I stayed away from the Upper Country because I knew crowds of men would come from the States, and I feared that he might be among them; but it's no use hiding any longer, there's no other place for us to go.

If Lee has got a mine, I'll have the one next to it, for we will be the first ones on the ground.

What happens after that won't matter much, you four will be provided for.

We are to leave in an hour, one at a time, to avoid comment." "But why did this man stop here ?" insisted the woman.

"Why did he not stay on the steamboat and go to Dawson ?" "He's a friend of Lee's.