I hurt my ankle so that I haven't been able to walk far for a month, and they took advantage of it and have been prospecting around on their own account, at my expense, while I religiously marked down their time and fed them.

They have located four claims adjoining mine, and put up their monuments and done their location work in the past month, if you please, while I supposed they were working for me." "D'they locate you in on 'em ?" "Locate me--in?
You mean, as a partner?
They emphatically did not! I went up to the claims to-day, saw that they had not done a thing since the last time I was there; they had even taken away my tools.

So we tracked them, Baby and I, and found their location monuments just over the hill, and saw where they had been working.

So to-night I asked them about it, and they were very defiant and very cool and decided that they were through out here and would go to town.

They were _borrowing_ Jawn--so they said.