[The Three Partners by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Partners PROLOGUE 54/76
And we might call it 'The Rest of the Three Partners,' or 'Three Partners' Rest.'" "And you might begin by giving us one," said Stacy.
"Dry up and drink your coffee." "I'll draw out the plans.
I've got it all in my head," continued the enthusiastic Barker, unheeding the interruption.
"I'll just run out and take a look at the site, it's only right back of the cabin." But here Stacy caught him by his dangling belt as he was flying out of the door with one boot on, and thrust him down in a chair with a tin cup of coffee in his hand. "Keep the plans in your head, Barker boy," said Demorest, "for here are the pack mules and packer." This was quite enough to divert the impressionable young man, who speedily finished his dressing, as a mule bearing a large pack-saddle and two enormous saddle-bags or pouches drove up before the door, led by a muleteer on a small horse.
The transfer of the treasure to the saddle-bags was quickly made by their united efforts, as the first rays of the sun were beginning to paint the hillside.
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