Grouse. (Looks meaningly.) Oh, indeed!
Pay S. I mean fur your sake, Mollie. Say, it’s awful nice to call you Mollie, savvy?
Grouse. Jim, ye’re silly. Why don’t you try to think.
Pay S. I jist can’t when you are hyur. You think.
Grouse. Well, where do you guess Vance is?
Pay S. You didn’t meet him goin’ to town, so he must ’a gone over the mountain to look at the Jumbo.
Grouse. Then I’ll tell ye what to do. You take the gun an’ meet him an’ say that the jumpers are after pap’s claim again over in the basin.
Pay S. He’ll want me to go ’long then.
Grouse. Tell him you are goin’ back to camp fur more men.
Pay S. I’ll be cust! The very thing. (Gets gun.)