Summary
A mottled vein of celluloid ore, Rainbow assays the strata of American myth: orphaned heiress Rainbow Halliday, bequeathed a derelict copper mine by a spectral father, is reared by three grizzled surrogate lodes—prospectors who smell of nitrate, whiskey, and lullaby dynamite. Their Sierra shack glows like a lantern inside a wolf’s throat. Enter George Standish, an easterner whose tailored silhouette slices the dust like a scalpel; he spurns legal rapacity, retreats to Chicago’s marble labyrinths, and becomes engaged to a chandelier of a debutante. Meanwhile Rainbow’s uncle Rufus, a wheezing atlas of secrets, convalesces in a lakeside mansion where ledgers lie more tangled than bedsheets. A single unrecorded deed—ink never kissed by a notary—becomes the fault line: Rainbow, scorned by silk-gloved society, renounces her birthright, flees back to the pines, and is pursued by Standish just as Joe Sheady, a leering claim-jumper, torches the cabin in a crimson dusk. She rescues her rescuer, titles merge like converging rivers, and the mine at last exhales a double heartbeat—copper for the nation, love for the soul.
Synopsis
Rainbow Halliday, an orphan, is reared by three self-appointed guardians who work the Rainbow Copper Mine, willed her by her father. She is rescued from the advances of Joe Sheady by young easterner George Standish, who claims ownership of the mine but does not force his rights and instead returns to Chicago to marry a former sweetheart. Rainbow's uncle, Rufus, who is taken ill in Chicago, invites her to visit him; there she discovers that Standish's father did not record the sale of the mine, knowing that Rufus had sold the mine to Rainbow's father. Insulted by George's fiancée, Rainbow decides to surrender the mine and returns home; Standish arrives and is held captive by her guardians, but he is rescued by Rainbow when Sheady sets fire to the cabin. He finds love with Rainbow, and the mine becomes their joint property.
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