"What can you do? It seems to me that you've had enough of that place already."
"So I have, but not of the girl. My, she's worth riskin' one's neck for. But, say, Dan, what are you doing out here?"
"Prospectin', of course. What else would I be doin'?"
"Strike anything?"
"Not yet, though I've good prospects in sight, 'specially since you've arrived."
Seeing the look of surprise in Curly's eyes, Dan laughed.
"Yes," he continued, "I'm prospectin' in the same way that you are.
I'm after Jim Weston's gal."
"You are!" Curly's face brightened. "How long have you been at it?"
"Oh, fer about a week. Ye see, I got into the same scrape that you did, an' was pitched this side of Golden Crest, with strict orders to head fer Big Draw at once."
"An' did ye?"