James D. Hague 



to deal. On one occasion, when I 

 had repeatedly written to him, in se- 

 rious mood, asking for a much-needed 

 remittance of money, he replied, at 

 last, in an otherwise empty but very 

 gracious and amiable letter, briefly 

 explaining why he could not possibly 

 send the desired funds, and subscrib- 

 ing himself, in good faith, " Unremit- 

 tingly yours, C. K." 



Many years ago when King was in 

 the West and near a then very im- 

 portant mine, in which some of his 

 Eastern friends were largely inter- 

 ested, he received from one of these 

 owners a telegram, asking him to 

 visit the mine immediately and wire 

 the results of his examination, espe- 

 cially with regard to an alarming 

 rumor that the value of the vein had 

 been much impaired by finding in it 

 a very large " horse," which is a 

 miner's term for a body of worth- 

 less rock that sometimes displaces 

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