Dave Porter's Great Search

he and Dave hurried out of the office to watch Nick Jasniff

trouble for us," replied Dave seriously. "It's too b

h?" queried the senator's son, after a pause, during which t

else somebody has supplied him wit

unds as he got those

say very few men reform after

the others about thi

d learned that it was a large place located in a fertile valley about twenty miles away. It was owned by a syndicate of Western capitalists an

ply as an assistant, since he knows little

y much money. No wonder he wanted to join our crowd. I su

fly. "Now that he has paid the penalty of his crime, as the laws puts it, he has

hope he reforms and gets along well in life. I only want him to keep away from where I am. I t

on had been delayed, but that he would surely come West in the near future, and that not only Shadow Hami

eel pretty wealthy now, having been offered a fine price for some of the little paintings. So it was an easy matter for Ben to get permission to join Shadow and me wh

d the communication. "Talk about old times at Oak Ha

e are here to learn all about surveying and civil en

ll let us cut loose a little-after they und

rom Dave's Uncle Dunston. The two girls had been on a trip to New York with Mrs. Wadsworth, and had much to tel

Roger. "My, what a grand old time we could have had, visi

n an auto trip or two," adde

broke in Roger wistfully. "It seems a terri

e something of ourselves in this world, we've got to buckle down and take the bitter with the sweet. I g

ing for-and that is one comfo

ock in the Mentor Construction Company, and having gotten Mr. Wadsworth to make the

le!" cried Roger. "It ought to he

ance, it's got to help y

think when I write to my father I'll speak to him about it, and tell him of wha

in the concern we were working for. Of course, it's only a small amount in comparison with

igher up that we have some interes

and an estate which was represented by Mr. Basswood. The real estate dealer had said that now would be a good time in which to lay out streets through the tract 63and sel

gypsies to evacuate, and a couple of them became so ugly that we had to threaten them with arrest. But they have gone at last, and we have told them that they cannot come back. We expect to lay out th

Dave. "I hope they make a barrel of money. Wouldn't it

made a wonderful address to the assemblage, telling them of all the advantages to be had by buying the lots. Then the agents got busy and the lots sold off like hot cakes, some for cash and some on the instalment 64plan

ople and stores, and we have a new railroad station with a good many more trains, and two moving picture theaters, two new schools, another church, and several new

l make it so much better for your folks an

of the clerks from the office came to him with the information that Mr. Obray wanted to see him

nager asked abruptly. "I've got some important papers that 65I wish delivered, a

ou want me to," answered Dave quickly. "It's quite

d horse, and you had better take something to eat along, too. If you start inside of the next hour, you ought to be able to get back be

I don't have to lose too much time in the mining cam

I'll give you the papers and also tell

chum he told Roger ab

enator's son. "That will make a dan

. "But then I got to 66thinking about the time we would want off when

sty response. "I don't want to have the m

ubstantial lunch. Then he dressed himself for the long, hard ride through

ymond Carson or, if Mr. Carson is not there, to either his wife or his brother-in-law, Mr. Fred Jamison. If you deliver this to the

ure of the names he put them down in the notebook he carrie

take your word for it. I have watched you ever since you came to work fo

er he had received from his uncle. "I guess this will prove to you how much I am interested in the Mentor Construction Company," an

ompany. I might as well tell you, my folks have an interest in it, too. But now you had better be on your way, because it's a long

ust as soon as I can m

way, never dreaming of the strange adv