I have guessed--but I won't tell you what.

All I know is that your father found what he was looking for and was on the point of achieving his every dream, when something happened.
Then three men simply disappeared from the mining camp, announcing that they had failed and were going to hunt new diggings.

That was all.
One of them was your father--" "But you said that he 'd found--" "Silver, running twenty ounces to the ton on an eight-inch vein which gave evidences of being only the beginning of a bonanza! I know, because he had written me that, a month before." "And he abandoned it ?" "He 'd forgotten what he had written when I saw him again.

I did n't question him.

I did n't want to--his face told me enough to guess that I would n't learn.