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The summer time is coming, avoid the heat, smoke, and o dourof other char acters of cooking ap pliances. therefore use an ELECTRIC RANGE. Rate for current will be 5 cts. per K. W. Hour. ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. SIMPLE -.- THIS IS HOW Gals. Linseed Oil costing about - $2.70 Into & M. Semifixed Real Paint, at $2.25 per gal. makt 7 Gals. Pure Paint for 9.00 $11.7;) sip ill It's only $ 1.67 per cal Made with right proportions of Lead. Zinc and Linseed Oil, to insure longest wear ' in if If lliilU Will (It? JC fflcWML H- SPEASMAN AUTHOR OF "WHISPERING SMITH," "THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE." "STRATEGY OF GREAT RAILROAD.- ETC . NOVELIZED FROM THE MOVING PICTURE PLAY OF THE SAME NAME. PRODUCED BY THE SIGNAL FILM CORPORATION. 8YNCPSIS. Little Helen Holmes, daughter of Gen eral Holmes, railroad man. Is i rescued from Imminent danser on a scenic rail road by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown to young womanhood, Helen saves Storm, now a fireman, her father, and his friends, Amos Rlilnelander, financier, and Robert Seanrue. promoter, from a threatened col lision. Safebreakers employed by Seagrue steal General Holmes' survey plans of the cut off line for the Tidewater, filially wound the general and escape. Her la ther's estate badly Involved by his death. Helen goes to work on the Tidewater. Helen recovers the survey plans from Seagrue, and though they are taken from her, finds an accidentally made proof of the survey blueprint. Storm is employe i by Khinelander. Spike, befriended by Helen, in turn saves her ami tiie riKht- of-way contracts when Seairrue kH'iitps her. Helen and Storm win tor Khineland er a race against Pea?riie fur right-of-way. Helen. Storm ami Rhlnelander res cue Spike from Seurrue s men. Spike KtealB records to protect Khinelander anil blorm and Helen saves Spike from ueatn In the burning of the courthouse. ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT Salting of the Superstition Mine. Outwitted in his effort to obtain pos session of .the coveted right-of way record and defeated once more in his plans through the failure of Spike to betray those who had befriended him, Seagrue's wrath concentrated on Spike as being chiefly responsible for his dis comfiture. But standing in the room which had just been the scene of his last defeat, Seagrue felt that be could at least en joy revenge. Helen, Storm and Rhine lander were still facing him, with Spike near, and the sheriff was just leaving the room when Seagrue called to him. As he did so, he drew from his pocket a worn pamphlet aud hand ed it ostentatiously to the sheriff. "There's something of interest to you!" - I "What do you mean?" returned the official Jocularly, lie glanced at the pamphlet, saw set fv rth on the cover a reward cf five hundred dollars of fered for the apprehension of Ppilto and laughed: "We see these 'things every day," said he, handing it back to Seagrue. If I were tc chase up all of thr? pointers 1 pet like that, my sal ary wouldn't buy gasoline." "Vnu don't have to burn any gaso line to pet this n:.i. y," rt:.rted ?a gruo. "Your man id right here." "Where?" demanded tho sheriff skeptically. Seaj-nio pointed to Spike. "That is the man," he said coldly, Spii.o decided the game was up. He made a bo-t for the door. The sheriff stopped lum. The moment was an unpleasant one. Helen was furious. "Of all the mean things you've ever done," she said to Seagrue, "this is about the mean est. I should think you would want to go and hide yourself," she ex claimed with cutting emphasis, "from the sight of all living men." Stung, Seagrue retorted in like: "That sounds fine from your lips, Miss Helen Holmes! It's a new role for you to become the champion cf prison birds like this fellow." He nodded in solently towards Spike. "Especially," he added, "since this very man" he pointed a finger relentlessly at Spike "this very man," he almost thun dered, "was implicated in the death of your own father!" He meant, with his retort, to beat poor Helen to the ground. He almost did so. i : S 9 The Fight on Top of mi mm Cm t T- : T liiL, CCmtOHT n, J, IT FMNK H SKAMJ1M Breathless, unable to speak, she looked helplessly from accuser to ac cused. Storm and Khinelander stood spellbound. Staring at Seagrue like one stunned, Helen could only gasp; "My father?" "Yes, your father," repeated Sea grue angrily. "How do you like your hero new?" he concluded tauntingly, Helen looked toward Spike. "Spike, is this true?" n He cculd not speak to- her. He could not even look at her. He only turned to the sheriff and in a voice such as no man ever had heard from him before muttered: "I'm ready." The sheriff led him from the room. Helen, with Rhlnelander and Storm, silently followed, leaving Seagrue, as he turned again to his window, to his own reflections. Nor were the loss of the records and bis excoriation by Helen the only misfortunes that were to come to him that Cay. He had long had control of a valua ble gold mine in the Superstition range, and to his backers he had en larged more than once with enthusi asm on the probability that their in vestment in this mine would make all of them more money than ever had been taken out of the Superstition mountains. But the day before, drill era working in the main tunnel had stopped suddenly before the rock wall they were