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These two women had _ husbands, 
who had entered into a mining scheme 
together. The man from Frisco was a 
good-looking, well-educated, jovial fel- 
low, with the purses of several rich 
friends to back him up, and with a 
great desire to replenish his purse with 
the yellow metal direct, rather than to 
acquire it by the sweat of his brow. 
He was many other things, but, to be 
brief, he was a promoter. The man 
from Kansas had the pride of the un- 
educated, and a little money, and was 
also not averse to getting rich fast. 
Nimrod, the third partner, likewise 
encumbered with a wife on the spot, 
desired to make 47s everlasting fortune, 
retire from the painting of pictures and 
the making of books, and grub in the 
field of science and live happily ever 
after. 
