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CHAPTER IX THE AWAKENING
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Early the next morning Corporal Thomas came into the store and found Necia tending it while Gale1 was out. Ever since the day she had questioned him about Burrell, this old man had taken every occasion to talk with the girl, and when he asked her this morning about the reports concerning Lee's strike, she told him of her trip, and all that had occurred.
"You see, I'm a mine-owner now," she concluded. "If it hadn't been a secret I would have told you before I went so you could have been one of the first."
"I'm goin', anyhow," he said, "if the Lieutenant2 will let me and if it's not too late."
"So that's how you and he made it?" he observed, gazing at her shrewdly. "I supposed you went with your father?"
"Oh, no! We beat him in," she said, and fell to musing4 at the memory of those hours passed alone with Meade, while her eyes shone and her cheeks glowed. The Corporal saw the look, and it bore out a theory he had formed during the past month, so, as he lingered, he set about a task that had lain in his mind for some time. As a rule he was not a careful man in his speech, and the delicacy5 of this manoeuvre6 taxed his ingenuity7 to the utmost, for he loved the girl and feared to say too much.
"The Lieutenant is a smart young fellow," he began; "and it was slick work jumpin' all those claims. It's just like him to befriend a girl like you—I've seen him do it before—"
"What!" exclaimed Necia, "befriend other girls?"
"Or things just like it. He's always doing favors that get him into trouble."
"This couldn't cause him trouble, could it, outside of
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n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等) | |
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casually
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musingly
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westward
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almighty
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scent
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canine
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