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Updated: May 11, 2025
The board votes unanimous to invest the paid-in capital in a suit of new jeans for the president, which was me. I got 'em on now. You see, I had to be dollied up to look the part so I could catch a come-on and get me grubstake." "I see," said Winthrop, his gray eyes twinkling. "And I was the come-on?" "Well," said Overland, scratching his head, "mebby you was, but you ain't no more.
"This old lady says so," covering him with his pistol. Curly laughed, not too musically. "Well, boys, what am I bid for this horse? I need a grubstake." "Play you for him," said Faro Sam, laconically. "Done," said Curly. A moment later he laughed once more and swung down off the Spanish thoroughbred. "He's yours. Well, good-night, boys." No one answered.
"Then Len he keeps tryin' to go back wants to work long for a big grubstake, and is quiet and dreams a lot, with Baby Jean in his arms, and the chink settin' cross-legged lookin' at 'em with his glitterin' little eyes half full o' hop, I guess. And I gets onto why Len wants to drift back there to that land o' dead men's bones, and I watch 'im, and freeze to 'im continual.
But if you'd grubstake me for a year, instead of settin' up this here garage at Patmos, I'd feel like I had a better chance of makin' us both a piece uh money. There's a lost gold mine I been wantin' fer years to get out and look for. I believe I know now about where to hit for. It ain't lost, exactly.
Somehow, his water had a habit of always giving out just when he got to those certain points, and when he had gone back after more water something had happened a new strike here, a reported rush elsewhere, to lure him on until he was once more forced to abandon the trail and return to work for his grubstake in the fall.
I shouldn't think you'd be prospecting now." "I didn't for two years. But, pard, it was dead slow, an' so I hired a man to run the works while I hit the old trail again. I don't have to get anybody to grubstake me now. I've been able to boost some of the others who used to help me." "But what started you looking for Burns's mine? I thought that story had been considered a fake years ago."
But say, listen; I wasn't working for him! I was working for myself, and furnishing my own grub and I've never been through here before! He can't claim I found it when I was under his grubstake, because I've never been into this country!"
Yes, that big mine over in Keno that they thought was worth millions, only it pinched right out at depth; but it showed up the nicest specimens of jewelry gold that has ever been seen in these parts. Well, this Wunpost, as they call him, was working on a grubstake for a banker named Judson Eells.
He'd forgit to charge 'em, he'd be so busy listenin'. "Well, there was two ol' soaks that got around him to grubstake 'em. They worked it all one year. They'd git a burro load of grub and go out somewheres and peck around till it was all et up, and then they'd come back an' tell Frenchy some wild tale about runnin' acrost what looked like the richest prospect in the country.
But he showed no sign of his malady, save that he worked harder. All summer he fought mosquitoes and washed the sure-thing bars of the Stuart River for a double grubstake. Then he floated a raft of houselogs down the Yukon to Forty Mile, and put together as comfortable a cabin as any the camp could boast of.
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