8/16 Do you begin to see, Jim Ferrers, where you come in? How old do you take us to be ?" "Well, you're more than twenty-one, each of you," replied Ferrers. "So, you see, in order to take out a claim we'd need a guardian, and one whom we could depend upon not to rob us. Jim, if we're to take up a mine we must have a third man in with us. Do you know a man anywhere who'd use us more honestly than you would ?" "I don't," exclaimed Jim Ferrers. |