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As our hero followed Sedgwick a little way from the camp his glance happened to turn toward the mouth of the narrow pass at the other side of the valley. "Where does that trail lend to, John?" he asked, pointing it out. "That?" the miner queried, as he shook his head. "That trail leads ter Silver Bend, which is another minin' camp a good deal bigger than this here one.
This yere 'Independence' outfit is no favorites o' mine, an' if the whole difficulty turns out ter be nothin' but a minin' squabble, the jury ain't likely ter be very hard on yer. That's my way o' figgerin' on it, from what little I know." He glanced keenly about, seeking to gain a clearer idea of their immediate surroundings.
"You is shore a tenderfoot! Don' you-all know that blastin' scares all th' deer away from a minin' camp?" Bennington looked confused. "No, I hadn't thought of that," he confessed stoutly enough. "I kind of like to shoot!" said she, a little wistfully. "What sort of a gun is it?" "A Savage smokeless," answered Bennington perfunctorily.
A rusty stove was almost buried by the heap of earth and gravel thrown up from a pit several feet deep. "This is a winter diggins y' see," observed the mackinaw man with pride. "It's only while the ground is froze solid you can do this kind o' minin'. I've had to burn the ground clean down to bed-rock. Yes, sir, thawed my way inch by inch to the old channel." "Well, and what have you found?"
Y'see, I ain't in the minin' business," he added, by way of accounting for his lack of personal knowledge. "Ah!" said Joe. "Maybe you're 'commercial'?" Bill laughed so genially that the others joined in it. "In a ways, mebbe I am. You see, I mostly sit around, an' when anything promisin' comes along, why, I ain't above plankin' a few dollars by way of speculation." Joe grinned broadly.
"When I git to thinkin' about hittin' out into the hills prospectin, or somethin', that roll uh dough I pack stands right on its hind legs an' says I got no excuse. I've got enough to keep me in bacon an' beans, anyway. An' the missus gits down in the mouth when I so much as mention minin'." "A guy grows old fast when he quits the game and sets down to do the grandpa-by-the-fire.
There are many fine houses in the upper town, with indications of considerable wealth. I had a letter of introduction to the Chief of Police, Colonel Kretegin, who kindly showed me the principal objects of interest in and around the Kremlin. The monument to the memory of Minin Sukhoruky possessed the greatest historical importance.
"Wa'al," Abe with an equally deprecatory gesture indicated Angy's horsehair trunk in the far corner of the loft, "yew ain't no more foolisher, I guess, over yer old trash 'n me an' Angy be a-keepin' that air minin' stock of mine. One lot is wuth 'bout as much as t'other." Recovering the envelop that she had dropped, he squinted at the superscription.
Bill grinned and chuckled. "That's one right nice thing about minin'. You can go from Dawson to Chiapas, and a camp's a camp! Always the same. I reckon if you went up the street far enough you'd find a Miner's Home Saloon, maybe a Northern Light or two, and you can bet on there bein' a First Class." The High Light proved to be the most pretentious resort in Goldpan.
She don't know nothin' 'bout minin', you know. Harry looked down upon his young friend curiously for a moment. 'D'you know, he said, 'you're a most amazing kind of a kid? 'How? asked Dick shortly. 'Why in the way you get mixed up in things. 'Tain't my fault if things happen, is it? asked the boy in an injured tone.
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