He couldn't miss it; man at the hotel would drive him out there.

There was, of course, a foot of snow on the ground, which was frozen hard, but they had provided for that and had cut a lot of cord-wood, intending to stay till spring.

The Englishman could have the wood to thaw out the ground." "The Englishman went and found everything as the two prospectors had said; thawed out the soil in half a dozen places; scooped up the dirt and every shovelful panned out about twelve hundred to the ton.

Then he came back and paid the money; that was the last of it.

Began to dig again in the spring--and not a trace of anything." "What was the matter ?" asked Breen.