It is a good vein, if ever there was one.

The copper there may be worth tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions!" Never had the numeration table been invested with such significance.

Trevethick's giant frame shook with emotion; his eyes literally glared with greed.
"You have been there since ?" observed Richard, interrogatively.
"Often, often," answered the other, hoarsely; "I could not keep away.
But nobody else has been there.

The place is dark and perilous; there are rats, and bats, and eerie creatures all about it.

And folks are afraid, because of the Dead Hand and the Flame." "Your hand and torch ?" "Yes.