Stern was the justice which overtook the thief in those days.

It was necessary, perhaps, for it was a primitive state of society, and the code which in established communities was a safeguard did not extend its protection here.
Suspicion fell upon Hogan at once.

No one of the miners remembered to have seen him since rising.
"Did any one see him last night ?" asked Joe.
Kellogg answered.
"I saw him near your tent," he said.

"I did not think anything of it.

Perhaps if I had been less sleepy I should have been more likely to suspect that his design was not a good one." "About what hour was this ?" "It must have been between ten and eleven o'clock." "We did not go to sleep at once.