HKK CMEW'S REEF. but I distrust him. It's a case of Dr. steepest part, 3aid, "There's the reef, visits to Annie and engage miners for reef," said one of the men, viciously. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. Fell, I suppose." Mr. Carew, and a better you won't the work, and then he rushed out to "No hope of that," answered "an- "I have no reason to doubt him," ,& nm%? find in South Africa." Dick gazed at the "Moonlight," to take up bis abode other. said Dick, thouentiully, "He is not a the hill with all his might, his heart there while superintending the putting "He's cleared for Guam by this A Sftoiy of Mining Experiences in A Methodist tabernacle in the central drawing-room man, perhaps, and I beating with hope and anxiety. in of the drive. He built himself a time, you may be sure." South Africa. part of the city of Los Angeles, don't suppose he has highly honorable There, sure enough, was the reef, a sod and grass house, orrather hut. on By the evening of the next day Dick CHAPTER I. Cal., is to be built at a cost of $50,- notions but you can't choose mass of rock running along the ridge the hill above the reef, not choosing was nearing Barberton. It was all The after noon sun was shining with 000. It will lurnish seating dpacitv your tools in these parts. He knows of the precipice apparently from four to live near the river where over, and he had nothing to do but Uffcs might on the town of Barber*wi, a great deal about cold-digging, and I for 2,500. to five feet in width. He gazed on it Floyd's camp had been pitched, for to- repoi't his failure to hk shall try to make it worth his while with lover like devotion. That mass making its iron roofs twinkle our hero had more than a bowing acquaintance friends. Ruin stared him in the There are more than 500 Baptists to run straight." Annie again implored of rock meant everything to him and with African fevers, and face, yet he dared not give way to throttgh the haze in which they were churches in Bnrmah, with overJSS,000 li?e anew him to be careful, and just Annie at that moment. knew the unhealthiness of the lands. his despair. He must begin Enveloped. At this hour nature cravat communicants. ^1$ then Mrs. Moore came in and the conversation "What are you doing?" he exclaimed Early and late he was at his work, without a farthing, and hindered by d a siesta so imperatively that none became general. Shortly in some alarm as he saw Floyd overlooking every operation and encouraging The missionary work of the Religious his debt to his friend, for that money after Dick took his leave and went coolly begin knocking little bits off the $ares to disobey its summons, so his men by his cheertulness lent at his entreaty, he felt bound to Tract society of London is car-' back to his hut to prepare for the precious reef. To Dick it seemed almost and industry. It was hard, dusty, repay. He must release Annie from mining agents, lawyers, merchants, experfes, ried on in 186 different languages. \*-~i morrow's journey. sacrilege. unpleasant toil, in extremes of temperature, her promise now that he saw no sharebrokers and storekeepers 1 "Getting specimen? to crush," answered Seek goodness but let greatness bo" where you were always too chance of marriage before them. How fftosed their business places when the his companion. "Yo on't thrust on you. An itching for greatness hot or shiyerng with cold, exposed he repented of 'his trust in Floyd's CHAPTER n. J' think, Mr. Carew, that I should expect jm was highest, and retired either to to blazing sun, to bitter frost, to dust will breed a moral cancer that plausible story and how useless repentance The sun, which in northern latitudes you to take over these claims laden winds, or tremendous thunder (Iteir residences on the hill sides, or was! Yet he spent the weary will eat out all goodness in the soul. sinks to rest veiled in soft clouds without showing you good proof of storms. The life, too, was solitary hours of his journey in nothing else. and evening mists, here in the African stewed themselves in their wood and True popularity is not popularity their value." and uncongenial. He had no companions It was nearly dark when he reached Highlands shot suddenly behind a won bouses hi the town. Even the which is followed after, but the popularity "No. of course not," replied Dick, but the rough miners and the outskirts of the town, and he mountain, a fiery red ball to the last, which follows after.Lord momerous canteens were silent, and "and I don't mean to act without advice Kafirs working under him. He would hardly knew whether he should welcome and glaring in the clear, bright sky. Mansfield. in this matter either." He was not waste his time by going to Barberton, Jye #he children's voices were hushed. or shun the sight of his fellow