How can they guess you found a solid mountain of the stuff ?' "'Sufferin' cats!' says I.'Then is every play I make--henceforth and forever, amen--to be gaumed up by a mess of hirelin' bandogs?
Persecutin' Stan was all very well--but if they take to molesting me any, it's going to make my blood fairly boil! Is some one going to draw down wages for makin' me mizzable all the rest of my whole life ?' 'No such luck,' says Petey.

'Your little ore package was taken from the mail as part of the system of pesterin' Stanley--but, once the big boss-devil glued his bug-eyes on that freeworkin' copper stuff, he throwed up his employer and his per diem, and is now operating roundabout on his own.

They take it you might have papers about you showing where your claim is--location papers, likely.

That's all! These ducks, here, want to go through you.
Nobody wants to kill you--not now.

Not yet--any more than usual.