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"You bet I have!" spoke up Bunker, now suddenly strictly business; but as he waited expectantly there was a shout from the trail and Professor Diffenderfer came rushing up. "Oh, I heard you!" he cried shaking a trembling fist at Bunker. "I heard vot you said about my claim! Und now, Mister Bunk, I'll have my say no sir, you haf no goot title.
"And that ain't all his accomplishments," broke in Bunker Hill relentlessly, "Mr. Diffenderfer is a count a German count sometimes known as Count No-Count. But as I was about to say, his greatest accomplishments have been along tonsorial lines." A line of pain appeared between the Professor's eyes but he stood his ground defiantly.
"Good morning," returned Big Boy glancing doubtfully at Bunker Hill, "my name is Denver Russell." "Oh, excuse me!" spoke up Bunker with a sarcastic drawl, "Mr. Russell, this is Professor Diffenderfer, the eminent buttinsky and geologist." "Ah so!" beamed the Professor overlooking the fling in the excitement of the meeting, "I take it you're a mining man?
His only possible witness was Professor Diffenderfer, and he would not testify to anything. In his examination before the magistrate Denver had called upon the Professor to explain the cause of his being there; but Diffenderfer had protested that he had been hiding in his cabin and knew nothing whatever about the fight.
They had never been over-friendly so why should this Dutchman, after opposing him at every turn, suddenly beckon him up the street and into his cabin just as Chatwourth and his gang came down? And why, if he was innocent of any share in the plot, did Diffenderfer refuse to testify to the facts? Denver ground his teeth at the thought of his own impotence, shut up there like a dog in the pound.
"I should worry," said Denver and, whipping out the gun, he made the motions of fanning the hammer. "Now, now," reproved Diffenderfer drawing back in a panic; and then he laughed, but nervously. "Well, what do you want to show me?" demanded Denver bluntly. "Hurry up now I hear somebody coming." "Oh, nutting come again!" exclaimed the Professor apprehensively.
He could see it all now, from Murray's first warning to this last bold demand for his mine; but two months in jail had broken his spirit and he hesitated to defy the county boss. His might be the hand that held Diffenderfer back, and it certainly was the one that paid Chatwourth; he controlled the county and, if what he said was true, had no small influence in the affairs of the state.
Well, when the Professor insisted upon seeing the core and wouldn't take no for an answer, Mr. Menzger just gave him a section of concrete, where they'd bored through a filled-up hole. And Mr. Diffenderfer just looked so wise and examined it through his microscope, and then he said it was very good rock and an excellent indication of copper. Isn't that just too rich for anything?"
He and his eight hundred dollars, a sum so small that a shoestring promoter would hardly notice it; and yet these two men with their superfluity of claims were fighting for his favor like pawn-brokers. Bunker Hill had seen him first and claimed him as his right; but Professor Diffenderfer, ignoring the ethics of the game, was out to make a sale anyway.
That there was no love lost between Bunker Hill and Professor Diffenderfer was evident by their curt greetings, but as they began to bandy words Denver became suddenly aware that he was the cause of their feud.
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