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Updated: June 18, 2025
Fairchild had leaped forward and grasped the other man by the shoulders, his eyes agleam, his whole being trembling with excitement. "You're not kidding me about it? You're sure you 're sure?" "Absolutely! That's why I was so careful for a minute. I thought maybe you had been doing a little high-grading or had been up there and sneaked away some of the ore for a salting proposition.
Then he laughed laughed at the small, white-haired, eccentric old man who through his very weakness had the strength to ask insulting questions. "No I 'll give you my word I have n't been high-grading," he said at last. "My partner and I drilled a hole in the foot wall of the stope where we were working, hoping to find the rest of a vein that was pinching out on us. And we got this stuff.
He used to smoke his pipe and watch the little woman and Babe go "high-grading" along the tunnel wall. That was what she called it and pretended that she expected to find very rich ore concealed somewhere. He began to notice other things, too; that the Little Woman helped him a lot, on afternoons when help was most likely to be appreciated.
But I 've saved a few young bloods like you from trouble more than once. You ain't been high-grading?" "You mean " "Just exactly what I said wandering around somebody else's property and picking up a few samples, as it were, to mix in with your own product? Or planting them where they can be found easily by a prospective buyer?" Fairchild's chin set, and his arms moved slowly.
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