The minute the girl's back was turned upon them she cast a cautious eye around the clattering throng and leaned forward.
"Four men--men with a little capital--are going into it, and pay Fred and the professor for doing their assessment work.

Four five-hundreds will make two thousand dollars that we'll get out of them, just for looking after their interests.

And we'll have our twenty acres apiece of timber--and you've no _idea_ what a tremendous lot of money that will bring, considering the investment.

Fred's worked so hard lately that he's all run down and looks miserable.

The doctor told him the mountains would do him a world of good.