All the
boys have been doing well at it; better than they ever did before--and
even Munro there, and Rivers, who have never been very fond of work,
neither of them, have been pretty busy ever since; for, as I tell you,
we were making a sight of money, all of us. Well now, somehow or other,
our good luck got to the ears of George Dexter and his men, who have
been at work for some time past upon old Johnson's diggings about
fourteen miles up on the Sokee river. They could never make much out of
the place, I know; for what it had good in it was pretty much cleaned
out of it when I was there, and I know it can't get better, seeing that
gold is not like trees, to grow out every year. Well, as I say, George
Dexter, who would just as lief do wrong as right, and a great deal
rather, got tired, as well as all his boys, of working for the fun of
the thing only; and so, hearing as I say of our good luck, what did they
do but last night come quietly down upon our trace, and when Jones, the
old man we kept there as a kind of safeguard, tried to stop 'em, they
shot him through the body as if he had been a pig.
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