"But this time you take me wrongly.

I meant no mockery.

I ask you, in good faith, for your opinion.
What ought to be done to retrieve the false step ?" "Could we find this treasure-trove by a painstaking search of the hills ?" asked Zurich doubtfully.

"It's a biggish country." "Man," said Eric, "I've prospected out there for fifteen years and I've scarce made a beginning.

If we're to find Johnson's strike before Johnson makes a path to it, we have a month, at most.