The Young Engineers in Nevada; Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick

uth when he remarked that Nevada

t short, point-blank range, it would

e sound of an approach

mounted the crest at a point less than sevent

caught sig

Timmins, forcing Parkinson'

evolver. He fired at the men in ambush, but a lurc

t the ridge," bellowed Joe, i

flat. Harry followed suit. Tom Reade hesitat

usting right hand in among the b

lph, in a passion because of

o

w rascals lay it looked as though a volcan

f dirt, splinters and bits

a volley of terrific yells

en the big explosion came. Jim Ferrers, t

arth, descended on the scene of the explosion. Yet little of this flying stuff reached Dolph Gage a

p running until they ha

e, choking with laughter, as Ferrers leaped

hile I've got a good,

long rifle barrel a

he rifle barrel to spoil the guide's aim. "Jim, it isn't sportsmanlike to sho

e guide's sense of honor and fair play

oker, what happened?" d

self, didn't you?

; bu

ineer that you don't know a

that mine com

anted

he

you started o

O

the only horse, that was all that there was left for me to do. Now, you must have

nodded

least a hundred feet down in the mine the

oubt

ck out whenever we should find refractory stuff dow

ock and the force of the explosion shoots all the fine particle of gold i

n close and now sto

e on you, Reade," sugg

o find out," returned

rer, or just

you think

the ledge, and then

red, stridi

hoot. They'll be sore over the trick you played on them

y. "I'm out for business today. Coming, Mr. Dunlo

were fired, stepped over there also, followed by his nephew. Jim Ferrers climbed a tree, holding his rifle and keeping h

ts of rock. "You see, the dynamite charge was a low-power one. It just splintered the rock. There w

of rock!" cried Harry, tu

r. Dunlop, after examining the specimen. "But we'l

had hung back

aking his head after some further exploration. "This rock wo

e claim that I have below," was Mr. Dunlop's conclus

t no one would trip over it," he added. "Just after I got it attended to Alf Drew happened along, looked forlorn, and wanted a job. So I had almost f

't send you two feet in the right di

ents and the other s

get far with them in

tle after ou

nodde

f being shot to pieces,"

ng involved in a Nevada mining di

"Let's scurry about a bit. Surely men can't g

re discovered that plainly had been made by dra

il. "The scoundrels didn't have a team, and they wouldn't take the stuff fa

some motions in

im Ferrers, bringing

d straight in

anded Tom dryly. He glanced down

akings,' have you?" R

r and yanking hi

from young Drew's nerve

akings of a good one,"

two hours ago. Where did y

" half whi

elieve any such fairy

Re

ntinued, "then some one gave the stuff to you. It

plied the boy, with

, with a mild shake administered to the young

tantly, feeling that it would be of n

of papers to

e-

it from f

I did

four men, then? T

e-

do to please

y from one foot to the o

up!" Reade in

time. What did you d

o anything,

l them, then?" Re

d me a few

d you answered

l, I

about?" pressed Tom, the look i

how many men Jim Ferr

w b

le creeping into his face. "They were guess

ss so," A

u told

was made up of you

s and

you the tobacco for

rst," Alf retorted, a loo

oy bale of cigarettes, did you?" demanded Tom Reade