"Then in that case," stated Wunpost, "I don't get _anything_--and I'm the man that discovered it! But I'll tell you, my merry men, there's another law yet, when a man is sure he's right!" He tapped his six-shooter and even Lynch blenched, for the fighting light had come into his eyes. "No," went on Wunpost, "you can't work that on me. I found this mine and I'm going to have half of it or shoot it out with the bunch of ye!" "You can have my share," interposed Wilhelmina tremulously, and he flinched as if struck by a whip. "I don't want it!" he snarled. "It's these high-binders I'm after. You, Dusty, you don't get anything now. If this big fat slob is going to claim half my mine, you can _law_ us--he'll have to pay the bills. Now git, you old dastard, and if you horn in here again I'll show you where you head _out_!" He waved him away, and Dusty Rhodes slunk off, for a guilty conscience makes cowards of us all; but Judson Eells stood solid as adamant, though his lawyer was whispering in his ear. "Go and see him," nodded Eells, and as Lapham followed Rhodes he turned to the excited Wunpost. "Mr. Calhoun," he began, "I see no reason to withdraw from my position in regard to this claim. This contract is legal and was made in good faith, and moreover I can prove that I paid out two thousand dollars before you ever located a claim. But all that can be settled in court. If you have given Miss Campbell a third, her share is now a sixth, because only half of the mine was yours to give; and so on with the rest, though if Mr. Rhodes' claim is valid we will allow him his original one-third. Now what would you say if I should allow _you_ one-third, of which you can give Miss Campbell what you wish, and I will keep the other, allowing Mr. Rhodes the last--each one of us to hold a third interest?" "I would say----" burst out Wunpost, and then he stopped, for Wilhelmina was tugging at his arm. She spoke quickly into his ear, he flared up and then subsided, and at last he turned sulkily to Eells. "All right," he said, "I'll take the third. I see you've got me cinched." CHAPTER VII MORE DREAMS