Chapter 20
’TANA’S ENGAGEMENT“And she wants a thousand dollars in money or free gold—a
thousand dollars to-day?”
“No use asking me what for, Dan, for I don’t know,” confessed
Lyster. “I can’t see why she don’t tell you herself; but you know
she has been a little queer since the fever—childish, whimsical,
and all that. Maybe as she has not yet handled any specie from your
bonanza, she wants some only to play with, and assure herself it is
real.”
“Less than a thousand in money and dust would do for a
plaything,” remarked Overton. “Of course she has a right to get
what she wants; but that amount will be of no use to her here in
camp, where there is not a thing in the world to spend it for.”
“Maybe she wants to pension off some of her Indian friends
before she leaves,” suggested
