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"So this is the spot," he mused; "and it has never been touched in these ten years. Poor old daddy, poor old daddy!" He leaned heavily against the log door, and his thoughts came thick and fast, only to conclude, as they always did, with, "Where is Tad Kieser and why does my uncle try to keep me away from this spot?"
In the center of the next volume, for there had been many claims located and recorded on the little stream, they found the record of a property belonging to Willis's father and a Mr. Kieser. The record showed the date of its refiling, after the country had become a part of the Pike's Peak Forest Reserve. The survey lines were given, but of course they could not be located on the map.
And I'm sure that if he knew I was here, he'd come to help me." Old Ben came to the rescue. "Boy, Tad would do anything in the great, wide world fer ye. He's talked about ye every tarnal day since he first seen ye, an' they ain't been nothin' in his mind since, except yer welfare. Ye are a tarnal lucky feller to have such a friend." "Saw me?" questioned Willis. "Tad Kieser saw me?"
There are more ways than one to skin a cat." "But how?" inquired Willis. "Well, the first thing to do is to get the exact location of the cabin, then go to the county recorder's office and see to whom the property belongs. If it ever belonged to your father, as you are now disposed to believe " "Yes, I'd bet my hat, Mr. Allen, that this is the very cabin that my father and Tad Kieser built.
"And what about his mine, mother; doesn't that come into the story pretty soon?" "Yes, yes, but don't hurry me, son. It seems so very strange to be sitting here telling you all about him, for it seems to have happened so long, long ago. "On one of his trips west he fell in with an old mountaineer named Kieser, Tad Kieser.
The stranger lifted his hand for silence, and then continued: "And do you remember you asked me if I had ever known a young engineer that used to be in these parts, and I said, 'Yes; then you asked me if I knew a Tad Kieser that used to be a partner of his, and I told you I did?" "Yes, yes, I remember all that," interrupted Willis; "but what has that to do with this mine?"
These two modes of explaining the phenomena present, I know, great difficulties; the latter especially. However, the pantheistical solution of the Hegelian school adopted by Kieser, Kluge, Wirth, Hoffman, pleases me still less. I even prefer that of Jung-Stilling and Kerner but at all events one thing is certain, the facts are there; only ignorance, stupidity, and obstinacy can deny them.
Surely he would not dare to be crooked in such a thing as that." "If you could locate Mr. Kieser, he probably could tell you some things," slowly added Mr. Allen. "Well, there is one thing sure: 'Murder will out, and with the suspicion I now have, I'll keep quiet, keep my eyes open, and see what I can learn.
Medical science also progressed, notwithstanding the number of contradictory and extravagant theories. The medical practitioners of Germany took precedence throughout Europe. Animal magnetism was practiced by Eschenmaier, Kieser, and Justin Kerner, by means of whose female seer, von Prevorst, the seeing of visions and the belief in ghosts were once more brought forward.
Tad Kieser stood watching the little group as they climbed up the winding trail, then he slowly returned to his chopping. "Shoot me for a pole-cat, as Dad would say," he remarked half-aloud, as he spat on his hands and raised the heavy ax over his head. "He's the very spit'n image of Bill, now that's dead sure, and there's one thing more that's certain."
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