Now we propose to take you in with us, and claim the blind lead in our three names.

What do you say ?" What could a man say who had an opportunity to simply stretch forth his hand and take possession of a fortune without risk of any kind and without wronging any one or attaching the least taint of dishonor to his name?
He could only say, "Agreed." The notice was put up that night, and duly spread upon the recorder's books before ten o'clock.

We claimed two hundred feet each--six hundred feet in all--the smallest and compactest organization in the district, and the easiest to manage.
No one can be so thoughtless as to suppose that we slept, that night.
Higbie and I went to bed at midnight, but it was only to lie broad awake and think, dream, scheme.

The floorless, tumble-down cabin was a palace, the ragged gray blankets silk, the furniture rosewood and mahogany.
Each new splendor that burst out of my visions of the future whirled me bodily over in bed or jerked me to a sitting posture just as if an electric battery had been applied to me.

We shot fragments of conversation back and forth at each other.