“What’s that?” cried Jerry.
“I hope no accident,” murmured Tinny.
They were reassured a moment later when one of the men came rushing in, his face alight with joy, and, as he held out some specimens, he cried:
“Pay dirt, boss! Pay dirt! We’ve struck the richest vein I ever saw! Leftover is going to run five thousand dollars to the ton!”
“Hurray!” cried Tinny.
“Hurray!” shouted the Motor Boys.
Professor Snodgrass looked out of the room where he kept his specimens.
“Did you see another pseudotinea?” he asked, blinking through his spectacles.
“No,” answered Jerry softly, and the little scientist went back to his notebooks and specimens.
Of course the streak of pay dirt, or ore, uncovered in Leftover did not assay five thousand dollars to the ton, or anything like that. But the mine did prove valuable, and the Motor Boys telegraphed home the good news together with word of the finding of the treasure chest of Blue Rock.