The boys just built their houses where they felt like it; and since then they have been so busy about other things--croquet, music, embroidery, antelope hunting, and the like--that they haven't had time to think about town lots or town sites, or anything of that sort." Barkley's eyes gleamed.

"That will simplify matters very much," said he.
"You really do need local counsel," Dan Anderson observed.

"On the contrary of that, it will complicate matters very much." "Well, we'll see about that," rejoined Barkley, grimly.

"We'll see if a little mining camp can hold up a railroad corporation the size of this! But why don't you put your money in your pocket?
It's yours, man." Dan Anderson slowly picked up the bills, folded them, and tucked them into a pocket.

"This," said he, "is a great deal more than the entire circulating medium of Heart's Desire.