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'Poleon, I'm the happiest, the most deliriously happy man you ever saw. I only want one thing. That's work and lots of it the harder the better, so long as it's honest and self-respecting. What d'you think of that?" "W'at I t'ink?" the woodsman said, warmly. "I t'ink dat's de bes' news of all. Mon ami, you got reecher pay-streak in you as Frenchman' Hill, if only you work 'im hard.
"Not for a million dollars would I tease the embalmer that way. Not for a million. Would you, Lucky?" Broad appeared to weigh the figures carefully; then he said, doubtfully: "I'm a cheap guy. I might risk it once for five hundred thousand, cash. But that's rock bottom; I wouldn't take a nickel less." Doret had been listening with some amusement; now he said, "You boys got wide pay-streak, eh?"
If he's here after that, he'd better go heeled, for I'll shoot on sight wherever we meet." Selfridge went on his errand with lagging feet. On the way he stopped at the Pay-Streak Saloon to fortify himself with a cocktail. He found Elliot sitting moodily alone on the porch of the hotel.
He had thawed and panned it; to his amazement, he had discovered that it carried an astonishing value in gold coarse, rough gold exactly like that in the creek pay-streak, except with less signs of abrasion and erosion. Rumor placed the contents of that first prospect at ten dollars. Ten cents would have meant the riches of Aladdin, but ten dollars! No wonder the wiseacres shook their heads.
The sun rises in the west, the moon's a pay-streak, the stars is canned corn-beef, scurvy's the blessin' of God, him that dies kicks again, rocks floats, water's gas, I ain't me, you're somebody else, an' mebbe we're twins if we ain't hashed-brown potatoes fried in verdigris. Wake me up! Somebody! Oh! Wake me up!" The next morning a visitor came to the cabin.
Just up yonder, above No. 10, the pay-streak pinches out. No mortal knows why. A whole winter's toiling and moiling, and thousands of dollars put into the ground, haven't produced an ounce of gold above that claim or below No. 5. I tell you it's an awful gamble.
The stage never had been held up since the "Monte Cristo" had struck its pay-streak, and there was no reason to suppose it would be. Nevertheless, Morse proposed to err on the side of caution. "I reckon the man that holds down this job don't earn his salt, José. It's what they call a sinecure," Alan was saying at the very instant the summons came. "Throw up your hands!"
But in spite of the time lost the cut was deepening and the side walls stood up so that every scraper that emptied into the sluice-boxes was from the pay-streak. Bruce fairly gloated over each cubic yard that he succeeded in getting in, for the sample pans showed that it was all he had hoped for, and more. If only the riffles were saving it and the tables catching the fine gold!
His lines of cross-cutting holes were growing very short. The converging sides of the inverted "V" were only a few yards apart. Their meeting-point was only a few yards above him. But the pay-streak was dipping deeper and deeper into the earth. By early afternoon he was sinking the test-holes five feet before the pans could show the gold-trace.
I've got twelve hundred friends in Arizona that's worth a dollar apiece a year; but this danged job only pays seventy-five a month I'd be losing three hundred a year." "Huh, huh," grunted Big Boy, picking up some folded tarts, "your mind seems to be took up with hoboes." "Them's my wife's pay-streak biscuits," grinned Bunker Hill, "or at least, that's what I call 'em.
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