Pardners

'Pardners' is an adventure novel written by Rex Beach. The story begins with Joyce saying that the idea that marriages are made in heaven is not true and that true partnerships, which he calls "pardnerships", are the most sacred and important thing in life. Then, he tells a story of how he sold a mining claim for a lot of money to two inexperienced men and then regretted it when they struck gold right where he had stopped digging.