penetrating. One of them, after consulting In some excitement with his fellows, called the foreman "What's up?" demanded the latter gruffly, when he reached the drill bat tery. "Everything's up," responded the man bluntly. "It's all up with the mine and this outfit, and you and me, boss, right here." The foreman showed his worry as he stood contemplating the fault. He drew from his pocket a book and, hur riedly scratching a note on a blank leaf, handed it to a man. and bidding hint hurry with it, turned a?ain to tin; drillers to invesi'gate. Seagrue was returning from the hank when tin mine ivepencer stopped him in the street cf l.ns Vegas. "This Mr. Sea grue?" li 1 denu'ided. Seagrue nodJed (iirtly. "What do you want?" For iinsv.er the m;in handed hltn a polled letter. Seagrue, tearing open the envelope, read: Dear Sir: v Can you cere to the mine at once? Vein has pinched out In main work ings. S. RCE. Seagrue, startled at the last sen tence, volleyed questions at the mes senger. The man could confirm the intelligence cf what he himself had seen before leaving the mine, and Sea grue, telling him to hunt up Bill and bring him to the assay office in Main street, hurried back to the bank. Bill reached the assay office almost as soon as his employer. Seagrue di rected him to go get the car, and as Bill left Seagrue's assay expert, an old Chum of his in Oceanside, came out of the inner office. To him Seagrue explained as hur riedly as possible what had happened. "Will you go right out with me to the mine?" . At the mine the foreman was still examining the walls. He showed Sea grue the lost seam. The latter exam ined the spot carefully and turned to question the head driller. This man 'P4 V V "V the Tr '"as Vlcloua. 1 -Y rointed to the last spot at which they i had got high-grade quartz. The expert stooped and took up a handful of rock from the ground. An Bwerihg Seagrue, in reply to a hopeful question, he shook his head. '1 doubt very much," said he, after the two had canvassed the matter from all sides. "If it is possible to recover the rein." At the entrance to the shaft Sea grue dismissed bia own two men and turned to the expert They talked to gether a few moments. The mining man saw what was in Seagrue's mind and was not surprised a moment later lo hear him say, without further beat ing about the bush: "If I can get a bid der for the mine, HI pay five thousand dollars for a good report on it Each lunderstood the other as they left the scene together. And summon ing his men, Bill and Lug. and getting into his motor car with the expert, oeagrue drove away toward Las Ve gas. The machine was stopped a little distance from Rhmelander's camp and Seagrue on a scratch pad wrote a note to Amos Rhlnelander. Giving this to Lug, he directed him to deliver it. He then told Bill to drive back to town. Helen, cut to pieces over the disclo sure of Spike's complicity in the death of her father, returned with Rhine lander and Storm to the construction camp. Storm offered such consolation as he could, but this was very little. And it was almost a relief to him when Rhinelander directed him to see about getting the men to work. Rhinelander himself was watching the progress of the construction a little while later when Lug handed him Seagrue's note. Dear Rhlnelander: Without a cut-off we cannot operate the Superstition mine profitably. This would make a good Investment for your company and 1 am giving you the first chance to bid for It Yours, 8EAGRUE. Rhinelander, somewhat puzzled, read the note over two or three times. He dismissed Lug with the verbal mes sage to Seagrue that he would look into it and, calling Storm and Helen Into conference, Rhinelander read v '' ' : -i fM;, . a ",it -'A"- Jumped With a Cry of Defiance From the Top of the Car. them the note and its contents were put under discussion. - 'To you suppose," asked Rhineland-1 er. "that he means what he says?" j "It might be," ventured Helen, re flectively. "Certainly w e know he is . about defeated In his construction rare. And if lie's beaten on the rail-1 road proposition, why shouldn't' he want to get rid . of his mining prop-1 erty?" "The Superstition mine," observed Rhinelander, "has always been a good I producer." At the mine matters were being I pushed rapidly forward for the selling campaign. Driving back with Bill and Lug, Seagrue had summoned the fore man, bidden him 'dismiss the men and dispatched his own two worthies to the surface for bags of ore. In the meantime he and his foreman began to get the rock ready. Bill and Lug returned presently from the bag pile, each of them bearing asack of ore. Lug waB sent for more, while the oth ers deposited the rich quartz in, readi ness for Rhinelander's examination. At the assay office in Las Vegas, Rhinelander, accompanied by Storm and Helen, was looking for the expert Rhlnelander held a brief conference with him, telling him what was want ed and asking whether he could ac company him on a trip to the Supersti tion mine. The expert raised some ob jection, professing other work on hand, but was finally Induced to yield and Storm was sent to procure 4 motor car In which the party embarked on Its return. The orders were to drive straight to the Superstition mine. ' Seagrue was almost .ready for visi tors. After an hour's hard work with his men,, who had been distributing the sacks and rolling the rich ore in among the worthless rock, he directed them to get