7. My wife and I had
had our differences, of course.
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8. But no
more than anyone else.
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9. We'd been
working the claim at the gold fields for about six months.
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10. With no luck,
of course, and we'd sometimes disagreed about what we should do next.
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11. I was
all for giving up.
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12. Tossing
it in, selling the claim and trying something new.
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13. I kept
telling him, "Let's get out while we can."
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14. But not
Tom.
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15. Lived on the hope
that he'd strike it lucky some day.
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16. Well,
now his luck's run out; and mine, too, by the look of things.