Day was over, and night drew her a little hurt at the idea that Floyd and for all news of Annie had men. The matter soon decided itself. dark mantle round her with startling For two r three hours Barberton The pious man and the atheist always took him for a greenhorn. to content himself with her weekly Coming from the house he saw several rapidity. The great table-topped talk of religion the one speaks was almost like a city of the dead. A The othei made no answer but bent letters, which were always so cheerful flickering lights which bobbed along in mountains, which a few minutes before of what he loves, and the other of &t, dusty, murky, and exceedingly down to knock off another bit of and full of simple trust and love. his direction. When they came near shone in the intense heat of the afternoon, what he fears.Montesquieu. stone, and then came to show his collection How they made him long for a 4frty Campo Santo. he saw that they were "Barberton now stood mere outlines against to Dick. To that young man glimpse of herl Yet he was not unhappy The Churchman says of the proposed lanterns," carried by seven or eight the deep violet tinted sky. Scarcely Just as the first signs of returning they were morsels of 6tone and nothing as each hot, toilsome day men who were eoing to town. The a star was visible to give even a Evangelical Conference in Washington, life began in the town below, a young more. Floyd smiled and put them came to an end he reflected that he ignorant reader may ask what Barbarton glimpse of light. With the last gleam "The Conference looks to man eame out from a hut perched into a bag was one day nearer his happiness, one lanterns are. They are simply of sunshine the earth began to exhale Christian union, and not to Christian day nearer the joyful moment when "Everyone of those bits will pros- featf-way up a steep hillside, and sat constructed and indeed are not unknown the heat absorbed during the day, unity. But after all the one mav he could go to Annie and tell her that pect," he said, "as I well show you in more civilized regions the and a chilly, damp feeling succeeded 4wn o a stone to smoke his pipe really lead to the other. A great obstacle drudgery and anxiety were over for when we return to the camp. Now bottom knocked off a bottle, a piece the parched dryness which had lasted before plunging into the streets beneath to unity is in the want of acquaintanceship her, and that henceforth she should let me tell you how a man ought to of candle is fitted into the neck which as long as the sun was above the horizon. kirn. Dick Carew was a tall, among denominational do as she would, her life was before set to work to develop this reef." In also serves for a handle, and the thing Night had come, and she came Christians. Working together will her, and he only longed to gratify her a very lucid manner he pointed out Active vug fellow, who had just is done. The light-bearers were nearly with the swiftness of death. Dick Carew every wish. These hopes and tend to thinking together, believing to his companion that by goin^ down all friends of Dick, and as they had walked all day from Barberton 4otne to the Fields to try his luck. He visions kept him through that long the side oi the hill about 150 feet He together. Unity of iaith may be hastened walked together he told them of his hopina to reach Floyd's camp befoie ^as ait Afrikander by birth, and period when it seemed as "if their labor could put in a drive at a trifling cost "#5 throufih unity of work." misfortunes, with which they deeply dark but the heat had been oppressive Ihiew his country well. He had been only became more and more difficult. which would strike the reef at a depth sympathized. and the way was difficult There is nothing so delightful as the 4t' It was no easy task, tunnelling into among the vineyards of the Cape, and of 100 feet, and thus show its value even to one so accustomed to toughing "Who put you on to that reef?" hearing and speaking of the truth. that stiff, unyielding material,and the at that spot. Dick listened with all 4&e sngareaaes of Natal, had tracked it as Dick. Road there was none. asked Charlie Ross, a lively young work which had appeared so light, his ears, he know something of earth For the reason there is no conversation The slight track which he followed led $irogh the republics, and had shot mining expert. when Floyd spoke of it, proved very work and he could get plenty of Kaffir so agreeable as that of the man up and down these steep mountains "Jim Floyd, do you know where Ipgganie the interior. A vigorous, heavy as they proceeded with it. It labor if he chose to undertake the with the directness, and contempt for of integrity who hears without any he is?" inquired Dick breathlessly. f&irviag life his had bc~n. full of