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"Oh, they just dropped in, or stopped over in passing. Do you still take an interest in mines?" "Well, yes," responded Wiley. "I'm a mining engineer, and so naturally I do take quite an interest. And by the way, Mr. Blount, did it ever occur to you that the Paymaster has been sold for taxes?
They looked through the mill and Blount asked several leading questions before he ventured to come to the point, but at last he cleared his throat and spoke up. "Well, Wiley," he said, drawing some papers from his pocket, "I'm sorry, but I'll have to call your notes. If it were my money it would be different; but I'm a banker, you understand, and your paper is long overdue.
I tell you when these fifty-five new doctors git scattered over the country there'll be consid'able many folks keepin' house under ground. Dick Bean's goin' to stop a spell with Rufe an' Steve Waterman. That'll make one more to play in the river." "Rufus ain't hardly got his workin' legs on yit," allowed Mr. Wiley, "but Steve's all right. He's a turrible smart driver, an' turrible reckless, too.
So you have been having a ride with the doctor, and seeing everybody, I suppose? Mrs. Wiley wonders when you will call." "Oh yes, Bessie dear, you must not neglect Mrs. Wiley," said Mrs. Carnegie. "It will do some day with Lady Latimer she has constant business at the rectory," Bessie said. She did not wish to waste this precious afternoon in duty-visits to people she did not care for.
He paused expectantly, but Wiley did not speak, so he went on blandly, as before. "The stock, of course, is nonassessable and the taxes are very small. I intend from now on to keep them paid up, so there will be no further tax sales. The stock of Mrs.
I don't know how he got wind of it, but as soon as Thode showed up and began nosing about I knew what his game was." "No wonder they're butting in on our affairs! We'll have to do some quick work " Wiley laughed again. "No fear of trouble from Thode. I beat him to it and spiked his guns at the same time. He's given it up as a bad job; that's why he tackled the Consuegra.
What he did was all legal and according to business ethics, but it gloved the iron hand. Blount was reaching for the mine and he intended to get it, if he had to crush his man. The attachments and suits were but the shadow boxing of the bout; the rough stuff was held in reserve. And somehow Wiley sensed this, for he sat tight at the mine and hired a lawyer to meet the suits.
Do you know what has become of her?" He blurted the question point-blank, and Willa smiled in spite of herself. "Tia Juana, you mean? Did Mr. Wiley say she had left her home? I never heard of her doing that before," she remarked innocently enough. "It seems she disappeared some time ago, and no one knows what happened to her. She must have been a queer old bird."
"That was her I heard coming," answered Charley simply, but when Wiley looked out she was gone. It is the curse of success that it raises up enemies as Jason's dragon teeth brought forth armed men.
"No," grinned Wiley, "but I've consulted an expert and he tells me the mine is worth millions!" "What millions?" burst out Blount, struggling up to his feet. "Now here, Wiley Holman; I want that option back! You secured it by fraud and misrepresentation and by concealment of the actual facts. I'll have the law on you I'll break the contract you came here with intent to defraud!"
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