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Rolf Boldrewood. The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
Table of Contents
[1] CHAPTER I
[13] CHAPTER II
[46] CHAPTER III
[61] CHAPTER IV
[120] CHAPTER V
[147] CHAPTER VI
[170] CHAPTER VII
[190] CHAPTER VIII
[212] CHAPTER IX
[233] CHAPTER X
[254] CHAPTER XI
[275] CHAPTER XII
[288] CHAPTER XIII
[298] CHAPTER XIV
[324] CHAPTER XV
[343] CHAPTER XVI
[362] CHAPTER XVII
[395] CHAPTER XVIII
[416] CHAPTER XIX
[452] CHAPTER XX
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Rolf Boldrewood
Published by Good Press, 2021
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‘It was “a close call,” as the Yankee diggers say, ma’am! I thought I was goin’ under, many a mile from here—but I never gave in, and what [20] with the water getting better, and the weather cooler, I pulled through. Yes, Mrs.Banneret! and it was a good day for you and the children, and the Commissioner here, as I did. If poor old Jack had dropped, in that fifty-mile dry stage—I won’t say where—it mightn’t have mattered much to him. It was all in the day’s work—one more fool of a digger rubbed out. But to you, ma’am, that has always had a kind word and a bit of help for every one, and your boys and girls that’s been brought up to do the same—it will matter to the last day of your lives. You believe me, it’s God’s truth, as I’m a living man this day.’
And here the miner stood up and gazed with a far-off, dreamy look, as if beyond the place in which he stood—beyond other lands and seas—as he named a desert region as yet scarce heard of, from which even the reckless prospector often turned away, the haunt of the thirst demon and the fever fiend.
