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Updated: June 8, 2025
His heavy lids had a fluttering way at times during which his prominent eyes seemed to flicker. "What's the chance with Gus Ingle's 'Secret' this year, Mr. King?" he demanded silkily. King wheeled on him. "What do you know about it?" he said sharply. "And who has been talking to you?" Gratton laughed, looked wise and amused, and strolled away. At luncheon Mrs.
She did not stir while he made the slow descent, nor while he recrossed on the log and climbed the steep bank to her. "I am going to spend the day up there," he told her in his studied aloof manner. "I'll know soon enough now what truth there is in the story of Gus Ingle's gold. There's room in the cave to sleep, and there's shelter of a sort.
She smiled at him; she put out her two hands to him as she had done that other time. And right there they were married on Gus Ingle's old Bible. "It's done!" whispered Mark, bending over her. "You are mine now; mine for all time, Gloria. And, girl of mine," he added reverently, "may God deal with me as I deal with you." "It's done!" In an awed little voice came Gloria's response, like an echo.
To any man who knew the Sierra hereabouts less intimately than did Mark King, Gus Ingle's message would have brought only stupefaction. But to King now, as to Ben Gaynor before him, the "secret" lay bare. Old names held on; the three Italians had given a name to what was now known as Italy Gulch.
Under the fields of their vastitude, confronted by their infinity, Gloria, like thousands before, understood that man in fevered times is prone to turn to false gods. Gus Ingle's gold her own gold, one day was a thing to smile at.
Swen Brodie was the biggest man who had ever come to the mountains, men said, unless that honour went to one of the Seven who more than a half-century ago had perished with Gus Ingle. And even so Brodie kept the honour in his own blood, boasting that Ingle's giant companion, the worst of a bad lot, was his own father's father.
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