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...Farmer Cantiant shuffled up to ask, "What about my cows?" Before he could speak, Atomicist Dautry was gone...
Disillusion dogged the trail of Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-Niners. Farmer Lucien Cantiant's cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing...
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