I don't know how thick the vein is or whether it's going to pinch out in ten minutes after we strike it.

But I 'll know mighty soon." Every cent that Robert Fairchild possessed in the world was in his pockets,--two hundred dollars.

After he had paid his men for their three days of labor, there would be exactly twenty dollars left.

But Fairchild did not hesitate.

To Farrell's office he went and with him to an interview, in chambers, with the judge.