- Eddie Royce: That's all I know.
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: That's all?
- Eddie Royce: I have nothing to hide.
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: You had a lot to gain.
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: You got the figures from the assay office?
- George Romack: I sure did. We ought to take stock in that Silver Queen. The ore is as rich as Eddie Royce said it was.
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: Yeah - as rich as the Comstock...
- George Romack: Yeah!
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: ...Right down to the last decimal place.
- Albert Groggings: If there's any silver in this mine at all, somebody dropped a half dollar in here and lost it.
- John Richards: What I'm looking for is a murderer, not a confidence man.
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: How about two for the price of one?
- Ole Brindessen: He's a really bad man. I yust don't understand what they see in him.
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: Women see all kinds of things in a man, Ole. You take Edie Romack for example. She could have had a handsome, intelligent fellow - look who she picked.
- George Romack: It's the charm that does it, Smitty. It's that old romantic charm!
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: Do you know a man by the name of Albert Groggings?
- Baby Doll Harris: The government mineralogist? 'Course I do. Good man. What about him?
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: I took him out to Royce's Silver Queen mine today.
- Baby Doll Harris: Oh?
- Tom 'Whispering' Smith: He said it was a good place to grow mushrooms.