"Yes."
"The fellow at the windlass on the creek claim tells me that he is in the biggest kind of pay outside of Eldorado, but that the second claim up-stream is not up to much. He has muck."
"Yes."
"We have earth and broken rock down to the gravel."
"Yes."
"His shaft is twenty-five feet to bed-rock, and if we sank a shaft half-way between yours and mine we would find it deeper than either."
"In all probability, yes."
"Don't you see what I am driving at?"
"No," John answered bluntly.
"You've caught on to that pup up-stream there."