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Impossible 1" And they went away again with bitter words. It was Mount Horeb repeated on a large scale. But the assayers, the men of learn ing. persisted and in their little mor tars brayed the ore and in tiny porta ble furnaces smelted for many a stur miner minute buttons of "shining metal. The gold was there, and at last even the most skeptical believed. Then the Inflow began in earnest. The trail was beaten smooth by swarming feet. It became a stage road. A great railroad sent survey ors toiling up each of the deep and winding canyons In the attempt to reach the mighty camp whose fame Was beginning to shine throughout the world. The beautiful grassy bills were blotched with eruptions of red earth. Paths appeared leading from burrow to burrow like runways in a town of prairie dogs. The main street of BOZ1«L was 10,000 feet above the sea, but at last, on the top of Pine mountain, a vein of ore running $2,000 to the ton was discov ered, and another town arose—full 11 000 feet above sea level—the highest town in all America, and this became Bt once -celebrate^ above all- others and was called Skytown. In the end Skytown dominated the whole camp and gave name to it. Bo zle, Grass Mountain, Pin Gulch, Hoff man all were subordinate in fame as they were topographically, and the pressalluded tothe-region as the Sky town mining district in tboee days the barroom of the Mountain House in Bozle was the cen tral stock exchange of theWiole camp. It swarmed -of an evening with bnsl nessr-men from Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Francis CO aWl New York. Every great news paper'had ".'Its: representative there, alert -and Indefatigable,, seeking the latest w6r(Hf strikes and sales. Atvthe time.when Raymond entered It fil&towirwas ,tbe busiest, most vital and In some ways the- most pictur I eaque mining district In the world. It was at its height as a poor man's camp. New territory was being open I edup each day. Each evening brought stories of strikes—scores of them. The streets of Bozle were graceless and grassless, but Valley Springs was a bower of "trees and growing vines. The houses of the peak were tents, slab shacks and cabins of aspen poles, and remained so, while splendid stone pal aces had already appeared In tjie val ley, and every comfort and nearly ev ery luxury.of the east was obtainable, almost common. ... Skytown was the cupola of Sky camp. It surveyed the whole field, dominated only by the glittering crest of Mogalyon, which rose nearly 4,000 feet higher Into the thin and feckless air. Bozle and Hoffman and Indian Creek and Ifiureka and a half dozen other villages ,lay below. This was the town, the eamp toward, which -Raymond had been gazing in longing and hxesolution for two years and to which he directed his steps as soon as. he. Vas able to walk with something of his ojd time vigor. For a week be did northing but stroll lowly up and down the streets of Bo sle, studying his surroundings, listen ing .to an that Was said and asking searching questions of every man who seeded toknow anything of mining matters, The altitude at first troubled him greatly, but he ate well anil slept well, drid day by day his strength and native resolution expanded within him, and he began to definitely seek a place whereon to try his bands at labor. One night as he sat toasting his shins, before the big fire In the hotel he be came immensely interested in the grand physical proportiomrand easy, unstud ied grace, of a- middle aged miner who stood with his back to the fire replying to ,the rapid questions of a young re whose head was bent absorbedly above his notebook and pencil. The HAMLIN GARLAND 1 90 5, (Continued.) Valley Springs was becoming known as a pleasant health resort, andthe wa ters of its springs were being bottled and shipped to the eastern cities. Each year a larger number of stricken ones came to find respite, if not recovery, in its gloriously bright sunlight and pnre air. For years it remained a village atod its business men merely shopkeep ers and resident ranch owners, but as its fame spread families of wealth and social position in the east began to set tle along the bank of the Bear and to build homes into which the sunlight streamed with healing magic, and the men of these families began to look about for business and for Investment, and not