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"You can't call a man a trespasser when he's on a town-site lookin' to buy lots," Wild Water was arguing, and Shorty was objecting: "But they's private property in town-sites, an' that there strip is private property, that's all. I tell you again, it ain't for sale." "Now we've got to swing this thing on the jump," Smoke muttered to Shorty. "If they ever get out of hand "
The men of Sharon, Connecticut, having wheedled their town-site from the Indians in 1754, were plagued thereafter by whoops and whistlings and the throwing of stones. Men were seen in the starlight and were fired upon, but without effect, and the disturbances were not ended until the Indians had received a sum of money.
It was before Smoke Bellew staked the farcical town-site of Tra-Lee, made the historic corner of eggs that nearly broke Swiftwater Bill's bank account, or won the dog-team race down the Yukon for an even million dollars, that he and Shorty parted company on the Upper Klondike. Shorty's task was to return down the Klondike to Dawson to record some claims they had staked.
The canoe and the encampment were hidden by the point; we were drifting off the wharf of the small town-site, almost abandoned, where the steamer made her stop. There was nothing left to do but express my gratitude, which I did clumsily enough. "'You mustn't make so much of it, she said; 'the first thing a reservation Indian is taught is to forget the old law, a life for a life.
It was before Smoke Bellew staked the farcical town-site of Tra-Lee, made the historic corner of eggs that nearly broke Swiftwater Bill's bank account, or won the dog-team race down the Yukon for an even million dollars, that he and Shorty parted company on the Upper Klondike. Shorty's task was to return down the Klondike to Dawson to record some claims they had staked.
"What d'ye want?" he demanded harshly, emptying the pounded coffee into the coffee-pot that stood on the coals near the front of the fireplace. "To talk business," Smoke answered. "You've a town-site located here, I understand. What do you want for it?" "Ten thousand dollars," came the answer. "And now that I've told you, you can laugh, and get out. There's the door. Good-by."
Shorty's hand flashed out and with an abrupt shoulder grip brought his comrade to a halt. "You ain't telling me you're buyin' a town-site at this fallin'-off place?" "That's your tenth guess, and you win. Come on." "But wait a moment," Shorty pleaded. "Look at it nothin' but bluffs an' slides, all up-and-down. Where could the town stand?" "Search me." "Then you ain't buyin' it for a town?"
At a meeting of the "city fathers" at Council the nomination for president of the Town-site Organization had been extended to C , which he said he had at first declined with becoming modesty; but, finally, under pressure, and as a "public duty," he had graciously yielded and been duly elected.
Or else for what did he pay Sanderson the twenty-five thousand? Not for this mangy town-site, that's sure an' certain." A chorus of cries affirmed Saltman's judgment. "Well, what are we goin' to do now?" someone queried dolefully. "Me for one for breakfast," Wild Water Charley said cheerfully. "You led us up a blind alley this time, Bill." "I tell you I didn't," Saltman objected. "Smoke led us.
What had Dwight Sanderson, starving on his abandoned town-site, ever owned that was worth twenty-five thousand? In lieu of an answer, Dawson was justified in keeping Smoke in feverish contemplation. By mid-afternoon it was common knowledge that several score of men had made up light stampeding-packs and cached them in the convenient saloons along Main Street.
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