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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Mammoth" to the "Calistoga." I had tried to get Rufe to
call it after his wife, after himself, and after Garfield,
the Republican Presidential candidate of the hour - since
then elected, and, alas! dead - but all was in vain. The
claim had once been called the Calistoga before, and he
seemed to feel safety in returning to that.
And so the history of that mine became once more plunged in
darkness, lit only by some monster pyrotechnical displays of
gossip. And perhaps the most curious feature of the whole
matter is this: that we should have dwelt in this quiet
corner of the mountains, with not a dozen neighbours, and yet
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