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"I'm a s-showin' y-you the best f-free-millin' proposition outside of C-California," Judge George Petty stammered in his eagerness. "That there mine'll m-make ten m-men rich. They's stringers in that there ledge that'll run $5,000 $10,000 to the ton. I t-tell you, sir, the 'B-Bouncin' B-Bess' ain't no m-mine she's a b-bonanza!
"I've been waiting for you half an hour, Louis." "I'm not coming," he said, looking away from her awkwardly. "Y-you've b-better c-company than m-mine." She flushed and felt herself trembling with temper. A flash from her father's eyes lit up her face as she said quickly: "No, I haven't. I want to talk to you." "I c-can't l-leave these chaps now. I'll s-see you to-morrow," he said sullenly.
"Where you folks think you're going?" she whimpered. "Why, why just " "I cer'nly am glad to see somebody! I been 'most scared to death. Been here alone two weeks now. Got a shotgun, but if anybody come, I guess they'd take it away from me. I was brought up nice, no rough-house or Say, did you folks come to see the gold-mine?" "M-mine?" babbled Milt. "Course not.
"W-w-why yes," he said, affecting a distressing stutter; "this kind of b-b-bonfire is a hobby of m-mine; it's about my only r-r-recreation. M-m-my name? Certainly. My name's William bub-bub-Barracombe, and you'll find me in, any day between t-ten and f-five, at 532 mum-mum-Mincing Lane."
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