It hasn't been tarnished by man's touch before.

I don't know how it strikes you, boys, but it seems to me that of all gifts that are going it is the straightest.

For whether we deserve it or not, it comes to us first-hand--from God!" The two men glanced quickly at the speaker, whose face flushed and then smiled embarrassedly as if ashamed of the enthusiasm into which he had been betrayed.

But Demorest did not smile, and Stacy's eyes shone in the firelight as he said languidly, "I never heard that prospecting was a religious occupation before.

But I shouldn't wonder if you're right, Barker boy.