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AUTHOR. OF "WHISPERING
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Iittle Helen Holim-s, daughter of Gen
eral . Holmes, rullroiul man, ix rescued
from imminent ibutwr on a i nic rail
roiiJ liy" tiBora Btorin, a nevvslmy. llrown
to younir womanhood. Ihlen :i- &nvm,
now a tire man, her father, and las fi lends
S'Sx; u" "iTt o :i7?Ti er, 'trofiJ ;i thn'atened
collibinn. i-al;ebieakera employed by Seu
grue steal (irni ral Holmes' survey plans
of the cut oil' line for th.' Tid w.Uer, fa
tally Round Hie general and s. ape. Itei
"fathgi 'i estate hadly involved by Ids
Cfath, Heh il m s 16 work on tl JJ'li
YjaUr, Jjcj-.p recover? ir? stHT.-y piaM
froni Feayiue, and thoUi,'!i they al'e taken
from in.r, li.e'.s. an aeeidi uially made
proof i,f ihe iil'rvey blueprint, titorm 13
employed by KhinWamler. Spike, be
friende I by Helen, in his turn .saves tier
and the nulii-of way nmtracui v.iien Sea
trruo kidniip.s lei', lti'len and Storm win
for Hi Icelander a raee against ScagruH
for r'lit-of-way. Helen, Utorm ami
Hhinelamier rem-un Spike from rieafrrue's
men. Spike steals reeonls to prole, t
Jlhiue'iandor, and Storm and le len save
Spike from ibaih la the burning romL
honor. Vein in unvi'Ktitii.n n,;ae pimdiei
out. Hi ilgruti Wilis ii and kvU it to l;i.int
lamU r.
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TWELFTH INSTALLMENT
EUHIED ALIVE
Soasrm's f;i'o to Rhim hui'lor of tfts
Superstition initio did not vn throtiRh
as smoothly as lie had expr-cted. Mtct
inrj Rhitielatider at t'-n oi'U n of aji at
torney in I. as Vctuis. the details of
the tranfer were orntrisoil .witbovt
much dil'iieulty. "Rhnielander'B only
caro was to bo sure that the convey
ance rhoi'M Rive him a dear tit So to
tbn va!ua'.o property, and having rat
Is fled himself on this point, tho minor
details were easily arranre l.
While the attorney was embodying
these items in" a supplementary aKree
ment, Rhlnelander wrote out a tele
gram to Helen telliry; her that he was
completing the transfer of the mine
and would come up on No. 8. When
the final draft of the contract had been
made In duplicate, and signed by the
two parties, In due form, Rhlnelander
handed over a second check to Sea
grue, and putting the agreement in his
pocket, left the office.
Seagrue watohed him go with sorao
thlng of relief and a great deal of
satisfaction. The whole scheme he
bad so successfully compassed looked
to him almost too good to be true, and
he had a hearty laugh with the at
torney before thejr left the office to
gether. But, unexpectedly enough, opposi
tion developed In an unlooked-for quar
ter, namely, among minority stock
holders of the mine itself. Rumors
flew thick and fast, and at Oceanside
SeapTue was openly accused of under
banded work In parting with the prop
erty. To afford a Clear understanding
of his position, a meeting of the stock
holders of the mine was called, and
Seagrue, when the time cnm ad
dressed th i gathering in explanation
of the sale.
"I ha", o HTiderFtood." ho bi'Rnn.
"there iiiet horn ;r,v,(. cntit Tl of my
rctio'j in !i-;iv-'';isc of tho Sup.Tst it ion
mine to the Ci,p,ier l:u.i.,o and Tide
water !?( p Sone i,f o-ir stockhold
ers l ave b e;; r.rkin-l enough t'i hint
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Helen Told of the Disaster.
that there was treachery in my part
of the proceedings. I have called this
meeting to explain without any minc
ing of words why I was forced to act
as I did on my own responsibility aad
to act quickly."
He related In detail tho story of the
sudden word received from the mine
foreman announclngthe petering out
of the vein. In niore veiled language,,
but still making hiraseTTjilain enough
to be understood, he disclosed the
thought that had come to him of get
ting the mine ready for sale by salting
it, and of his subsequent success in
unloading the property on RhiHeland
er without serious loss to any of the
shareholders.
