“Blumpitty & Co.”
“And are they giving claims away?”
He looked at Mrs. Mar, quite unruffled by her tone. “The Company’s got more’n it can work. And the Company knows where there’s good property nobody’s taken up yet.”
“Who’s in the Company?”
“Me and Mrs. Blumpitty, and her folks, and my folks, and most of our party.”
“Oh, just a family affair,” said Mrs. Mar, with a slighting intonation.
“Very few besides jest ourselves. We didn’t want a lot of outsiders.”
From Harry’s covert smile you gathered this was a new view of the way to float a mining company. “Why don’t you?”
“We seen what happens too often,” said Blumpitty warily.