[Burning Daylight by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookBurning Daylight CHAPTER IX 10/18
Who-all's got faith to come along with me ?" There were no volunteers.
Instead, laughter and jeers went up. "Mebbe you got a town site up there," some one suggested. "I sure have," was the retort, "and a third interest in Harper and Ladue's.
And I can see my corner lots selling out for more than your hen-scratching ever turned up on Birch Creek." "That's all right, Daylight," one Curly Parson interposed soothingly. "You've got a reputation, and we know you're dead sure on the square. But you're as likely as any to be mistook on a flimflam game, such as these loafers is putting up.
I ask you straight: When did Carmack do this here prospecting? You said yourself he was lying in camp, fishing salmon along with his Siwash relations, and that was only the other day." "And Daylight told the truth," Carmack interrupted excitedly.
"And I'm telling the truth, the gospel truth.
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