He dropped a crate of hams when I came up on him, and tried to run, but I dropped him." He held his Colt in his right hand, and a trickle of blood from the negro's head showed how he had been felled.
"Why didn't you shoot ?" growled Stark, angrily, at which the negro half arose and broke into excited denials of his guilt.

Runnion kicked him savagely, and cursed him, while the crowd murmured approval.
"Le' me see him," said Lee, elbowing his way through the others.

Fixing his one eye upon the wretch, he spoke impressively.
"You're the first downright thief I ever seen.

Was you hungry ?" "No, he's got plenty," answered one of the tenderfeet, who had evidently arrived on the boat with the darky.

"He's got a bigger outfit than I have." The prisoner drew himself up against the bar, facing his enemies sullenly.
"Then I reckon it's a divine manifestation," said "No Creek" Lee, tearfully.