Any one learned in the matter would immediately have known the real miner.

'Now if you like to see a mine we will go down, and then you can do as you like about your money.' They started forth, Crinkett leading the way, and entered the engine-house.

As they went he said not a word, being aware that gold, gold that they could see with their eyes in its raw condition, would tempt them more surely than all his eloquence.

In the engine-house the three of them got into a box or truck that was suspended over the mouth of a deep shaft, and soon found themselves descending through the bowels of the earth.

They went down about four hundred feet, and as they were reaching the bottom Crinkett remarked that it was 'a goodish deep hole all to belong to one man.' 'Yes,' he added as Caldigate extricated himself from the truck, 'and there's a precious lot more gold to come out of it yet, I can tell you.' In all the sights to be seen about the world there is no sight in which there is less to be seen than in a gold-mine.