Wunpost Part 25

She glanced up appealingly but his brows had come down and he was staring at her fiercely.

"Gone!" he roared, "your mine ain't gone! Ain't you ever read that contract we framed up? Well, the mine reverts to you the first time a payment isn't made or _if the buyer becomes a fugitive from justice_! Yeh, my friend slipped that in along with the rest of it, about death or an Act of G.o.d. Say, that's what you might call head work!"

He jerked his chin and grinned admiringly but Wilhelmina did not respond.

"Yes," she objected, "but how do I get the money to pay the men for building the road? Because the twenty-five thousand dollars that I had in the bank----"

"Get it?" cried Wunpost, "why you go up to your mine and dig out some big chunks of gold, and then you send it out and sell it at the mint and start a little bank of your own. But say, kid, you're all right--I like you and all that--but something tells me you ain't cut out for business.

Now you'd better just turn this mine over to me----"

"Oh, _will_ you take it back?" she cried out impulsively, leaping up and beginning to smile. "I've just _wanted_ to give it to you but--well, of course I did steal it. And will you take me back for a friend?"

"Well, I might," conceded Wunpost, rising slowly to his feet, and then he shook his head. "But you're no business woman," he stated, "what I was trying to say was----"

"Well, let's own it together!" she dimpled impatiently, and Wunpost accepted the trust.

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