The young gold hunters had been fairly successful but not nearly as much so as they wished. The chamois bag held about four hundred dollars' worth of dust, which meant a hundred dollars each for the partners.
"Good enough wages," said Bob. "But I came out here to win my fortune."
"And so did I," answered Mark, and then asked the question, "Well, where shall we try our luck next?"
"This district seems about used up," said Si. "I move we go to some other place."
"A man told me yesterday things looked good over to a place called Three Cross Gulch," said Maybe Dixon. "If you want to try it over there, say the word, and I'll be with ye."
"How far is that from here?" questioned Mark.
"He said about twenty miles."
"Then we will have to give up the cabin."
"That is so, too, but we didn't expect to stay here all the time, anyway."
"Of course we didn't."