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IV.
THE FINDING OF DIAMOND PAN.
"It's no good, little girl; I've seen it coming for weeks, and, now that it has come, we may as well look it in the face. It isn't nice, but we've got to. I'm frozen clean out, and I'd better strike out a new line of some sort before I have to pay with my liberty when I can't pay any longer with my purse."
"But do you mean to tell me, Tom, that such a horrible injustice as that can be possible? That just because you haven't got as much money, and can't employ as many kaffirs as Macadam and that German Jew partner of his, Grünstein, you'll not only have to lose your claim, but be fined like this to