ad^Bobuies required three tries to get to the reef, work. When the explanation was convenience of an old Roman way, incention to betray, and speaks withojt If he could only catch him! and much time and patience were expended ended they returned to the camp, awl dangers, bul so far not and was moreover liberally garnished any intention to deceive.Plato. "No, my dear fellow, I wish I did," over it, but at last they reached where Dick for the first time saw the with boulders. He was still some few tifecKtaefctve of much money. This answered Charlie. "The claims that it. They struck the reef at a depth whole mysterious process of crushing The true hero is the great, wise man miles from his destination when the man has salted defy belief. I'll just ^as the ftrst time he had come gold of a hundred feet from the top, exactly and panning the gold. He felt hot all of dutyhe whose soul is armed by sun set and plunged the scene in darkness. tell you how he did you"there Charlie Hitherto he had want*bfe as Floyd had advised them to do. over as the process went on,and envied The moon had not yet risen, truth and supported by the smile of paused to throw his lantern at a Floyd his cool, business like manner HSfcfcle in his free life, but now and Dick knew enough of this country Godhe who meets life's perils with a Dick had very little rest that night, dog which was barking at him from a even when the affair was over, and to realize the risks in stumbling over was anxious to bring his Wander he was too excited to sleep. The experiment cautious but tranquil spirit, gathers eanleen, then he continued: "When real gold was seen in every pan, in those huge stones in the gloom. "Full of its worth at that depth 7e bo a dose. He had fallen in love, he crushed your bits of stone he had strength by facing its storms, and some cases nearly all round the pan, moon to-night, but she won't rise for was to be made ac sunrise,and he was in his pockets some pieces of good dies, if he is called to die. as a Christian Sr* wfeh a a girl who was now penniJs4 glittering and gleaming, the prospector an hour yet," he soliloquized, and so full of hope, he anticipated so rich gold quartz, and he took care that victor at the post of duty. never lost his head or his calm easy te*e a year ago he had gone to then, like a sensible youth, he sat a reward for his trouble that his happiness they went into the pan when you smile, and did not even throw his hat down on the flattest stone he could Doubtless the memory of each one seemed to stifle him. If the result were looking at something else. I spiefcfcy town el Pretoria, and had out of the tent door, as Dick did in a find, pulled out his pipe and a bag of of us will furnish the picture of some of the panning showed very good don't doubt about his surprise at the transport of joy. nset sweet Annie Fielder, the boer tobacco and began to smoke and member of a family whose very presence prospects, he would be off to Barberton result that's Floyd's way. That 4&ttghtec of a prosperous merchant. to think of his sweet Annie and the "Hurrah!" he exclaimed excitedly. the next day. He had no doubt of seemed to shed happiness a quiet smile and take-it-or-leave-it pretty home to which he hoped to "I say, Floyd, that's glorious. I'll its prospecting well, but if the result Mb ftcsfe aH went weH. Annie return- daughter, perhaps, whose light step kind of manner are his stock in trade, take her some day. It was a strange, go back to Barberton this very day should be another such a prospect as and they've helped him no end. The even in the distance irradiated every tfcinglore,theirdunione & Ms an her father gave his At th a weird scene in which to think of domestic shown1 and ask Moore what he thinks about Floyd's best pan had fortune that man has made, or ought one's countenance. What was the secret tisent to and talked of joys and cheerful everyday life. my taking this." first streak of dawn he rushed out of farm for th young couple to have made, if he didn't fool it of such an one's power. What^ a The thick, soft darkness seemed to Mr. Floyd looked grave and shook his hut and called up his men to begin away in drink! But don't hope to had she done? Absolutely nothing tgbinh Bick could stock. Then troub3 press around him like a palpable substance, his head. "Moore has gone on business the important task. nab him, old boy," added Charlie affectionately, but radiant smiles, beaming good Mr. Fielder met with seriOjujS'tosses a gentle sound of running water to the Rand, and won't be back "he's cleared. Barberton Some hours later on, that same humor, the tact of doing what everyone in his business, he tried to smote on his ear, but he could see for some months," he said. "Didn't was getting too hot." His friend's day, Dick stood among his miners