By John G. Neihardt
A unique of the Black Hills gold rush.
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It's just somebody takin' a pop at the lights down at the Bonanza. What a fright I had I Pete's got it in for Joe, and it's only a matter of liquor and a quick word. Never a better man breathed than Pete- 52 LIFE'S LURE but he's too quick with his gun when he's drinkin'. " Drake's pen began to move again. "But, 0 my Own," he wrote, continuing his letter j "hideous doubts torture me at times. Would that you were near to kiss them away! Something tells me, at times, that all this Venice of ours is but a fool's paradise, from which we are being driven.
The eyes looked upon him with the dull light of wearin;:ss, and the face, habitually care-free, was now marked as with pain. "And this is not enough debt," he continued, his voice for the first time betraying emotion. "Having sacrificed John Jones to endless labor, you say to LIFE'S LURE yourself: 'I must go to the gold fields, dig up another three hundred thousand-no, five hundred thousand-a million'-your hunger for debt is really insatiable-'a million dollars, that I may sacrifice still other J oneses and Smiths and Browns to endless labor-for Samuel Drake, gentleman by divine right I' Only you have not taken the pains to be quite honest with yourself.
Having received a bone from Fortune, you nail this visual growl to a conspicuous tree, and then you begin to swell or shrink, according to yovr original size. And even though you swell, there is ample justification in human nature for the fact. Buried treasure is irresistibly fascinating. Probably most men LIFE'S LURE 55 have, at some time in their lives, dreamed wistfully of buccaneers' doubloons and pieces-of-eight, cached snugly away in the sands of a desert isle. But the thought of piratical plunder carries with it always a sense of necessary limitation; whereas the thought of free gold, clinging to the bed rock, carries with it a sense of infinite riches; for not a pirate, but N ature, the Inexhaustible herself, has placed it there.