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BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. | 199 left home till he set her down at the door of her boarding-house. He couldn’t have done it to save his life. He had caught the love-fever in dead earnest. SSS SSS CHAPTER XLII. FOUND. Mr. W—— stayed but three days in San Fran- cisco. Advertising for a foreman and hands, he was soon overrun with applicants, and had plenty to choose from—good, sober, reliable men. Good ma- terials, too, were plenty to begin with, and in just three days the great ‘“‘Occidental Book bindery” of E. W—— & Son was advertised in every paper in San Francisco, and the shop in full blast. And the same evening Mr. W—— took the Sacra: mento boat, and was speeding on his way to Oro- ville, where he was to meet the agent and banker of Wells, Fargo & Co., and take his final departure in search of the ‘‘Mountain Home,’’ which he had seen in the sketch spoken of long ago, and a copy of which was in the letter of instructions which he car- ried from our Hattie. From Sacramento by rail Mr. W—— dashed on toward Feather River, and before noon he was at | the old National Hotel, with a dozen Chinamen at — hand ready to dust him off, wash his clothes, or pick his pockets if the chance came around. From the polite clerk he soon learned the location of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s office and bank, and ina short time he was in the private office of the latter. With his letter of introduction extended, he in- troduced his name, and was met with that cordial, cS comicboo (G(e)