"I never would have thought of un bein' that! Andy's wonderful spry thinkin' things out, and he's mostly always right, too!" "And Indian Jake never stole un! He never stole un!" Jamie burst out joyfully.

"I were knowin' all the time he wouldn't steal un! Indian Jake wouldn't go shootin' folk and stealin' from un!" "It may be," said Doctor Joe.

"At any rate it seems extremely probable the 'swag' as they call it is stolen property that has been hidden.
That word and the threat together with the other circumstances make it quite certain, indeed, that whatever it is they refer to was stolen.
That's a safe conclusion to begin with.

We have decided that we may be quite sure, also, that the men that hid the cache so carefully were none of our own Bay people, but men from the lumber camp.

We have heard of nothing else than Lem Horn's silver fox having been stolen in the Bay.