He drew nearer and stood beside him, so that their shoulders touched as they leaned over the rail.
"Alan," said Stampede, "it ain't often I have a big thought, but I've been having one all night.

Ain't forgot Bonanza, have you ?" Alan shook his head.

"As long as there is an Alaska, we won't forget Bonanza, Stampede." "I took a million out of it, next to Carmack's Discovery--an' went busted afterward, didn't I ?" Alan nodded without speaking.
"But that wasn't a circumstance to Gold Run Creek, over the Divide," Stampede continued ruminatively.

"Ain't forgot old Aleck McDonald, the Scotchman, have you, Alan?
In the 'wash' of Ninety-eight we took up seventy sacks to bring our gold back in and we lacked thirty of doin' the job.

Nine hundred thousand dollars in a single clean-up, and that was only the beginning.