"I suppose, Steve, we did wisely in coming on?"
"What else could we have done, Ned?"
"Yes, that's it. What else could we have done? And yet—"
"And yet?" repeated Steve questioningly. "What is your trouble, Ned?"
"Do you remember my saying, when I bought the claims, that with Cruickshank under our eyes all the time we should have a good security for our money?"
"Yes, and now you have let him go. I see what you mean; but you can rely upon Roberts, can't you?"
"As I would upon myself," replied Corbett shortly. "But still I have broken my resolution."
"Oh, well, that is no great matter; and besides, I don't believe that the colonel would do a crooked thing any more than we would."
"He-he! He-he-he!"