"I've got only one word of advice for you: don't take any hand in this affair, except as a peacemaker, for if you do, you are going to get hurt.

Now, Bill Lacy, I'm ready to talk with you.

I was down in your shaft last night." The saloonman lit a cigar and leaned back in his chair.
"I ought to have thought of that, Westcott," he admitted.

"Still, I don't know that I give a damn." "The work hadn't been left in very good shape, and I found the cross tunnel and measured it.

You are within a few feet of my vein.