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When the division station was reached, McCloskey met the service-car in accordance with wire instructions sent from Timanyoni, bringing an armful of mail, which Lidgerwood purposed to work through on the run to Copah. "Nothing new, Mac?" he asked, when the trainmaster came aboard.
Then, suddenly: "You may send the Nadia back to Copah on one condition that you go with it." At first he thought it was a deliberate insult; the cruelest indignity she had ever put upon him. Knowing his weakness, she was good-natured enough, or solicitous enough, to try to get him out of harm's way. Then the steadfast look in her eyes made him uncertain.
It couldn't be a Transcontinental party, this far from home, and we haven't anybody else to fear." Frisbie dropped the subject as one of the abstractions and took up the concrete. "What are the orders for to-day?" he asked. "I don't know. I'm waiting for Mr. Colbrith to say." "There are two buckboard teams here, in the MacMorrogh stables came over from Copah last night. What are they for?"
I predict that this is the beginning of one of the biggest mining rushes the world ever saw. We are within one hundred and forty miles of Copah with a practicable railroad; we are within twelve miles with a track which must be made practicable while the band plays. If you discharge your entire engineering corps at this crisis " "I beg your pardon," interrupted the president crustily.
"The Copah mining district is one hundred and twenty miles, as the crow flies, from the summit of Plug Pass say one hundred and forty by the line of our survey down the Pannikin, through the canyon and up to the town.
"'Tis only a happen-so, Misther Eckstein. Merriam owns a mine or two in the Copah, and ye know the fever: a man can't keep away from thim." "That may be; but it's a cursed unlucky combination, just the same. I tell you, Brian, he knows too much this fellow Merriam. He knew what was up when he was steering Frisbie. You told him too much.
At the next turn the town of Copah came into view, and the road became a shelf on the slope two hundred feet above the main street and paralleling it. Alicia was looking down upon the town when she said: "What shall you do?" Ford's laugh was not mirthful. "I have already done it. I shall perhaps be permitted to see you all safely back to the Nadia, and over the rough track to Saint's Rest.
He was dusty and travel-stained, but nothing seemed to stale his genial good-humor. "Well, well, Mr. Lidgerwood! so the hoboes have asked to see your hand, at last, have they?" he began sympathetically. "I heard of it over in Copah, just in good time to let me catch 203. You're not going to let them make you show down, are you?" "No," said Lidgerwood.
Ford took him up promptly. "Yes; and by this time to-morrow the Denver Mining Exchange will be howling itself hoarse over Copah mining shares, like those curb-stone fellows down-stairs; the hunt will be up, and every feeder the Pacific Southwestern system has will be sending its quota of gold-seekers to the new field.
In which event Chandler, chief of the Red Butte Western construction, proclaimed himself Eastern-bred and a tenderfoot by compelling the grade contractors to stop and bury them. Why the railroad builders, with Copah for a starting-point and Red Butte for a terminus, had elected to pitch their head-quarters camp in the western edge of the desert, no later comer could ever determine.
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