You needn't grin, there's many a better man than you believes it." "Who is it that the bullet hasn't been run to kill ?" said the trader's deep voice behind them.

He had finished with his duties, and now sauntered forward.
"Ben Stark," said Lee, turning.

"You know him, John ?" "No, I never saw him, but I know who he is--used to hear of him in the Coeur d'Alenes." "That's him I was talking to," said the miner.

"He's an old friend of mine, and he's going to locate here." Burrell thought he saw Lee wink at the trader, but he was not sure, for at that moment the man of whom they were speaking re-entered.

Lee introduced him, and the three men shook hands.