CHAPTER VIII.
"So you want to know all about Wetzel ?" inquired Colonel Zane of Joe, when, having left Jim and Mr.Wells, they returned to the cabin.
"I am immensely interested in him," replied Joe.
"Well, I don't think there's anything singular in that.

I know Wetzel better, perhaps, than any man living; but have seldom talked about him.

He doesn't like it.

He is by birth a Virginian; I should say, forty years old.

We were boys together, and and I am a little beyond that age.