Law. It’s not a bad name, either.
Pay S. Becherlife it aint. Some sense in it. Now if they’d called me Lonesome Mose as they do that inexorable cuss over in Tenderfoot Gulch I’d a killed a few of them jist to change my luck.
Law. I hear you boys have struck it rich.
Pay S. Bigger’n a four-hoss team an’ band wagon, stranger.
Law. Let me see, what is your partner’s full name?
Pay S. Vance! Harvey Vance! The boys call him “Old Silence” ’cause he says mighty little an’ don’t talk no minin’ guff about his claims.
Law. Where does he hail from?
Pay S. Illinois.
Law. Where is he to-day? I believe I know him.