"When a man goes round borrowing he finds out that the folks who have got the dollars like to keep them.

That's why I'm going up to look for Jimmy's silver mine." Miss Deringham shivered a little.

"Winter is coming on," she said.
"The last man who looked for it was frozen--and there is Carnaby." The girl's pulses throbbed a little faster as she spoke, and there was nothing in the man's face which escaped her attention.

Again the curious glint became apparent in his eyes, and the warm bronze a little deeper in tint.
"I might raise some dollars on Carnaby, but I don't want to," he said.
Miss Deringham had seen sufficient, and decided to change the topic.
"So you intend to find the silver ?" she said.
"Yes," said Alton simply.

"I feel I have got to do that--first." There was a significant silence, and the girl leaned back in her chair, conscious without resentment that the man was watching her.