Still, you drove off those jumpers, for which you have my thanks; and I want in due time to get back the money most of you owe me." "You can count on that, boys," said another of them.

"It's a dead sure thing." The storekeeper disregarded this.
"Well," he continued, "we'll get to the point of it.

It's kind of easy finding a gold-mine when you've a friend of my kind to put you on to it, but it's quite often a blame hard thing to keep it.

Now, you'll have men from the cities wanting to buy you up, offering you a few hundred dollars for the claims you've struck, and if you're fools you'll take it.

If not, you'll hold off until the Grenfell Consols go up on the market and then give us first call on buying the lot.