She
looked a mere girl. Let's see--five years ago--she couldn't have been a
day over twenty three. She looked barely twenty. Her swift glance swept
over the group of miners at the hotel door, and then rested on the
mountains standing in all their autumn glory.
'I was proud of our mountains that evening. Turning to her husband, she
exclaimed: "O Lewis, are they not grand? and lovely, too?" Every miner
lost his heart then and there, but all waited for Abe the driver to give
his verdict before venturing an opinion. Abe said nothing until he had
taken a preliminary drink, and then, calling all hands to fill up, he
lifted his glass high, and said solemnly--
'"Boys, here's to her."
'Like a flash every glass was emptied, and Abe called out, "Fill her up
again, boys! My treat!"
'He was evidently quite worked up. Then he began, with solemn emphasis--
'"Boys, you hear me! She's a No. 1, triple X, the pure quill with a bead
on it: she's a--," and for the first time in his Black Rock history Abe
was stuck for a word.
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