I am to join him at Mono Lake, and we shall go on from there to-night.

He says he will find it this time, sure.

CAL." "W." meant Whiteman, of course.

That thrice accursed "cement!" That was the way of it.

An old miner, like Higbie, could no more withstand the fascination of a mysterious mining excitement like this "cement" foolishness, than he could refrain from eating when he was famishing.