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grew frigid and the trouble began to 
brew. 
While perfectly willing to watch the 
logomachy when it should arrive, I had 
no wish to take part. I was willing to 
make money, but not to make enemies, 
so Nimrod and I removed ourselves as 
much as possible from the Cartersville 
Hotel, took long walks and rides over 
the glorious Chihuahua Mountains, 
poked around the abandoned mines, 
spied out the deer and mountain lion 
and the ubiquitous coyote and all the 
indigenous beasts and birds of the air 
thereof. We usually managed to ar- 
rive at the mine when the partners and 
their wives were elsewhere. 
The mine, ovr mine, was a long hori- 
zontal hole in the mountain, with a 
tiny leaf-choked stream trickling past 
the entrance, heavy timbers propping 
