The tenderfoots

THE TENDERFOOTS MELLOWING MONEY THE FIGHT ON THE STANDING STONE PIRATES’ HOPE THE FIRE BRINGERS THE GIRL, A HORSE, AND A DOG THE WRECKERS DAVID VALLORY BRANDED STRANDED IN ARCAD...

“Oh, I think we can manage, thank you; there are so many of us to carry things,” the young woman replied. “Besides, we’ll have to take a carriage--on the Captain’s account.”

“Oh, Mr. Trask--is it you?” she exclaimed, as the dim lamplight filtering through the canvas enabled her to recognize him. “This is kind of you, I’m sure. We’ve been wondering i...

“I wish I knew, Harry,” was the sober reply. “If the thing turns out to be as good as it looks, we’ve got the world by the tail--or we would have if we could only figure out som...

“Well,” Philip yielded reluctantly. Then: “Late in the season as it is, there will be a frantic rush for our valley as soon as the news of the ‘Little Jean’ discovery leaks out....

For the first half-mile or so through the windings of the gulch they were able to hide their tracks in the brook bed, but the farther they went, the rougher the way became, unti...

“I can beat that all holler, if you’ll say the word. I sort o’ like your looks--liked ’em last spring when I chucked yuh in the seat with the li’l’ black-eyed gal. Yuh say yo’re...

“Ne’m mind; hit done the business, all the same.” A pause, and then: “I took a li’l’ squint at yer strike afore I clim up here. You two boys’ve sure had a chunk o’ tenderfoot lu...

“‘Touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless’,” he quoted sardonically. “That’s you, Philip. It’s a gruesome thing to have lived such a truly good life oneself th...

Drew smiled. “Any old miner will tell you that the gold is where you find it, and not anywhere else. Fortunately for all of us, the ‘Little Jean’ is rich enough to warrant the b...

With the new opera house still figuring as an unfinished building, the only legitimate theater was a remodeled billiard hall in Sixteenth Street; and on this particular evening...

“Mummie isn’t at all well; she has never been very strong, you know. And Mysie and Mary Louise are in school. We are keeping house, after a fashion.” This was the brief reply hi...

“Their reactions to the ‘wild and woolly’ are delightful to behold,” Bromley told Philip that night at dinner. “The judge and Lucy Ann take things as they are; but Mrs. Aurelia...

“A name is nothing unless you make it something--but we won’t argue about that. You say you want me to go back to New Hampshire and set things right. It hasn’t occurred to you t...

“Nothing like that. The mine is all right. The values are increasing, as your next dividend will show. I wanted to talk to you about Trask. Do you know where he is?”

“No,” was the sober denial, made with no touch of resentment. “You must give the devil his due, Harry. It wasn’t altogether as rotten as that, though maybe it did lean a little...

“Oh, I run across him here and there--in places that I didn’t think he’d consent to be found dead in. You see, I knew him when he was with the narrow-gauge a year ago, before he...

“Cut it out? I can’t--not in my business. I’ll give you a sample. With the Tabor Opera House about to open, theatrical companies are beginning to book the circuit--Denver, the S...

“Poor little lost soul!” he muttered, as he turned his steps toward the better-lighted cross street. “Reddick didn’t strain the truth when he said she had heroine stuff in her....

“I don’t get enough; they’re only paying me seventy-five a month. I lost the money here, and I _had_ to come and try to get it back. The travelling auditor will be at the office...

“Of course. Harry is incapable of disloyalty. What I am afraid of is that he was too loyal; that he hasn’t stood the thing upon its rightful feet. It wasn’t the finding of my fa...