However, suppose you come up and look at the mine.
The journey's not so rough now we have broken the trail and put up rest-shacks at the camps." "Thanks," said Allott.

"I hoped you were going to ask me." They started in a few days and Allott spent a week at the mine.

On the evening before he left, he sat talking with Thirlwell in the shack.

The frost was arctic outside, but the night was calm, and the corner they occupied by the red-hot stove was comfortable.
"What about Helen's money ?" Allott asked.

"I'm not a miner, but the assay reports look remarkably good, and I imagine you'll get over your engineering troubles." "The financial troubles are the worst," Thirlwell rejoined.
"Then why not take the money ?" Thirlwell pondered.