You-all'd better reconsider and go in with me on it." But they were stubborn.
"You're as bad as Harper and Joe Ladue," said Joe Hines.

"They're always at that game.

You know that big flat jest below the Klondike and under Moosehide Mountain?
Well, the recorder at Forty Mile was tellin' me they staked that not a month ago--The Harper & Ladue Town Site.

Ha! Ha! Ha!" Elijah and Finn joined him in his laughter; but Daylight was gravely in earnest.
"There she is!" he cried.

"The hunch is working! It's in the air, I tell you-all! What'd they-all stake the big flat for if they-all didn't get the hunch?
Wish I'd staked it." The regret in his voice was provocative of a second burst of laughter.
"Laugh, you-all, laugh! That's what's the trouble with you-all.
You-all think gold-hunting is the only way to make a stake.