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? ? ? ? "Quite so. You seem better provided with money than when I saw you last."

? ? ? ? "True. I was then in temporary difficulty. But I made a good turn in stocks and I am on my feet again."

? ? ? ? Rodney did not believe a word of this, but as long as Wheeler was able to pay his board he had no good excuse for refusing him accommodation.

? ? ? ? "That rascal here!" exclaimed Jefferson, when Rodney informed him of Wheeler's arrival. "Well, thats beat all! What has brought him out here?"

? ? ? ? "Business, he says."

? ? ? ? "It may be the same kind of business that he had with me. He will bear watching."

? ? ? ? "I agree with you, Mr. Pettigrew."

? ? ? ? Louis Wheeler laid himself out to be social and agreeable, and made himself quite popular with the other boarders at the hotel. As Jefferson and Rodney said nothing about him, he was taken at his own valuation, and it was reported that he was a heavy capitalist from Chicago who had come to Montana to buy a mine. This theory received confirmation both from his speech and actions.

? ? ? ? On the following day he went about in Oreville and examined the mines.


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