If the La Rosita gang push their drift in, and strike that same vein, they will claim original discovery, and I reckon they'd make it stick.

I didn't suppose Lacy had the slightest idea we had struck colour.

Nobody knew it, but you and I, Jose." "Never I say a word, _senor_." "I am sure of that, for I know exactly where the news came from.

Lacy spilled the beans in a bit of misunderstanding we had last night down in Haskell.

My letters and telegrams East to Cavendish went wrong, and the news has come back here to those fellows.