nd immediately called up all thirsty souls present.

Those outside the door entered with the caution of veterans in an
enemy's country, and with a bashfulness that was painful to contemplate.
They stood before the bar, they glanced cautiously to the right, and
gently inclined their heads backward, until only a line of eyes and
noses were visible from the cashier's desk.

Then the judge raised his green glasses a moment, and smiled benignantly
on the new cashier as he raised his liquor aloft; then he turned to his
party, and they drank the toast as solemnly as if they were the soldiers
of Miles Standish fortifying the inner man against fear of the Pequods.
Then they separated into small groups, and conversed gravely on subjects
in which they had not the slightest interest, while each one pretended
not to look toward the cashier, and each one saw what the others were
earnestly striving to do.

But when the judge settled the score, and chatted for several minutes
with the receiver of treasure, and the lady--young, and rather pretty,
and quite pleasant and modest and business-like--laughed merrily at
something the judge said, an idea gradually dawned upon the bystanders,
and within a few moments the boys feverishly awaited their chances to
treat the crowd, for the sole purpose of having an excuse to speak to
the new cashier, and to stand within three feet of her for about the
space of a minute.

Great was the excitement on the Creek when the party returned, and
testified to the entire accuracy of London George's report.

Every one went to the saloon that night--there _had_ been some games
arranged to take place at certain huts, but they were postponed by
mutual consent.

Even the Dominie--an ex-preacher, who had never yet set foot upon the
profane floor of the saloon--appeared there that evening in search of
some one so exceeding hard to find that the Dominie was compelled to
make several tours of all the tables and benches in the room.

Chestnut himself, when questioned, said she had come by the way of the
Isthmus with her father and mother, who had both died of the Chagres
fever before reaching San Francisco--that some friends of her family and
his had been trying to get her something to do in 'Frisco, and that he
had engaged her at an ounce a day; and, furthermore, that he would be
greatly obliged if the boys at Quicksilver wouldn't marry her before she
had worked out her passage-money from 'Frisco, which he had a