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Only a few days before he had sent a bundle of Mukton certificates to the transfer office of the company. Then a chill struck him full in the chest and he shivered to his finger-tips. Had Ruth heard? and if she had heard, would she understand? In his talk he had given her his true self his standards of honor his beliefs in what was true and worth having.
I'm talking of some scoundrels of your name Breen & Co., the firm is who, I hear, have cheated one of my clients young Gilbert fine fellow just married persuaded him to buy some gold stock Mukton Lode, I think they called it and robbed him of all he has. He must stop on his house I hear. And now, my dear Miss " here he turned to the young girl "I really forget " "Ruth," she answered with a smile.
He told how the "tailings" at Mukton City had panned out 30 per cent, to the ton with two hundred thousand tons in the dump thrown away until the new smelter was started and they could get rid of the sulphides; of what Aetna Cobb's Crest had done and Beals Hollow and Morgan Creek all on the same ridge, and was about launching out on the future value of Mukton Lode when Mason broke the silence by asking if any one present had heard of a mine somewhere in Nevada which an Englishman had bought and which had panned out $1,200 to the ton the first week and not a cent to the square mile ever afterward?
Tonight, he suddenly remembered, was the night of the dinner his uncle was to give to some business friends "A Gold-Mine Dinner," his aunt had called it. His cheeks flamed again when he thought that these very men had helped in the Mukton swindle.
"Neither! And I want to tell you, sir, too, that I won't be pointed out as having anything to do with such a swindling concern as the Mukton Lode Company. You've stopped the work on Gilbert's house Mr., Morris told me so you've " The older man sprang from his seat and lunged toward the boy. "Stop it!" he cried. "Now quick!"
What the hell is it your business who I invite to dinner and what do you know about Mukton Lode? Now you go to bed, and damn quick, too! Parkins, put out the lights!" And so ended the great crusade with our knight unhorsed and floundering in the dust.
"You were up there with MacFarlane, weren't you? when he went to look over the ground of the Maryland Mining Company where he is to cut the horizontal shaft?" Jack nodded. "So I heard. Well, it may interest you to learn that some of our Mukton people own the property. It was I who sent MacFarlane up, really, although he may not know it."
The second Mukton Lode scoop, the one so deftly handled the night of Arthur Breen's dinner to the directors, had somehow struck a snag in the scooping with the result that most of the "scoopings" had been spilled over the edge there to be gathered up by the gamins of the Street, instead of being hived in the strong boxes of the scoopers.
Don't forget poor Charlie Gilbert; he's been clerking it ever since, I hear." "No, a big warehouse company; I'll get the buildings later on. That Mukton Lode deal was a clear skin game, Jack, if it is your uncle, and A. B. & Co. got paid up for it downtown and uptown. You ought to hear the boys at the Magnolia talk about it.
The talk now caromed from birds, reptiles and fish to guns and tackles, and then to the sportsmen who used them, and then to the millionaires who owned the largest shares in the ducking clubs, and so on to the stock of the same, and finally to the one subject of the evening the one uppermost in everybody's thoughts which so far had not been touched upon the Mukton Lode.
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