12/29 I've heard Tom Gavin speak of you." Kelly shook heartily. "Oh! do ye know Tom? We've seen great times together on the plains and on the hills. It's tame as a garden since the buffalo went; they've made it another world, b'y." "Come along, Kelly, and we'll have it out at my office." As the three went out into the street they confronted a close-packed throng. The word had passed along that the marshal was being "done," and now, singularly silent, the miners waited the opening of the door. |