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"Besides, we may have to get down twenty, or even fifty feet below surface before we strike any pay-stuff. Don't look for dividends in the first hour. I've been told that gold-mining calls for more sporting blood than any other way in which wealth can be pursued." "But I don't find a bit of color in this stuff," Harry muttered.
"I know that there is a lot of stuff consigned to planters in the island, some even to himself." "He must be lying, then," I hastened. "Perhaps these promoters are really plotters. By the way, what I wanted to tell you was that I saw Sydney and Leontine together again." He was about to reply when the sound of some one approaching caused us to draw back farther into the shadow.
Then began one of the most grimy comic scenes I have ever taken part in the concoction of a big, written lie, bolstered with evidence, to soothe The Boy's people at Home. I began the rough draft of a letter, the Major throwing in hints here and there while he gathered up all the stuff that The Boy had written and burnt it in the fireplace.
"I say, Frank!" exclaimed Harry, as he and Ben drew from the moldering chests piece after piece of dull golden ornaments, some of them studded with jewels that blazed as they caught the sun. "What should you say this stuff was worth, as far as we have gone?" "Every bit of $50,000 I should imagine," replied the elder boy, "although I'm not much of a judge in such matters."
Now, if a bullet such as this be shot into a river, the water blazes up and consumes the land." "Give it to me that I may examine it," said Shasha. Vooda handed a small paring of the potassium to the war-doctor, saying; "Be very careful, O you-whom-the-owls-obey-in-the-dark, because it is dangerous stuff."
You must show the stuff you are made of now if you ever mean to show it. I cannot help you if you quail." The girl looked up piteously, and then struggled to her feet. She stood before her protectress, weaving like a frail reed in the wind, pallid to the lips. "I beg your pardon," she murmured. "I will not give way like that again. I dare say I'm faint.
You think you've done something? You've done nothing, and you've taken a quarter of a million of men to do it! There isn't a nigger in South Africa that doesn't obey us if we lift our finger. You pay the stuff four pounds a month and they lie to you. We flog 'em, as I shall flog you."
I turned over the luggage and all that sort of stuff we could get off the Alameda before she foundered, but I just made up my mind I'd keep an eye on Kitty. Also, I'd hold on to her papers a bit, 'til these folks really proved they were good friends to the orphan." He shook his head in decision at the memory. "I've done that," he declared, "and I have the papers. Now, they worry me some.
She was at present much worked up over the poor "supplies" they were having in the vacant Avonlea pulpit. "I don't believe any but fools enter the ministry nowadays," she wrote bitterly. "Such candidates as they have sent us, and such stuff as they preach! Half of it ain't true, and, what's worse, it ain't sound doctrine. The one we have now is the worst of the lot.
"Oh," Paulette cried as sharply as if I had struck her, "do you mean you're taking me on trust in spite of everything?" "In spite of nothing." I laughed. I was not going to have her think I knew about Collins, much more all the stuff Marcia had said. But she turned her head and looked at me with a curious intentness.
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