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The text is set in Eyrie, a mining camp that once had dance halls, saloons, gambling houses and a jail, came back to life when the hardrock men arrived, and then emptied out. Cabins sag, grass grows in the streets and saplings push up beside the porch of the Eyrie House. A blurb says that two old-timers have hated each other for years and meet twice a day in the deserted camp to speak and part.

In the pages sampled, one of the two men is a hardrock man who is ashamed to wash sand in a cradle but does it for a steady four or five dollars, and who keeps faith that the barren rock lies above the mother lode. They go down for supplies hostilely and come back as enemies, season after season. In another passage Jake and Bill compare notes about dust that went missing, and Jake asks what they ever fussed about.

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Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975), an American novelist, screenwriter and inventor who wrote mainly science fiction. He wrote short stories and articles in very large numbers and won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1956. His books include "Space Platform" and "Talents, Incorporated".

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Author: Murray Leinster
Reading time: About 20 minutes
Pages: 10
Language: English
Genre: Frontier
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online