"Look at you two---engineers already! Then look at me---more'n twice as old as either of you, and yet I'm only a cook." "You're an honest man, aren't you, Jim ?" demanded Reade.
"Why, there's some folks who say I am," Ferrers slowly admitted.
"And we're among those who believe that way," Tom continued.
"Now, Jim, you're with us, and you've every right to be a partner if we find anything worth taking up in the mine line." "But there ain't no sense in it," protested the guide, his voice shaking with emotion.

"You don't need me." "We need a man of your kind, Jim," Tom rejoined, resting a very friendly hand on the guide's shoulder.

"Listen to me.

Hazelton and I are engineers first of all.

We'd sooner be engineers than kings.