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The range-rider followed the boy's glance around the immediate neighborhood, noting the station agent and the two or three figures in front of the general store, who formed the sum of the visible population, and nodded. "Bein' the star performer, then," he went on, "it might be a safe bet that you was sort of prospectin' for the Double Bar J." "That was the name of the ranch," said the boy.
"He says his name is Waters," returned Bill. "Jake said he saw him at the North Fork in '50 called himself Moore then. Guess he ain't no good, nowhow. What's he doin' round here?" "Says he's prospectin'," replied the landlord. "He has a claim somewhere in the woods. Gambles a little too, I reckon. He don't travel on his beauty anyhow."
"You and me might have borrowed a hundred prospectin' pans and never got even a drink thrown in. Then to think of that old preachin' coon-hunter hevin' to give in and pass his strike over to his daughter's feller, jest because he had scruples about gold diggin' himself. He'd hev booted you and me outer his ranch first." "Lord, ye ain't takin' no stock in that hogwash," responded the other.
"Well," returned her husband, somewhat disconnectedly, "it kinder looked as if some feller might have discovered it before." "And went away, and left it for others! That's likely ain't it?" interrupted his wife, with ill-disguised intolerance. "Everybody knows the hill wasn't worth that for prospectin'; and it was abandoned when we came here. It's your property and you've paid for it.
I aims to live yere in the camp jest th' same as usual; and I'll help yo' git started when you-all aims to do th' work." "What do you want to quit for, then? If you live here, you may as well draw your pay." "No, sonny, that ain't my way. I has some prospectin' of my own to do, an' as long as I is a employay of Bishop, I don't like to take his time fer my work."
"All right." "Why, that's good news. Then you you won't mind my goin' off to to do a little prospectin'?" The sick man frowned: "You stay right where you are. There's plenty in that jampot." "Yes, yes! jampot's fillin' up fine." "Besides," the low voice wavered on, "didn't we agree we'd learned the lesson o' the North?" "The lesson o' the North?" repeated the other with filling eyes. "Yes, sah.
"He lives with an old lady named Carmody, on the other side o' town. She is some kind o' a relative of his, and came on from the South to keep house fer him. But he ain't home much. He spends most of his time prospectin'. Seems like he can't give it up." "I wish you'd give me his address," said the senator's son, and, having received it, put it down in a note-book.
An' I'd a-gone, like you an' Billy, only Sarah wouldn't hear of it. There's gold down there, too. Quite a bunch is in there prospectin', an' two or three good mines have opened. But that's farther along and in a ways from the coast. You might take a look." Saxon shook her head. "We're not looking for gold but for chickens and a place to grow vegetables.
"Tain't now," said David, "an' mebbe won't be fer a good while; still, it's wuth somethin', an' I advised him to hold onto it on gen'ral princ'ples. I don't know the pertic'ler prop'ty, of course," he continued, "but I do know somethin' of that section of country, fer I done a little prospectin' 'round there myself once on a time.
It was to him her pa tellin' him about the little Louise baby and askin' him to come to the Moonstone and take a job and quit prospectin'. That's where we stand." Louise, breathless, listened and could not believe that she was real, that this was not a dream. André Lacharme! Her father! "I seen a lawyer about it," resumed Overland.
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