"It seems all right," Ralph said at length.
"Ay, it's right enough, but I wish we had known earlier."
"It would have saved us a good many anxious and painful hours."
"Never mind. All's well that ends well."
"Oh, we haven't got to the end yet," Ralph said, with a laugh. "If that lode turns out a frost, we shall wish that somebody else had got the place."
"Never!" William said, almost vehemently.
"No?"
"I shall never regret we've got it, or rather that you have, though there isn't an ounce of tin in the whole place."
"Why not?"
"I don't know. One cannot give a reason for everything. But I have a feeling that this opens up a fresh page in the life of both of us."