wanted, told that she had gotten nothing of the landscape save the tall, at&sieve his fortunes by speculating you know that?" sympathy was soothing to poor Dick, wondering vaguely if the sun had out of self and learned to think for square mountain outlines like an army an. gold shares, but in vain, and with and so was the return to a social Yes he did. Dick rememb?red now ceased shining, and if he were others so that, at one time, it showed of giants marshal ed to keep guard roia scaring him in the face he died life but it could not help him that Mrs. Moore had spoken of her really in the same world itself in deprecating the quarrel over him. Every now and then an owl Sftddealy, leaving his wife and daughter, over his interview with Annie, hu&band's recent depaiture, but he as he had been yesterday. Before came suddenly towards him out of which lowered brows and raised tones wifeh scarcely anything to live on, or his explanation to his tormer had been too full of other things to attend. him lay the results of their experiments the gloom and perched on a stone by already showed to be impending by for even his wife's money had been invested adviser, Mr. Moore, who had returned I was a nuisance for Moore to on the stone taken from the bottom his side for a moment.then wheeled off sweet words at another, by smoothing in shares which were now declaredfcbe to Barberton. Before seeing go away just as he was wanted, but of the reef. It had been crushed and again with its melancholy hooting or an invalid's pillow at another, by utterly worthless. Annie these two, however, Dick made inquiries "Never mind, I'll write to him," heexclaimed. panned by one of his men who a jackal slunk silently along half hidden humorine and softening a father who after Floyd, but found that Charlie *rjas a brave girl and bore herself well thoroughly knew his business. It had amonc the boulders. Dick'snerves had returned weary and ill tempered was correct. The cunning prospector 4 this crisis. She placed her mother "I'll tell him all about the reef and been carefully watched and treated, weregoodandhe was used to spending had deluded so many new arrivals from the irritating cares of business. wtifo some friends, cheered poor Dick get his opinion." and the result so eaaerly looked for nights in the veldt, but even he began at De Kaap that a hurried departure None but she saw those things none hopes of better days, and engag- "When will you get an answer? At wasnil. In technical language not a to feel "creepy," and to wish it would from those scenes had become the end of sK months or so. Mr. but a loving heart could see. That heaiseK as governess to the children "colom" was to be got out of it. As end, when suddenly a silver streak necessary a week before. He had Moore is much too busy to attend to one of the miners remarked, "you a fenend of hers who way going was the secret of her heavenly power. shot like an arrow along the mountain doubtless removed himself to another your affairs ]ust now. No, Mr. Carew, might as well have panned a bar of Barberton. Air. Moore was a -The Rev. Frederick Robertson. side. The moon was above the gold field, and there plies his trade of I must be plain with you. I have had soap." :er there, and was anxious horizon, but a high hill shut her from spider to numerous flies who, like half a dozen fellows around me ever tip have his family with him. Dick, To the men it was a great disappointment. Dick, though the liaht found its way Dick, take a walk into his parlor. As since I let out the other day that I Americans and Changes TKh was very sad and low about it No one likes to dig for between the mountain ranges. It was in soon as possible Dick went" to see Annie, had hit on something good down here. Berlin. all, decided that Barberton would naught.but to Dick the blow was overwhelming. a curious sight. Behind him the choosing the time when she would Every man of them wanted me to put 4f& the best place for him too. Mr. To begin with, it was so country was gradually being flooded Never before have there been so 5 be alone. He found her looking as him on. I don't mind confessing that Jaoore would advise him,and he would unexpected. He had never had a with silver light while he sat in total many AmeicariB here at this season as ^_ bright as a summer's day. and so the result of our little experiment has moment's doubt as to the value of his ^oon make a fortune with his few darkness. He watched it stealing on, now. The University is not yet open pleased to see hiro that at first he been better than I hoped for, if you reef. He had tried not to be too hopeful, fftaadred and be able to give a pretty disclosing the valleys and inequalities and musical work is scarcely begun, could not get in a word about business. can't make up you mind now. Well, I