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"Because Dick Dewey is a friend of mine, and I wouldn't bring him into trouble for the richest claim in Californy." "That's where we agree, colonel. The fact is, there's a young lady in 'Frisco who has come out on purpose to find him-his sweetheart, and an heiress, at that. Me and Ben have agreed to find him for her, and that's the long and short of it." "Then I'm with you, Bradley.
"How do ye like this sea fog?" asked a voice at the boys' rear, and Bahama Bill appeared, wrapped in an oilskin jacket. "It puts me in mind of a fog I onct struck off the coast o' Lower Californy. We was in it fer four days an' it was so thick ye could cut it with a cheese knife. Why, sir, one day it got so thick the sailors went to the bow an' caught it in their hands, jess like that!"
They ploughed her, and crowned her, and scraped her, and rolled her, and when they moved on we had the fanciest highway in the State of Californy. That noon the day they called her a job Tusky and I sat smokin' our pipes as per usual, when way over the foothills we seen a cloud of dust and faint to our ears was bore a whizzin' sound.
That's why we look cut down." "Rest of ye goin' on through, huh?" "I am. I hope the others will." "Hit's three days on to whar the road leaves for Californy on the Raft River. Mebbe more'll leave ye thar, huh?" "We don't know. We hope not. I hear the fords are bad, especially the crossing of the Snake. This is a big river. My people are uneasy about it." "Yes, hit's bad enough, right often.
Can you tell me anything of her?" "I can tell you as much as this: she is in 'Frisco, and has sent out Ben and me to hunt you up, and let you know where she is." "Is this true? How came she here? Is her guardian with her?" asked Dewey rapidly. "One question at a time, Dick. The fact is, she's given her guardian the slip, and came out to Californy in charge of my young friend, Ben.
She looked around at me, saw me blush, and began to titter. "No, young man," said she, "I ain't engaged, but I told ma I bet I would be before I got to Californy." By this time my protector had returned; but, seeing a woman, and a young woman at that, in his seat, he coolly ignored my imploring looks and passed out into the next car. "I'm going on the platform to smoke," he whispered.
Here's what kin kyard when she gits her han' in, an' I b'leeve'n my soul I kyarded 'nuff bats to thicken all the quilts betwix' this an' Californy. The folks, they 'ud come an' stan', an' star', an' then they 'ud go some'rs else; an' then new folks 'ud come an' stan', an' star', an' go some'rs else. They wuz jewlarkers thar frum ever'wheres, an' they lookt like they wuz too brazen to live skacely.
I had him here eight year and he was the remarkablest cat I ever see. He was a large grey one of the Tom specie, an' he had more hard, natchral sense than any man in this camp 'n' a power of dignity he wouldn't let the Gov'ner of Californy be familiar with him. He never ketched a rat in his life 'peared to be above it. He never cared for nothing but mining.
Oh, ye little spalpeen, to give us all the fright ye did, runnin' away to Californy. Now if ye had run away to Ireland, there'd be some sinse in it. Musha thin, but it was fond o' goold ye wor, an' ye hardly sixteen. I hope ye brought a pile of it back wid ye." She rattled on in her joy until weariness took them all at the same moment, and they withdrew to bed.
Well, you know your special friend, Jim Stacy the big millionaire the great Jim of the Stock Exchange the man that pinches the money market of Californy between his finger and thumb and makes it squeal in New York the man who shakes the stock market when he sneezes?
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