I worked on the details." "Rough!" burst out the first speaker.

"I should say it was--might as well have burglared his safe.

They have been working up this game for months, so Charley told me.

Then they gave out that the lode had petered out and they threw it overboard and everybody with it.

They said they tried to find Charley to post him, but he was out of town." "Who tried ?" asked Jack, with renewed interest, edging his way close to the group.