In spite of his explanation, protest
was heard almost at once against his
summary action in selling out without,
authority from the directors. Seagrue
met the criticisms firmly, "if I had
stopped to ask the directors for au-
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thority as to what to do, the news of
the failure of our principal vein would
have beeu all over Nevada. It would
have been too late to sell the property
at any price to anybody."
"If the vein could be recovered,
what" difference would that make?"
asked one of the disaffected share
holders. xZ'Z'ZZ T T
"It would make the difference that
you would bo holding the sack instead
ci the other feliow," retorted Seagrue,
bluntly: .I;.;,.-"
The chairiiifctii ohe of the larger mi
nority stockholders, proved one of the
least tractable of the dissatisfied. He
rose to reply, to Seagrue's address.
"You are telling us," he said coldly,
"that you disposed of one of the best
quartz properties in the Superstition
mountains lor a song because your
foreman told you the vein had pinched
out. And you say your expert corrob
orated his statement. Hy what right
did you go ahead in this fashion with
out railing us together to decide
whether we did not waut further ex
pert advice i n the possibility of lo
cating tiie vein?"
"That part c-f tho matter has been
threshed out already," said Seagrue
angrily.
"No, it brf.-.'t." retorted the chair
man. "N'ot to our satisfaction. Where
tho Investment is so large, our inter
ests should have beeu given tho most
caroful coTifiiiteratlon before you dis
posed of Ultra." . 1
"Yru wouldn't have got ten cents
Out cf yorr interests," exclaimed Pea
grue, "if you had tried 'what you now
propose."
"Even that wouldn't have been a se
rious matter," persisted the chairman,
"as compared to what you have done.
None of us here are dependent on
dividends from the Superstition mines
for our bread and butler. We feel, as
business men, that we are entitled to
consideration. You haven't, given us
that. Ry your own , confession, you
have disposed of this property under
false pretenses. You have, by your
conduct toward your competitors, Jus
tified the suspicion that has arisen
among your own associates, Mr. Sea
grue." "I don't wish to make any unfair In
sinuations or to assert what I cannot
prove, but," interposed a second share
holder from the foot of the table, "I
want to call forth your attention and
the attention of every man in this
meeting to the fact that the moment
it is discovered by the Tidewater peo
ple that this mine was salted, we shall
be called on to refund every dollar
of the money paid to us."
"If that is the case," sneered Sea
grue, "I should say you fellows had bet
ter stop talking. Your greatest safe
ty," he added, without murh display
of sympathy for tho uneasy ones, "lies
in keeping your mouths shut."
"It is a rv.atfer cf no moment what-'
pvt." ov.kiro.l the stubborn chair
man. "Iiniv ntnh the thing is dh
ci's.icd. Von know tho men in thiu
roe,;:!, Mr. Pefrriie, v.ell enough to
kr.ow lhat v e shovld r.'l take the ?:
position renaming what you confer
you, .v..rp."!f, have done in this ms.r
tnr. No matter what hap'ietied, v
shou' 1 never" approve sueh proceed
ings.".... -
" i i'ni"s ts'nnd. I don't know what
clrm you ran do,1' said S "a grin?, sul
lenly. "You talk here as if you owned
this in in r. I want you to understand
tint l hold the control of it, and you
will do as I say."
"No." declared one stockholder.
Jumping up, "I won't do any such
thing."
"Then you may do as you wish," re
plied Seagrue, loftily, "but I am
through with the Superstition mine."
The heated discission continued.
Almost everyone in the room took
sides against Seagrue. Finally, at bay
himself, and realizing the trouble the
minority stockholders could put him
to, he made a further conciliatory pro
posal. "As we cannot agree," he said,
"I am willing to buy your shares in
the mine at their par value."
This seemed to pour a little oil upon
the troubled waters. After some fur
ther wrangling, details were actually
arranged then and there for the trans
fer of the minority shares, and the
meeting closed in a better feeling than
It had opened.
At the mine, Helen and George
Storm wero talking together when the
foreman Joined them. Helen- asked
him' about the work.
"If you'll come this way," he sug
gested, "I'll show you exactly where
we're going to drill today."
