Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 22

By E. MANCHESTER BODDY g (Copyright, 1022, by TimbaMtreor Brese. £ Besce (Continued from Yesterday's Star) With a long gaze at. the Wenders of radiant natare in ‘Winter time, Pete completed his toilet in-the cald, soff snow and returned tofthe liftle shaek, where the welcome’ afoma of breakfast almost tempted him' to pinch the mahogany cheek of the ol Tndian by way-of appreciation, In- stead he took the place at the table that had been provided for him and deyoted his entire attention to the steaming oatmeal and dried fish {hat thé woman brought * snioKing: with corn biscuits, from’ the fi The meal fluished, he §et about. iit cillful 2 manosr as e kould mu what tl O the chatactera RS, Talky ust e in his tmmediate: future; 7 CHAPTER X1 Poi* long: Weary days, ‘days Jhat: menged Into weeks, Pote. Bent :gver his ‘work in the Dead Horse.muiine, afrival thers only twe contented and shiftiess he accepted the burdem: of. eagrying on the largest share of the work himself. He found the workings.to be lit- tle ntore than a rather well developed prospect, with one main tunnel fol- lowing vein matter for probably one hundred yards into the slope of the mount abrupt- 1v. . howe oned old ming in t\ny\vl\ starvation, had igg what he Finding on h < from > space between its ace or end of the old diggins: opening and the tunnel Feforo many weeks had passed Pete became hardened to his work and reat pride in the bulge ‘les that made even his over- sizgd flannel st small. There Wwere no regul lnr work, the | men -usually in’ the morning and working until they had driven in the new tunnel or cross cut an allotted distance. If the was good s the nien said, it meant that much more leisur was' hard, and it u was. awing unusual atlons of the roc en continued- work nger. each week 4 from Salmon Tooth up the work done’at the mine and pringing to the workers food, cloth- ing, old magazines and such luxuries men might send for from the commissary below. At first Pete made no effort to obtain information from h companions, deciding it Wwould be best first to earn as much of their confidence as possible. The wis- s_demonstrated runner came the first vi te obse motions of he noticed a} much hetter 2 titude on the part toward him after the runner had left For some time he wondered how Bul- ler had squa d matters with Jenkins | and others to whom he was undoub edly accountable. A remark passed uite casually b in which he mentioned “breaking ' rock” with. a significant s le, cleared his mind on this point. He recollected that the gold company seemed to s in having fugitives fram-justide in its service. Buller had _apparent] ert little | t atter all he was still y a prisoner, and that all con- cernéd krew him to be Peter Alden and not Philip West. Before long the two miners- seem- ed to consider Pete one of them- selves talked freely with him. Little by little he picked up odds and ends- of the crooked career of the Salmon River Gold Company. Sev- eral circumstances which had ‘puz- zled him deeply were ‘explained. He had never before been able to un- derstand why practically all of the old placer miners, men, independent and prosperous in thefr own way, with flumes, shovels and pans, had been willing to relinguish their hold- | ings to Brow. Kloch, Ham’s com furnished an excellent explanation. Pete deducted that - through some means or other he, Kloch, had title e to a bit of placer ground below. Browning, Kloch ed, had made the same offer and-terms with him as with all the othars. Pete, showing unusual inte est, the transaction, asked to see the gontract in the matter and Kloch proudly and obligingly furnished him , with. i Pete found one important prov ‘going | if the work | Pass, checking ! Printed hy lrlngen!ru with Metropolitew ew -nb-. Servi B B 0 0 Y 8 e N N in the paper that interested him pro- foundly. A paragraph provided m-t. in ad- dition to a considerat stock, the company speoifically” ‘?noun» ect a huge dredge on the placer.pro] consolidated by them and to, in operation by tbe last d: o coming January. Even the specifica- | tions of ‘the dredge were set down in detail. Pete knew, even from h limited experience in mining, what & tremendouts -outlay _of cwinl the project involved. ' From this point on he pressed his 7 search for further information, aund “Jonce he had been able to ehgage the jrunner in lengthy - conversation. “{ From him he learned that even the n.