Hang up your hat, Leon. Here's your
apron. Put it on and stay with us. When you cool down you can
stay right along here and take lessons in the art of being a real
man!"
Jim Ferrers strolled out of the shack, leaving the vanquished
cook in a towering rage. By degrees the expression on the fellow's
face altered. Ten minutes later he was at work---at cook's duties.
CHAPTER XV
WHY READE WANTED GOLD
Four weeks moved on rapidly. All too rapidly, in some respects,
to please Engineer Harry Hazelton.
Sheriff's officers had ridden into camp, and had scoured that
part of the country, in an effort to locate Dolph Gage and that
worthy's friends. Just where the four vagabonds were now no man
knew, save themselves.
However, another spectre had settled down over the camp. The
truth was that the young engineers were now using up the last
thousand dollars of their combined savings.
By way of income, less than fifty dollars' worth of gold and silver
had been mined.
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