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Updated: June 11, 2025
The father who has fallen short of his child's trust and confidence knows that look. To Duncan its appeal was irresistible. He had his hand in his pocket, clutching the still considerable remains of what Kellogg had termed his grubstake, before he knew it. "But there must be some mistake," Graham repeated pleadingly. "It can't be Mr. Lockwood surely wouldn't "
The Thompson claim, too, had not justified any enthusiasm whatever. They had found it, had relocated it, and worked out the assessment for the widow. Cash had her check for all they had earned, and he had declared profanely that he would not give his share of the check for the whole claim. They would go on prospecting, using the check for a grubstake, That much they had decided without argument.
"Burton is the best of Gerald's old gang, Hiram," said Clancy, as the two walked in the direction of the Bolingbroke House. "That ain't a-sayin' a heap in his favor." "He's a whole lot better than Bob Katz." "Not much in that, nuther. But you won't have no chance to grubstake Burton, Clancy. He won't show up in the mornin'."
A taste's enough till we get to a camp to-morrow. Handy, those camps, for prospectors needin' a grubstake. Let's camp over there by that lonesome yucca palm. He looks as if he wanted company. Maybe he'll whisper where they's gold to-night if we keep on ear awake. He-he! Oh, they whisper lots lots lots! But they always lie like sin!"
"You will have me sunstruck yet, if you wear those clothes around here. What is up, anyway?" "A lot of us boys are going to the Klondike," said the red-headed boy, as he took a big hunting knife out of a sheath, "and I came in to see if you would grubstake me.
A man who could not buy his own grubstake to-day might "own the earth" to-morrow. Before darkness came MacLeod's Settlement, seething with restless humanity for a few hours, was again pouring itself out into the wilderness in many erratic streams.
"It was a grubstake, that's all I knew, giving him half of what I staked in exchange for what I could eat; but it turned out afterwards it was like these fire insurance policies, where a man never reads the fine print. There was more jokers in that contract than in a tinhorn gambler's deck of cards he had me peoned for life and after I'd given him half my strike he came out and claimed it all.
If I let you buy out, they will all want to buy out that is, if they've happened to find a mine and the result will be that there'll be trouble and litigation every time I claim my rights. When you were wasting my grubstake I never said a word, because that, in a way, was your privilege; and now that, for some reason, you are stumbling onto mines, you ought to recognize my rights.
For his provisions were running low. He had no money. He needed a good grubstake and companions to help him hold down the claim against jumpers before he could begin development work. He hurried back to the Bruncknow house. An attack of chills and fever, brought on by his night among the rocks, gave him a good excuse to leave the place. The climate, he said, did not agree with him.
"Oh, is that Judson Eells?" broke in Billy quickly and Wunpost nodded his head. "That's the hombre," he said his voice waxing louder, "he's one of these grubstake sharks. He came to Nevada after the Tonopah excitement with a flunkey they call Flip Flappum.
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