"This feller will bear watchin'.

He's mixed up in this thing somehow.

Else why is he wanderin' around here close to the house?
I'll question him." "By gosh, he ain't no ghost!" murmured Ed Higgins, eyeing the newcomer as he crawled up the bank.

"Say, did y' see me a minute ago?
If you fellers had come on, I was goin' right up to search that house from top to bottom.

Was you all askeered to come ?" "Aw, you!" said Anderson Crow in deep scorn.
The next instant a stalwart young fellow stood before the marshal, who was eyeing him keenly, even imperiously.