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But when she had reached it, mounted the ladder and carefully felt all over the top of the case, even moving the files in order to examine it the better, she could not find the metal-pointed staff. Standing on the floor beneath, Ephraim watched her face growing sober and disappointed, as she exclaimed: "It's gone! It's completely gone!" "It has, dearie?
We carried a very light but exceedingly strong rope, about five hundred feet long, wore nail-shod shoes, and had each a metal-pointed staff and a small hatchet in lieu of the regular mountaineer's axe.
The lady sat down upon the nearest chair, and, as she did so, caught sight of the basket upon the desk. It was filled to overflowing with articles of various sorts, and beside it lay the curious metal-pointed staff. Her impulse was to reach forward and take it, but the Indian arrested her hand by an upward motion of his own.
It had come to him when the valley mission had been abandoned, and the padre who bestowed it upon this, his faithful servant, had also given into his keeping a valuable secret. This metal-pointed rod was one thing Pedro never left behind him when he journeyed from home.
In its place was the metal-pointed staff, with its shank broken in half, and she exclaimed, indignantly: "Oh! how could you do that, Antonio? And how could you be so mean as to take it from two children?" "Ha! Once it was all mine this land. The copper in the canyon, mine, also. Si.
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