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There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding. The daughter of the chief mine-owner of the district, Thomas Crich, was getting married to a naval officer. 'Let us go back, said Gudrun, swerving away. 'There are all those people. And she hung wavering in the road.
"Well, you say to the governor that Mart Haney was a gambler and saloon-keeper during the other 'war, and now that he's a mine-owner, with money to hire a regiment of deppyties, his heart is with the red-neckers just where it was. Owning a paying mine has not changed me heart to a stone."
On the other hand, for example, there are those who stoutly maintain that the South African mine-owner is a kind of spiritual creature, all heart and sentiment, who, against his own will, has been, so to speak, dumped down upon this earth as the result of over-production up above of the higher class of archangel.
The world would lose the gold that the mine-owner is anxious to bestow upon it. "The mine-owner, following his own inclinations, would take a little farm, grow potatoes, and live a beautiful life perhaps write a little poetry. A slave to sense of duty, he is chained to the philanthropic work of gold-mining.
"But in justice to Hallock, I think you ought to make a statement of some kind that I can show to these men who, very naturally, look to me for redress. Will you do that?" "I'll think about it," returned the mine-owner shortly; but Lidgerwood was not to be put off so easily. "You must think of it to some good purpose," he insisted.
In the light of this exposure you can't be elected." "But I tell you, by Gad, seh, that I mean to deny it." "Certainly. I should in your place," agreed the mine-owner coolly. "The question is, how many people are going to believe you?" Tiny sweat-beads stood on the forehead of the Arkansan. His manner was becoming more and more threatening. "You pledged me your support.
She guarantees me, orderwise I would glose my theatre," he said, with wheezy reiteration. The first scene opened brilliantly in the home of Calvin Wentworth, a millionaire mine-owner. Into the garish and vulgarly ostentatious reception-room a pale, sweet slip of a girl drifted, with big eyes shining with joy of her home-coming.
The New England farmer, the New York banker, the Southern planter, the Western herder or grain merchant, the California mine-owner, the negro, and perhaps a stray visiting Indian chief, represent widely differing and highly interesting forms of life and opinion.
With a cry of rage that was like the yell of a madman, Hallock flung himself upon the mine-owner, beating him down with his manacled hands, choking him, grinding him into the dust of the floor. And when the avenger of wrongs was pulled off and dragged to his feet, Lidgerwood, looking past the death grapple, saw the figure of a woman swaying at the corridor door; saw the awful horror in her eyes.
Gordon flung out a wild protest and threw the frozen slab of bacon at the head of Macdonald. With the same motion he launched his own body across the stove. A fifth of a second earlier the tent flap had opened and Sheba had come out. The sight of her paralyzed Macdonald and saved her lover's life. It distracted the mine-owner long enough for him to miss his chance.
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