Slinn was on the point of telling him his good fortune, but stopped. The unlucky question confirmed his consciousness of his physical and mental disturbance, and he dreaded the ready ridicule of his companion. He would tell him later; Masters need not know WHEN he had made the strike. Besides, in...
Where The Great Highway Of The Sierras Nears The Summit, And the pines begin to show sterile reaches of rock and waste in their drawn-up files, there are signs of occasional departures from the main road, as if the weary traveller had at times succumbed to the long ascent, and turned aside for re...
Harkutt, Proprietor, Glanced At The occupation of the speaker as if even his foresight might have its possible drawbacks, but he said nothing. "Why don't YOU build it?" asked Wingate, carelessly. As this remark seemed to have a personal as well as local application, the storekeeper diplomatically...