But it's too soon to express an opinion till I've seen
them."
"They put a lot of money in, and they get a lot of dirt out, but one
does not hear much of any silver."
"Sometimes the deepest mines prove the best in the end."
"And as long as there's anybody to pay for it I suppose you go on
digging."
"If I thought the mines had petered out--"
"Eh?" said Peter, and then coughed to hide his confusion when they all
looked at him.
"I should of course advise the owners to stop work and sink no more
money."
"It'll be a bad day for Sark when that happens," said old Tom. "But it's
not going to happen. The silver's there all right. It only wants getting
out."
"If it's there we'll certainly get it out," said Gard, and although he
said it quietly enough, old Tom felt much better about things in
general.
"You're the man for us," he said heartily. "We'll all be rich before we
die yet."
"Depends when we die," growled Tom--in which observation--obvious as it
was--there was undoubtedly much truth. And then, his little suggestion
of provocation having broken like ripples on Gard's imperturbability, he
turned on Peter and tried to stir him up.
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