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country." "And the dismal desert. Why, you romantic young dreamer! You'll never see a place south of here half so beautiful." "But what's the good of its being beautiful if we can't live upon it?" "Then you'd be glad to go?" "Oh yes, sir," cried Ned. "Humph! Well, Bourne, it seems then that you and I will have to go back to England empty and alone." "No, you won't, father," said Chris quickly. "I shouldn't go without you went too." "And I shouldn't either, father," said Ned huskily, as he went and stood behind his father with his hands resting on Bourne's shoulders. "Here, I wish you two young fellows had held your tongues," said Griggs roughly, "because it's like filling a man full of pleasure, and then making a hole and letting it all out again. But it's all right, lads, and thankye all the same. No, you can't go away and leave your two dads; it wouldn't be right, and you couldn't expect to prosper if you did. But I wish they'd think as we do, and say they'd go and chance it. Raally, doctor, and raally, Mr Bourne, I'd go to bed and sleep on it. P'r'aps you'd feel a bit different in the morning. What do you say?" The doctor was silent for a few moments, gazing full in the American's face, the latter receiving the look without blenching. "Let me see, Mr Griggs," he said; "I've known you nearly four years, haven't I?" "Four years, four months, doctor, and that's just as long as I've known you." "Yes," said the doctor, at last. "Bourne, what do you say to all this-- shall we go and sleep on it?" The two boys caught hands and gazed hard at Ned's father, who was also silent for a few moments, before he drew a deep breath and said firmly-- "Yes, Lee, old friend, I say let us go to rest now, think deeply, and as we should, over what may mean success or failure, and decide in the morning what we ought to do." "Shout, boys," cried Griggs, springing up. "Not one of your English hoo-roars, but a regular tiger--_ragh_--_ragh_--_ragh_! That's your sort. They mean to go." "Yes, Griggs, old neighbour," said the doctor; "in spite of all the terrible obstacles I can see plainly in our path, I feel that to-morrow morning my friend and I will have made up our minds that this is too great a thing to give up easily, and that we shall decide to go." CHAPTER SEVEN. ALL FOR GOLD. It was not until the doctor rapped sharply at the wooden partition that separated the boys' from the me
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