but complete failure he had never is in the hills which the night had Bonie to his Annie and her mother, At length, however, she complained yet already there are more students 1 must tell them. It isn't fair to a contemplated. He thought of Annie hidden, and casting the lonely heights and buoyed tvith these hopes he followed of hie looks. Why was he so in Berlin than during the busiest portion man's chums to keep a thing like this with a sickening feeling of despair, and into deeper shadow. Dick turn"d to the travellers. After his pipe thin and worn, and seemed so sad? of last year. Student, of course, I hanging about, and they might make it he remembered that not only all his the east to watch for the first glimpse -was finished, Dick made up his mind Dick felt that it must all come out. from a large proportion of the American hot tor me if they knew it." own savings were swallowed up in the of the moon, and. lo! in an instant Eba ib was safe to call on Annie. She "I am in great trouble, dear," be faltered, residents, but the old stagers here Dick felt the force of these arguments, affair, but his joyful accounts had induced she was shining straight in his face. most be out of school by this time. "Floyd was a rogue, he cheated tell me that they notice not only a,^y and paused to think. Outside a friend of his to lend him his Joyfully he rose from his seat and Ashe walked down the shimmering me awfully." great increase among the American w* there the sun was shining on that little hoard on the strength of it. He continued his journey. A few hours Street he groaned at the idea of his 6tudents, but beyond this a noticeable black stone which held such radiant "Dear Dick, I am so sorry," said thought on these things, as he gazed passed on, and then Dick began to 'dariing teaching in a stuffy hot room possibilities for him. In front of him Annie taking his hand in hers, she was increase in the number of American at the useless stone before him with feel tired of stumbhne up and down nHiite he was in the open air,and when stood the man who offered them, and humane, though human, and did not families who come over to give the blank look of utter misery. "Never the hill, with no prospect of food or !be reached Mr. Moore's house and was what was he hesitating for? His own remark that she had told him so. the children six months or a year Qt mind, sir," said the eldest of shelter. It was getting late, and by four male and female little eyes had seen the result of their experiment. Then her lover told his pitiful story German and music. Formeily such his men, trying to rouse his master, Floyd's camp seemed farther off than &.' He had seen the stone ores with silent grins of recognition, from the very beginning. He told of families went to Diesden or some *T- whose face, as he afterwards ever. He was just making up his chipped from the block, it had never seemsr his walk to the reef with his happy felt so savage he longed to box smaller city. Now the tide told a friend, "looked like mind to lie down and wait for day been out of his sight during the whole thoughts and hopeful visions, of the tibeir ears aM round. However, he restrained turning toward Berlin, whethdr, 1 a man's would who meant to walk light, when he saw as he reached process, and he had learned enough snare into which he had fallen, of his his evil passions and went into because Berlin has to a certain into theriver by accident." "Don'tyou the crest of a hill a wagon outspanned about gold reefs since coming to toil, his lonely hours when he was andhw extent outgrown its sausage the house, where he found Annie give up Mr. Carew," he continued, in the hollow, a fire near it, and Barberton to be aware that this was sustained by dreams of their future midday dinner, or for some more intellectual AWttisicg him, and quite ready for the perhaps we're too far down let's have some men sitting near. He made for a remarkably good yield. Why happiness, his failure and utter ruin. reason, is not apparent. opsinese Balk he had pi omised to reher. a crush of the stuff that chap tried on them at once,and found that the wagon should he let it slip through his fingers He told it bravely enough, even when Americans, at any rate fill each Sun- i She was a little woman with top. It showed good for him, it ought belonged to a Dutchman traveling to by being over cautious. Fortune he came to the money he had borrowed, day almost to overflowing a goodsized bine eyes and pretty red and white to do the same for us." Barberton. Dick was received by the favors the brave. "I'll take it," he but when he tried to explain that church, support several di&tin-/^ mplexioa so often found among men with that hospitality which rarely The other men joined their voices exclaimed. "I won't wait." he must give her