“I do.”
Tom looked well pleased.
“You have come to ask me to keep my promise.”
“Yes. Your offer was a very kind one. On the strength of it we have given our claims at Howe’s Gulch to a stranger, who came to our cabin last night penniless.”
“Then I shall be helping him, too. Are you ready to go to work at once?”
“Yes; that’s our hope.”
“The place where I made my pile is fifteen miles away. Are you good for a long walk?”
“I am,” answered Grant.
“I will try to keep up with you,” said Tom Cooper, smiling.
“My claim was on a creek at the base of a hill, about a mile from a village called Eldora. In the pocket of yonder coat I have drawn, roughly, a plan of the place, which will be a sufficient guide.”