Besides, I imagine we'll get down to the deep vein before the funds run out." "I hope so! You're not a quitter, and we'll hold on while we can, but I think we'll talk about something else.

Well, I've examined the specimen of ore you brought back.

It looks like high-grade stuff and certainly carries enough metal to pay for smelting." "What do you think about Strange's tale ?" Scott knitted his brows.

"I did think the man a drunken crank and the lode an illusion that had grown on him by degrees until he really believed in the ore.

When you get the tanking habit such things happen.
One specimen certainly doesn't prove very much; but since Strange gave it to his daughter a long time before we knew him, I'm willing to revise my judgment." "Miss Strange is persuaded that he did find the lode.