An' now I ain't worryin'," returned Dale.
"Worryin'?
Then it's the first I ever knowed you to do." "Man, I never had a job like this," protested the hunter.
"Wal, thet's so." "Now, Roy, when old Al Auchincloss finds out about this deal, as he's bound to when you or the boys get back to Pine, he's goin' to roar." "Do you reckon folks will side with him against Beasley ?" "Some of them.

But Al, like as not, will tell folks to go where it's hot.

He'll bunch his men an' strike for the mountains to find his nieces." "Wal, all you've got to do is to keep the girls hid till I can guide him up to your camp.

Or, failin' thet, till you can slip the girls down to Pine." "No one but you an' your brothers ever seen my senaca.

But it could be found easy enough." "Anson might blunder on it.