Chapter I: Front Matter

SILVER AND GOLD

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE FIGHTING FOOL:

A Tale of the Western Frontier

Cloth, 12mo. with a wrapper drawn by Edward Borein

$1.75 net

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

NEW YORK

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SILVER AND GOLD

A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp

by

DANE COOLIDGE

Author of "The Fighting Fool" Etc.

"Gold is where you find it, and Silver in high places."
--_Miners' Saying_.

New York E. P. Dutton & Company 681 Fifth Avenue

Copyright, 1919 By E. P. Dutton & Company All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Ground-Hog 1
II. Big Boy 7
III. Hobo Stuff 16
IV. Cash 23
V. Mother Trigedgo 33
VI. The Oraculum 42
VII. The Eminent Buttinsky 53
VIII. The Silver Treasure 61
IX. Bible-Back Murray 72
X. Signs and Omens 81
XI. The Lady of the Sycamores 92
XII. Steel on Steel 100
XIII. Swede Luck 108
XIV. The Strike 119
XV. A Night for Love 128
XVI. A Friend 138
XVII. Broke 147
XVIII. The Hand of Fate 154
XIX. The Man-Killer 161
XX. Jumpers--and Tenors 170
XXI. Broke Again 180
XXII. The Rock-Drilling Contest 189
XXIII. The Heart of his Beloved 200
XXIV. Colonel Dodge 210
XXV. The Answer 219
XXVI. The Course of the Law 231
XXVII. Like a Hog on Ice 238
XXVIII. Parole 245
XXIX. The Interpretation Thereof 251

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_THE PROPHECY_

"You will make a long journey to the West and there, within the shadow of a Place of Death, you will find two treasures, one of Silver and the other of Gold. Choose well between them and both shall be Yours, but if you choose unwisely you will lose them Both and suffer a great disgrace. You will fall in love with a beautiful woman who is an artist, but beware how you reveal your affection or she will confer her hand upon Another. Courage and constancy will attend you through life but in the end will prove your undoing, for you will meet your death at the hands of your Dearest Friend."

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