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"I'm glad to see you," he said, repeating his welcome. "I wonder I didn't hear you comin'. Have you been long in Californy?" "Well onto a year," said the one who seemed the elder of the two. "How is it with you, stranger?" "I have been here about as long," answered Bradley. "Ben has only just come out." "What luck have you had?" pursued the questioner. "Good and bad.
"I been lettin' you shoot off your head so's you'll be good and sore afterward. I always wanted a piece of paper money any way for a keepsake. You wait!" He went into the cabin and returned with a tarnished gold piece and a box of forty-five cartridges. "Here, stakeholder!" he said to Johnson. Then, to Bill: "Now, then, old Californy you been all swelled-up and stumping me for quite some time.
"Keep your sittin'," said the stranger, with a warning wave of his hand. "Wait till I'm through, and then you call in the hull State o' Californy, ef ye want." The stranger's manner was so doggedly confident that Mrs. Wade sank back tremblingly in her chair. The man put his slouch hat on his knee, twirled it round once or twice, and then said with the same stubborn deliberation:
This time it was Will Banion's hand that was suddenly extended. "Take her secret an' take her advice then," said Bridger after a time. "Ye must git in ahead to Californy. Fust come fust served, on any beaver water. Fer me 'tis easy. I kin hold my hat an' the immigrints'll throw money into hit. I've got my fortune here, boy. I can easy spare ye what ye need, ef ye do need a helpin' out'n my plate.
But you may or may not know that for the present you are honest, hard-working miners, the backbone of the State of Californy, and that you have formed yourselves into a company called the 'Blue Jay, and you've settled yourselves on the Bar below Heavy Tree Hill, on a deserted claim of the Marshall Brothers, not half a mile from where the big strike was made five years ago.
"Yep." Then the freighter perceived the interest he had created, and promptly became expansive. "From the Æolian Musical Corporation, Highfield, Californy. To order of William Henderson, shipped to wife of same, Barnriff, Montana. Kind o' musical around these parts?" "Wal, we're comin' on comin' on nicely," observed Silas, winking at his friends gathered round.
There's a tur'ble lot of water running loose here, but I've seen the time and place where even what is in that drip would be worth a gold mine. That was in the emigrant days. They used to come over south of here, through what they called Emigrant Pass, on their way to Californy.
But it worked, and I got her off, and wot's more I got her shipped to Mazatlan, where she'll join Marion, and the two are goin' back to Virginy, where I guess they won't trouble Californy again. Ye know now, deary," he went on, speaking with difficulty through Mrs.
"You're are losing flesh, Gloriana," said I, noting her sunken cheeks and glittering eyes. "In a good cause," she replied fervently. "Anyways, ther ain't a happier woman than me in the state of Californy! Well, I'm most thro' with my sewing, an' I'd like ter show ye both what I've done, but " "We've have been waiting for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly.
They became quite pals, these two perhaps two as lonely men as you could find in all lonely New York. "I guess you ain't a New Yorker, huh?" Mike said. "Me? No." "Th' most of the folks in th' buildin' ain't." "Ain't!" Hosea Brewster was startled into it. "They're artists, aren't they? Most of 'em?" "No! Out-of-town folks, like you. West, East an' Californy, an' around there. Livin' here, though.
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