The bluff would make a handy place for a depot, and, while there's nobody else near, you command the trails to it and the reservation.

Nobody could get by from the settlement without being seen, unless they made a big round, if you watched out." "I'm beginning to understand.

What you say implies that they're doing a good trade." "That's so," Grant assented.

"I wouldn't have believed it was so big before Hardie put me on the track and I began to look around.

But you want to remember that what you're doing may cost you something.