I'll bet you never got an injunction against those eight men," she hazarded, leaning toward him with her eyes sparkling as the subject absorbed all her thoughts.

"I'll bet anything he kept you fiddling around until those fellows all filed on their claims.

And now it's got to go till the case is finally settled in court, because they are technically within their rights in making lawful improvements on their claims.
"Grant," she said, and her voice nearly betrayed her when she spoke his name, "was sure they faked the gold samples they must have used in filing.

We both were sure of it.

He and the boys tried to catch them at some crooked work, but the nights have been too dark, for one thing, and they were always on the watch, and went up to Shoshone in couples, and there was no telling which two meant to sneak off next.