8/26 "You made no allowance for my loyalty and I made none for your scruples. As a result, Mr.Johnson has established a stalemate, held a parley, and bought off our warriors. They've been taken in on the copper find, on some small sharing, while we, in quite another sense of the word, are simply taken in. Such," observed Mr.Dewing philosophically, "is the result of inopportune virtues." "Bosh! I told you all along," said Anderson heavily, "that there's no mineral in the Gavilan. I've been over every foot of it--and I'm a miner. |