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"I'm talking to Miss Campbell," blustered Eells indignantly, but his guns were spiked again. Wilhelmina knew his record too well, for he had driven her from the Willie Meena, and yet she lingered on. "Suppose," she said at last, "I should sell my mine elsewhere; how much would you take for that grubstake?" "I wouldn't sell it at any price!" returned Judson Eells instantly.
"I'll do the killing, and you and Sucatash will merely have to hold the claim. The sympathy of the miners will be with you, and there should be little difficulty unless it turns out that some one has a grubstake interest." He had to explain again the intricacies of this phase of mining. Solange listened intently, sitting now on the edge of the bunk.
"Yes, you bet there's a mistake," came back Wunpost triumphantly, "but we'll show these papers to the judge. This ain't the first time you've tried to put one over, but you robbed us once before." He turned to Wilhelmina, whose eyes were dark with rage, and she nodded and stood close beside him. "Yes," she said, "and I was selling it for almost nothing, just to get that miserable grubstake.
I started to push my way up here, two hundred miles from Diamond Town, three weeks back, with a letter from a woman to her husband. She couldn't pay me nothing, poor old girl. Said she'd pray for me to her dying day. There was a pal of mine put up the grubstake. His name" his evil eyes were glued upon her face "was Bough. You've heard that name before!" It was an assertion, not a question.
"Is that feller Eells trying to beat you out of your money?" he demanded with sudden heat, but she declined to discuss business on the street. In her office she sat him down and closed the door behind them, then drew out a contract from her desk. "Here's that grubstake agreement, all cancelled," she said, and he took it and grunted ungraciously.
The burros and the two horses were luxuries, he declared. When they once got located on a good claim they would sell off everything but a couple of burros Sway and Ed, most likely. The others would bring enough for a winter grubstake, and would prolong their freedom and their independence just that much. That is, supposing they did not strike a good claim before then.
Half an hour afterward he came to the house with his parfleches, and asked me to put him up a couple of weeks' grubstake. He had the men locked up in the harness room, but he didn't tell me how he had done it. He took his pack horse and his blankets and hunting outfit, and pulled out. I didn't know what to do. I didn't tell the folks. The ranch hands know, but they won't let the men out.
"Why did you want me to call here this morning?" "I want to give you a grubstake," answered the motor wizard. "Hiram, if there are five dry twenty-dollar bills in that heap, give them to Burton." Burton started, stared at Clancy, and then watched Hill while he knelt down and selected five twenties from the drying bills. "What are you doing this for?" asked Burton falteringly.
He must get all his grubstake in too, and after snowfall he would have to be mighty careful about making tracks around any place. Marion thought that snow on the mountain would be "keen," and suggested that Jack try a pair of her shoes, and see if he couldn't manage to wear them whenever there was snow.
"Missourian chaps, and a couple of Cornishmen, but they went down to Eldorado to work at wages for a grubstake." Mrs. Sayther cast a look of speculative regard upon the girl. "But of course there are plenty of Indians about?" "Every mother's son of them down to Dawson long ago.
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