What is "happenchance"

Usage examples of "happenchance".

At the last moment before starting Borrodaile had happened to think of an old letter from a nephew of his who had been engaged in the mining business in a camp called Happenchance, in southern Arizona.

The writer of it had died years before, and the camp of Happenchance had had its day and was now deserted and lost among the Picket Post Mountains.

What made the letter of especial interest to the professor was the fact that it gave the location of a ledge of gold, not far from the old Happenchance placerings.

Aided by a prospector named Nick Porter, Frank and his chums visited Happenchance and there found the professor.

Next day after you lads got back from Happenchance, Porter went to Gold Hill.

He was with us when we came back from Happenchance, and I remember now just how he looked when he saw a sample of the wire-gold ore.

If the professor is in Happenchance, then Blunt has some reason for following him there.

Merry had the habit, at all times, of keen and careful observation, he had made but one trip to the old camp of Happenchance, but circumstances, at that time, had conspired to fix the route to it firmly in his mind.

Turkeyfoot to came to Happenchance with him and get the goods he had left there.

This simple action, deliberate and slow, gave me to know that our meeting was not mere happenchance and he was no ordinary passerby.

If the decrees of happenchance required firmness, I would be a rock, a very fortress of resolve.

By happenchance, I noticed that you and he had a nice talk in the bar.