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Show 181. He was old too-twenty eight! Mandy just turned seventeen this month. She promised-she promised, me, Bill, that she'd wait for me. A whole year of working and saving for her and just last week " "How do you know it's true? Maybe these men have the wrong Mandy." "I read it myself! There it was in the Placerville Oberserver!" Sunny shouted at Bill. Bill sat a while and then shook his head. "No telling what was in her mind Sunny. You can stay on here with Little Bill and me." "I feel like jus' clearin' out of these parts." Bill nodded, "Sunny, with spring coming on nearly everyone around here will start moving. There'll be plenty of chances to leave. You know, though, no one will even remember you were planning to get married. You and Little Bill have both lost your parents; he wanted some fun today. It about tuckered me out doing a few dance steps for him. There's going to be a string of new faces through here, and my guess is there's going to be only one thing on their minds-gold!" "I've got gold!" Sunny stood up and took off his coat. He walked around the cabin, then gradually the slouch of his pelvis took on a different angle and he said. "I'll buy me a horse!" He put out his big, square hand-stiffened it and pointed his thumb at Bill. "I've got the gold to buy me a |