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Further inquiry elicited the information that during the two days previous, while I had spent my time in unprofitable cogitation, Ned had been "kinder prospectin' round among the speckilaters," as he termed it, and had found parties willing and anxious to buy the claim held jointly by Ned, Pete Jackson, and myself, for fifteen thousand dollars in cash.
Shock gave the expected laugh with such heartiness that the old man deigned to take some little interest in him. "Cattle?" he enquired. "No." "Sport?" "Well, a little, perhaps." "Oh! Prospectin', eh? Well, land's pretty well taken up in this vicinity, I guess."
"Be mighty careful of that gun if you're seein' double that way!" the stranger admonished again nervously. "Was you expectin' twins or somethin'?" "You alone?" "Yep." "What's your name?" "Smith." "What you doing here?" "Lookin' for the spring to camp by." "Where you heading for?" "Into the hills, prospectin'." "Where's Glass?" Sandy asked suddenly. "Search me.
He got restless and disappointed at our bad luck, said he'd go away prospectin' on his own hook, and went." "Good luck go with him! He was altogether too fond of argifying," said Simon O'Rook. "He's not the only one," remarked Baldwin Burr, with a grin.
It'll take time for the stuff to be delivered, and you can learn a lot in two or three weeks, Casey, if you fergit that prospectin' idea and put your mind to it." Casey rolled a cigarette and smoked half of it, his eyes clinging pensively to the barren hills behind Lund. He hunched his shoulders, looked at Bill and grinned reluctantly.
I reckon if she got any comfort, it would be when we was off prospectin' or huntin', and she could shut the cabin door and be alone." The Virginian stopped for a moment. "It will soon be a month since I left Galena Creek," he resumed. "But I cannot get the business out o' my haid. I keep a studyin' over it." His talk was done. He had unburdened his mind.
"I can't tell you much about it," was the reply, "and I wouldn't git too interested, if I was you. It might not be healthy. All I know is that one time my partner and I were in hard luck. We got grub-staked, and went out prospectin'. We strayed into a wild part of the country about sixty mile from here, and one night we camped on a mountain a wild, desolate place it was too."
Perhaps Dick's 'way in the mountains, away from the railroad, prospectin' down in the Ghost Range, where he has been tryin' to locate the lost lode. There's lots of reasons for his not writing to Echo. But Echo doesn't seem to mind. A year an' a half is enough to mend any woman's heart."
"Find any?" asked Jarrow, with quick interest. "No," said Trask, and Locke appeared startled, but said nothing. "I better git into some dry duds," said Jarrow. "As soon as there's a capful of wind, we'll see what we can do about gittin' out of this hole, unless you want to go prospectin' ashore, Mr. Trask."
Kinney suggested; for Thane had taken the empty canteens from the wagon, and was preparing to go with him to the spring. "You kin do your prospectin' later." "They would rather be by themselves, I think," said Thane. But seeing Mr. Withers coming towards him, as if to speak, he turned back to meet him.
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