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"Nor I," said Briscoe thoughtfully. "There's plenty of room, and people are too ready to say that nothing more remains to be discovered. Why, only the other day they wouldn't believe in the existence of the gorilla." "Look here," said Brace; "don't you think we ought to go back and endeavour to catch one of those young ones?"
If I return to Plattville I shall surely remember to tell Miss Briscoe." At this she surprised him with a sudden, clear look in the eyes, so reproachful, so deep, so sad, that he started. She sank into a chair, with the look of the girl who had stood by the blue tent-pole.
But I say, look here: what's the meaning of this sudden interest in gold?" Briscoe smiled. "There's nothing sudden about it," he said. "It came on, as I told you, years ago, and I've been thinking about the golden city ever since." "Golden clouds," said Brace derisively. "Give it up, man, and stick to the birds." "I'll stick to them too," said Briscoe quietly. "I won't interfere with your plans."
What right had he ter bust our still an' break up our wu'm and pour our mash an' singlings out on the ground? Ain't it our'n? Ain't the corn an' apples an' peaches our'n? Didn't we grow 'em? an' what right hev the gover'ment ter say we kin eat 'em, but can't bile 'em eh? They b'long ter we-uns an' gosh! the gover'ment can't hender! But we never meant no harm ter Briscoe. Lawd!
"Ay bane t'ink Ay look to my horse first," the Norwegian answered, and immediately left by way of the back door not three minutes before Jed Briscoe entered by the front one. Jed shut the door behind him and looked at the convict. "Well?" he demanded. Struve faced him sullenly, without answering.
"Yes; let's do so," said Briscoe; "but it seems queer, doesn't it, that there should have been people living who could make a town like this, and then for hundreds or thousands of years poor simple Indians going on shooting and fishing while all this wealth was waiting in the rocks if they had known what it was worth?"
"Oh, yes, sir," said one of the men, just as the boat reached the side of the brig; "we'll soon manage that." "I say, Mr Briscoe," said Brace, "I suppose the ants won't be long in picking the reptile's bones quite clean." "Oh, no; they and the flies would soon finish anything that was left in the way of flesh, but I was thinking of dragging the body afterwards into the river.
The young lady interrupted him, touching his arm. "Look!" she said, "Didn't you see a child, a little girl, ahead of us on the road?" "I noticed one a minute ago, but she's not there now," answered Briscoe.
"Well, I've learned something about gold to-day," said Brace, as they picked their way back through the shallows to the bank of the river; "but oughtn't we to mark this place down so that it should be ready for the next gold-seekers?" "It wants no marking down," replied Briscoe: "the place will tell its own tale to anyone hunting for it."
"Hah!" cried Brace, as they began to race before the breeze, "this is the sort of river I like. Look, Briscoe, how clear it is. You can see the bottom now and then." "And the fish," said the American. "Brace Leigh, I begin to think we're going to have plenty of sport up here." "So we're to think of the pot and pan as well as of our specimens," said Briscoe, loading both barrels of his gun.
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