[The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cross-Cut CHAPTER XIX 13/21
It looks like peaches and cream for you, Son.
How thick is it ?" "I don't know.
We just happened to put a drill in there and this is some of the scrapings." "You have n't cut into it at all, then ?" "Not unless Harry, my partner, has put in a shot since I 've been gone. As soon as we saw that we were into ore, I hurried away to come down here to get an assay." "Well, Son, now you can hurry back and begin cutting into a fortune. If that vein's only four inches wide, you 've got plenty to keep you for the rest of your life." "It must be more than that--the drill must have been into it several inches before I ever noticed it.
I 'd been scraping the muck out of there without paying much attention.
It looked so hopeless." Undertaker Chastine turned to his work. "Then hurry along, Son.
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