"Roughs the most of them look to be, from their clothes.

The largest number are grouped in between the shaft-house and the dump, but there must be a dozen or fifteen down below at the edge of those cedars.

Farnham is at the shaft-house--no, he and another fellow have just started down the dump, walking this way.

Now they have gone into the cedars, and are coming straight through.

What's up, do you suppose--negotiations ?" "I 'm damned if I know," returned the old miner, staring blankly.
"This whole thing kinder jiggers me.