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"Now look here, young feller," snapped the speaker, dropping his elaborate sarcasm and veering round to his natural ferocity, "you ain't tongue-tied, I reckon, and I want to know right quick, pronto, what you're doin' round these diggin's, anyhow. One of our men comin' in from the stables caught you spyin' through the winder. He gave yer one on the nob, and dragged yer in here.
"Well, now, who would there be?" retorted Linda. "Ye ain't manin' John Gilman?" asked Katy. "No," said Linda, "I am not meaning John Gilman. You should know Marian well enough to know that." "Well, ye ought to know yourself well enough to know that they ain't anybody else around these diggin's that Marian Thorne's going to get," said Katy.
All the next day the search was continued, but without any results. "Durn th' old map! Let's throw it intew th' fire an' git back tew th' diggin's," Ham declared wrathfully, as they gathered for the night under the Big Tree. "Stackpole shore must have been loony when he made that map." "Reckon you are right," agreed Mr. Conroyal.
"It's a dry diggin's camp, near to the Nevada dry diggin's, in Grass Valley between the Bear and the Yuba. That's all I know," responded Mr. Marshall, as if to imply that it was all he cared, too! The directions seemed very indefinite, in such a big country, but Mr. Grigsby appeared to be impressed by something or other in Mr.
The hard ground was freshly disturbed in spots as by the paws of some small inquisitive animal. There was no answer. "What you say? Whose surface diggin's is these? I never know anybody do some mining here." "That was me" Bonny backed a little nearer to catch the old man's words. "I was looking round here for something I lost." "What luck you have? You fin' him?"
"You double-faced, sneaking son of a sea-cook!" blazed Lander. "You bet against your own school team, did ye? If you belonged in Barville you might howl your head off; but as long's you camp around these diggin's you won't do no rooting for them fellers.
All the young and strong ones seem to think as you do when they go up; but I have lived here, off an' on, since the first rush and all I can say is that I have seen a lot more men go up to the diggin's than ever I saw come down from 'em; and, of those who did return, more were poor than rich, while very few of 'em looked either as stout or as cheerful as they did when passing up."
Charley had noted that many of the men in the camp were barefooted, as if their feet were sore; evidently Woodchuck's Delight was a sort of a resting place. "How are things at the saw-mill diggin's?" queried Mr. Grigsby. "Peterin' out, stranger," replied the red-whiskered man. "Quiet as a Quaker Sunday. I was thar about a month ago." "Is Marshall mining?" "Not much. He's grumblin', mostly.
"Strangers, you're new to the diggin's, I reckon," asserted a caller, who strolled in and coolly sat down. He was an exceedingly powerful man as tall as the Frémonter, broad and heavy, a veritable giant. His shaggy whiskers were bright red.
"I knew it; I was sure I had heard the name before, but I couldn't remember when or where; I see it now; she must be the girl Larry O'Neil used to talk about up at the diggin's; but as I never saw her there, of course I couldn't know her." "Well, I don't know about that; I suppose you're right," replied Lizette; "but isn't it nice?
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