"Of course, sir, I told him of his mysterious disappearance."
"Do you know I half-way hoped you would hear something of old Huck at W——."
"No, I heard nothing of him there."
"And none of the stock-tenders had seen him?"
"They did not speak to me of having done so."
"Well, he is gone, that is certain; but you have begun well, Harding, and I hope may keep it up."
"Thank you, Landlord Larry, I hope that I will, for I have an abiding faith in the belief that I will live to be an old man."
"I hope so sincerely," said the doctor, who had been an attentive listener to the conversation between the young miner and Larry.
"They say at W——, Doctor Dick, that if I go under, you will be the only man who will dare drive the coach through."
"And I will not do it unless we are doomed to be cut off from all communication, and I see that Last Chance will be ruined, from fear of traveling the trail to it," said Doctor Dick decidedly.