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"I suppose not," returned the diver. "No doubt, at gold-diggin's an' diamond-fields an' such-like one does hear of a man makin' a find that enables him to set up his carriage an' four, and ride, mayhap at a tremendous pace, straight on to ruin by means of it, but as a rule people don't pick up sovereigns like stones either at home or abroad.
Major Vernon walked briskly down the long avenue leading to the lodge-gates. "Two thou' is comfortable," he muttered to himself; "very satisfactory for a first go-in at the gold-diggin's! but I shall expect my California to produce a little more than that before we close the shaft, and retire upon the profits of the speculation. I think my friend is safe I don't think he'll run away.
"You know how Gulden gets when them spells come over him. It's just plain cussedness. I've seen gunfighters lookin' for trouble for someone to kill. But Gulden was worse than that. You all take my hunch he's got a screw loose in his nut. "'Cleve, he said, 'I located the Brander gold-diggin's an' the girl was there. "Some kind of a white flash went over Cleve.
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