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"I r-reckon not. Leastwise, don't s-s-sorter seem to r-recall no such n-name, Miss. Was the g-gent a f-friend o' your 'n?" "Y-yes. He is a mining engineer, and, I have been told, is under engagement at the 'Little Yankee." Brown's eyes hardened, looking down into the upturned face, and his hands clinched in sudden awakening suspicion. "You d-did, hey?" he questioned sullenly.
"Si, señor," the words faltering forth, almost as if in mockery of his own hesitating speech. "Once I said maybe I show you. I not know how den now I know." "Sh-show me, little girl in God's n-name, show me wh-what?" "Eef eet vas true dat I lofe you, señor. Now you tink eet vas so; now you all'ays know vat vas in de heart of Mercedes. Dis bettah vay as talk, señor nevah you doubt no more."
But these bags were marked a lot of strange names, Toppan, and Edwards, and so on." "T-Tell him about the n-name, S-S-Spike." "Oh, yes. There was a strip of canvas hitched over the stern, it had something painted on it in black letters. I hung over the stern, but I couldn't make it out, because it looked upside down, of course.
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