"I reckon we'll wake up when we get out into the sunlight." "If you'll read up," Fenton replied, "you'll find that the state of Chihuahua abounds in niter and other salts, and is rich in mines of gold and silver.

Do you really think we have come upon the deserted mine Jimmie talks about so much ?" he added, turning to Nestor.
The latter took a folded paper from his pocket and examined it under the light of the electric torch.
"It seems that we have," was the reply.

"I was not thinking much about the mine as I ascended the mountain, but now it strikes me that I unconsciously followed the directions given in this paper." "That big lobster of an Englishman was looking for the mine," Jimmie said, "and so it was natural that he should lead you to it.

I can't see how it belongs to any old estate, though," he added.

"Looks like everybody's property to me." "Perhaps it was the knowledge of the whereabouts of the mine that had value," suggested Nestor, "and not the fact of ownership.