A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready

Project Gutenberg's A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready, by Bret Harte This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready Author: Bret Harte Posting Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #2280] Release Date: August, 2000 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND-READY *** A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND- READY by BRET HARTE CONTENTS PROLOGUE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER CHAPTER V CHAPTER IV VI PROLOGUE There was no mistake this time: he had struck gold at last! 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 recesses, yet heavy enough to drop from the point of his pick as he endeavored to lift it from the red earth. He was seeing all this plainly, although he found himself, he knew not why, at some distance from the scene of his discovery, his heart foolishly beating, his breath impotently hurried. Yet he was walking slowly and vaguely; conscious of stopping and staring at the landscape, which no longer looked familiar to him.