"Undoubtedly—under another name—that is, if it proves as valuable as my old partner anticipated."
"But if we can get there before him and locate for ourselves?"
"Ah, if I could do that, Dick, then I would not fear Baxter or anybody else. But if he gets in ahead of me—well, you know, 'possession is nine points of the law,' and he can at least make me a lot of trouble."
Dick sprang from the seat into which he had dropped.
"He shan't do it, father!" he exclaimed.
"But how are you going to help it, my son? I cannot go West with this sprained ankle."
"I'll go West myself and locate that claim in spite of what Arnold
Baxter has done."
"You go West?"
"Yes."
"Without me? That would be, a—well—"