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The Gold Trail

CHAPTER XVII
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There was no longer any doubt in her mind that Weston who had turned his back on Scarthwaite was identical with Weston the camp-packer.
"Do you remember what they quarreled over ?" she asked at length.
"Yes," said Ainslie, who was inclined to wonder at her interest in the subject, "it was water-finding.

It's a thing of which you probably have never heard." "I have," said Ida.

"Won't you go on ?" "Well," continued Ainslie, "there was a tenant on this estate who was rather more badly off than the rest of them.

He had a piece of upland with rock under it, and in a dry season--though we don't often get one--it was with the greatest trouble he got water enough for his stock.

He asked young Weston to find him a likely spot to drive a well.


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