up, and go forth into quished professors of music and have nsvaal maidens, and a happy fails in the desert, and after a supper to his, partly because they wanted to "Very well, Mr. Carew, but are you the world alone, his courage failed him. begun to take almos^ undisputed possession of sausage and rusks, washed aithy nature betrayed itself in her cheer Dick up, whom they greatly respected, in a posltiou to take it over and work He buried his face in his hands to of a number of boarding houses. down by highly sweetened black coffee, and in the manner in which she and also because they did it?" asked Floyd calmly. There was hide the tears he could not suppress, Berlin, too, is trying to live up to he threw himself under the wagon and gittfc aside her lover's condolence on like to be beaten. They were not very no doubt about one thing, thought though he strove with all his might. its new reputation as a city of resi- i slept till sunrise. ffer hard fate. hopeful though. They had looked Dick, Floyd was no greedy speculator Did any woman ever endure the sight dence for foreigners. The number of very crest-fallen, when the experiment anxious to seize on the first chance of of her lover's tears? Annie at least If' new large buildings going up in the An hour's mote walking brought failed, and had exchanged nods and selling his reef. He was cool and could not. She flung herself on her **The children are very good, and Dick to his destination just at the main part of the city is something i winks, which eonveyed a world of slow, and asked a good many questions knees beside him, and kissed his bands foot of a steep hill stood a patrol surprising. With this growth are coming 3fss. Mooxe is all Kindness, and you meaning, among themselves, and had and though quite alive to the as she could not kiss his face. tent, and a shanty of mud and glass. many improvements. For in-- i not to pity me, sir. I like my Mr. Floyd been present he would have value of the property he was parting "Dick, dear Dick, look up. it's all Out of the first came the prospector stance, Unter den Linden is soon to sk and am very happy. Now tell been in some personal danger. They with he was not grasping. At last right, nothing is the matter, really. who welcomed him with a smile and be lighted by more than 100 electric about yourself." were silent as to their suspicions before they settled the matter. Carew was You have been so busy with your own assurance that prospects looked better lamps of 2,000 candle-power Dick, but when he had dismissed on this Sick spoke.- He had to take over the ground from Floyd affairs that I thought I would keep than ever. James Floyd was an each. The increase in land them with a promise to try the upper across a prospector who had on fair terms, and was to spend my little bit of luck back. Do you remember enigma to all men on the Fields who values in the city is even more won- i part of the reef the next day, they discovered a reef some miles from 100 in developing it. If it proved that old 'Princess' reef? They troubled themselves about anything held a little palaver among themselves derful than the number of new build-ings. iroeartoa, which he had reason to good enough he was to float it into a are working it profitably, and Mr. besides canteen shares. He was always by the river, and the word "Salted" One of the numerous anniversaries, eve was very sood and he offered company for 1,000 per claim in Moore has sold mother's claims, and spoken of a "queer fellow," "a might be heard on all sides. which rather crowd each other fee Etiek. He was to go out to-morto shares. "A very good bargain for the sue says we are to have the money. cool customer," "an awfully knowing Poor Dick was glad to get rid of this month, has drawn attention to a inspect the place and if after shareholders, and a safe sum at It isn't a great deal, but you can pay chap, don't you know." He was a them and be alone with his misery. plot of land which sold fifty years ago. testing the reef proved good he which to float a company," said your friend, and we can take a farm tall, thin, sallow-faced man, who His airy castles had come down with for 1500 thalers, or 4500 marks, and Floyd.j old develop it himself, with a view and all be together, and I am so happy fiftj7 might be any age from thirty to such a frightful crash that he still felt which has just been resold, with buildings, "Ana what shall we call it?" asked Dick." floating a company. Annie listento always quiet and not given to brag, giddy and sick at the thought of it. for 4,660,000 marks. Fifty years Carew when the discussion was ended Mr. and Mrs. Carew have a nice little him very attentively, and her yet had the reputation of having done He tried to cheer himself with the hope ago, however, was before Prussia badt and