Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923. 2i i g‘“%'%%fi%“fl@"fl%%%“%““fl““'fi] rectly before him, Ern Houston—| “No, but he thinks he's holding a| For the first time Garret entered ' E. F. DROOP & SONS CO. 1300 G Street === Specialists in .Grand Pianos 1857 1923 ] lawyer. trick at that. And so do L” the room without knocking. With fi Tl ‘ 7 li T .l Both men shifted uneasily before| “Come on, cut out this infernal mys- Inarrowed eyes Browning appraised 2, the apparent i1l humor of their chief.) ery stuff, Ern, what's he got—what's him as he came jauntily up to the P Browning lost no time in prelimi- |his game—what can he do anyway,!desk and helped himself to a chair s naries. Leaning toward Demons, he|damn mountain gopher—God, man, do beside it. Buller's greeting was loud Zlasgked: “What's left?" you realize what this means to us?” land cheerful. Browning ignored it. i Demons squirmed but answered| Houston nodded. “Been gambling.” Browning's | i 5 {nhorny, “Most of it." Browning sat down, puffed and|werds sounded more like a conclu- 18 i By E. MANCHESTER BODDY * €] “Most of hell—man—I'm not asking |thought. than a question. > if you've tied up all Montana, How: Tor five silent minutes his clgar o i | 3 Y h ™ t! ur-glass, Vhere ou ge g (Copyright, 1922, by Thmes-Mirror Press. Printed by arrargement with Metropolitan f 5 “‘ L on hoatieem I e e 'S dilsion Dol “Got whatrr o 4 Rl S J| “No buts; which one? Answer my|ended his meditation by banging a| “Money—cash—the ‘stake’." fi:quesllan. Tow much mining territory |clenched fist on the table before him.! “I ain't gotta a stake; whatdaya g BB BB MEN LN LN [i9 left up that Guleh?” Then with the precision of the mas- [mean—money?” : s € “One group. the Dead Horse, twen- |ter executive he reached for -the| “Oh, yes, you have. Bums like you THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. five claims, but it's not placer [phone and ordered a connection. don’t get 80 cocky when they're broke. | Peter Alden, ir., son of a San Fraucisco banker. has been leading a dissipated life, and | ground.” {P Salmon Tooth Pass, give me Jen-[Come on, out with it, what have you Bas become deep ovolved i debi. 113 father secretly pass his debts wilh the agrecment | Well, that’s one. How many|kins” he snapped into the receiver.|been doing?" er {mor, Tith the ereditors thac tiey shll”conting n the son. He also ar Two minutes more and the bell| Bull fumbled at his fur hat and| at hier fo Tacific Central Tinex S rang. looked at the carpet. “Honest, I oo e AL ST hen why the ‘but'?” “Hello, Jenkins. Browning speak-!haven't—" d Docomes intoxicated, while one of | .S Y “Horse struck it rich;ling. How's the pass? All right?| “Come on. hurry up. I want to talk blank checks. Pets b vritte: o his | P Vi the duy-of s Aioter, as wrltten (o BI% | ere's gold there, solld veins of It.|Weil, listen and get this right. This{to you. Didn't you promise you o ay o O $50,000. “The hanker consulie hie | They've struck the mother lode. The snow's going to wreck the pass to-jwouldn't lle to me any more. Talk xex Conidence in the son’s incegrity 1o the Dead Horse ls worth more than all|night. Quit snowing there. you say?|fast now and get it out” Browning ced tn the Moupa saloon, after a wikht of druking, and |the placer ground we've got.” 'Fool. T said the pass would be wrecked |whirled in his chair and began writ- 3 penni] He punshes a waiter who refuses gt Sl B e Has b i orliers s areal Tor im U0 Tefubes to serve bim, and ix befriended | "4 this astounding news Browning | tonight. Let only J. D. men through. |ing . e ontinued from Yesterday's Star) lalong G e . te rolled his cigar between his teet rowning ordered a - ? s o very- Sach iCreek, and iBrowhIng. |l ie isikadz tin. The bell rang sooner this time.! whe immaculate, suave, se g i@ = " - At least. so said the men behind | Rimself to bocome tdeatined 1o g | “"po they know ft>" “Hello! _Gold Nugget saloon. J. D. Well,” he commenced, fearing he the Salmon River Gold Company, In-|execution of his grasping schemes, |, “No, Only three men on the job ;“‘ét"“,‘:;“;"”(‘;‘uggh;f’..