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And it seemed to Daylight that he had caught this flash, sensed a secret something in the knowledge and plans behind the other's eyes. "You-all know the creek better'n me," Daylight went on. "And if my share in the town site's worth a hundred to you-all with what you-all know, it's worth a hundred to me whether I know it or not." "I'll give you three hundred," Ladue offered desperately.
Daylight was certainly exceeding himself in his consummate fun-making. Steam-thawing when even wood-burning was an untried experiment, a dream in the air! "Laugh, dang you, laugh! Why your eyes ain't open yet. You-all are a bunch of little mewing kittens. I tell you-all if that strike comes on Klondike, Harper and Ladue will be millionaires.
"Still the same reasoning. No matter what I don't know, it's worth to me whatever you-all are willing to pay for it." Then it was that Joe Ladue shamelessly gave over. He led Daylight away from the camp and men and told him things in confidence. "She's sure there," he said in conclusion. "I didn't sluice it, or cradle it. I panned it, all in that sack, yesterday, on the rim-rock.
Ten days later, Harper and Joe Ladue arrived at Sixty Mile, and Daylight, still a trifle weak, but strong enough to obey the hunch that had come to him, traded a third interest in his Stewart town site for a third interest in theirs on the Klondike. They had faith in the Upper Country, and Harper left down-stream, with a raft-load of supplies, to start a small post at the mouth of the Klondike.
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