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But not long were they permitted to struggle with the severe toil which their circumstances imposed upon them; for on the night before Christmas, when a large demand for candy was anticipated, and both of them had worked very hard, Mrs. Redburn fainted and fell upon the floor.
The Utes were dismissed and sent back to their work; the "General" strolled off with McKenzie toward the quartz mine; it devolved upon Redburn to escort Alice to the cabin, which he did with pleasure, and gave her an introduction to sweet, sad-faced Anita, who awaited their coming in the open doorway.
Flynch, when he had heard the exclamation of Katy, "you have told me a falsehood. You said you had no money, not a cent. Where did you get that roll, child?" "At the store at the corner of the court," replied Katy, abashed by the cold dignity of the agent. "Precisely so, Mrs. Redburn; but you do not buy bread without money. You have attempted to deceive me.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters." "Go on, Katy; those words are real comfort," said Mrs. Redburn, drying her tears. "I know it is wicked for me to repine."
He had never stayed away so long before, she said, always returning from his trips every few days. What, then, could now be the reason of his prolonged absence? Redburn foresaw trouble in the intrusion of the road-agents and Fearless Frank, although he knew not the character or calling of the former, and he resolved to make one bold stroke in defense of the mines.
"You must not talk to her in that style," said Mrs. Redburn, in a tone so low that Ann could not hear her. "Why not, mother? I was only telling her how to do." "But you speak in that tone of superiority which no one likes to hear. You are but a child, as she is, and she will not listen to such advice from you."
Here was a bed of sand washed there from an overflow of the stream, and at this the "General" pointed, as he came to a halt. "There! there is the gold millions of it deep down twenty or thirty feet in sand easy to get! dig! Redburn marked the spot by driving the stake in the ground. It now only remained to dig in the soil to verify the truth of the old man's fancy.
"Now, mother, you shall hear my plan," she continued, after she had announced the ill success of her visit to the mayor's house. "I am going into business, and I expect to make a great deal of money." "Are you, indeed?" replied Mrs. Redburn, smiling at the enthusiasm of her daughter. "I am; and you must not be angry with me, or object very much to my plan." "Well, what is your plan?"
"I will make it; you shall lay there and tell me how. I am sure I can make it." "It is very hard work to pull it." "I won't mind that." "Suppose you can make it, how will you sell it?" asked Mrs. Redburn, casting an anxious glance at the enthusiastic little girl. "O, I shall take a box, and offer it to the folks that pass along the streets."
"True; the shaft is more than paying off the hands," replied Redburn, seating himself upon a bowlder, and staring vacantly at the dense column of smoke ejected from the smoke-stack in the roof of the crusher building.
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