"I hope you don't mind if I stay," Arnold said, moving some loose stones to make her seat more
comfortable. "You have the prior right to-day, but this is an old haunt of mine. I feel as if I were
doing the honors; and to
tell you the truth, I am rather used up. The new workings are very hot and the drifts are low. It's a
combination of steam-bath and hoeing corn."