It isn't so bad, but you've lost some blood, and that's left you weak for a little while.

Don't talk now.

Rest, and you'll soon be on your feet again." While Lem lay with closed eyes, Doctor Joe turned to consideration of the crime.

If it were true that a silver fox skin had been taken, robbery was undoubtedly the motive for the shooting.

But who could have known of the existence of the skin?
And who could have come to this out-of-the-way place unobserved by the old trapper and shot him without warning?
Instinctively Indian Jake rose before his eyes.