If you wait until morning it will give us time to talk things over." "I'll not stop till I gets the silver," Eli stubbornly declared, "and I'll get un or kill Injun Jake." "See here, Eli," Doctor Joe laid his hand on Eli's arm, "your father says he was not shot until sundown.

Indian Jake was at our camp at Flat Point within the hour after sundown.

He never could have paddled that distance against a down wind in an hour.

The boys and I were four hours coming over here from Flat Point Camp, and I know Indian Jake could not have covered the distance in anything like an hour." "'Twere some trick of his! He shot un and he took the silver!" Eli insisted.

"Good-bye, sir.