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The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER XIX
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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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