Say--Judge Harney got into a bad mix-up, didn't he?
That young Charley Clark is a devil.

I've met him up here." With this he launched into a discussion of Butte, with inquiries as to various figures of local prominence, from which Steve was fain to escape by turning the talk on his final good luck, the sale of his mine and his rosy prospects.

For Mitchell had "crammed up" on Butte industriously.
Steve lacked his facilities, his sole source of information being certain long-past campfire tales of Neighbor Jones.
"Made it at last, did you?
Glad to hear it.

Can't keep a good man down, as the whale said to Jonah," said Mitchell heartily.

"'But with all thy getting, get understanding,'" he quoted with unctuous benevolence.