Careful, now." McTeague took the horn spoon and began rocking it gently in his huge fingers, sluicing the water over the edge a little at a time, each movement washing away a little more of the powdered quartz.

The two watched it with the intensest eagerness.
"Don't see it yet; don't see it yet," whispered Cribbens, chewing his mustache.

"LEETLE faster, pardner.

That's the ticket.

Careful, steady, now; leetle more, leetle more.