A messengor handed Helen a dis
patch. It was from Rhlnelander an
nouncing the completion of the trans
fer and advising her he would arrive
on No. 8.
"First, we'll go down and meet Mr.
Rhlnelander," said Storm to the fore
man. "When we come back we'll see
where you're working."
Rhlnelander returned we'l pleased
with the result of his trip.
They walked over to the mine to
gether and entered it. While they
were talking, a man came to Mr.
Rhinelunder, saying that the foreman
had asked to see him. Accompanied
by Helen and Storm, Rhlnelander
walked down the tunnel to where the
men were working.
The foreman turned from his work.
"How are things looking?" demand
ed Rhlnelander.
"Why, to tell -the truth," answered
the man reluctantly, "they are not
looking as good this morning as they
were yesterday."
"What do you mean?"
"We had trouble with this vein once
or twice before' began the foreman,
guardedly, "tut It didn't turn out very
Berjous. This time it looks as If the
vein had pinched out on us. Just
come over this way."
Rhlnelander "stootl as if rooted to
the ground, looking significantly the
while from Helen to Storm. "Helen,"
he said qulzilcalty,' "what does that
sound like 'to' ycii ?'. '- .
Helen looked, at. him evenly. ; "It
sounds," sho.-rcrl!ei. "very tyuch like
Mr'. Karl Sepgr'tte'
; Followed hy .his Mmnanions, Rhine-
lander joined the. foreman. They ex-
aminej tjiroej jtturn and held a
iunic uiMeussioii. uiij, ioi email sug
fieut I railing in an exnert. - .
TW1S'V said Rhinc!an1-r, stubbornly:
"I Just bought, this 'nine on the recom
mendation of an expert; all I want is
a little hard-headed, common sense
here, and I am going to have it. The
best authorities in the mining world
told General Holmes ho had a prop
erty here that would last as long as
these mountains lasted.''
"Hut Sen.rrne must have known all
this," interposed Ihden.
"He thought it time to unload, be
yond a doubt," answered Rhinolander.
"I Wo," ho pxclained. "I know S'a
pr"o l etter than yen do. I know how
frdl h'f head H of 8ehems and a'l
that. Rut I w:. nt tJ te'J you it is a
fart !.; t 'Earl Scir:r"ii in a quitter.
He gives up too quick and s'artu a
new wkome. Now, I am not going to
quit en tho Superstition mine until
I've r atio a thorough investigation cf
this trouble. I am not a miner," he
The Imprircncd
said. sp";.king to the forennn: "I'm
Just a plain, evryl'y railiw.d mm.
Pitt I've hc;:rl that th;,i;:s run he done
even when a vein jiniko? iat.
you get biu-v," ho n-M ti Hid litittui'te
foreman, '.'thd .udl i;ia, i;ow nn..l- heiv.
what's the f rst thi:v to do to try to
pick this vein itp again."
"You mieht pir.k it u;," r-spenilrd
(he foreman, "lor a f on;, if you're
lucky. It nil ('enem's. Yru r-j.r'it
Kpend a million dollars at: 1 never pick
it up."
"Well, we don't have to spend tho
million nil at onee. do we?"
The foreman admitted they did not.
"Very well," continued Rhlnelander,
sharply. "How's the first part of that
money to be spent?"
The foreman scratched his head and
looked up and down the-wall. lie se
lected a place that locked to him like
a possibility. Pointing, he said:
"Cross cut through there and we might
pick up the vein."
Rhlnelander asked further ques
tions; the hard-headed miner seemed
to have, he thought, some good ideas.
"All right," Bald Rhlnelander, at
length, "cross-cut right there, Just
as you say. We'll see how we come
out. If we get beat, we'll try some
thing else."
Under the impetus of new hope, the
work went rapidly forward. Every
man in the mine took courage.' So
long as there, was a possibility of .do.
ing anything they were glad to work
to Bave their own Job3. The crew nt
hand went vigorously ,to work under
the foreman's directions. In a short
time a hole had been primed for a
blast, the fus lighted and the men
rushed out. The explosion followed
and they went back.
