Still, it costs a good deal to get out, and then it doesn't pay for the mining occasionally.

That's the trouble with the Tyee." "Still, it must pay somebody, or they would not go on," said Miss Deringham.
Alton laughed a little.

"Oh, yes," he said dryly.

"It pays a man called Hallam and some others of his kind who got up the company.
Still, sometime and somehow, I think he will be sorry he stole poor folks' money." "You," said Miss Deringham, smiling, "are an optimist, then ?" Alton gravely glanced about him, and the girl fancied she understood him as she followed his gaze from snowpeak down the great pine-shrouded hillside to the river frothing in the valley.

"I don't know, but one feels there's something beyond all that," he said.