A Millionaire of Rough And-Ready and Ford(2015)

Alfred Sutro

Excerpt from A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready: And Devil's Ford

It had lain there before him a moment ago - a misshapen piece of brown-stained quartz, interspersed With dull yellow metal; yielding enough to have allowed the points of his pick to penetrate its honeycombed re cesses, yet heavy enough to drop from the point of his pick as he endeavored to lift it from the red earth.

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