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Updated: May 10, 2025
For an hour all hands were busy, getting the breakfast, eating, packing and saddling and bridling the horses; and then, just as the sun, like a great globe of gold, rose above the gold-filled mountains of their hopes to the east and shone down on the waters of the Sacramento, Ham gave the word to start, and, leading one of his well-loaded pack-horses on either side of him, he strode off, headed for the rough trail to Hangtown, followed by Thure and Bud, driving their pack-horses before them.
Something he saw there made him start back with a stifled exclamation. "What is it?" cried the girl, startled. "Tell me!" But he, realizing the nature of his discovery for he had seen a human incisor tooth, gold-filled, there in the odd little heap straightened up quickly and assumed to smile. "It's nothing, nothing at all!" he answered. "Come, we haven't got any time to waste.
"We do not handle gold-filled cases." He put it down, and turned to go. Then he stopped. "Don't sell on the installment plan, either, I suppose?" The sneer in his voice was clearer than his anxiety. In his mind, he already knew the answer. "Sorry. No." He went out. So he had been right. That young skunk had paid a hundred dollars for a watch for Anna. To Rudolph it meant but one thing.
An idea was at work there which was diametrically opposed to the union of Claudius and Margaret, and day by day, as he watched the intimacy growing back into its old proportions, he ground his gold-filled teeth with increasing annoyance. He sought opportunities for saying and doing things that might curtail the length of those hours when Claudius sat at her side, ostensibly reading. Ostensibly?
"I have here," he began, "a hand-painted china vanity box. Think of it, gentlemen, these dainty violets are hand painted, and the top is solid gold-filled. Inside is a soft, dainty, powder puff. How much am I offered for this beautiful trinket. An ideal gift for wife, sister, or sweetheart. How much am I offered?" A man in a far corner of the room bid a quarter. The auctioneer looked pained.
Jest look at it. Say, can't you fellers see, or are you blind? She ain't blind. She can see. She's seen wot's ther'. It's a death's head. Gold? Gee, I tell you it's a death's head! Look at them eye-sockets," he cried, pointing at the curious moulding of the nugget. "Ther's the nose bones, an' the jaw. Look at them teeth, too, all gold-filled, same as if a dentist had done 'em."
There he washed his partly gold-filled teeth with a tooth-powder, rinsed them with a perfumed mouth-wash, then began to sponge himself and dry his body with Turkish towels. After washing his hands with perfumed soap, carefully brushing his trimmed nails and washing his face and stout neck in a marble basin, he walked into a third room, where a shower-bath was ready.
He was well-dressed, and was continually probing with a quill tooth-pick at his gold-filled front teeth, evidently desirous of excavating some of the precious metal. "My name's Snark Theobald D. Snark," he said shortly, thrusting a card into Garrison's passive hand.
"Ladies?" "Yes." He finally found one that was a duplicate of Anna's, and examined it carefully. Yes, it was the same, the maker's name on the dial, the space for the monogram on the back, everything. "How much is this one?" "One hundred dollars." He almost dropped it. A hundred dollars! Then he remembered Anna's story. "Have you any gold-filled ones that look like this?"
Sixteen jewels in its movement and a solid gold-filled twenty-year case and fit for any lady in the land to wear. Will somebody start bidding?" John fumbled in his pocket and took inventory of the remains of the two dollars which had been filched from the pig bank.
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