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LYNDE, FRANCIS. Girl, a horse and a dog. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner
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When Jaspar Dudley’s will was read, instead of the fortune which his grandson Stanford Broughton expected, he received only a vague legacy which at first he chose to disregard entirely. For it read something as follows: “Your portion ... was worth, at its latest valuation, something like $440,000.... When you find it, you will be able to identify it by the presence of a girl with brown hair and blue eyes and small mole on her left shoulder, a piebald horse ... and a dog with a split face—half black and half white.” With just this information and certain indefinite geographical data, “Stannie” finally starts on the trail of his inheritance. He has less trouble in locating it than might be expected. But then his troubles begin, for he finds it to be a flooded mine, which is nevertheless highly desirable to a certain mining engineer. He determines to pump it out, and ascertain its value. His attempts to do this, and the efforts of his rival to thwart him, and gain possession himself, make the story, with, of course, some rivalry for the blue-eyed girl as well.
“Rather well told and interesting to readers of western stories.”