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Updated: May 23, 2025
"'In the first place, says the man, 'you want to know who I am. I'm sole lessee and proprietor of this tribe of Indians. They call me the Grand Yacuma, which is to say King or Main Finger of the bunch. I've got more power here than a chargé d'affaires, a charge of dynamite, and a charge account at Tiffany's combined.
"'He says, says McClintock, 'that the people not know that gold-dust will buy their things. The women very mad. The Grand Yacuma tell them it no good but for keep to make bad spirits keep away. "'You can't keep bad spirits away from money, says I. "'They say, goes on McClintock, 'the Yacuma fool them. They raise plenty row. "'Going! Going! says I. 'Gold-dust or cash takes the entire stock.
"He draws aside a silk fibre curtain in a corner of the room and shows me a pile of buckskin sacks. "'Forty of 'em, says Shane. 'One arroba in each one. In round numbers, $220,000 worth of gold-dust you see there. It's all mine. It belongs to the Grand Yacuma. They bring it all to me. Two hundred and twenty thousand dollars think of that, you glass-bead peddler, says Shane 'and all mine.
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