- Sheriff Hal Humphrey: Looks like Charlie's discovered the secret of popularity - all you have to do is strike it rich.
- Jim Hardie: I would like to talk to you.
- Charlie: Sure, sure, what's on our mind.
- Jim Hardie: Your sudden talent for finding gold. What's it all about?
- Charlie: Well, I just started pokin' around in a section of Denning's mine and there she was, big as lightning.
- Jim Hardie: Just like that, huh?
- Charlie: Yeah, I guess you could call it real luck.
- Jim Hardie: Or a miracle. Denning poked around in that mine for months and couldn't find the lost vein. You, not even a miner, walked right in, walked right up to it.
- Charlie: Aw now, Jim, I know it's kind of hard to believe...
- Jim Hardie: You're right - it *is* hard to believe.
- [Jim and Jeb have just found Charlie in an alley badly beaten after he announced he's made a gold strike]
- Sheriff Hal Humphrey: All right, Charley, I guess you're going to live. The Lord sure must love a man with a big mouth.
- Jim Hardie: Do you have any idea who did it?
- Charlie: Yeah, Hank Garrett. He was at me and at me all afternoon trying to get me to tell him where I found my gold. I guess he got a little impatient.
- Sheriff Hal Humphrey: If he got any more impatient, he'd have beat you to death.
- Arthur Reardon: Is this how you live? The place is not fit for rats!
- Charlie: Ah, it does me fine. A man like me don't need much. The only time I get me in trouble is when I let somebody tell me I need more than I got.
- Arthur Reardon: What does that mean?
- Charlie: I got hauled into an alley and beat up pretty good tonight playin' that silly gold mine game of yours.
- Denning: All right, how much?
- Arthur Reardon: Ten thousand dollars.
- Denning: You know, if this is on the level, that's dirt cheap, but if this isn't on the level... Let me tell you something, Reardon. I may look soft with a little too much money, but I've been a hard rock miner all my life. I'd be a hard man to fool.
- Denning: I'll be waiting outside the mine.
- Arthur Reardon: Oh, Mr. Denning... bring the money.
- Denning: Sure! The money on delivery and a .45 just to keep the game honest.
- Arthur Reardon: A man begins to wonder, Ruth, when he's closer to the end than he is to the beginning, if he hasn't missed something on the way.