[Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes]@TWC D-Link bookCopper Streak Trail CHAPTER XVII 10/61
Is that nothing ?" "You poor, blundering, meddling, thick-headed fool," said Zurich unpleasantly; "can't you see what you've done? You've locked up our best chance to lay a finger on that mine.
Now I'll have to get your Cousin Stanley out of jail; and that won't be easy." "What for ?" "So I can watch him and get hold of the copper claim, of course." "Why don't you leave him in jail and hunt for the claim till you find it ?" demanded lawyer Mitchell, willing to defer his triumph until the moment when it should be most effective. "Find it? Yes; we might find it in a million years, maybe, or we might find it in a day.
Pima County alone is one fourth the size of the State of New York.
And the claim may be in Yuma County, Maricopa, or Pinal--or even in Old Mexico, for all we know.
We feel like it was somewhere south of here; but that's only a hunch.
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