|13|When Adam awoke he saw that Dismukes had breakfast steaming on the fire.
“I’m on my way to-day,” announced the prospector. “What’ll you do?”
“Well, I’ll hang around Tecopah as long as I can stand it,” replied Adam.
“Humph! That won’t be long, unless you got in mind somethin’ like you did at the Donner Placers, down in the Providence Mountains.”
“Friend, what do you know about that?” queried Adam.
“Nothin’. I only heard about it.... Wansfell, do you pan any gold?”
“Sometimes, when I happen to run across it,” replied Adam, “but that isn’t often.”
“Do you work?”
“Yes, I’ve worked a good deal, taking it all together. In the mines, on the river at Needles, driving mule teams and guiding wagon trains. Never got paid much, though.”
“How do you live?” asked Dismukes, evidently curious
