He did, so help me! You don't realize how free an' easy an' beautiful everything is until you're busted." Smiling, his odd face almost boyish behind its ambush of hair, he saw the grim look in Alan's eyes and about his jaws.

He caught hold of the other's arm and shook it.
"Alan, I mean it!" he declared.

"That's why I think money is a fool thing.

It ain't _spendin'_ money that makes me happy.

It's _findin'_ it--the gold in the mountains--that makes the blood run fast through my gizzard.