a mine—gold one preferred? We, \y | 
of course, had the chance of our lives, 9 
and who knows what might have hap- 
pened if only the fat woman and the 
lean woman had not gotten jealous of 
each other, and thereby wrecked the 
company ? 
The gold is, or is not, in the fastnesses 
of the earth as before, but where, oh, 
where, is the lean woman of lineage 
and the fat woman of money? The 
lean woman had quality. She was the 
daughter of somebody who had done 
something, but, unlike Becky Sharp, she 
had not been successful in living 
richly in San Francisco on nothing a 
year. Nobody knows whose daughter 
the fat woman was, but in her very 
comfortable home in Kansas that had 
not mattered, and, besides, she had 
saved a few hundreds. 
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