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"Fros for

business e returns I

placed ood-by, while she, brave heart, without a tear, bade me God-speed I

went there deter both

wife and child later For threeevery cent which I did not absolutely need of the

other half Then ca district still farther west,

of fabulous fortunes made in awhere I was? I hastened to thecamp In less

than a week I had 'struck it rich,' and knew that in all probability I

would within a month draw out a fortune

"Just at this time the letters fro, and half ht the

incoht, just as the train was

about to leave, I caught sight of a fore, bound for a careeted hi tones of the death of

my wife and child"

For a moment Mr Britton paused, and Darrell drew instinctively nearer,

though saying nothing

"I have no distinct recollection of what followed I was told afterwards

that friendly hands caughtcrushed beneath the wheels For threeht or care as