The young missionary's face was drawn and haggard; he fixed an intense gaze upon the hunter.
"Wetzel, listen;" his voice was low and shaken with deep feeling.

"I am a teacher of God's word, and I am as earnest in that purpose as you are in your life-work.

I shall die here; I shall fill an unmarked grave; but I shall have done the best I could.

This is the life destiny has marked out for me, and I will live it as best I may; but in this moment, preacher as I am, I would give all I have or hope to have, all the little good I may have done, all my life, to be such a man as you.

For I would avenge the woman I loved.