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"Well, it's a start for the kid, anyway," Bud said, leaning back and

regarding the heap with eyes shining "I helped him find it, and I kinda

feel as if I' hiood price for a half interest, as the

claims stand, don't yuh think, Cash?"

"Yeah--well, I dunno's I'd sell for that But on the shoe've got

so far--yes, five thousand, say, for the claiood haul for a kid, anyway He's got a couple of hundred

dollars in nuggets, right there on the bunk Let's see, Lovins Let Bud

have 'em for a minute"

Then it was that Lovin Child revealed a priold He held fast to one big nugget, spread his fat

legs over the reht Bud's hand aith

the other fist

"No, no, no! Tell a worl' no, no, no!" he rehter

"All right--all right! Keep your gold, durn it You're like all the

rest--o

hog-wild over it"

Cash was pouring the fine gold back into the buck skin bag and the