“Pretty good,” replied the mine superintendent. “Everything is going along pretty fine. Property is getting richer all the time. We just cut a new vein that runs pretty high. How is everything in Marlin City?”
“So, so. Nothin’ much new goin’ on.”
“I heard about you and the grizzly,” smiled Devine. “Baldy Malloy sure told everybody about it. He seems to think it was the greatest thing that was ever done.”
“It was fun while it lasted,” smiled Brick.
“It must have been.” Devine shook his head. “Some folks have queer ideas of fun. Anyway, what brought you up here, Brick?”
“Oh, just to see if you had dried up and blowed away yet. You get thinner every day, Barney.”
“I knew that was why you came,” said Barney dryly. “But that wasn’t all, was it?”
“Just a little information,” confided Brick. “How much did that hold-up nick you, Barney?”
“Thirty-eight hundred dollars.”
“Uh-huh. How often do you ship by stage?”