‘ e b e e v gorporated These promoters, forag.|felt that he was approaching com- men? ®\S Drowning hung up the receiver [bloke came into the Gold Nugget,| 1 zk\w ves far from the Wall street|plete success. His engineers’ reports 5. Demons replied and noted he turned to Houston with an air of {just a washed-out bum, 1 thought, I packs, had entefed the peacerul moun- | indicated a near-monoply of mining|with reilef_the hint of a smile that)finality and sald: “Ern. something |but he got drunk and raved about ains of the Salmon Tooth Guich|ground along the creek, which meant|fiaved on Browning's face as he rose.|tells me this is going to be a fight |his dad’s banks, and he slipped me a | , country with flashy paper, a “fool's|fabulous wealth if used as the nu-| XY} right, Demons.” he added more 'Hawkins' assessment work isn't done, [coupla checks: that's all™ | . £old” new to the miners,’ and with cleus of a great Wall street promo- ! cordlally, ~Keep it up. Leave the'of course?” D e S mathine: Mics ft; whexal plausible schemes and enticing prom- | tion. Already he had prepared glow- |siguing o Houston here. You better | Houston shook his head. “Not only jare they?" ] ises. As a result, first one strategic | ing prospectuses for his New York |go back now and cover up the strike, |Jone. but the claim’s patente: Bull fumbled in his inside pocket concession and then unother was |henchmen, who operated under the|If anybody knows too much. “Cialm’s patented? How can it be?” |and produced two long pink slips of | sewed up tight before the wily opera- [ name of Sharpe & Company. and these | Browning shook his head meaningly, | Browning groaned in utter exaspera- 2 t_were you going to do with 7" Browning asked disgustedly. ‘Cash ’em, if 1 needed it pretty bad, tors showed their hand, Salmon|Wall street brokers had, in fact, be- {then added: “Remember, nobody ition. “Didn't the land office bring it} miner. 10uld be made safe and| “To hell with the gold." was|of Demons' clattering boots was well [Don’t think there's been any double; I guess. 3 = Bble ey Eeen ute Sharsasl Sioseane Lot down the hallway, then Browning|crossing, though, just slipped through.” | “Fool, tear ‘em up. These things'll » Ko to Drowning i 1 Because It Is 2iway W that's that fool native son of {send you up higher than a Kite: THE BEST PIANO IN THE CLASS OF SMALL GRANDS Tooth Pass, always dungerous, but|gun to flood the country with stock |knows about this strike! Goodb to_you for O K the only et to civilization the the Salmon River Gold Company. | The two men waited until the sound | 0, it slipped through somehow. pa 4 required capital A oTe W e B g |turned to Houston ) 1 o e Dicre mers) e et 1o A{',‘,"i.';,,'"":nh,f‘“.'(f,"'fl;‘ffi,];‘ “Dead Horse. Dead Horse.” he re-lun assistant down there that you sent lought to huve you run in, right now, king of iy ’ 4 g o " |peated. reflectively. “that’ll be Brud|in for policy’s sake!" rowning | for it dn’ . you to keep undertook ‘h'pl;leli.‘";l"'h-l-’elr:;g:t'&.‘;’s";:S,‘, mber. we can always mine the | BEAST FETECUYEN. B o Y o Bt of thereT Iovit |lont of this kina of stuff? One more saic now. sately” I he elliches of | Browning, “J. D he was called, | HoUsten nodded his reply. He sel- |gor, Bim out of, oot BAmy, Yaud 3 e Salmon River Gold Company, In- [understood. Salmon river was his SONpSPOKE L0 o (0 pimon R R A e e corporated. Slowly, but surely, the|discovery, at least from the \\'sni he lawyer nodded again. 