The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-22
CHAPTER II
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efect-and often was I0so ifritahed by the
seeming contrariness, both Of my arms and
the machine, that was tempted to kck Il to
pieces. q. al. ,t,,,ts.g.5f.s
Broener would hugh. sayiaR: 'sTake Il
easier. Sit down and Let your mind rest
There's where che nuabls lisa. Yon mind e
trying N edncats Jour body 10 Tia IlrIaccssa
toned movement, and its hard work q first.
for both teacher and scholar Dou't get
angry. Reeon6cs bow many times yes fesl
down whea yUE were erying % walk4 q.
In a few dAya mastered the rocknE. Be.
fore leaving Brcener thna 5aASissa nss: II
win leave YOU twenty oux1eess Of fixsr dssk.
Use &c when you tra6@ At Rankins, I've
'salted the claim here hezida. You do1't
know what that meansG Scattered. Stanis.
laus river gold HHas broadcast in It 80 It's
bound to Yield four Of Eve dollars . day with
easy work That'n keep up the reputation Of
the claim We must seam to be making
something here II salted IL with Tuolnaune
river dust or dust from the dry diggings the
trader would detect It. That would excite
their curiosity, and that's what we want of
all things to ward OF. -... -trrs t.--,-,..
Il want to make as quick work as possi-
bic" be continued, ''of the Bank M themoun-
tain ! don't think it's xein thatll hol4Cat
long. It's not the right formation Tbs
ledge Is the same on both sides-granite land
that's not good holding ledge for gold A
quartz vein TO hold out should lie betweeuEwo
different kinds Of rock-say. granite and
slaea How this gold bearing quartz gets,
poured In between them, as II Is apt TO de, ths
Lord only lSnowS | think ours Is q short
lived deposit-mighfy rich 30 long asit iasta,
but when it gives out it will peter all atones
like some peoples go0lness. when the temp
tation becomes too strong"
It was about the G3rst Of March when
Broener made this trip to San Francisco On
leaving, be said TO me: . ,.,,,-..,., - 49,.
Watch the Bank very carefully, but don't
touch it. | want TO do al the work on It
myself Go to 1t every day, and ksepaan
eye on all stragglers, prospeetors and lstran-
gers, and the more ragged and mo account q
man looks the more you want to look out
for him" .-..---.- l---l.
! was left alona But Ex months had
elapsed since l left Eastporks had now
time and solitude to think things and myself
over. seemed to have lived ten year, IN as
many weeks Eastport and my EastPaFt
self seemed Of some remote period i was
part ami parcel Of new life, amid new sur
roundlngs and new men-not q mere booker
on, but a watcher vitality interested in severy
movement about me, because it might deeply
affect my own fortunes r..
Above ami beyond all In my reflections
stood out this man Broener. In one serse,I
was his follower, absorbed BY him, led By
him He was entire master Of the situation
looked up to him and admired his keenneas
Of Judgment, his ease and adaptabihty toman
and circumstances, his outside appearances pf
recklessness, which seemed bat g cloak fog
the caution underneath
Yet did not feet wholly te like Brpeher
One reason was, he repelled anything Ikea
warm expression Of friendship. ssfs
Don't try 70 thank me for what you say
I've dona far you" be remarked one evening
when In certain set and 10 some extent pro-
vicusly-composed phraaeologY, Iaftemptedto
do 30. You Gws 1as iackhtng You are -
useful to ms as / am 70 yc0 We scft and tit
into each other for the time beings Some
power fashioned US TO do .. Thank that,
whatever 1t Is, not me- When things shape
themselves for US 10 part, we p .rt-accordlug
| to the same law--for our mutual advantages.
