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Updated: May 25, 2025
All day it had lain there drinking in the sun's rays and now in the evening, when the upper air was cool, it radiated a sweltering heat. Wiley mounted to the summit of wave after wave, fighting his way towards the Gateway to the north; and then, beaten at last and choking with the exertion, he turned and followed a crest.
He put his back to the wall and the burly Jepson took the hint to move further away. "Now," said Wiley, "if we understand each other let's get right down to brass tacks. It's all very well to organize Vigilance Committees for the protection of trusting young ladies, but you know and I know that this is a matter of business, involving the title to a mine.
Why, they showed me that you would make millions by the deal, and all at our expense; and then I don't know, something came over me. We'd been poor so long, and it would make you so rich; and, like a fool, I went and did it." "Well, that's all right," said Wiley. "I forgive you, and all that; but don't let your father know.
He took a chair at the table, he gathered two others for his feet, he tossed his broad-brimmed hat upon a fourth, and told his life's history to his new-found pard. The New Yorker warmed a little, as an apartment-house furnace warms when the strawberry season begins. A waiter who came within hail in an unguarded moment was captured and paroled on an errand to the Doctor Wiley experimental station.
"I don't know what to make of Lise she don't appear to have any principles...." If the Wiley affair lasted longer than those preceding it, this was because former suitors had not commanded automobiles. When Mr. Wiley lost his automobile he lost his luck if it may be called such.
He groaned and dropped the rock to take his leg in both hands, and then Virginia rushed to the rescue. "How badly are you hurt?" she asked, kneeling down beside him, but he jerked ungraciously away. "Go away and leave me alone!" he shouted to the world at large and the Widow took the hint to withdraw. Then in a series of frenzied curses Wiley stripped off his puttee and felt of his injured leg.
A slim, girlish, heavily-veiled figure alighted, and at sight of the men who accompanied her, Starr Wiley emitted a second oath. They paused in the doorway and with a sudden movement the girl tore off her veil. There was a moment of electrified silence, broken by a little cry from Angie. "It's Willa! That impostor, I mean " "No!" Kearn Thode, the second of the newcomers, advanced to Mason North.
He had gone off with his burros but the longer Wiley waited on him the more he saw that Charley was a broken reed. No, the trimming of Blount, if it was done at all, would have to be done by him and all he needed was time. Two months and a little more lay between him and the day of reckoning the twentieth day of May.
"He'll starve 'em to death," broke in Wiley, instantly. "I know the old tarrier well. You give 'em to me, Virginia, and I swear I'll take care of 'em just the same as I would of you." "Oh," smiled Virginia, and then she gave him her hand and the old hatred died out in her eyes. "That's good of you, Wiley, and I certainly appreciate it; because no one would trust them with Charley.
"And then oh, it's all mixed up, but Blount couldn't find any gold and so he leased the mine to Wiley. And the minute he found that the white quartz was tungsten, and worth three dollars a pound, he was mad as anything and did everything he could to keep him from meeting the payment. But Wiley went ahead and shipped a lot of ore and made a lot of money in spite of him.
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