1 Y Here comes Garre strong arm of capital, directed by the [ street point of view. “The only gold- 9 hand of the s er, consolidated | producing placer in Montana that can 3 cred, humbly, “Drunk. e me alone with him, Ern.|ing breakfast with Brud Ha an’t budge him. Holding out on!I've got some orders for Bull that{iast I saw him." the placer c ong the stream,|be monopolized” was his boast, and 2 g v "W 't tear * s plac stream, | b 0 e as his boast, rinciple. might start you on your poliey work! ~“Wwait a minute, don’t tear 'em up. it s ¢ » 5 Weeding out ruthless regu- | he proposed to demonstrate it P Principles, hell; whoever heard of |again.” Houston bit his 1ip. Me had ! Eating with Brud Hawkins, was he f The responsibility we as ars ago, “PRICE” made s it did so the hapless victims He had no doubt he could, but he|Rrud Hawkins having principles.” {witnesged many a withering assault of | ™ “Syre.” sume in making the above Cash or Monthly Payments this ambition almost impos- _conquest. From the first re-|winced wHen ha thought of the| “He's got %em, J. D.; he's got 'em.” [sarcasm descend on others, but mever; -Give me those checks, Bull. On hatement Go Tailad ot s L > OS ik u\“h:.ll hle-n “chm; :nd scat- | prospectuses. already sent broadcast| “Try stock? before ha‘:] h; tern ‘x‘u .ullm:. l‘lro'v\u'n; second thought, T want to use them A 3; e ,] dO sible. but with the advent ed. Miners a ad hard luck | through: o y, @ gl 2 ing caught the feeling in an instan l . —send—you—up if neces- ; 5 “ - f » ’ c roughout the country, announ !n“d D e Tonerithuts volceias x\rn‘ulf to—send—-y 7 only by our own knowledge of “THE BRAMBACH”— stories it would s id when the! THE ORIGINAL SMALL GRAND—the restiriction is removed. 1 “THE BRAMBACH” IS ONLY 4 FEET 8 INCHES LONG, OCCUPYING NO MGORE SPACE THAN AN UPRIGHT complete success. A disturbing prem- brought pleas for justice to Moa cnition that he might have rushed they were told to take their g things too rapidly bothered him. An! ances to the proper authorities. Yet|intangible uneasiness made him in-| &t the government land offices new |creasingly nervous and Irritable, until of tone and construction, but publicly ex- pressed approval by the foremost music houses of this country, by scores of schools, conservatories, professionals and THOU- SANDS of satisfied owners. { FROM COAST TO COAST the “BRAM- BACH” is found on the floors of mer- |he continued: e | Bull quavered and handed over { “Forget it, Ern. I'm all upset. Iiune checks. “Please, Mr. Browning. s, laian’t mean it. You've been with me | he, SheRG, o HIEE S0 e Nem, 1 Lufr > five years now. First time vou ever | Rliase: 7 . strange face; ed them. The city |at last. in spite of heavy Saturday | Browning repeated, this time endingthought the other fellow had a chance. | "ghyt up! Listen. If it wasn't and e Lo, were filled | night snow. the first of the (‘omlng[“‘é}"r:‘tlo}flfi;dsfi,‘:,f‘;o“‘:{"“ed“knl" ol o T e for. paused g|formeiyoudiboInisail niow, wouldn't strangers; and all of them |winter. he had scribbled a hasty sum-j, A . & e &, it you?" L * Seemed to be intcrested only in the|mons te his engincer, and ordered Liadito. e hurt despitoiioss;fanahe migmientitol pIEaLERL, SRR SO eS I nrs chead sank, and Browning are of the gold co & Miners, | § > c e v o = A continue: gold compa Liners. | Slim Ellot, the 'breed. to deliver it| V34 3 ML repegtea e oat Well?" | enough. Teal ones, are prone to seck refuge in |and produce the engineer for a con-| & e ; SR 5 i “He : z hanged expression one | Well, T | keening yoll i : L ; : the hills, forgetting the old diggings | ference the following day. | e o US Out” Hous- | KA have thought Houston would o T et chants whose reputation for reliable and [| AND COSTING NO MORE THAN A o one ope, mil- | It was late afternoon when J. 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