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They had succeed in mastering the comparatively simple art of assaying gold and silver. So now, with the summer past, we find our young engineers out in Nevada, taking a little more rest just because no new engineering task of sufficient importance had presented itself.
"If we get good enough results from this assay it will at least be worth while to stake a claim and work it for a while." Harry waited with feverish impatience. Tom Reade, on the other hand, was almost provokingly slow and cool as he carefully adjusted the sensitive assaying balance and finally weighed the buttons. Then he did some slow, painstaking calculating. At last he looked up.
"Just what is your position there?" the doctor asked, pleasantly. "A little bit of everything now," Martin answered, readily and respectfully. "Later, of course, I shall have my own special work. At present I'm doing some of the assaying, and have charge of the sluice-gang. They want me to make myself generally useful, make suggestions, take hold in every way!"
All day he hunted through the winding gullies for some bits of float which would betray the presence of an outcropping on the higher levels. Once he cut the fresh trail of a band of Apaches and once he caught sight of two mounted savages riding along a slope a mile away. Several times he picked up specimens of rock which bore traces of silver. But he found no ore worth assaying.
"But it all went at last for powder and the sharpening of picks, and for assaying till one morning in August I found myself without money and without food." He paused there, and his face grew dark with remembered despair, and she shuddered. "It must be terrible to be without food and money." "No one knows what it means till he experiences it. I worked all day without food.
"Hold 'em! Don't let Jack take 'em!" Mr. Argent paused in the act of handing the sealed documents to the young pony express rider, and turned to look at the man who had called to him. Jack recognized him as a mining expert who did assaying. He had not lived in Rainbow Ridge long, but he had done considerable work elsewhere for Mr. Argent. "What's that you said?" inquired the miner.
O Thou Good omnipotent, who so carest for every one of us, as if Thou caredst for him only; and so for all, as if they were but one! For almost nine years passed, in which I wallowed in the mire of that deep pit, and the darkness of falsehood, often assaying to rise, but dashed down the more grievously.
She sat there alone, working out a thought; and at last she spoke as I have said: "If I could only remember the chemicals!" "My dear! What do you mean? The chemicals? For the coffee?" It was Miss Craydocke who questioned, coming up with Mr. Wharne. "Not the coffee, no," said Sin Saxon, laughing rather absently, as too intent to be purely amused. "But the assaying.
"Also, and above all," continued Jobson, "for I speak to your warning you, Diana Vernon, spinstress, not being a femme couverte, and being a convict popish recusant, are bound to repair to your own dwelling, and that by the nearest way, under penalty of being held felon to the king and diligently to seek for passage at common ferries, and to tarry there but one ebb and flood; and unless you can have it in such places, to walk every day into the water up to the knees, assaying to pass over."
Very often, that piece, the size of a filbert, was the only fragment in a ton that had a particle of metal in it and yet the assay made it pretend to represent the average value of the ton of rubbish it came from! On such a system of assaying as that, the Humboldt world had gone crazy.
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