The others had evidently stayed to hear the legal harangue to a
close.
"Say, Stanley says there's four beside the fellows we saw," Jack
announced, rather breathlessly, for he had been running through
the loose, heavy soil of the garden to overtake them. "They've
located twenty acres apiece, he says--staked 'em out in the night
and stuck up their notices--and everyone's going to STICK.
They're all going to put in grizzlies and mine the whole thing,
he told dad. He just the same as accused dad right out of
covering up valuable mineral land on purpose. And he says the
law's all on their side." He leaned hard against the stable, and
drew his fingers across his forehead, white as a girl's when he
pushed back his hat. "Baumberger," he said cheerlessly, "was
still talking injunction when I left, but--" He flung out his
hand contemptuously.
"I wish dad wasn't so--" began Wally moodily, and let it go at
that.
Good Indian threw up his head with that peculiar tightening of
lips which meant much in the way of emotion.
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