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NOVELIZED FROM THE PLAY
BY
DAVID BELASCO
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
J. N. M A R C H A N D
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK
Copyright, 1911,
By Dodd, Mead & Co.
All rights reserved
Published, October, 1911
“In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joinedforces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude customof the camp, their very names were soon lost and unrecorded, andhere they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed, killed, loved andworked out their strange destinies in a manner incredible to us ofto-day. Of one thing only are we sure—they lived!”
Early History of California.
It was when coming back to the mines, after a trip to Monterey, that theGirl first met him. It happened, too, just at a time when her mind wasripe to receive a lasting impression. But of all this the boys of CloudyMountain Camp heard not a word, needless to say, until long afterwards.
Lolling back on the rear seat of the stage, her eyes half closed,—thesole passenger now, and with the seat in front piled high with boxes andbaskets containing rebozos, silken souvenirs, and other finerypurchased in the shops of the old town,—the Girl was mentally reviewingand dreaming of the delights of her week’s visit there,—a visit thathad been a revelation to one whose sole experience of the world haduntil now been derived from li