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Why, Jack wasn't no miner never was ye could see that. HE never struck anything. The only treasure he found in the woods was Tinka Jallinger!" Cissy was tying her hat under her round chin before a small glass at her window.
"Why, everybody knows old man Jallinger pretended to be sick o' miners and minin' camps, and couldn't bear to hev 'em near him, only jest because he himself was all the while secretly prospectin' the whole lode and didn't want no interlopers. It was only when Fleming nippled in by gettin' hold o' the girl that Jallinger knew the secret was out, and that's the way he bought him off.
"Tinker?" "Yes; short for Katinka, Katinka Jallinger." "Good-by, Miss Jallinger." "Good-by. Dad's name is Henry Boone Jallinger, of Kentucky, ef ye was ever askin'." "Thank you." He turned away as she swiftly re-entered the house. As he walked away, he half expected to hear her voice uplifted again in the camp-meeting chant, but he was disappointed.
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