{ workmen at the pass Were awsre of something decidedly.wrdng at head- quarters. There h@d been rumors of trouble with: some- of the old placer miners and the guards at the pass were finding It more and more diffi- cult to keep men from entering the For some time the story of a guleh, Tlandmde,had. sufliced,-but lately new exciises had: to be made nearly every week. His great opportunity came, how- ever, one afterncon nearly a week following his talk with the runner. }On this day Pete and his two fellow workmen were surprised by an un- | expected visit from a group of six men, all strangers to Pete. Two of them were obyiously labor- lers brought along to carry what [equipment the other four might re- quire for the journey in addition to | the small haversacks they themselves carried. Pete was as much impressed by the { sudden appearance of the féur clean- aven, carefully groomed visitors as { though' he himself had always-lived {in_the hills. | _ The visitors proved to be J. D. Browning, himself distinguished from { the rest of the party by the soft pink skin of his plump face and the pudgy white hands that netvomsly tugged at his well groomed’ mustache: An- other of the party, one.constautly in his immediate proximity, Pete ‘found S| AS. Pete’ care- Lto be a Mr. Sharpe. fully took v features priateness of the name. long head, from the haif bald perfion of which stearh arose In'® thin vapor as the owner removeéd his fur cap, seemed to convefge into a long, beak- like nose, with eyes on. either bide intended apparently for nio other pur- pose than to emphasize the presence of the combined nose and Yorehead. The pallor of his face, too; blended perfectly with the’ dirt-flecked. show about the entrance of the-tunnel.’ Both Browning and Sharpe snapped out questions at the other two, who stood, with 14gs wide apart, rolling aund unrolling numerons blue-prints { that emerged in astonishingly. large quantities from folds in their pocke! 1t soon became apparent. that one was { Peleg Demons, company engineer, and the other the com lawyer, whose name Peter finally learned was Haus- ton. I'%Atter much sweeping -of ems and somparison of notes, interspersed { with words Pete could not eatch, the visitors finally folded - their docu- nd advanced into the entrance | Demons called loudly for candles, | then grabbed the ones offered by Pete with the contempt and overbea manner of a man passing on_ to feriors abuse and derision he himself is_aecustomed to receive. |, What happened inside the tunnel Pete cotld not know. But at the end lof ad hour the four men came out puffing and perspiring from exercise amore strenuous than mere walking. Another conference took place at the mouth of the tunnel and this time Pete saw to it that he kept within © |hearing distance. A blacksmith shop, or rather a {crude shelter over a forge used for {heating dull steel picks and drills, | | faced in such a way toward thé par- ticular spot near which the four men stood that the sound of their voices {carried perfectly. Pete had discov- ered this listening post quite by accl: dent during his first few days at the {mine and had, in fact, quently for the very purpose it now \served him. Pete listened eagerly for the expected words and was soon re- |warded. Browning, apparently ad- dressing Demons, talked first. “Well, there's this much about it, Demons, we can't move that muck in there ourselves, . ‘These fool | you've got ub here are apparenmtly |working. Rather unusual, but, never- i theless, w ot to leok t that pay stuff you say Is in there." “But none of the three know it’s there,” the engineer replied. yoy, think it's dangerous? {the one who ran into it, covered it up at once and told no one. He's been where he can't- talk for weeks now.” 1 " SWell, we can't keep it covered up | | forever,” ‘Sharge broke in irritably. “Houston here, says he's gone as far as he can in fixip’ the title. It's as our mine now as it ever will |a year. AresT used it fre- | i be unless you fellows' can prodyce ‘that Brud Hawkins, or bring him back to life or something. Browning turned sharpiy to Fous- ton, whs, so far as Pete could make out, had sald little or nothing since by arcival. *Dy you think it's safe 1o open her. Ern?" he asked. ‘te lawyer had plainly been asked same’ question many times bey fore, judging from the irritable man- ner in which he snapped out an em- phatic;. “No.” At /this Sharpe gave way to @ tirade of abuse, cursing himseélf for gotting-mixed upsin the deal first of all,-then includjng Browning and De- mons in his denunciation, and then