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I was walking with Johnny Dacre up Adderley Street, dun with kahki, when he met his brother Reginald, who was promptly introduced to Johnny's second in command. Reggie was off to hospital to see one of his men who had been badly hurt. "It's the chap," he said to his brother, "who was with Boyce through that shady affair at Vilboek's Farm."
She could dress as a man and ride as a man and be absolutely safe on the journey! She knew a dozen unusual arts for dying the skin and concealing the hair and making the hands look rough. Make-up in private theatricals, at professional hands, she had learned with exceptional thoroughness. She would need a suit of kahki, miners' books, a soft, big hat, and flannel shirt.
Fifteen minutes later, therefore, she and her maid emerged from the shack attired in brown cloth, and kahki, respectively, her own skirt long and graceful, while Elsa's was shorter and divided. Aside or cross-saddle Beth was equally at home upon a horse or always had been, in the parks. Van and Dave now returned, leading two extra ponies from the stable.
I've got to do the work underground." "Perhaps I could handle what's his name, Culver, myself," objected Bostwick. "The fact that I'm a stranger here " "And what will you do if he refuses?" interrupted the gambler. "Will you still have an ace in your kahki?" Bostwick stared. "If he should refuse, and tell the owners " "Right. Can you handle it then?" Bostwick answered: "Can you?"
Only for a second was she prostrate thus at his feet, but her coat fell back from her kahki vest and a gleam of the moonlight fell upon a bright little object, pinned above her heart. Van beheld it and knew what it was his nugget, washed from the "Laughing Water" claim!
Bostwick effected a change of dress in the rear of the nearest store. A rough blue shirt, stout kahki garments and yellow "hiking" boots converted him into one of the common units of which the camp throng was comprised. He was then duly barbered, after which he made a strenuous but futile endeavor to procure accommodations for the night.
"Like raising potatoes." "And your plan is " "Look here, do I stack up like a Sunday-school superintendent? I thought you and I understood each other. I don't run no game the other man can maybe beat. Didn't you come out here with that understanding?" "Certainly, I " "Then never mind the kid. What have you got in your kahki?"
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