a few of them- were In the mood to listen when rough bearded men began to plod down the trail from Bozle Creek bringing sacks of promis ing ore. A A N A I N prospector satisfied every requisite of a mountaineer. His massive head, cov ered with grizzled hair his handsome, weather beaten,.smiling face his worn laced boots, spattered with mud his rusty brown Jacket and his broad ..hat. worn with careless yet unfailing grace, made him easily the most picturesque figure in the room, and when some one clapped him. on the back and called out, "Hello, Kelly!" Raymond realized, with a pleasant warming of the heart, that he was looking upon Rocky Moun tain Kelly, who knew the ranges of the west as Intimately as the lines on the palm of his band. Seeking opportunity, he touched the big man on the shoulder. "Are you Matthew Kelly?" Kelly turned bis keen gray eyes on his questioner. "I am, sir. What can I do for ye?" "I've heard you're a good natured man," began Raymond. Kelly slid hi&.hand into his pocket "How much is it?" Raymond laughed. "Do I look like that?" "You look like a sick man," replied Kelly, scrutinizing him. "And a hun gry man." "I'm neither," Raymond smilingly re plied. "I've just- eaten the supper they serve here, and I'm fairly com fortable, but I want to ask your ad vice about a business matter. If you had a little money and wanted to break into mining, what would you do?" ."Take out a lease," answered Kelly promptly. "Do you. know of a .promising prop erty to lease?" "I do." "Will you show "it to me?" "I will." Raymond was amused by the. crisp luccinctness of these replies. It was plain that the prospector was sizing him up, and favorably. Kelly indicated a cliair. "Sit down, man ye look like a citizen with a lung faded. Where are ye from?" "I'm a rancher from the plains." "And ye want to mine?" "Yes." "It's niniety-nine chances to one ye losfe y'r wad." "I know it." "Have yea wife?' "I have not." "Any one dependin' on ye?" "No one." Kelly relaxed, and his eyes began to gleam friendiily. "Very well, then, consent to rob ye. I'm the owner of one mine into which I've put me last dollar, but I know a dandy proposition which I'd like to display. I'll take ye with me over the hills when ye're a lit tle better acquainted with me, and when ye've seen the mine we'll talk the terms of partnership. The bankers all know me, and the faro dealers likewise, the more shame to me." A smile of sin gular charm curved his handsome lips. "But never mind that. Matt Kelly nev er tuck advantage of any man, and that, I think, ye'll find me° neighbors agreed upon. I'll not say I like the looks of ye—that would sound like blarney—the truth bein* I'm seekin' partner, but in a day or two I'll lay me scheme before ye." Putting aside business, they talked'o:' their personal affairs, Raymond guard' edly, Kelly with entire freedom and some .humor. Kelly was married and bad two little boys, for whom be was now living. "Since Nora came," he said, with tenderness, "I drink no more, but gambling is in me blood. Raymond's blood Wiped with thefoy of play no more with cards or dice, hut with lodes and shafts. I'm always tak lug on new chances. I load meself up with 'good things' till me back is broke and me hands fall empty." There was something winning In the humorous glance of his big, gray eyes, and Raymond sat with him long. His «au mnd vast experience^hjs Indomitable good nature, his pfiyslciiifl prlffe, aff'appealeS to the rancher wlfti sudh pbwer that he left him with a distinct eiit<atlon. "Here is the man to help me make my fortune, and I can be guide to him,'* be added, and he went to sleep that night with greater confidence In :,his future than at any time since taking Barnett's ranch. He set his tgeth har^, in the determination to win, and though be had put Ann quite out of his plans for the future, she remained ffn inspira tion and a lure. His feeling of confidence in Kelly was deepened by his ride with him next day. Turning from the gulch road, Kelly led the way up the side of Pine moun tain, along a trail which braided itself 4^ upon a grassy slopev like a purple brown ribbon. The air was keen, the sky a fieckless blue hemisphere. Ray* mond's blood leaped with the joy of It and with a sense that his feet were set ,1: at last on the road to fortune. All about him the miners were climb* ing, each his special way, swinging a tin