jending by declaring that i Houston couldn’t. figiire some way of releas- ing t tle ‘to" the accursed mine, {h whitg project, Houston included, could go to hell. , Browping rose to” the occasion, and a8 his partner lost control of himself Browning now gave the appearance of complete mastery of the situation, and of himself most of all, as he an- red Sharpe: ow, Bill, forget. it. You don't mean that. If this thing blows up you know and I know and Houston gnd Demons know there’s only one place we can all go. And that place air’t hell, exactly,—it's wors got bars on the doors! Such a statement, coming. as it did frem the leader, caused a painful silence to fall over the entire group. Browning quietly tuggedsat his-mus- tache as he watched the effect of hlu words. - Sharpe poutm sullenly, ground a cigarette o powder Bk the heel of his boot. gaunon alone batted not an eve, g of emotion of any s - “A fine crowd,” Pete mused to him- self, as he took in the silent four from the tail of his eyes. Peleg Dumons, wenkest of the lot, W st to break the sitence. e ope bad ias. that?” he l’nlv,cred looking earnestly at Brown- T‘fle'. don't come with that innocent stuff now—you know what you'vé done to half the hold- outs: you've man-handled. How many are at the bottom of old Dan Morgan's shaft? You'd be lucky to §0_to jail. Demons’ wirited at the words and paled perceptibly, as he answered, ‘Well—I'm for: doing snything to keep ‘er from busting—jus the word.” Sharpe, appanently recovered from his sudden” temper, long enough at least to-find his volce, lit another cigarette and talked between puffs. “Come, boys, na use talking this way,” he urged in.a conciliatory man- ner. “This thing {sn’t going to bust. None of us needs to worry if we stick together and play the game. But we've Eot take chances, we've simply got to. Now tell me again, Houston, just where do we stand, and for heaven's sake talk. Let" this thing straight, once for all Where do we stand without this stuff here?” From the flick os ashes sent in.the direction of the tunnel, the “here" referred.to the mine. “We have two months to install a quarter million dollar dredge on our placer ground, or we lose it,” Hous- ton replled. “That's that. You and your Wall street concern have sold more than that' valuation of stock, but our.concern has embesszled the money. and lost it to some other crowd of Wall street pirates.™ i “Not that part of it, Ern* Sharpe interrupted. “I mean how do we | stand on the contracts and things?" It was Sharpe's turn now to join the | anic-stricken Demons. i Silent Ern Houston continued: “And, if wé don't make good the money to the stockholders, or build our dredges, it's jail for all of us—maybe more for some.” he added, looking furtive- Iy_from Demons to Browning. one listening to Houston's talk could fail to get the tull meaning of his words or to doubt the seasomed judgment behind them as he con- tinued: “We have one chance of getting out with our skin and with money. That chance is at ‘the bottom of this tun- nel. If Demons’ story of a strike is right, we've got a chance. I'm no ! miner, and I don'q know. So far as | the title to this® property is con- ! cerned we don’t own it. It stands in the name of Brud Hawkins. We or- dered Hawkins p\l! way and Buller arret says sum iot did it” It eemed tg Pete g‘l Houston men- ioned the ‘deed With distinct. relsh. Hawkins is dead, and- doesn’t come to life, I've got the legal end of getting th title fixed. If he does turn up, well, that's something else again.” Browning took up the subject where | Houston left it. “Now Hawkins never did _know what he has here, .that much_is certain, isn't it, Demons?" he asked. Demons assured him it was. Now, that being the case,” Brown- ing continued, “I agree with Sharpe. Let’s bring a’crew up here and get at this gold. Let's take a chance on | the legal end—we've got to take a chance somewhere. “Why not make it appear that the stuff is coming from some other ming —we can get a hole in the ground Somewhere for a dummy,” Demons stiggested. (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) —_— P The world’s greatest center of the | pencil-making industry is the Ger- man city of Nuremberg. whose fac- | tories turn out 300,000,000 pencils in | Member Bt“ S. KANN Telz'phaue Main 7200 Many Styles in Fall Skirts Fashioned of All: the New Matenals In Our Rearrnnpd Skirt. Sgctum ; —An unusual assortment wé have assembled to offer Wednesday at a very special price. Choice...... —The materials are