Judkins's story had been meaningless to him.
"He's at Snell's yet.

Bern, I hevn't told you yet thet the rustlers hev been raisin' hell.

They shot up Stone Bridge an' Glaze, an' fer three days they've been here drinkin' an' gamblin' an' throwin' of gold.

These rustlers hev a pile of gold.

If it was gold dust or nugget gold I'd hev reason to think, but it's new coin gold, as if it had jest come from the United States treasury.