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Aye, I trow, auld Ingleby, the Liverpool packman, never came up Glasco street wi' prouder pomp when he had ten horse-laids afore him o' Flanders lace, an' Hollin lawn, an' silks an' satins frae the eastern Indians, than Satan wad strodge into Hell with a packlaid o' the souls o' proud professors on his braid shoulders. Ha, ha, ha!
Guess he's found most everything gold, copper, zinc, and platinum and never made fifty cents out of them, 'cept once when, so the boys say, a mining company fellow gave him five dollars to promise he wouldn't worry him again. Now they've orders in all the offices that if Hollin comes round with any more specimens they're not to let him in." Prescott laughed.
"Well," he said, "the end of it was that I called on some of the mining people in Vancouver it seems they knew Hollin and had had enough of him but I left one office with a check for a thousand dollars, besides retaining an interest in the claim. Hollin has gone back to see about its development." His father and sister looked as surprised as Prescott.
And then if ye be indeed sic a Lord of Glenallan as I hae heard of in my day make your merrymen gather the thorn, and the brier, and the green hollin, till they heap them as high as the house-riggin', and burn! burn! burn! the auld witch Elspeth, and a' that can put ye in mind that sic a creature ever crawled upon the land!" "Go on," said the Earl, "go on I will not again interrupt you."
Once or twice I thought of dumping my share of them, but it's fortunate that Hollin, who seemed to suspect my intentions, kept his eye on me when I got played out. You see, an assayer we took them to found that they were rich in lead and silver." Prescott's astonishment was obvious and Cyril frankly enjoyed it.
Guess your partner will be pretty safe with Hollin; but you're a plainsman and you'd sure get lost in a day or two and starve when your grub ran out." "That's right," agreed the other man. "The thing can't be done." Prescott fell in with his opinion. It would, he thought, require a number of expert mountaineers to trace the men he sought through the desolation of rock and forest to the south.
I understood they didn't mean to go back to the camp at Butler Ridge," he said. "We haven't seen their tracks, and if they were heading west, they'd have to come down this valley; but I guess nobody could tell where Hollin would make for.
"What took you up the gully and over the Bench, anyway?" the man went on. Prescott explained and then asked: "Have you come across my partner or the other fellow, Hollin?" "Never seen your partner." The man looked at his comrade and laughed. "But we know Hollin, all right. Got an idea that he's a boss prospector and froze on to the railroad job because it took him into the mountains.
And then if ye be indeed sic a Lord of Glenallan as I hae heard of in my day make your merrymen gather the thorn, and the brier, and the green hollin, till they heap them as high as the house-riggin', and burn! burn! burn! the auld witch Elspeth, and a' that can put ye in mind that sic a creature ever crawled upon the land!" "Go on," said the Earl, "go on I will not again interrupt you."
I'll try to make it worth your while." "Stop as long as you want," Steve responded. "We'll have to charge you for the grub, because we paid quite a pile for it, but we'll only strike you for your share." "Thank you," said Prescott, and the others began to talk of Hollin. "If that man would let up on prospecting he'd get rich," declared one.
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