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 down a foot or more lie found that the three masses were attached below by necks to one still larger mass. These heads were separated from each other by a few inches of broken quartz. He also found another lump of about twenty-five pounds' weight attached by a slender neck to the mass. This neck he cut through with his knife and a gad, and put the lump in his pouch. He also found a number of detached lumps, varying in size from a pigeon's egg to an orange.

At noon he built a little fire at which he broiled some meat, and made a dinner of meat and bread he had brought in his pouch.

By careful measurements and calculations he determined that he would have to cut each of the three masses or heads in two before he could handle them alone. He must work alone, for he concluded to keep the mine a secret, even from his brothers, for a time. At first he had thought of sharing the mine with them, but as the possible vastness of the wealth occurred to him, certain vague plans began to outline themselves in his mind—plans for changing the face of a considerable part of the world—plans in which he wanted no equal