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"Wonder th' little idiot didn't rowled Arthur

"Oh, I coaxes him on with th' letters froh"

The three men fell into a discussion of various specimens of quartz

which they took from their pockets, and, after what seemed to be an

interirl looked at her coasped, "what have you done?"

"Made a fool ofto do about it?"

"I don't know"

He knit his brows deeply She cast about for an expedient

"I wish I knew !" she cried "I know there is so it, but I don't know

how you do it"

He did not reply

"There must be some way out of this," she went on, all alert "They

haven't done anything yet Why don't you go down to camp and inquire?"

"Every man would be in the hills in less than an hour I couldn't trust

them," he replied brusquely

"Oh, I know!" she cried with relief "You s, and you could rely on him"

"Jio at once; don't wait a

whatever to do with that man," he said deliberately