Further, I now feel reasonably sure that he and I once stood on the shoulder of the big peak in the southwest and looked right up the hollow." He smiled rather grimly.
"We naturally saw nothing.

We were looking for a lake that had dried out." He lay still for a minute or two, and then broached the subject that both had held in abeyance.
"Well," he said, "what's to be done ?" "Stay here two days," advised Devine.

"Gather up a load of specimens and try to trace the vein.

Then we'll put in our stakes, and start right off for the settlement, to record as many feet of frontage as the law will allow us.

After that, you, as holding the larger share, will see what can be done about handing it over to a company, while I come back with provisions and get the assessment work put in.