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The last visitor to Surprise Lake, was Smoke's conclusion, as he picked up a lump of gold as large as his doubled fist. Beside the lump was a pepper-can filled with nuggets of the size of walnuts, rough-surfaced, showing no signs of wash. So true had the tale run that Smoke accepted without question that the source of the gold was the lake's bottom.
The last visitor to Surprise Lake, was Smoke's conclusion, as he picked up a lump of gold as large as his doubled fist. Beside the lump was a pepper-can filled with nuggets of the size of walnuts, rough-surfaced, showing no signs of wash. So true had the tale run, that Smoke accepted without question that the source of the gold was the lake's bottom.
"That's only a low-grade hydraulic proposition." "Bring your poke here an' let's see your dust," Wilson commanded. "I tell you it didn't come from there." "Let's see it, just the same." Breck made as if to refuse, but all about him were menacing faces. Reluctantly, he fumbled in his coat pocket. In the act of drawing forth a pepper-can, it rattled against what was evidently a hard object.
The judge emptied the contents of the pepper-can on the table, and the sight of the rough lump-gold sent half a dozen more toward the door. "Where are you goin'?" Eli Harding asked, as Shunk started to follow. "For my dogs, of course." "Ain't you goin' to hang him?" "It'd take too much time right now. He'll keep till we get back, so I reckon this court is adjourned.
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