You chase that whole bunch yonder back behind them rocks, where they 'll be out o' the way--the Swede an' the women.

Do it lively, an' you an' Mike stay up thar with 'em, with your guns handy.

Keep under cover as much as ye kin, for some o' them lads out thar will have glasses with 'em, and be watchin' of us almighty close.

Hurry 'long now; me an' Winston will stop yere until we find out just what their little game is likely ter be." He turned away from his partner, facing once again toward the "Independence." Then he readjusted the tubes, and passed them over to his silent companion.
"Just see what you make out o' it, Mr.Winston; ye 're some younger, an' yer eyes ought ter be a heap better 'n mine." The young engineer, his heart already beginning to throb with the excitement of an unaccustomed position of danger, ran the lenses carefully back and forth from the half-concealed bunk-house to the nearer ore-dump, searching for every sign of life.

Whatever emotion swayed him, there was not the slightest tremor to the steady hands supporting the levelled tubes.
"They have certainly got together a considerable number of men," he reported, the glass still at his eyes.