Then he went back to his dredging.
Little by little Rod washed down his pan.

Half an hour later he showed it again to Wabigoon.

The pebbles were gone.

What sand was left was heavy with the gleaming particles, and half buried in it all was the yellow nugget! In Wabi's pan there was no nugget but it was rich with the gleam of fine gold.
Mukoki had dredged a bushel of sand and gravel from the pool, and was upon his knees beside the heap which he had piled on the rock.

When Rod went to that rock for his third pan of dirt the old warrior made no sign that he had discovered anything.