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She took five or six determined steps toward the ex-watchman and tapped him on the shoulder. He whirled sharply as if his mind had guilty fears, and faced her defiantly. Those immediately around, suspecting something unusual, stopped to watch them, and listened. "So you are here in Goldpan, are you, Wolff?" she demanded, with a cold sneer in her voice.
Come and see me whenever you can, both of you. I like you." They arose and followed her out of the box, and down the flimsy stairs that led to the floor below. She paused on the bottom step, and clutched the casing with both hands, then tried to get a closer look at the ex-watchman, who had turned away until but a small part of his face was exposed.
Two of these cynic philosophers, popularly known as sore-heads, foregathered one morning at Glenn's Ferry and began to discuss the management and the ditch. "Travis don't seem to have so much trouble with the water this year as he had last," the first ex-watchman remarked. "Used to get away with him on an average once a week, so I hear." "He's married his girl," the other explained sarcastically.
The man was the one who had been the watchman at the mine when they arrived. The band struck up again, and another dance began, the enthusiasts forgetting Bill as quickly as they had saluted him; but the ex-watchman continued to lean against the post, a picture of sullenness, and in the box The Lily stood with knitted brows, as if trying to recollect him. "Well," she said at last, "I must go now.
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