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Evailed, and in a short time the party moved off to another place; for
Cedar Camp was getting deserted, the other claims taken up on the flat
had paid their way, but little more, and the men were off to new
discoveries, of which they had heard glowing accounts. For the next two
months no marked success attended the labours of Frank and his comrades,
they paid their expenses, and that was all. Frank enjoyed the life; he
was in no hurry to get rich, and it gave him great pleasure to be able
occasionally to give a helping hand to miners whose luck was bad, from
the fund with which Mr. Adams had intrusted him. The work was hard, but
he scarcely felt it, for his muscles were now like steel, and his frame
had widened out until he was as broad and strong as any of his
companions, and few would have recognised in him the lad who had shipped
on board the _Mississippi_ fifteen months before. [Illustration] CHAPTER
XIX. STRIKING IT RICH. TWICE the party of gold-diggers shifted their
location, each time following a rush to some freshly-discovered
locality; but no stroke of good fortune attended them. At the end of
each week a few ounces of gold remained to be added to the pile after th