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For on Thursdays the stage arrived from Tellurium, bringing the mail and, now and then, a passenger, and always a whiff of the outside world. No resident of Paradise Park would willingly have missed the arrival of the stage; and on this occasion fully two-thirds of the male population, with nine-tenths of the female, had already assembled. But the stage was not due for an hour or more.
"Selenium," went on Tom, "was discovered in 1817, by J. J. Berzelius, and he gave it that name from the Greek word for moon, on account of selenium being so similar, in some ways, to tellurium. That last is named after the Latin word tellus, the earth." "Do they dig it?" Ned wanted to know.
He leaned forward, clinging to the back of her seat. "The doctor?" she shouted in his ear. "Craven had started for Tellurium," he yelled back. "Said he'd kill the sorrels. I told him there was a doctor at Lake Cobalt Doctor Norris of Omaha just arrived, with his family. 'You're not such a fool after all, said Craven.
And every time that she started towards the trail where Wunpost had ridden away he barked and ran eagerly ahead. Billy stood it until noon, then she caught up Tellurium and rode off after the dog. He led up the trail, where he had run so often before, but over the ridge he turned abruptly downhill and Billy refused to follow.
"You'll take the sorrels, Curly, and drive to Tellurium for the doctor. Don't be afraid to drive them; I'll not be on your back for that. Pete, go to the cottage, and bring my gun. Jim knows where it is. Farrish where's Farrish?" "Here!" He came leading two ponies from their stalls. "What are you doing, Farrish?" "I supposed we'd better find out where he's gone, and see if "
So she followed along behind them, leading Tellurium by his rope, and entered her city of dreams unnoticed. Calhoun strode on before her, while Campbell rounded up the burros, and the men from Blackwater stared at him. He was a stranger to them all, but evidently not to boom camps, for he headed for the solitary tent.
With this positive current the tellurium pins make marks upon the paper tape, but the iron pins make no mark.
"Well, I'll give him half of my share," broke out Wunpost fretfully, "but I promised Billy half and she is going to get half I gave her my word, and that goes." "No, I'll give him half of mine," cried Billy to her father, "because all I did was lend him Tellurium. But before I agree to it Mr. Rhodes has got to apologize, because he said he'd steal my mule!"
"Well, I'll be damned!" said Philip Haig. With a shake of his shoulders, as if to throw off some unwelcome weight upon them, he turned again to take up his business with the gaping cow-punchers. Doctor Wilson, arriving from Tellurium on the third day after the encounter at Paradise, found Huntington in a bad way, due not so much to the wound in his left shoulder as to the state of his mind.
She rode up to its mouth, her eyes straining into the darkness, her breath coming in short, quick gasps; and Tellurium, advancing slowly, suddenly flew back and snorted as a voice came out from the depths. "Hello, there!" it hailed; "say, bring me a drink of water. This is Calhoun I'm shot in the leg."
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