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Show .72. a l l that rock and sagebrush-" "And gold, B i l l , " Olaf tapped B i l l ' s shoulder. "They get i t f i r s t . We're a long way doxm the l i n e . Now I'm not s a y i n ' I ' d live close to Grizzly Peak for anything!" "Ahhhh Grosheswere crazy to build up there just to get the screenin' first-'cause they get a lot more of that damned blue-stuff too." said Lunch Mouth. "Now that ' b l u e - s t u f f you're cursin' is just what those two brothers have been interested in'.' said Kunz "They can have i t ! Just a l i t t l e of that in your gold and the price ya get goes right doxm." Lunch Mouth said. "Kunz, who told you that Allen was interested in that--" Bill asked. "Richard Bucke, the young fellow the Groshes brought back from Mud Springs to work for them this summer; he says they were alx^ays in their rock house boiling something secret up before Hosea died. Wouldn't t e l l him nothin' about i t ." "Must think they have something, staying over this l a t e ." Olaf .said", "Always have travelled to Sacramento in the f a l l ." "Think-yeah t h a t ' s a l l i t is so far. Don't even ever come in here for Saturday night. They're broke is my guess-flat broke." "You're right there Jake." Kunz said. "Allen's stayin1 on now and is screenin' daylight to dark to pay the John-toxmers the sixty dollars he borrowed to bury Hosea." "Come spring," Bill said, "I'm going up there " "Not to live Bill?"Lunch Mouth asked. Bill shook his head. "Im s-taying right where I built, my cabin." |
