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But Cash did not take the challenge "Did the report coh that was the only

Bud pulled the letter sullenly fro while Cash opened and read and returned it

"Yeah About what I thought--only it runs lighter in gold, with a higher

percentage of copper It'll pay to go on and see what's at bed rock If

the copper holds up to this all along, we'll be figuring on the gold to

pay for getting the copper This is copper country, Bud Looks like we'd

found us a copperin

to quite a rich streak of sand while you was gone," he volunteered after

a silence "Coarse gold, as high as fifteen cents a pan I figure we

better work that while the weather's good, and run our tunnel in on this

other when snow comes"

Bud turned his head and looked at Cash intently for a minute "I've been

drunker'n a fool for three days," he announced solemnly

"Yeah You look it," was Cash's dry retort, while he stared straight

ahead, up the steep, shadowed trail