bucket which sparkled like glass in 4^ the morning sun. Great wains loaded with ore rolled creaking on their down ward course, while others of their kind, piled high with lumber and machinery, crawled slowly up the curving .roads. On every side men were tunneling into the hillsides, trenching in gullies and toiling at windlasses whose joints cried out resoundingly as the heavy ore boxes rose'. The whole scene set forth buoyant activity and hope. Bach •man had either struck ore or hoped to do so at any moment. Here and there on the slope a tall and shapeless' sha^t house rose, with heaps of orange and blue gray refuse rock close beside it. The whole camp was as yet disorganized, formless and debatable. Not one in a hundred of the mines was a paying property -all the others were mere prospects. As they left Baldy and turned to cjlmb Pine mountain the dwellings thickened. They were nearly all built of the smooth, straight trunks of the aspen, but nearer the summit were of fir, and a few of them stood In pictur esque nooks amid the rocks. Toward one of these, more homelike than the others, Kelly directed his horse, and as he neared the door a couple of lusty, yellow haired boys of six or seven years of age came bounding out to meet him. Mrs. Kelly was unexpectedly lady like, small and very pretty, with a skin that no wind could tan, and her great, wistful, pathetic eyes appealed to-Ray mond with instant power. She greeted him cordially, and, while Kelly took the horses- to the corral, he entered at her invitation. Her voice was as charming as her pale face and hair of burnished gold, and^the young fellow looked upon her in surprise. "You don't look very well, sir," Mrs. Kelly said to Raymond. "I'm not very well, but I'm going to tear up the sod just the same. Your husband Is to show me bow." "Matt-can find gold easy enough, but" he can't" keep it." "I've confessed as much, Nora, me girl, and if Raymond can help me on that score I'll put him in the way of makin' his pile. Can ye walk a few. rods? If so, I'll show ye the mine andb the chance." "Certainly. I'm far from being 'one lunger' yet." The two men walked round the little grove of firs to the west and came up on some men busy with a very smalt: Upright engine hoisting ore from a shaft "Here," said Kelly, "is where, we? tap 'the rlVer of life.' This is my own mine, but the wan I advise ye to take is that just beyond. I have an offer for me own prospect, but I shall not take It leasp tli If ye are agreeable, we'll the Last Dollar together and. work It to the limit, for I'm satisfied its vein is the same as me own, which will keep but if.I strike ore, Curran, .Who owns -the Last Dollar, will jump his price to the moon. Our lay Is to bond and lease his mine, move my ma chinery over to his old shaft and work like mad to open up ore to buy In the property. Ye see, no one has touched pay ore In this quarter, and Curran Is anxious to sell. He offers it at $15,000. believe we can open a vein that'll pay fer It in less than six months. Will ye go in with me?" "I will." As their bands met their hearts warmed to each other. Kelly removed his hat and was almost solemn as he said slowly: "Tills makes us both. Now let's go eat." The Keliy home was as suited to its surroundings as a Swiss chalet. It had the dirt roof, the widely project ing eaves and the southern porch of a mountain cabin, and its latchstrlng and battened door were in keeping only the windows, with their machine made frames, were out of key. There were two small bedrooms, a living room, whlah served also for dining room, and a tiny kitchen, and yet it produced on Raymond's mind, the most charming effect of unhesitating hospitality and homeliness. This, was due as much to the charm of Mrs. Kel ly's manner as to the deep voiced, cor dial invitation of the host himself. There was no lock On their door and no bar to their warm hearts. But Raymond saw what Matt's lov ing eyes could not discern—Nora was overworked and losing heart In spite of her ready smile and cordial second ing of her husband's invitation, "Ye must make your home with us," «he was not strong enough to take on this extra care, and he resolved to stay in' Bozle till he could build a cabin for himself. (To be Continued.) Do You Know How It Is? To a woman there is a sense satisfaction In knowing her ne excited a feeling of envy. 1 has :V 4" (y• 31- s:ii5rv