You'll have to find the next lot when that runs out." Weston laughed.
"I've just sufficient money to take me back to Montreal, traveling Colonist, and I must go back to see how Wannop's getting on before very long.

What are you going to do then ?" Devine looked at Saunders, who smiled at him.
"Push the adit right on, if we have to cut every foot of it with the drill," he said.

"Before we let up, we'll rip the rock out with our naked hands." It was a characteristic answer, but Weston was satisfied with it.

He had discovered that if the men of the Pacific Slope were occasionally a trifle assertive and what he called flamboyant in their conversation, they nevertheless, as a rule, meant just what they said.
It is, of course, not unusual for an imaginative person to describe what he intends to do in dramatic periods, but while some people are wisely content with that, the western bushman generally can be depended on to carry out the purpose.
They said nothing further, and presently went to sleep, with the crackle of the undergrowth through which the fire crawled ringing in their ears..