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vein of it You can't tell until it's developed further But it looks

good Awful good"

His makeshift tests confirmed his opinion Bud started out next day with

three different samples for the assayer, and an air castle or two to

keep him company He would like to find himself half owner of a mine

worth about a million, he ht twice about quitting hi into San Jose behind the wheel of a car like the one

Foster had fooled hi And et an eyeful He guessed the old lady would have to

shat she had said about hie in the winter to Big Basin! What was the matter with

the old woman, anyway? Didn't he keep Maria in co the street in a big new Sussex

She'd wish she had let hiht if they had been let alone He ought to have taken Marie to so at her every day about him

Marie wasn't such a bad kid, if she were left alone They ht have

been happy-He tried then to shake hihts of her That was the

trouble with hihts ride

free, any ht for Marie He could not see

why she should cling so to hisher go without one of her own free will He was the one that had been

wronged--why, hadn't they lied about hihbors? Hadn't they broke hi as Cash

see he could do was steer clear

of San Jose And whether it panned out or not, the best thing he could

do was forget that such girl as Marie had ever existed