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Fascinated by the maelstrom of the mining-camp life, and unwilling to retreat from the scene until she should see her roving brother, and gratify at least a curiosity concerning Van, she nevertheless felt afraid to be there, not only on account of the roughness and uncertainty of the existence, but also because, despite herself, she had attracted undesirable attention.
To those who are not anglers this same day can be spent in the quiet enjoyment of the trees, flowers, lake and sky. The outlet from the lake is by Deer Creek, and thence into the Truckee not far from the site of the old mining-camp of Knoxville.
'We just had a little visit together in the mining-camp, she said, veiling the look she bestowed upon Howard so that one might make anything he pleased of it. 'Alan knows he'd better always run in and see me first when he's been away for ten days at a stretch; don't you, Boy? For Howard the moment was nothing less than a section of purgatory.
Elinor asked; and Ormsby got down to investigate. "It is our brake connection," he announced, after a brief inspection. "And we are five good miles from Hudgins and his repair kit." A ring of town idlers was beginning to form about them. An automobile was still enough of a rarity in the mining-camp to draw a crowd. "Busted?" inquired one of the onlookers.
Cutter opened his eyes. "No. I don't think so. You haven't got anything on him, have you?" "Only what you told me. Remember that his first day in San Juan he went to Galloway like a homing pigeon." Norton went for his horse, saddled, and rode swiftly to Las Palmas. In the mining-camp he went immediately to the office of Nate Kemble, the superintendent, whom he found cursing volubly.
He was first introduced to the public by a mining-camp editor named Townsend, who was nicknamed "Truthful James" in a spirit of playful irony. That was in the seventies. Old Erin was described as a bear of monstrous size, brindled coat, ferocious disposition and evil fame among the hunters of the Sierra.
Bob Creston was chatting with Betty Gunnison, telling her what he had seen outside, no doubt. Bert Atkins was looking over the morning paper, yawning. Hal went on, seeking Jessie Arthur, and found her in one of the compartments of the car, looking out of the rain-drenched window learning about a mining-camp in the manner permitted to young ladies of her class.
He could see them together; the gradual change that Easter would bring about in him, the influence of the two on their fellows. The mining-camp grew into a town with a modest church on the outskirts, and a cottage where Raines and Easter were installed.
"I trust I know my duty as the head of a great railway company too well to be carried away on every baseless wave of excitement that fires the imagination of the mining-camp I chance to be visiting." Mr. Colbrith was not above mixing metaphor when the provocation was sufficiently great. "Baseless?" echoed Ford. "Surely you don't doubt ... Why, Mr.
Murders him like the mud-eating, horse-thieving snake of a Greaser that he is; but being within the law, the kid drawing on him first, he don't stretch hemp the way he should. "Well, fin'ly this Blacklock blows into a mining-camp in Placer County, California, where I'm chuck-tending on the night-shift.
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