"Ach so, Colonel. Bacon a dollar a pound, and you will trade yourself for the richest gold-mine in Cariboo and me! Danke schön," and she curtsied to him laughingly.
"As you please, Lilla. But will you bet me that I don't know where your creek is?"
"I know you don't know anything about it, except what I told you last fall."
"Don't be too sure. You'd better trust me, Lilla. It isn't the other side of the Frazer in the Chilcotin country, is it?"
"I told you so much, and then—"
"It isn't up at the head of the Chilcotin?"
"On which bank?"
"The right."
"Ach so! I knew you didn't know," and then the girl stopped, and for a moment suspicion looked out from her simple blue eyes. Lilla wasn't quite sure whether her dancing partner had not been trying to pump her.