SILVER AND GOLD

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

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

CHAPTERPAGE

I.The Ground-Hog1

II.Big Boy7

III.Hobo Stuff16

IV.Cash23

V.Mother Trigedgo33

VI.The Oraculum42

VII.The Eminent Buttinsky53

VIII.The Silver Treasure61

IX.Bible-Back Murray72

X.Signs and Omens81

XI.The Lady of the Sycamores92

XII.Steel on Steel100

XIII.Swede Luck108

XIV.The Strike119

XV.A Night for Love128

XVI.A Friend138

XVII.Broke147

XVIII.The Hand of Fate154

XIX.The Man-Killer161

XX.Jumpers–and Tenors170

XXI.Broke Again180

XXII.The Rock-Drilling Contest189

XXIII.The Heart of his Beloved200

XXIV.Colonel Dodge210

XXV.The Answer219

XXVI.The Course of the Law231

XXVII.Like a Hog on Ice238

XXVIII.Parole245

XXIX.The Interpretation Thereof251

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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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