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Updated: May 13, 2025
"The time we spent at Somasco has passed very pleasantly, but we shall go down to Vancouver in a day or two." It seemed very trivial, for Alice Deringham was quite aware that this might be the last time she would look upon her companion, but she had bidden farewell to men of his kind before.
"The river is farther away now, but I want you still," he said. There was frost in the valley when one clear morning Alton lay partly dressed in a big chair beside the stove at Somasco ranch.
"Well," said Hallam sympathetically, "one can't always come out on top, and if you're stopping down at Vancouver I may be of some use to you, and you to me. If you'll come up to-morrow I'll show you the Tyee, and I've something better still up the valley." "I'm sorry," said Deringham indifferently; "I'm going through to Somasco!" Hallam glanced at him steadily. "Of course you are," said he.
Then it rustled in his hand, and his voice shook as he read disjointedly: "Vacant Crown lands. To all it may concern. Mineral claim on left bank headwaters Somasco River in unsurveyed territory, frontage declared to be " "Give it to me, or get on," Alton said hoarsely. The paper was shaking visibly.
"But Somasco, and the silver up yonder, is mine, too, and that when we have redeemed Carnaby will be quite enough for two." Alice Deringham made no further resistance, but glanced up into his eyes as he drew her to him, and then felt his arm close round her with a great contentment.
I don't understand all of it, but Tom tells me that he can't see any hope for Alton unless a new railroad's built, or the Government does something for the Somasco country, and that does not seem likely." "Please tell me all you know." Mrs. Forel looked thoughtful. "It isn't a great deal.
This did not displease her, for, though she had negatived his suggestion, her father's wishes coincided with her own. She, however, desired to visit Somasco as it were under compulsion, and to feel that she had not done so of her own inclination. "I think there is a reason and it would please me," he said. "Then I should be pleased to hear it."
It would have been bitter to let his enemy go free, had he stood alone, but that was, he realized, what no man can do, and there were behind him with their future linked to his the ranchers of Somasco whose safety demanded that he should put it out of Hallam's power to do them a further injury. It would also be so simple.
We've raised a piece of the cannery, but for want of dollars don't go on, and, to put it straight, unless that railroad comes in, Somasco will be busted when the loans come due." "Well," said Forel, "I've some news for you.
This, he knew, was a part of the environment she had been used to, and he sighed as he thought of the sordid simplicity at Somasco. There was also Commander Thorne beside her, and the naval officer was one upon whom the stamp of birth and polish was very visible.
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