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For a month Bud worked and forced hiet Soh, but there were other tiet away by himself and walk and walk, with his rifle over his

shoulder as a ht

any back caame walked up and waited to be shot;

half the ti, much less whether

there were deer within ten rods or tenthose spells of heartsickness he would sit all the evening and

sister Cash

would sit and watch hirossed with his

own misery to notice it Then, quite unexpectedly, reaction would come

and leave Bud in a peace that was more than half a torpid refusal of his

He worked then, and talked much with Cash, and made plans for the

development of their mine In that month they had come to call it a

mine, and they had filed and recorded their claireeht" and work on it

through the winter, and when spring caible upon which to raise sufficient capital to develop it properly

Or, times when they had done unusually ith their sandbank, they

would talk optiold out of that claim to