The Gilded Age


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stuff."  
"
Well, it does look encouraging, sure enough--but then the lacking  
indications--"  
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I'd rather we had them, Mr. Sterling, but I've seen more than one good  
permanent mine struck without 'em in my time."  
"
"
Well, that is encouraging too."  
Yes, there was the Union, the Alabama and the Black Mohawk--all good,  
sound mines, you know--all just exactly like this one when we first  
struck them."  
"
Well, I begin to feel a good deal more easy. I guess we've really got  
it. I remember hearing them tell about the Black Mohawk."  
"I'm free to say that I believe it, and the men all think so too. They  
are all old hands at this business."  
"Come Harry, let's go up and look at it, just for the comfort of it,"  
said Philip. They came back in the course of an hour, satisfied and  
happy.  
There was no more sleep for them that night. They lit their pipes, put a  
specimen of the coal on the table, and made it a kind of loadstone of  
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