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192 gold that I was dreaming about hall night. I'm goin' hafter 'im and see just w'ot 'e's hup to." And he followed Healy.

"You see," said Stone to Harvey, "this news was given to us in sections by a man named Lyman who figured one would keep check on the other, and who charged us with seeing that his daughter, from whom he had separated, was found and given a fair half. Healy is to show Larkin the rock and Larkin will show us the placer-bed. That, of course, is one of these dried-up water-courses."

"Lyman?" Harvey was looking at Stone with wide-open eyes. "You mean Wat Lyman, who had two partners, Dave Sims and Lem Burden?"

"He had two partners named Dave and Lem," said Stone. "I don't know their second names. But that's the man. Did you know him?"

"I did nigh on to twenty-five years ago. Dead, is he? He was a tough chap, too. So Lyman's gone across the range? And it's his strike you're after? We all savvied he'd made one, though the three of 'em kep' their mouths shet mighty close about it. Lyman trailed farther west, I heard, but Dave an' Lem stuck around and went out to find the place. They had a bit of a row, so they went separate. And never come back. Desert got 'em, or the 'Paches, more likely."

"I think it's either Dave or Lem, or both, up there in Stone Men Cañon," said Stone.

"By the great Horned Toad, I believe yo're right!" said Harvey slapping his leg. "I never thought of it