, agents, lay under
a hill some two miles from Morfordsburg; that Jack's lay some
miles to the south of Breen's. Second, that outcroppings showed
the Maryland Mining Company's ore dipped, as the Senior Breen had
said, to the east, and third, that similar outcroppings showed
Jack's dipped to the west.
And so the airy bubble filled with his own and Ruth's iridescent
hopes,--a bubble which had floated before him as he tramped
through the cool woods, and out upon the hillside, vanished into
thin air.
For with Ruth's arms around him, her lips close to his, her
boundless enthusiasm filling his soul, the boy's emotions had for
the time overcome his judgment. So much so that all the way up in
the train he had been "supposing" and resupposing. Even the reply
of the town clerk had set his heart to thumping; his uncle had
sent some one then! Then came the thought,--Yes, to boom one of
his misleading prospectuses--and for a time the pounding had
ceased: by no possible combination now, either honest or
dishonest, could the two properties be considered one and the same
mine.
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