fine.quality. striped Roshanara crepe, also’ plain, in gray; tan and blue. All pleated' models. Others are crepe de chine in plain colors. There are also many wool crepes m the lot plam tweeds and tweed mix- “tdres! —There are eponges in block patterns, in combination colors, in gathered, wrap-around and plain effects. . —Still others are sport skirts_in combination colors, of checks and plaids. Many are box-pleated and“wrap-around styles. —Thére are :ll sizes to choose from, but not all sizes in each style. $37.50 B —Coats of Handsome High Pile Fabrics at -. i—The new and lustrous fabrics that make the present-day coats garments of real beauty. Lustrosa, Formosa, Scantic Bolivia and Trouvenette —Styles are of conservative straight effects, the-attractive wrap-around models. Some of them have the collars and cuffs of sclf materials, but therc are also many ~ with fur collars and cuffs. —J;All are warmly lined and interlined. Colors are black, brown and kit fox; sizes to 44 Kann's—Second Floor. Bib Collars a Carter’s Cotton R in Twenty Styles —Regularly $150 Rex Underwear S pecill $ l 00 —anu\lr for smart. wga is the bib collar, made ot Point - Venise, Val = and other novelty laces. in white ‘and ecru. Pleatings are the Smartest Trimmings of the Hour —Used on both street and evening dresses, they give an added - charm to the Y Georkette Pleatings, in e i 1 k"mh Rtguhr sizes. Each various widths and colors, 3 priced according to width | Extra Sizes, Each, $3.50 and quality, a yard, 8% to $3.50. —~Women's Carter Cotton Ribbed Underwea sleeves, or. high neck, short sleeves. Tights in knee and ankle lengths; woven bands. lar sizes. Each Extra Sizes, Each, $1.25 —Women's Carter K silk dnwool mixed; high neck, ankl€ le long sleeve P Radiim Lace Pleating: Unlon Suits, high ‘neck: long sleeves in ecru and black; also black combined with silver and plain silver. —Pleating, a yard, $1.235. Shlack and Silver, yard, $3.50. long sleeves; Kann's—Neckwear Dept., ankle length. Street Floor. Size 20, each AlL Silk: Spanish Allover Laces Very Much in Demand at Present —They are in a good as- sortment of colors, includ- ing ecru, green, cocoa, brown, black and white. Very Specially Priced A Yard $1.69 Kann’s—Street Floor. bon straps, knee length, reinforced, flat seams. Regular sizes, ¢ Extra Pants on muslin bands. - 75 Sizes 22 to 34, cach $1.00 Kann's—Street Floor. 3 9. The New Tapestry Seconds Petit Point Embroidery —Is quite the fad in our daily instructing classes: —Designs for use of beads or wool, for coveri stools, chair backs, sea‘t‘f. early for best selection. bell pullies, for scarf ends, —Tea Cups, 3 for:19c. etes —Saucers, 3 for 19c. pikkiyou save s cotist —Coffee Cups, 3 for 19c. " SALE | when chipped. arms or a crest in your “THE BUSY CORNER” In the medium weights for_ fall wear medium weight; vests have high neck, long short sleevcs, low neck, 51,00 Ribbed Union Suits, art ;. low ‘neck, sleeveless, knee length; Du;ch “%‘bk elmslee\es, an; .length; bodice style ;/ribbon s! er straps, knee $2 95 —Womén's Carter Medium Welight Cotton Ribbed low. meek, sleeveless, both n} ankle length; bodice top, rib- e —Children’s Cotton Ribbed Underwear, high neck. Dutch neck, elbowrsleeves; knee and 1 9C Pieces—-A Manufacturer’s : Surplus -~ - er Bu.mm:: Bureau Sons Co. Penna. Ave., 8th & D Strects Another Shipment of the Exceptionally Good Looking Frocks —The sale last Saturdav was a signal success, and we are very ]uckv to secure more of them for another sale. —The materials are Crepe de Chine, Flat Crepe, Charmeuse and Satin. —The styles include the straightline modes, the long waist effects, dresses with full pleated skirts, some have flounces, some pleated panels over full skirts. —There are round-neck styles, many with lace collars, others have pleated georgette collars. The trimmings are fancy braids, two-tone ribbons, jet iridescent and steel sbeads. —They lave three-quarter and short sleeves.: Most of them have self girdles, many are fin- ished with fancy buckles. and black. brown' navy women'’s sizes. ‘Kann’s—Second Floar. ibbed “Colors are —L) Misse. s and Ouling Flannel Gowns Prove Their Warmth These Chilly Nights sleeves, braid trimmed. At trimmed braid, 4 i broidered and h e mstitched. Plain White Syracuse China Thousands of —Of some.of the items we have. quantities, in others the quantity is limited. Come Slightly imperfect. —Casserole Dish Covers, 19¢ each. —Opval Vegetable Dishes, covers missing, 19c each. —Outing Flannel Gowns, in two styles, both with double