You can fasten it to a tree when I go down." "It's not worth it, sir," the man protested anxiously.

"No one will ever find the body down there." "Send the boy home to stay with his parents to-night," Tallente continued.

"Your wife, I suppose, can be trusted ?" "She is living up at the garage, sir," Robert answered.

"Besides, she is deaf.

I'll tell her that I am sleeping in the house to-night as you are not very well.