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And they had generally assumed most singular names for themselves: 'The Old Stick-in-the-Mud Soft Goods Store, 'The Polyeuka Stout Depot, 'Number Nine Flour Mills, and so on, all of which were very unintelligible to our friends till they learned that these were the names belonging to certain gold-mining claims which had been opened in the neighbourhood of Nobble.
He in his search for gold had been uniformly successful, was spoken of among the Nobble miners as the one man who in gold- digging had never had a reverse. He had gone away just before the bad time came on Polyeuka; and then had succeeded, after he had gone, in extracting from these late unfortunate partners of his every farthing that he had left them! There was ample cause for animosity.
One couldn't nobble the man, and still I didn't intend that he should read that Recipe. So, being unable to make up my mind to any other course of proceeding, I just cowered quietly where I was and awaited developments. As it turned out, these were not very long in coming. Weems had lifted up his voice to get rid of his guide, and the guide, in eloquent Minorquin, was refusing to understand.
Then Caldigate said that they did intend to go on to Ahalala. 'We're going to have a spell at gold-digging, said he. What was the use of making any secret of the matter? 'We knowed that ready enough, said one of the men. 'Chaps like you don't come much to Nobble for nothing else. Have you got any money to start with? 'A few half-crowns, said Dick, cautiously.
Still they accomplished it and at length, quite exhausted, crept to the very point, where they hid themselves between some stones at the water's edge. Here they waited for three long hours, but no boat came. "All up a gum-tree now, Major," said Jeekie. "Old blackguard, Fanny, bolt and leave us here, and to-morrow morning Asika nobble us.
'Of course I do, said Caldigate, giving his hand to the second man, who was rougher even than Crinkett. 'I hope he will come up also. This is my uncle, Mr. Babington; and this is my father-in-law, Mr. Bolton. 'These were two of my partners at Nobble, he said, turning to the two old gentlemen, who were looking on with astonished eyes.
While Dick Shand's 'shout' was being consumed, Caldigate asked one of his new friends where Mr. Crinkett lived. Was Mr. Crinkett known in Nobble? It seemed that Crinkett was very well known in Nobble indeed. If anybody had done well at Nobble, Mr. Crinkett had done well. He was the 'swell' of the place. This informant did not think that Mr. Crinkett had himself gone very deep at Ahalala. Mr.
She then turned a dark, disapproving gaze upon me which told another, and I could have laughed aloud. "They want to nobble my poor little Contessa for brother-aëronaut, and they don't countenance chance meetings with strange young men," I said to myself, greatly amused.
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