we found Bullerton's chimney end; un old discarded boiler flue. It seemed to be, leading up from ths bench below. From unearthing the hole we had the deadly thing to muzzling It with floor serving as one of our wet blankets was the which the cool, breathless work of only a minute or rushing thus In a shut re- two; and with the gun-main off. the air Io the shafthouse soon b» came bearable ugnlu, chopped through the a ventilator through crisp night air came vivifying blast. George Leigh Mallory, ana of th Our first care, after a prolonged silence led us to believe that the raid leader, in the recent attempt to »cal* ers bad withdrawn to study up some Mount Everett, hae announceo hi» tn fresh scheme for getting rid of us. was tention to try it again. to get a bar end pry our two doors open so thnt the breeze mlcht blow ODD WEAPONS C" C'JZLiOTS through and air the place out a bit. Closing and barring the doors after Controversy That Hsd Fatal Ending Settled With Billiard Dall— the sulphur steueb had been reduced Cagliostro'» Peculiar Idea. to a mere match-box odor, we estab lished our night-watch, Daddy Hiram r.llllartl pin vers will lie Interested taking the first trick under a solemn promise to cull mo at the end of a to know that 80 years nso a duel with couple of hours. This time he behaved a billiard ball took place iu wltii-h a better, rousing me u little before mid man was l lllnl. The quarrel was be night. He reported everything quiet, tween two men named I.enfant and and pointed to the sleeping dog as evi Mellant in the commuue of Malaunfort dence that there were no Intruders (Selne-et-Olsei. France. One September day they quarreled wltliin smelling distance. "Been that-away ever since you over a gntne of billiards. (Ttallengrw turned In,'* he said, meaning, as I took were exchanged, the red billiard ball It, that the dog had been resting easy. was selected as the weapon, and lots "You can Just keep an eye on Barney. were drawn to see who should throw If anything goes to stirriu', he'll know It first. It afore you wlll.” Mellant was favored, and threw Nothing did stir; and after Daddy with such speed and alm that Len- bad gone to wrap himself In Ills damp fant, struck on the temple, fell dead. blankets, I hud my work cut out for The duel of the pill Is credited to me keeping awake; In fact, I shouldn't Cagliostro. He had called a physician want to swear that I was fully awHke a quack. Possibly the physician during all of the one hundred and thought this was too like the pot call twenty minutes that my sentry-go last ing the kettle black. Anyway, he ed. No matter about that. Bullerton challenged. Cagliostro proposed that didn't spring any more surprises on us two pills, one poisonous, the other during my watch; and when I turned harmless, be put In a box and shaken the fortress over to Daddy at two up. Each was to draw a pill and o’clock I was able to more pass than the two "all swallow It. came quiet" report back to Hiram him and go to to I “A medical controversy should be the blankets with an easy conscience. settled in a medical fashion,” the announced I had just dropped he asleep, as It ! magician explained. It Is not on rec seemed to me—though In reality I had ord that the duel was carried out. •lept like a log for hours—when Daddy shake me awake. THEIR THIRD WIFE A TREE "Somethin' doin'," quietly, and when I sat up I saw that Hindus Have Evolved Really Unique the collie was moving uneasily from Way of Evading a Religious one door to the other, stopping now Technicality. and then to stand moffwnlesa with hla ears cocked and his head on one side; Probably the most curious form of "Barney hears something," I ven- marriage in existence prevails In India, tured; and a moment later Daddy where men and women are married to broke in: trees. A Hindu In the Punjab cannot be "Huh I It’s plain enough for my old legally married a third time, and when, ears, now; It’s a wagon cornin' across I therefore, he wants a third wife, he Is the bench.” married to a certain tree, so that when Now the presence of a wagon on our I he does actually take another wife site bench at this early hour in the mom- ! counts as his fourth. Ing might mean either one of two | In another district of India there are diametrically opposite things: Our communities where a tree marriage Is deliverance: or the upcoming of re solemnized In the case of a man who inforcements for the raiders. We were has lost two wives and Is desirous of not left long In doubt. Shortly after taking a third, or a man who Is too the rack-rack of the wagon wheels poor to marry tn the usual way. stopped we heard footsteps, and the j In the latter case, the man Is after lialr stiffened on Barney’s back. Next wards married to a widow. As, how we heard Bullerton’s voice, just out ever, the remarriage of a widow Is held side ami apparently under our window by orthodox Hindus to be fraught with openings. every calamity, the wedding Is per "Broughton I" the voice called; "can formed at dead of night under un old you hear met' mango tree. 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