Theodore Seixas Solomons

“ Manners did so, very slowly—and realized as he read them that in no express terms had Ticely made claim of a rich strike.
“I expect those fellows up, by the way,” remarked the sender of the telegrams. “And when they come, I think they'll be satisfied that while this creek is no bonanza, as yet, it's a mighty good prospect for men who are willing to work for a living instead of expecting to buy a Klondike for a few hundred dollars!” ”

“ The other members of the company, he explained, wanted him to hear it, anyhow—if Ticely and Waring were willing to subject themselves to a formal hearing—and had asked that their statements be reduced to writing.
“I told them—sure,” said Ticely to his partner.
“It suits me,” assented Waring.
The room had filled with scowling men. Joan, quite pale, sat at a small table, with a stenographer's book and pencil, and took down her father's examination of the debonair king of Midas Creek. ”

“ Waring, who stood at Ticely's side, his face as nearly expressionless as he could hold it, turned slowly and looked at his partner anxiously, as the elder man replied: “I had such a diary, yes. I think I had been rummaging among my things trying to find something, and doubtless the diary turned up among those things.”
“It ran like this, didn't it?” Manners read from a small sheet of paper. “'January 3d. Bottom gravel, eighty-five cents; coarse, also very fine, and brighter than the creek; bed rock, twenty-two dollars to sixty dollars; scraped pan, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. ”

“ Manners had earnestly counseled forbearance; and though he knew that, as a petty justice, he had no sufficient jurisdiction to legally try the issue of a criminal charge, even if the men would have brooked the delays of a formal court proceeding, he had declared his willingness to conduct a hearing the next day which should have something of the character of a regular trial. ”

“ I certainly claimed to have made no big strike, though.”
Manners produced copies of the telegrams, in code and decoded, and handed them to Ticely, who merely remarked that whatever might be true of the imaginations of “some people in Nome,” it could not be denied that they were highly gifted sneaks. ”