What are you going to do, now that we don't seem able to find the gum ?" "It's a difficult question," Harding answered in a troubled voice.
"I'd hate to go back, with nothing accomplished and all my money spent.
Marianna's paying for this journey in many ways, and I haven't the grit to tell her we're poorer than when I left.

She wouldn't complain; but when you have to live on a small commission that's hard to make, it's the woman who meets the bill." Blake made a sign of sympathy.

He had never shared Harding's confidence in the success of his search, and had joined in it from love of adventure and a warm liking for his comrade.
"Well," he said, "I have no means except a small allowance which is so tied up that it's difficult to borrow anything on it; but it's at your disposal, as far as it goes.

Suppose we keep on with our prospecting." "If Clarke's mortgage doesn't stop me, I might raise a few dollars on my farm," Benson volunteered.

"I'll throw it in, with pleasure, because I'm pretty deep in your debt." "Thanks," Harding responded.