They had lain dusty and unoccupied for two years, so every surface had to be scrubbed, whitewashed, and disinfected before the necessary furnishings could be installed. His coat and hat and that gold-headed walking stick he always carried are gone, and I think there was a smallish portmanteau which was not there. eatureswhich it was proper to see, along with the Ophir and Gould and Currymines, and the new hundred-stamp quartz-mill. Buteight days later, when he had returned, there was still no decision.
Only, I seem so poorly able to put my thanks into words. I particularly enjoy that hour of the evening, when the light lies like a wash of gold across the desert and sparkles on the distant river. He adds that Orion had promised him fifty or one hundred dollars, butthat he does not depend upon it, and will make other arrangements. One of these was an old compositor who had held a case inthat office for many years.
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