We may part friends, perhaps enemies We
can't tell wha. we shall grow into &C what
may grow into Us thAtIl make Us friendly,
Indifferent or hostile TO each othss That's
my doctrine. In plain, old-fash.oned words
its every man for himself in reality and ths
Old Scratch take The hindmost.e You donlt
like It, see You believe in fFiendshipto
the .ast and clinging to whatever yop Like
until it's In the last stage Of decay and killing
you with It's poison. You belisveIin hanging
on to a friend while he, maybe, out OF pw9
ignorance or selfshness, Is, through his weak
ness, dragging you 70 ruin along with him
l don't like STRONG people, 50 long as they
are strong / pity them II they beconas
weak. cut from cripple whom be leans
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"And how with YomsaT 1asked 9, a..
That's somewhat another affair. an .
TO women tyr1nt IN this way I, or PAahsf
the nature inSide.ot me, exees oe Q woman
who attracts my admiration-cr compels It,
rather--that she shall continue to do So If
she doesn t, cut, ths same as with men To-
remain true as it Is called, Is for me tore !.
man Lypocrite and pretend q sentiment
which Is not felt"
Broener seemed to ne "a icebeTg, glitter
ins in the sunlight and rejecting that liehk /
from a thousand pinna1leA, bat cold TO the
touch; full OF power, too, hut unpleasant to
near approach; pleasing Only 90 long as one
maintained the proper distance
Yet socially, he was ever to me most fasp
| ctnating, and when be chose could make ono
forget him as the iceberg. An educated
man, but Hos a pedant; book learned, but
nl's bookish or book ta1katiye; alive to the
pas, but as much II not more fully 50 to rhs
| present, and especially keen In seeing and
more in making others PEE tbs points iuft tie
varied array OF human nature on Bull Bar.
1t IL true much Of his conversation was IN
terlarded with the slang and common phrase
Ology Of the day. z- s.
II like" be said. 'the luxury at times ek
talking en- deshabiIle, It's hard work to feel
obliged continually to express oneself In .
dinner dress Of nouns, verbs and propositions
previously arranged for you by some old
pedant Why couldn't there be a compromise
made between book English and every day
Englishl Twould make life easier. There's
good deal of slang, too born Of necessity.
Times, eras, circumstances develop expressions
which can only belong to that time and era.
People must have th ir every day words e
they have their every day. clothes naIa s-.
IN letter from houae II was casually mem
toned that Blanche Seton had left East
port and was living, they believed In New
| York. ShO had become, IL was added, more
mysterious than ever and bad quite sun
| dered herself from EastpOrt people, From
Blanche herself heard nothing One Of her
remarkseon the evening we parted was that
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write and would like me to do the sarna
She disliked, she said, to have letters 81.
pected Of her at regular intervals by any
ope II was too much like correspOndence
by machinery. a..
About fortnight aftsr BFoeeer lsft,
stranger CANA sauntering- along the bank
and stopped at the hole from which was
taking and washing gravel / was some
what excited that day from having come on
deposit Of hard, heavy gravel lying the !
ledge and In deep, creyice II was yialding
/ richly and without aid OF any OF Broaners
Sailing" When . man knows that every
/ bucket be dumps into his head seiveH isto
wash out fifteen or twenty dollars. work aher
comes more like play. Occasionally would
| rick bit Of shot or coarse gold from the
dirt, and dirt must be very rich to show gold
on the surface. Usually that metal h ahout
the last thing to be seen. 50 marked = its ten
dency to sink underneath the lighter gravel
The stranger watched ms soma minutes IN
silence He was d man Of middle age PEAKED !
IA feature, and without frFthar, describing
bis appearance viii say only that be made
me fesl disagreeabla Tbs air felt meddiss
SONS about him felt from the moInsat
his look was fixed o. me ? danger-and 10
Enall one, .,.f .-s..,,..., .r.sss,t So.
My apprehensions were increased on seeing
that be carried hamInsr-a mineralogists
hammer, shaped expressly for breAking up
Gnaall pieces OF rock, ! knew by this be was
enc Of the new men Tsroener had feared,
who would 50 soon CONS here 70 hunt quartz
"How's't payin'F asked the strang1F.
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