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Fifteen h up in the

hills, where a creek flowed down through a saucerlike basin under

beetling ledges fringed all around with forest, they ca cabin whose dirt roof still held in spite of

the snows that heaped upon it through e showed

the scars of old prospect holes, and in the sand of the creek they found

"colors" strong enough to make it seem worth while to stop here--for

awhile, at least

They cleaned out the cabin and took possession of it, and the next time

they went to town Cash made cautious inquiries about the place It was,

he learned, an old abandoned claim Abandoned chiefly because the old

miner who had lived there died one day, and left behind hi died from starvation, s had revealed old save a little

coarse dust in a se," detailed the teller of the

tale "He'd pecked around that draw for two, three year old much, for all the time he spent there Trapped some in