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Copper Streak Trail

CHAPTER XV
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Here is what ye shall do: you shall go to him and say that you saw an old man sitting by his leelane, handfast to the chimney neuk; and that you are thinking I will be needin' a friendly face, and that you think ill of him for that same stiff neck of his.

Ye will be having him come to seek and not to gie; folk aye like better to be forgiven than to forgive; I do, mysel'.

That is what you shall do for me." "And I did not come to coax money from you to develop the mine with, either," said Pete.

"If the play hadn't come just this way, with the jail and all, you would have seen neither hide nor hair of me." "I am thinkin' that you are one who has had his own way of it overmuch," said McClintock.

His little red eyes shot sparks beneath the beetling brows; he had long since discovered that he had the power to badger Mr.
Johnson; and divined that, as a usual thing, Johnson was a man not easily ruffled.


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