- Amanda - Crowbait's Daughter: Wouldn't that be a poor bargain to have a ton of silver and not one living parent?
- Crowbait - Prospector: She wouldn't have told a living soul where I was headed. Not her! Not unless you tortured her or maybe charmed it out of the poor little man-starved filly with them fancy city manners of yours.
- Paladin: What makes your father such an aggravated fool?
- Amanda - Crowbait's Daughter: One day last year he comes upon the old Piute chief over there, turtle back down in a crevice with a busted hip. He hauls him home in one piece, moreorless. Well the old chief wants to make some show of gratitude so he blindfolds my Daddy and takes him to a cave so rich in silver ore, you can read the words of Matthew, Mark, Luke and Johnin there without ever lighting a match.
- Paladin: And your father never found that cave again.