Work was proceeding In this fash
Ion when something occurred that
drew Helen's attention. She was look
ing Into the tunnel when she noticed
that one wall near the roof seemed
to be weakening. A large piece of
rock had dropped from It. The men
were called out and Helen, with
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Rhlnelander, Storm p.nd the foreman,
Rent over to examine tho break. All
waited on the old miner for a verdict
ns to the condition of the roof. He
made a pretty careful examination and
seemed satisfied there was no danger.
"That roof," he declared, "will never
cave In."
"If that is so," said RhlnelanV.t .
" and you ought to know, If anylvi
knows send the men back to work' -
Blasting their way into the wall
where the foreman had Indicated, the
men, busied with their work, failed to
notice a gradual weakening of the
tunnel roof. Helen, outside the mine
and occupied with other matters,
heard tho blasting within, but gave
the Eubject no further thought. It was'
not until a moment "following one of
tho heavy explosions that she heard"
a great crash behind her, and,' look
ing back, was horrified to see a mas
of rock crashing through the Foof of
the tunnel. She ran forward in dis
may. The disaster was complete.
Where tho tunnel had opened, a great
cave-in now raised a solid barrier.
Men - on the- outside ran up, whlte-j
faced, to where she stood. Questions'
flow back and forth. A round-up was !
hastily math) to' determine who had!
born caught on the insidf.' Hhlneland
er and Pform wre nowhere ti be;
fciumd they had almost certainly beea
caught wih the rre-y in the tunnel.
' cvrr Vc rfforts were made to.
clear the opening. Men, losing their
heads, rushed hither and thither, ac
complishing nothing and adding to the
panic that possessed everyone at the
tliourht of the tragedy within the
closed tunnel. Ridding a man to stop.
hi,T r.sdecs efforts to tear away the
fallen roc't, she pave him directions
as t,i wh-t to do. "T df phono for doc
tors," she said hurriedly, "while I go,
over to the NrXihor mine for help,"
Fot'i hastened awry. Helen reaching
the rd of the clirt, where the aerial
railway ri l from the mo'itainsido
down to the valley below, stopped. It
woi'.'.d take her fifteen prerions minutes
to run down the trail. Could 'ihe, by
any possibility, ride down the aerial
cable? Xj
She grasped the hook of the frail
aerial carriage and clinging to it with
both hands, pulled the release. Like
on Were Passed Out.
a bird on wing. Helen shot far iff.
fro!i the lnonntaiiiNid'! and dropping!
at a t;h."-p iirr-!r do n the line, sped
8Uf;:ie;:-.!eil between heaven and carta.
At a distance on tho desert, the
Flwy-twrirrrof the Ne'lehfuir mine Avas
lonieg s:oviy r.iong wtien the engineer
saw the f gum ef a woman clinging to
the rorhil rai-iage of the Superstition
minis as it shot through the air down
to the val'oy Breathless, be watched
tho wild flight, expecting every instant
to S"e the slender creature let go, to
fall, crushed, to the rock below her.
Hut Helen did not let go. Hanging
on with a desperation born of the re
alization that she must save tho im
prisoned men, she shot across the dan
gerous declivity from top to bottom
and without mishap, Jumped In safety
to the fi.ot 'of the aeri.il and dashed
away for help. She ran toward the
little railroad, flagged the engine, got
into the cab, and struggling for breath.
apprised the crew of the accident. The
engineer hurriedly started the engine
back to their own mine. Forcing all
the speed that he could get, and with
Helen urging him to spare no effort,
he made the engine bump along over
the Joints as It never had done before.
A dozen times, before they reached
their destination, it seemed as If the
sturdy little machine must turn tur-
Jumping from the cab the momelJ
thG-.fUiay. BtoppedrJIeleu told of the
disaster. Men ran in from all quar
ters, and their foreman an active
fellow gave directions about getting
the sturf they shoulrj need to work
with at the cave-in. With the least
possible loss of time, these neces
saries were assembled and the traH
loaded with men started back. !
In the interval, the news telephoned
to Las Vegas had stirred the town.
At the hospital a motor car was placed
in waiting, and doctors answering the
hurry-up call jumped into the machine
with their emergency bags and head
ed for the mine. One of the surgeons
recalled that Earl Seagrue wai the
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