For a few moments rampike twisted and turned the note about, trying to decipher the faint pencil-marks in the dim light. |
Old rampike saw his mood, and laying his hand on his shoulder gave him a friendly shake. |
And so saying rampike laid aside his shovel, put on his coat, and led the way down to a big tent in the middle of the mining camp. |
What if after all rampike should not be at the dug-out, or, if there, should be himself short of grub? |
This was what really happened, but to rampike and the rest it seemed that the dead wrote. |
She could see, in a broken fashion, to the very foot of the rampike, across which lay a huge fallen trunk. |