I'm telling you this, because you'll probably be reasonable now that you understand the thing.

Light out and don't make trouble, and you'll still hold quite a strip on the lead." "Give us a minute or two to think it over," said Devine.
"In the meanwhile you'll stop just where you are," Saunders broke in.
The man waved his hand as though he conceded that point, and Devine turned to his companion.
"I've only one excuse to make.

When I staked off the claims, I was in a feverish hurry to prove the lead and get down and record," he said.
"Now, that's not an educated man, but he's got the hang of this thing as clearly as a surveyor could have done.

It's evident that the man who hired him has drilled it into him, and, what is more, has warned him that he's to make no unnecessary trouble.

We're to be bounced out of rather more than half our claim, but it's to be done as quietly as possible.