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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Well, you don't look as if you had staked a valuable claim! I suppose you stopped too long trying to find the vein, and the ice was unsafe when you left. However, you want supplies to carry you down to the settlement, and if you'll come along to the store, we'll see what I've got." They went out, and in the afternoon Stormont's party took the trail to the South.
Stormont's explanation of his anxiety to begin the search was plausible; but it was possible he wanted to prevent her asking advice. "I must wait until I know what my friends think," she insisted. "Although the loss of time may spoil our chance of locating the ore?" "Yes," said Agatha firmly. "I must run the risk." Stormont got up. "Very well!
You seem to take it for granted that Strange never found the lode, but I'm not sure. Anyhow, it looks as if Stormont didn't agree with you." "But how did he hear about the lode?" "It's not very plain, but I have a suspicion. There's a curious thing; I don't see much difference between Stormont's object and the burglar's. Both seemed to want the letters Strange wrote to the girl."
In a sense, she was rich, but she was forced to practise stern economy and had not the means to defend her wealth. "But what is Stormont's plan?" she asked. "I don't know," said George. "That's the worst, because it's a sure thing he has a plan. When he's ready he'll get after us." "For revenge?" "Not altogether, I think," Scott replied.
When the need is gone I'll willingly give up, but I must bring the old ship into port first. In the meantime, you had better let Stormont's buy you sound Corporation stock." Mrs. Cartwright acquiesced and Cartwright watched the young people beyond the arch.
I have never thought it possible that I could care for any one but him. Julian Stormont's face darkened a little, and he sat silent for some minutes, folding and refolding the newspaper in a nervous way. 'You are not very complimentary to your admirers at Thornleigh, he said at last, with a short hoarse laugh. 'Who is there at Thornleigh? Have I really any admirers there?
They want to talk about a new investment." Stormont, Wilmot and Stormont were her lawyers, and Cartwright nodded. "The money ought to be earning interest and you can safely buy stock Stormont's approve. Their judgment's sound." "For all that, I think I'd like to choose for myself. Suppose I bought some shares in the line?
He could account for the stone falling in two or three natural ways, but the splash of the paddle was a different thing. Still he had not actually heard the noise, but, so to speak, wakened with its echo in his ears, and sitting down, he pondered the matter. Supposing that somebody from Stormont's gang had prowled about the camp, it was difficult to see the fellow's object.
Malicious souls may direct you, perhaps, to Lord Stormont's valet de chambre, and can vouch the anecdote that on the day when I kissed hands for my appointment to the office of Attorney General, I appeared in a laced waistcoat that once belonged to his master.
I'm not persuaded yet that Strange did find the ore; but if it hadn't snowed, I'd have followed Stormont's trail. It would be interesting to know where he means to look." He frowned as he lighted his pipe, because it was too late to satisfy his curiosity. The prospectors had vanished into the trackless desolation, and now deep snow had fallen the wilds would hide them well.
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