voke; one style with collar, the other is collarless. and blue stripes. At.. $ l 025 ed S, —Extra and Regular Size Outing Flannel Gowns, trimmed with wash braid; double yoke, all with long $1.75 —Regular Size Gowns, all AL . with “V” neck;. two styles with mercerized another i smched some are hand em- $2.00 Pink hem- 19c SALE —All pure white china that will stand hard usage and does net ¢raze, or discolor Neat styles fashioned from good quality outing flawel:, neatly finished with wash braids and hem- —Extra and Regular Size Qutinz Gowns, the extra sizes finished with embroid- ered scailops on “V” neck; the regular sizes are finish- with mercérized braid: they are hemstitched and ribbon trimmed. Another size in the extra size gowns is made with round neck and hemstitched trim- med. —Outing Gowns, regular sizes, with “V” neck (mm finished with fancy wl braid. Kann’s—=Second Floor. a 9 % Kenwood All-W ool Blankets —Are beautiful enough to use just for ornament, but they are also gloriously warm and delightful. The single blanket, size $1 1 -95 72x90 in. at.. T —Made of long staple wool, with a long fleecy nap, in plain colors, gray blue, gold, plain white, etc., also in pretty plaid affects in colors. Som€ are bound in colors to match the blanket, but the white is bound in dainty colored bindings. The bindings are of wide silk or satin. Blankets cah be used for —Bread and Butter Plates, 5 for:19c. Pie Plates, 4 for 19c. Tea Plates, 4 for 19c.” " 075 —Breakfast Plates, 3 for 19:. —Diniier” Plates,. 2 for 19¢. —Soup Plates, 3 for 19c. —Tea Bowls, 2 for 19c. ~Fruit Saucers, 4 for 19c. —Oatmeal Saucers, 3 for 19c. —Celery Dishes, 19¢ each. —~Cake Plates, 19c each. —Bouillon Cups, 2 handles, 5 for 19c. —~Covered Casseroles, bottom only, 19¢ each, Special Fall Sale of Beds and Bedding' Three.Piece Bed Outfits : - Felt Choice, Wednesday Only, Included in this nmm offer are—Simmons, gnd Fostors beds, n white enaimel. Gaisoes. .OO i vory strong link spriog Sizes ol e —Our usual $13.95 grade. but by special arrangement with the Bedding Co: we 25‘3"”3 M % Las will sell exactly 100 at the specially Than Regular Prices - ulus theas ‘e oarihe. gathersd from “All Full Double Size the fact that a good cotton-filled mat- ‘Reduced, Wednesdsy, Each able ask, 70 inches wnde. heavy tress usually sells at a hiéher price weight and splendid wear- than we are offering layer felts for £ "“"‘ 5' ) a sPerfect quality. suarantesh S et Wednesday. ~just & small lot we obtained —Réduced Wednes- $7 55 the manufacturer because they are dis- day to, each.. continued patterns, —And this special price includés springs. A most remarkable value; just think of it, & White' enamel continuous post bed complete with link-springs, cholco of —Vegetable Dish Covers, 19¢ each. —After-dinner Cups and Saucers, 6 for 19c. —Sugar Bowls with covers, 19c each. —Tea Pots with covers, 19c each, —Meat -Platters, 113g-inch, 19¢ each. —Meat Platters, 13%4-inch, ~“Meat Platters, 1534-inch, family, this can be de- signed for you if you de- sire. - —Stamped pieces for petit point embroidery at— $1.50 to $50.00 —Skeins of single or three-quarter beds, or are suitable for twin beds. —66x80in. Part-wool Blankets, made of good materials, They are white with borders of pink, blue, lavender and rose, and bindings to match the borders.’ —Meat Platters, 1734-inch, Also block plaids to select from, —Meat Platters, 19%-inch, 19c each. | in attractive colors and an —Open Vegetable Dishes, 19¢ each. excellent weight. —Gravy Boats, 19c each. pair .. —Cream Pitchers, 19¢ each. Kann'sStreet Flaot: Kann’s—Third Floor. —Balls of ern. 2 ounces....... 200 Stamped “Busy Hour” Aprons Special, each— Latest Novelties $6 $7 $8 Sterlmg Introduces the “Scotty Bluchet” A Typica COuege; Girl’s Oxford e B T has the smart easy swing of the practxeal ahoe It is sturdily built for the more exacting service of fall, with a wnter-proof welt to give added character and protections “Sterling 8-0-8” Silk Sfiockings $1.85 Undoubtedly the finest full-fashioned silk hose regularly obtainable at this ncwrlgw price. Black, white and twenty different colors. 3 ! : Dnuon-ll-y Imm» 1337 F Streef the New W::l?r-d. ‘Hetel Tazy daisy. French plique, etc. Art ‘Shop—Fourth knot, Kaiin's Floor. —Good weil stitched ends; Iy woven. - t, with hem- very close- ‘Dame yare —Cotton T Crash, ~full _wdtm-&uvy twill; red border; very absorbent. Regularly lSc, e 1 vard .. Kann’s—Street Floor. Imperial Stitch- = =~ Cotton-Filled ed Layer-Felt Mattresses gfi”o"s $8.95