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I git off at the same place I got off over at Wunpost; he's trying to freeze me out. So if you want to do me dirt, kid, when I've always been your friend, go to it and sell him your share. Take your paltry twenty thousand and let old Wunpost rustle serves him right, the poor, ignorant fool!" He swayed about and Billy drew away from him, but her answer to Lapham was final.
Someone had been there before him, perhaps even that very night, for water had been splashed about the hole; but whoever it was, was gone. Wunpost studied the unshod horse-track, then he began to cut circles in the snow-white alkali and at last he sat down to await the dawn.
Here was an omen indeed, a sign without fail, for below where they circled his enemy was hiding or slipping up through the brush to shoot. We can all stand so much of superstitious fear and then the best nerves must crack Wunpost saddled his mules and struck out due south, turning off into the "self-rising ground."
But the dragons are all dead or driven to the depths of the sea, whence they rise up to chill men's blood; and those who conquer now fight only their memory, passed down in our fear of the unknown. And Perseus and Jason had gods and sorceresses to protect them, but Wunpost turned back alone.
"Another one!" raved Wunpost. "Say, you must think it's easy! I'll never find another one in a life-time. Another Sockdolager? I could sell that mine tomorrow for a million dollars, cash; it's got a hundred thousand dollars in sight!" "Well, that's what you told me when we had the Willie Meena, and now already they say it's worked out and I know Mr. Eells isn't rich.
Not ordinary, cheap field-glasses with rusty round barrels and lenses that refracted the colors of the rainbow; but exquisitely small ones, with square shoulders on the sides and quality showing in every line. She caught them up ecstatically and looked out across the Sink; and Wunpost let her gaze, though her focus was all wrong, while he made his little speech.
Well, well, glad to see you how's the bad man from Bodie? Meet my partner, Miss Wilhelmina Campbell!" He presented her gallantly and as Wilhelmina bowed she felt their hostile eyes upon her. "Like to look at our mine?" rattled on Wunpost affably. "Well, here it is, and she's a world-beater. Take a squint at that rock you won't need no glasses how's that, Mr. Eells, for the pure quill?"
These were the last days of September when the clouds which had gathered for months at last were giving down their rain; and the air, now it was humid, seemed to open every pore and make the sweat run in rivulets. Wunpost perspired, but he was happy, and as he neared the silent house he whistled shrilly for his dog.
And I don't think it's very kind of you, after all we have suffered, to speak as if we were fools. If it wasn't for that waterspout that washed away our road we'd be richer than you are, today!" "Oh, I don't know!" drawled Wunpost; "you don't know how rich I am. I can take my mules and be back here in three days with ten thousand dollars worth of ore!"
The Homestake mine produced half a million dollars, the second time they opened it up, and if the road hadn't washed out it would be producing yet and my father would be rated a millionaire. If he would sell out his claims, or just organize a company and give outside capitalists control " "Don't you do it!" warned Wunpost, who made a very poor listener, "they'll skin you, every time.
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