Theodore Seixas Solomons

“ Most of the freighters had arrived with their stores of building materials and merchandise—all the diversified paraphernalia of a brand-new, booming mining camp of the northern placer fields. With the arrival of each new craft at the landing, whether it were canoe, poling boat, or slender barge, new white tents sprang up on the flat, goods were piled up, men, and not a few women rushed about, entering into “deals” of all sorts—buying or leasing lots, contracting for log buildings, or earnestly discussing, and often squabbling over, “lay” agreements to work ground on the creek. ”

“ Collins waited to see if no one else would answer, and then volunteered: “I think he's up in the timber somewhere with the cutting gang.”
“I wonder what he knows about this thing?” queried Manners hesitantly.
“Oh, nothing, of course!” said Slim Jim quietly.
“It's going to be rather embarrassing if we talk to Ticely frankly,” warned Mamners. “We should have to give away the—the men who got some of the information.”
“You're right, judge,” agreed Tholmes. “We don't want to do that, if we can help it. ”

“ In a sense, we had no right to that information.”
“Didn't we, though!” challenged Collins. “When a man acts the way he did ue
“It may be all right yet,” put in Colwell hopefully. “Perhaps the big pay is in some of the other holes. Here he is now, I guess.” Footsteps sounded among the chips outside.
“Hullo, boys, what's up?” greeted Ticely amiably, as he and Redbank entered.
“Why, just this, Mr. Ticely,” began Manners. “Yesterday and to-day the men have been drifting in both the drained shafts and have made a thorough test of the gravel and bed rock. ”