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Jessie stood before him, and his worried look seemed to have found a reflection upon her handsome face. "It isn't me. It ain't my fault. It sure ain't, Jess," he declared wistfully. "I've seen it. It's there. My pore claim's jest drowned with it. I'll never find that gold now not if I was to pump a year.
It is to the everlasting credit and honor of Smith's Pocket that the orphan and widow meet no opposition from the speculative community, and that the claim's utmost boundaries are liberally rendered. How far this circumstance may be owing to the rare personal attractions of the charming widow or to M'liss's personal popularity, I shall not pretend to say.
Joe Brand is kind o' curious, guess he may as well know first as last." "I didn't mean no offense, Bill," apologized the miner, flushing and speaking hurriedly. Bill promptly became sarcastic. "Course you didn't. Folks buttin' in never don't mean no offense. Howsum, guess my claim's on the banks o' Sufferin' Creek. Maybe you feel better now?"
He was growing accustomed to this sort of reply. Deprived of it he would have noticed the omission, but it had of late become so common a feature in the conversation he felt no necessity to answer in kind. He glanced at the pine trunks about them and said: "If the claim's good, we'll cut some of those and build a cabin. You'll see how comfortable I can make you, the way they do on the frontier."
Our life on the claim's elevatin', for it leaves time for thought, but it is a bit slow at times. An' will we come? Man, we'll be the first." "Well, then, so long, fellers," said Curly. "I got to be movin' along a little. See you at the dance, sure." "Now, as to a ball, Battersleigh," said Franklin, argumentatively, when they were alone, "how can I go?
In speaking thus to her, he recognized her as a help-meet to whom he could make a shamed admission of weakness and fear no condemnation or diminution of love. This time, however, she made the wrong reply: "But we'll go down to the coast after a while, if our claim's good and we get enough dust out of it. I think of it often.
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