Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California

Geraldine Bonner

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TREASURE and TROUBLE THEREWITH
A TALE OF CALIFORNIA
BY GERALDINE BONNER
1917I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO
THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER
JOHN BONNER
WHO, HIMSELF A WRITER, TRAINED ME IN
THE WORK HE LOVED. WHAT MERIT THE
READER MAY FIND IN THESE PAGES IS THE
RESULT OF THAT TRAINING, UNDERTAKEN
WITH A FATHER'S PRIDE, CARRIED ON WITH A
FATHER'S BELIEF AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
GERALDINE BONNERCONTENTS
I. HANDS UP
II. THE TULES
III. MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
IV. THE DERELICT
V. THE MARKED PARAGRAPH
VI. PANCHA
VII. THE PICAROON
VIII. THOSE GIRLS OF GEORGE'S
IX. GREEK MEETS GREEK
X. MICHAELS THE MINER
XI. THE SOLID GOLD NUGGET
XII. A KISSXIII. FOOLS IN THEIR FOLLY
XIV. THE NIGHT RIDER
XV. THE LAST DINNER
XVI. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
XVII. THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
XVIII. OUTLAWED
XIX. HALF TRUTHS AND INFERENCES
XX. MARK PAYS A CALL
XXI. A WOMAN SCORNED
XXII. THEREBY HANGS A TALE
XXIII. THE CHINESE CHAIN
XXIV. LOVERS AND LADIES
XXV. WHAT JIM SAW
XXVI. PANCHA WRITES A LETTERXXVII. BAD NEWS
XXVIII. CHRYSTIE SEES THE DAWN
XXIX. LORRY SEES THE DAWN
XXX. MARK SEES THE DAWN
XXXI. REVELATION
XXXII. THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT
XXXIII. THE MORNING THAT CAME
XXXIV. LOST
XXXV. THE UNKNOWN WOMAN
XXXVI. THE SEARCH
XXXVII. HAIL AND FAREWELLLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He … heard the feller at the wheel say, "Hands
up!" Frontispiece
"Oh, silly, unbelieving child!" came his voice
As it came it sent up a hoarse cry for food
The ghost of a smile touched her lips
TREASURE and TROUBLE THEREWITHCHAPTER I
HANDS UP
The time was late August some eleven years ago.
The place that part of central California where, on
one side, the plain unrolls in golden levels, and on
the other swells upward toward the rounded
undulations of the foothills.
It was very hot; the sky a fathomless blue vault,
the land dreaming in the afternoon glare, its
brightness blurred here and there by shimmering
heat veils. Checkered by green and yellow
patches, dotted with the black domes of oaks, it
brooded sleepily, showing few signs of life. At long
intervals ranch houses rose above embowering
foliage, a green core in the midst of fields where
the brown earth was striped with lines of fruit trees
or hidden under carpets of alfalfa. To the west the
foothills rose in indolent curves, tan-colored, as if
clothed with a leathern hide. Their hollows were
filled with the darkness of trees huddled about
hidden streams, ribbons of verdure that wound
from the mountains to the plain. Farther still, vision
faint, remote and immaculate, the white peaks of
the Sierra hung, a painting on the drop curtain of
the sky.
Across the landscape a parent stem of road
wound, branches breaking from it and meandering