Casey is absolutely natural; he goes out after life without waiting for it to come to him, and he will forget all about his own interests to help a stranger,--and above all, he builds his castles hopefully as a child and seeks always to make them substantial structures afterwards.

If any man can prove my theory, that man is Casey Ryan.

So I led him along to say what dream held him now.
"Unfinished?
Sure it's unfinished! I quit, didn't I tell yuh?
It ain't goin' to be finished till I git out and find that mine.

I been studyin' things over.

I never seen one of them lights till I started out to find Injun Jim's mine.