"I might have said being clubbed down." "I want to get the thing quite straight," said Stirling.

"What made you take up this mine ?" "Mr.Weston's representations.

I think I attached as much weight to them as I did to the specimens.

I felt that was a man that I could put my money on." "You feel that now ?" "I do," Wannop admitted.

"In fact, it's hard to believe he will be beaten, though the rest of us are going back on him." Stirling nodded in a manner which might have meant anything.
"So your stock is being sold down ?" he said.