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But on the other hand he had brought a world of money in to town, for the Willie Meena had paid from the first; and it was his pay-roll and the wealth which had followed in his wake that had made the camp what it was; so no one laughed as long or as loud as John C. Calhoun and he hunched his shoulders and quit. "Never you mind where I stole it!" he said to Eells, "I stole it, and that's enough.
Perhaps she held it to his credit that he had given Billy a full half when he had discovered the Willie Meena Mine; but it might be, of course, that she was this way with everyone and simply tolerated him as she did Hungry Bill. He ate a good breakfast, but without saying much, and then he went back to his camp.
The acquisition of The Wunpost and The Willie Meena properties had by no means satisfied his lust; and since this one crazy prospector who of all men he had grubstaked seemed the only one who could find a mine had for the third time come in with rich ore, he felt no compunctions about claiming his share.
Mameena, Ma mee na, Ma meena!" and fell back dead. "Saduko has gone away," said Nandie, as she drew a blanket over his face. "But I wonder," she added with a little hysterical smile, "oh! how I wonder who it was the Spirit of Mameena told him that she loved Mameena, who was born without a heart?"
Sue Eells for an accounting every time he ships a brick make him pay back what he stole on the Wunpost give him fits over the Willie Meena and if a half ain't enough, send him broke and you can have it all! Do you reckon I'll get some results?" He asked this last softly, bowing his bristling head to where he could look Judson Eells in the eye, and the oppressor of the poor took counsel.
"I'm talking to Miss Campbell," blustered Eells indignantly, but his guns were spiked again. Wilhelmina knew his record too well, for he had driven her from the Willie Meena, and yet she lingered on. "Suppose," she said at last, "I should sell my mine elsewhere; how much would you take for that grubstake?" "I wouldn't sell it at any price!" returned Judson Eells instantly.
It jutted out from the ridge, a round volcanic cone sticking up through the shattered porphyry; and yet this point of rock, all but buried in the wash of centuries, held a treasure fit to ransom a king. It held the Willie Meena mine, which had lain there by the trail while thousands of adventurers hurried past; until at last Wunpost had stopped to examine it and had all but perished of thirst.
They're hired by Eells to tag along behind me and trail me to my mine. Now what right has he got to claim that mine? Did he ever give me a dollar to spend, while I was up there in the high country looking for it? He did not, and he stole every dollar I had before I ever went out to prospect. Didn't he rob us both of the Willie Meena take it all without giving us a cent?
You are the happy man, after all." "Undeceive yourself, my dear Christian," said Ernest, blushing; "I have only flirted with the handsome widow. My hand is already engaged to a charming girl, Meena Altenburg, the playmate of my infancy, adopted and brought up by my good father. I am to marry her as soon as I get my company." "And what is to support you, Captain Ernest?"
I've trimmed him of twenty thousand and a ten thousand dollar road, but where did he get all that coin? He took it out of our mine, the old Willie Meena, and a whole lot more besides. Well, whose money was it, anyway didn't I own the mine first? All right, then, I reckon it was mine!" He patted his pocket, where his roll of bills lay, and smiled roguishly as he grabbed up the dog.
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