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Then I take their specimens and I put 'em over the hurdles, and half the time they go out wishing there was n't any such person in the world as an assayer. Boy," and he pursed his lips, "I 've buried more fortunes than you could shake a stick at. I 've seen men come in here millionaires and go out paupers just because I 've had to tell 'em the truth. And I 'm soft-hearted.
They were ready to take alarm at anything, and to believe anything one way or the other; and as they had believed Ojeda when he came back with his report of riches, now they believed Cado, the assayer, who said that even such gold as had been found was of a very poor and worthless quality.
The pumps stopped abruptly, all the tools were removed, and as the foreman and miners who had been their boarders rolled up their beds and prepared to depart, the high-headed Virginia buried her face in her hands and retired to her bedroom to weep. And then to cap it all that miserable assayer sent in his belated report. "Gold a trace. Silver blank. Copper blank. Lead blank. Zinc blank."
The assayer brought into view a shot-gun, while the cashier and clerks armed themselves. It was evident that the deposits of the Alaska Bank were abundantly safeguarded. "I don't aim to have any trouble with you-all," continued the Southerner, "but that money stays here till it's drawn out right." The crowd paused at this show of resistance, but Glenister railed at them: "Come on come on!
"It's ojus there's no retort here," said he, "but like enough I'll find some way to vollituize this mercury." He crossed the arroyo, and went to the cabin which had once been the office of the assayer. The latter was now an emigré, but he had left his crucibles and his furnace behind him; because it is not convenient to carry such things when one is afoot.
"But don't you see, old thing, you're still up in the air? Your theory doesn't touch ground anywhere." "Stanley my poor deluded boy! when I got to the railroad I wired that assayer right off. Our samples never reached El Paso. So I wrote out my fake location and filed it. See what followed that filing over yonder? I come this way on purpose, expecting to see those fires, Stanley.
He was shrewd, that was all, but now she could read him; for he had spoken, for once, from his heart. The mail that night bore a sample of white quartz to a custom assayer in Vegas, but Virginia guarded her secret well.
The proposal was promptly made and we installed Everton as our assayer and expert in the town offices, fitting up a laboratory for him which lacked nothing that money could buy in the way of furnishings and equipment. Consequent upon this change, Barrett and I both saw more of the Evertons.
I gave my two partners the gist of the conversation with the assayer, briefly and without comment. Gifford oozed profanity; but Barrett laughed and said: "Every little new thing we run up against merely urges us to let out one more notch in the speed of the hurry hoist. Everton's suspicion is an entirely natural one, and for my part, I only hope he and Blackwell will hang on to it.
After studying chemistry for some time he received in 1853 the appointment of assayer to the mint at Sydney, where he remained until 1859, when he resigned his appointment, and came home to study mathematics and economics. While in Australia he had been a contributor to the Empire newspaper, and soon after his return home he pub.
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