"So you gave it up ?" she said.
"Yes," said Alton, "for a time, and I had my hands full with other things when Jimmy went back again.

He had piled up a few dollars and left the woman behind him.

He took the trail with a good outfit and a pack-horse, but he didn't come down again, and when Mrs.Jimmy got anxious I went up to look for him.

It was a good while before I found him sitting under a pine, and he had found the silver, though it wasn't much use to him." "Was it a rich vein ?" said the girl.
"Yes," said Alton solemnly, "I think it was, from the specimens he had brought along, but, and it's difficult sometimes to see why things should happen that way, he couldn't tell me where it was.

Jimmy was dead, you see." The girl shivered visibly.