“How much do you want?”
“A hundred millions.”
“Good God, man, are you mad!”
“If you had permitted me to finish. I should have added—in other words, nothing. There isn’t money enough inside of Montana, let alone on top, to buy one acre of this ranch.”
“But—you know what most mines are—pockety—yours may peter out any minute.”
“All right. I take the chances.”
“The history of Butte Hill is unique. There will never be another——”
“How do you know?”
“It stands to reason——”
“Why?”