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Updated: May 14, 2025
"But what becomes of the the placer-mine?" "The placer-mine be the placer-mine will keep! She is shutting up her book; the sketch is finished. Will you hold the umbrella, sir, or shall I put it down?" Mr. Withers took hold of the umbrella handle; the wind shook it and nearly tugged it out of his grasp. "Put it down, if you please," he murmured resignedly.
Withers and Daphne were on their devoted way like conscientious tourists, though both were deadly weary, to prostrate themselves before the stupendous beauty of the great lone falls at Shoshone. Thane, with Kinney's team, was prosaically bound down the river to examine and report on a placer-mine. But before his business would be finished Mr.
Of what use was it going down to the placers only to turn round and come back again? So Thane thought, and proposed they drive forward to Bliss. "Bliss be hanged!" said Mr. Kinney; which shows how many ways there are of looking at the same thing. Thane's way prevailed; they drove straight on to Bliss. And if the placer-mine was ever reported on by Thane, it must have been at a later time.
Daphne did not reply; she did not speak to him nor look at him again, though it was some moments before the wagon started. Kinney and Thane remained at the cross-roads, discussing with some heat the latter's unexpected change of plan. Mr. Kinney had a small interest in the placer-mine, himself, but it looked large to him just then.
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