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Tell him that I've come back and don't want that grubstake contract and that you'll take it all in cash." "No," she frowned, "now there's no use arguing, because I've fully made up my mind. And if " She paused and listened as steps came down the hall. "They're coming," she said and smiled.
Two months after Smoke Bellew and Shorty went after moose for a grubstake, they were back in the Elkhorn saloon at Dawson. The hunting was done, the meat hauled in and sold for two dollars and a half a pound, and between them they possessed three thousand dollars in gold dust and a good team of dogs. They had played in luck.
"But you dared me to!" she cried, "and didn't I offer it for almost nothing, just to keep you from getting killed? And then, after I'd done everything to get back your contract you didn't even say 'Thanks!" "No, sure not," he agreed, "what should I be thanking you for? Did I ask you to get back my grubstake?
But when he reached the foot-hills of the Mule Mountains Lewis found that the long afternoon of battle and the ensuing night of flight had left him utterly at sea as to the location of that large ledge. He had to begin his hunt all over again. He used up his grubstake, got a second from his backers, and subsequently a third.
He produced the scanty remains of his "grubstake." "Miss Graham..." "Yes?" she asked, wondering. "Could you get a party dress for thirty-four dollars?" "Thirty-four dollars!" she faltered. He discovered what small change he had in his pocket: it was like him to be extravagant, even extreme. "And fifty-three cents?" he pursued, with a nervous laugh. "Heavens!" the girl gasped. "I should think so!"
I carry a thousand dollars or so in my inside pocket, just to count over now an' then to convince myself I needn't worry about a grubstake. I've got to soak it into my bones gradual that I can afford to settle down and live tame, like the missus wants.
I'll have to scout around and borrow the money somewhere, and to be quite candid, Donna, I have designs on our gambler friend, Hennage." She smiled. "Dear, good old Harley P.! He'd grubstake you if it broke the bank." "Well, I'm going to figure along that line at any rate.
Then he determined to go back and locate the ledge from which the elements had carried them away. But that project demanded a substantial grubstake, and other matters of moment were taking his attention at the time. He postponed the expedition until it was too late.
That's how come I signed up with Judson Eells, I thought I was sticking him good; but he was playing a system and they didn't anybody tumble to it until I discovered the Wunpost. "W'y, there wasn't a prospector in the state of Nevada that hadn't worked old Eells for a grubstake.
Asked him what end, but he wouldn't say. 'Said they might keep him on the other half of the trail and he wouldn't get to Dawson in two years, and then it would be too late. Never saw a man take on so in my life. And when I said I'd let him have it, had to yank him out of the snow again. Told him to consider it in the light of a grubstake. Think he'd have it? No sir!
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