H.J.Owens and these other claim-jumpers hunted with the Happy Family and apparently gave not a thought to claims.
Miss Allen started out on the second day and hunted through all the coulees and gulches in the neighborhood of her claim--coulees and gulches that had been searched frantically two or three times before.
She had no time to make whimsical speeches to Andy Green, nor he to listen.

When they met, each asked the other for news, and separated without a thought for each other.

The Kid--they must find him--they must.
The third day, Miss Allen put up a lunch, told her three claim partners that she should not come back until night unless that poor child was found, and that they need not look for her before dark and set out with the twinkle all gone from her humorous brown eyes and her mouth very determined.
She met Pink and the Native Son and was struck with the change which two days of killing anxiety had made in them.

True, they had not slept for forty-eight hours, except an hour or two after they had been forced to stop and eat.

True, they had not eaten except in snatches.