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were helping the others to shore up the 
treacherous entrance, so that such a 
stirring thing could not happen again. 
There is not much more totell. I 
believe that the tunnel is still there, bor- 
ing its way into the heart of the moun- 
tain, where, perhaps, the lovely yellow 
gold is; but we no longer refer to it 
as ours, and Nimrod still has to work 
for our daily jam. For the insolence ot 
Mrs. Frisco in leaving Mrs. Kansas 
stranded in the snow and obliging her 
to walk home on the cave-in day de- 
veloped the brewing storm into such 
proportions that the next day their hus- 
bands did not speak as we gathered 
round the morning coffee. And the 
Kansases moved away into one of the 
other five houses in Cartersville. Mr. 
Kansas was not “ going to see his wife 
insulted by an upstart —not he: he’d 
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AOCOMMMIAMY ZEOL > 
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