CHAPTER XXI

. Alkali Dust—Desolation and Contemplation—Carson City—Our

Journey Ended—We are Introduced to Several Citizens—A Strange Rebuke—A Washoe Zephyr at Play—Its Office Hours—Governor’s Palace—Government Offices—Our French Landlady Bridget O’Flannigan—Shadow Secrets—Cause for a Disturbance at Once—The Irish Brigade—Mrs. O’Flannigan’s Boarders—The Surveying Expedition—Escape of the Tarantulas

## CHAPTER XXII . The Son of a Nabob—Start for Lake Tahoe—Splendor of the

Views—Trip on the Lake—Camping Out—Reinvigorating Climate—Clearing a Tract of Land—Securing a Title—Outhouse and Fences

## CHAPTER XXIII . A Happy Life—Lake Tahoe and its Moods—Transparency of the

Waters—A Catastrophe—Fire! Fire!—A Magnificent Spectacle—Homeless Again—We take to the Lake—A Storm—Return to Carson

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