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Updated: May 5, 2025
A dory with two men in it came rowing toward the buoy. "How long've you fellows been hanging on here?" shouted a red-sweatered, gray-haired man in the stern. "Since six last night. We blew down from Tarpaulin Island in the norther. Don't you know me, Captain Greenlaw?" "Why, it's Jim Spurling, Tom Sprowl's nephew!" exclaimed the astonished captain. "So the gale blew you down from Tarpaulin, eh?
As they walked away along the road they heard the old man's voice roaring: "Les bourgeois a la lanterne, nom de dieu!" "My name's Eddy Chambers," said the American. "Mine's John Andrews." "How long've you been out?" "Two days." Eddy let the air out through his teeth in a whistle. "I got away from a labor battalion in Paris. They'd picked me up in Chartres without a pass."
"Here," to a couple of soldiers who came up to get their furloughs extended, "don't you know better than to come to Headquarters looking as if your clothes had been blowed on to you? How long've you bin in the army? Hain't you learned yit that you must come to Headquarters in full dress?
She went out of the room, walking more quickly than she usually walked, and holding herself very upright. Lord Holme followed, forming the words of his favourite song with his lips, and screwing up his eyes as if he were looking at an improper peepshow. When they were in the electric brougham, which spun along with scarcely any noise, he began: "I say, Vi, how long've you known Miss Schley?"
"And you look like a sure-'nough overlander," said Charley. "What have you got? Have you found much gold? Are these the regular diggin's? How long've you been here? Have you made your pile? Were you seasick any? Did it storm at sea? What's the name of this place? Where's the Sacramento? Did you stay in San Francisco? How much gold can I dig in a day?" propounded Billy, all at once.
"Did you start at sixty?" "Me? No, I started at thirty-five. He told me he'd put me on the road after I learned the stock. That's what he tells 'em all." "How long've you been here?" asked Dalyrimple with a sinking sensation. "Me? Four years. My last year, too, you bet your boots."
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