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Telegraph lines were being established; coal, petroleum, and gold- and silver-mines were being exploited, or were in a fair way to be. The good management of the regency under General Almonte's frugal administration had accumulated a balance of 15,000,000 francs in the treasury a small surplus which must have been encouraging to the Emperor upon his arrival.
Circumstance and place seemed to the boy so full of wild romance that he forgot, for the time, his own fate and the message that he wished to bear to those far Texans. It was very cold that night on the heights, and, now and then, a little snow was blown about by the wind, but Ned kept warm by the fire and between the two serapes. He fell asleep to the tinkling of Almonte's guitar.
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