What would you do, Mr.Bradlaugh?
Go over to Gold Hill and try to pick up some clews there ?" "That might be advisable; just at present, however, I have another line of investigation in mind.

I don't suppose you have forgotten Nick Porter, the old prospector who took you out to the deserted camp in the Picket Posts ?" Clancy began to laugh.
"It's a cinch," said he, "that we'll never forget old Silent Porter and his whisky bottle.

I suppose he used the fifty dollars Chip paid him to grubstake himself, and that he's now, in the deserts looking for a mine ?" "That's what he wanted the fifty for," answered Bradlaugh, "but after he got it he seems to have delayed going into the hills.

Next day after you lads got back from Happenchance, Porter went to Gold Hill.

The spree he had there on that fifty has been the talk of the town.