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Again she took time to consider, and when she spoke they were nearing the scene of strenuous activities at the moving track-end. "You don't think you could postpone it?" she asked, almost wistfully, he thought. "I think I hope my brother will become interested again. It is your fault that he lost interest, Mr. Ford." "My fault?" reproachfully. "Certainly. You didn't give him enough to do.
For a time, as all the world knows, Saint's Rest headed the mining news column in all the dailies, and the rush for the new camp fairly swamped the meager carrying facilities of the incomplete line and the stages connecting its track-end with the high-mountain Mecca of the treasure-seekers. Then, indeed, the Denver syndicate saw its long deferred opportunity and grasped it.
Far out in the heart of this great gray wilderness lay the track-end of this railroad pushing across the continent. When Franklin descended from the rude train he needed no one to tell him he had come to Ellisville. He was at the limit, the edge, the boundary!
The puffing locomotive had pushed the slag-pot car half-way to the track-end before Farley sat up as one dazed and seemed to be trying to get on his feet. Twice and once again he essayed it, falling back each time upon the bent and doubled leg. Then he looked up and saw the slag-car coming; saw and cried out as men scream in the death agony.
If they move the Land Office to the track-end, of course all this land will be taken up a good deal faster." "Is it good farmin' land around here?" "Sure. Better'n it is farther west, and just as good as it is farther east. Wheat'll do well here, and it ain't too cold for corn. Best cow country on earth." "How is Ellisville doing now?" "Bloomin'." "Yes, sir, so I heard farther back.
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