"Do you really expect to find gold?" asked Sinclair curiously.
"Certainly I do. Others have, and why shouldn't I? I am willing to work hard."
"Do you think you'll come home rich?"
"I hope so."
"I have a great mind to ask father to let me go with you," said Sinclair unexpectedly.
"You wouldn't like it. You haven't been brought up to work," said Tom, rather startled, and not much pleased with the proposal, for Sinclair Hudson was about the last boy he wished as a companion.
"Oh, I wouldn't go to work. I would go as a gentleman, to see the country. Wait a minute; I will run in and ask him."
So Sinclair ran into the house, and preferred his request.
"That's a wild idea, Sinclair," said his father quickly.
"Why is it? I'm as old as Tom Nelson."