he was preparing to depart. farm not a hundred miles from sbions and remarks showed that many a daring deed. He had evidently of "better luck to-morrow,'' but he was railroads, and when Berlin's population "We must have a name which will Pretoria, and their home is the prettiest had learned something about gold seen much of the world and at times not successful. He could not feel sanguine was a million less then now. Yes-? look well in a share list." in the district. Tbey never say tings and companies lately. She he betrayed an acquaintance with a about it even when he remembered terday, but fifty years ago, was Bignrt Numerous names were mentioned by anything about money matters and iproved of his plans on the whole, very different style of society from his former brilliant experiment. ed the notable order for the cons! rac-^ both men. but were dismissed by Dick people think that Dick's speculations airised great caution, that of the gold diggers with whom he Had Floyd cheated him? It 31 tion of the first Prussian railway, itf* as hackneyed and commonplace. in gold shares tumedont well, because oa don't know how plausible now herded. Yet in dress and manners is very difficult for an honorable man is recorded, too, that the King signed^ Floyd asked slyly if there were no lady's he always says, when asked, that he of these prospectors and brokers he was now in nowise their superior. to believe that another has willingly this order for the Belrin and Pots-I^, name which would be appropriate, was very lucky at Barbeiton but I be," she said. "Of course there are "Well, Floyd," was Dick's answer defrauded him, and no one likes to dam road with relactant impatience^ but his companion scouted the don't think he is aliading to reefs when to bis cheerful account, honest men here like Mr. Moore, confess, even to himself that be- has idea. At last, remembering his walk not seeingas he- told his family?, he says it. "I want breakfast now. As soon tbtit "there are so many black sheep, been gulled. He felt himself in a maze to the reef and his vigil among the what difference it eould make to any* as that is despatched I am ready to it is very difficult for anew comer of suspicion and disappointment, and owls, and jackals, Dick hit on the reasonable person whether St took inspect your claims and I hope we know good from bad. My poor was haunted all night by gold crushers, The assessed valuation of property name "Moonlight." That was at thirty minutes or three hours to reachPotsdam.Correspondence shall beat all the Shebas and Ophirs and by Annie's sorrowful face. ter was considered very shrewd, in Denver for 18S7 is, according to the once decided on, and after Dick bad New YorkHerald. ever heard of from the days of Solo- He was a little better in the morning, arid ye* you see he was deluded into assessment, $35,414,545. In view of drank success to the "Moonlight'Company" mon." and, after taking some needed food, ,pasting mother's money into those the tact that Denver is only thirty in very weak tea, he set oft on r, Floyd told him to wait until he had he and his men set to work. They *l*r-iace8s* shares, and jwe have never his return to Barberton in a very years old and started with nothing, see the reef, and then hegot the breakfast chipped off bits of stone just where it$d a penny from them. Be careful, jubilant frame of mind. except the' little that the pioneers Col. Gtov* Pertm, amfatani surgeon gen* for which Dick was quite ready. Floyd's hammer had struck, they E&k don't trust this prospector too eral and medical director ol the department brought with them in their wagons, it When the meal was over, Floyd led panned, they spent the whole day of Dakota, hascompleted his lortieth, araiek. By the way, who is he?" is evident that somebody has bien the way to the steeo hill in front of over it, but the result was the sane as CHAPTER m. year of service i the United 8tate army,? f*A man named Floyd." answered making money. There has been an the but. On this side it formed a precipice, Dick Carew did not let the grass and retired. Be entered the army from before. Not one grain of gold rewarded "do you know him?" for Annie's and1 average increase of considerably over out of which rock jutted in several Ohio U1847, and Ss ow of the oldest them for their labor. grow under his eager feet. Be only remained had darkened. most meritorious officers, at the medical places. The prospector walked a million dollars per year. The population "I wish I could lay my bands on long enough in Barberton to *$)nly by eight I don't like his corps* straignt up to it and pointing to the of Denver is about 80,000^ that there chap that sold yon this settle his money matters, pay brief JOtiiks at ail," answered Annie. "No, ^vOOn't know anything against him, ^^ffS-^ws^mmfS^^