ready for a blasting. The foreman took a single charge and put Bill and Lug to work on 1t Seagrue left the tunnel, the foreman remaining under his orders to hurry the shot. The moment Bill was ready, Lug got the dynamite, set the fuse and completed the preparations. Outside, Seagrue, to his delight, saw Rhine lander and his party driving up. Greet ings wero exchanged, somewhat stiffly, after the recent encounter of the par ties, .but without dissension In the presence of the expert, and all started together for, the tunnel. With Rhinelander asking questions every few steps, tho expert explained as they walked down the tunnel, the character of the formation and recited something cf the history of the mine, with which he admitted he was famil iar. It all sounded encouraging. By the trtne the group had reached the end of the main tunnel Bill and Log had dis appeared from sight The foreman called in a couple of men and teJ Seagrue asked Rhinelander if he would like to have it fired, and u$on Rhine lander's assent, the party got Into safe-' ty and the shot was dlacharged. Coming out of their retreat the dif ferent members of the group picked up specimens of the shattered ore and examined it "Certainly, Helen." said1 Khlneland-; -or la an undertone, "this; looks good." The expert was at hand wrth a band-' ful of quartx. "That stufl," te said,' showing it to the prospective buyer' with an air of certainty, "will average two hundred dollars to the ton." Helen and Storm consulted together,. Seagrue watching. In a moment he1 asked them and Rhinelaider to follow' him outside, Leavtng the shaft, he took the three to the bag pile. "These sacks," said he to Rhine lander. "contain high-grade ore. ready" for shipment to the smelter. They" are to be included' in whatever deal make with a buyer for the mine." Rhinelander, Storm and Helen con tinued to discuss the purchase apart. They counted the number of bags Rhinelander made an effort to roughly reckof the value of them, Seagrue and the expert talking together the while some little distance away. A further conference with Seagrue disr closed that the price he wanted for the mine was cne hundred and fifty thousand dollars. After the usual bar gaining, Rhinelander proposed to take the property, including the ore ready for the wagons, at one hundred and! ten thousand dollars twenty-five' thousand dollars to be paid- down. Seagrue accepted, Rhinelander made -out his check and the transaction was complete, Rhlnelander only requesting : that the foreman keep the men at work until he should have a chance -to get started. This was assented to- and Storm was placed temporarily in charge of the mina , While the negotiations had been tak- -ing shape, a freight train had pulled ' in a few miles distant at' Valley sta- -tlon, where the erew set out an empty ' box car for loading. A teamster from the mine was summoned by the agent who handed him a note for the mine,' ' M ft foreman. When the teamster reached the mine, the new purchasers were taking possession. He handed the message to the foreman. The fore man read: ' , Have empty box car here for hiflh grade ore. Send it down right away and local will pick the car up this -P. M. LEN. He turned.to Rhinelander, showing him the message and pointing to the sacks ready for shipment. Rhinelander was willing to ship the ore ready for the wagons at once. "AIL right," he said, nodding to the - foreman. "Send what you have to the smelter right away." , Storm was given authority to put this part of the Job through as quick ly as possible. While the details were -being talked over between Rhineland er and his assistant, neither of them.. noticed that they were overheard by Seagrue's toolp, Bill and Lug, who now decided thai there might be a chance -to break i&to the mining business at. their own proper risk and for their -own private account. When Seagrue called them from the discussion of their ambitious project, he gave or ders to Bill to drive back to Las Vegas. Reaching the station he took the train i for the city. With their boss out of the way, hlsu . two worthies thought the moment op portune for their own plans and tak ing the machine they started back for the mine. , Wagons convoyed by two guard . carrying sawed-off shotguns had been loaded at the mine with the valuable quartz ere. They had reached. Valley - and while the teamsters were loading the sacks into the box car the two ' guards found a shady spot under the car door. The wagon had boen under surveil lance for some time by the Seagrue crooks, Bill and Lug, who were secrerV-t ed a mile away in the bed of a wash' ash.vJ The two waited patiently until .the- ' wagon had been unloaded and started back to the mine. Then scouting their way cautiously down' the siding, tho thieves, creeping under the farther side of the box car, surprised the-" guards, disarmed and bound them. Having done this without loss of time, they went to work loading the last of the quartz into tho car. But tho guards, though taken un awares, proved no fools.' One of them, working quickly and quietly with his bonds, got his hands partly loose; in the next moment he had freed his feet Without betraying himself, he rolled close to his companion a fat min -bade him turn to him back to back, and was releasing him when a shout from Bill warned him he had been, seen. There was bo time for hesitation.- t I
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