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That night Bud shared Cash Markha

he cooked the breakfast while Cash Markham rounded up the burros and

horses In that freemasonry of the wilderness they dispensed with

credentials, save those each man carried in his face and in his manner

And if you stop to think of it, such credentials are not easily forged,

for nature writes the old dame who

will never lead you far astray if only she is left alone to do her work

in peace

It transpired, in the course of the forenoon's travel, that Cash Markham

would like to have a partner, if he could find a uessed that he was fastidious in thehis companions,

in spite of the easy way in which he had accepted Bud By noon they had

agreed that Bud should go along and help relocate the 's claiht do a little prospecting on their own

account It was a country he had long wanted to get into, he said, and

while he intended to do what Mrs Thoainst their prospecting on their own account And

that, he explained, was one reason why he wanted a good

If the Thompson claim was there, Bud could do the work under the

supervision of Cash, and Cash could prospect