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One of them was Jake Bettins and the other was Ed True. The three hit the pike at a regular two-forty clip for the Big Run road. Those birds don't go chasing around on a day like this just to get sunburn, do they? Howard frowned. 'Monte Devine? he muttered, staring at Lee. But Lee, instead of taking the trouble to give the necessary assurance again, turned his eyes upon Longstreet.
'You've got one on me, though, pardner. 'Courtot here? demanded Howard. Monte Devine laughed then. 'Hello, Al, he returned lightly. 'You and Jim sure play a great little game of tag, don't you? 'He isn't here, then? 'Left an hour ago. There's just me and Bettins and True on the job. Come on in and make yourself at home. Howard came on slowly.
But, apparently, Bettins got his stakes and his friends' back and the men with whom he had returned hastily staked out their own claims, all feverishly and by crude guesswork. There was perhaps not a man among them who knew the first thing about mining. Helen watched them in sheer fascination.
Helen and Howard heard horses' hoofs, rattling stones, impatient voices, and withdrew a hundred yards from the gulch and into the shadows of a ring of boulders. With the first came Bettins. His voice was the loudest, coming now and then distinctly; he employed the name of Howard and cursed it; he said something about his 'pals' Devine and True. A man to whom he was talking laughed at him.
They called to Bettins, but he held back upon the far side of the gulch and finally withdrew and disappeared. Then Longstreet, who had been restless but quiet-tongued for ten minutes, exclaimed quickly: 'We must get these two men over to our camp right away, where we can have better light, and put them into bed until a physician can be summoned.
He saw another stake and another and these like the first he snatched up and pitched wrathfully as far as he could throw them. 'That's something, if it isn't much, he muttered to himself. The others had held back, watching him. He could hear them speaking quickly among themselves, Bettins and True angrily. Monte's voice was low and steady. But it was Monte who came on first.
No doubt they were True and Bettins; still neither had spoken and in this uncertain light either might be Courtot. 'Hello, True, said Howard shortly. True's voice answered him. 'Hello, Bettins, he said, and it was Bettin's voice replying. 'Where did Jim go? he asked. 'Search me, retorted Monte Devine. Then, a hint of a jeer in his voice, 'Going to stay out there in the dark all night?
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