Tom Seddon read the letter and was the happiest man in the diggings. When he came to the last line he kissed Ida again. Tom read the letter over five times, and at the close of each reading his lips approached the paper and tenderly pressed it. When he came from behind the tree, Toney had eaten all the flapjacks which had been baked. He told Toney that old Crabstick was dead and that he must go home.
"And so must I," said Toney.
"We will start to-morrow," said Tom.
"We will start from the mines to-morrow," said Toney.
"I wish you had a hundred thousand dollars," said Tom.
"I have more than a hundred thousand dollars," said Toney. "Read that." And he handed Tom a letter addressed to himself. Tom read it, and then ran to the place where his wool hat lay on the ground, and, seizing it, threw it up in the air.
"Hurrah! hurrah!" shouted Tom. "You can now marry Rosabel!"
CHAPTER XLIX.
"Our sand-hill has been sold," said Toney, after Tom had concluded his enthusiastic demonstrations.