The point is this--from all I can learn of Westcott, he is the kind who will fight to the last ditch.

Perhaps he hasn't any chance, but if he ever does learn how we got hold of his letters and discovered the location of that vein of ore, he's going to turn this whole affair inside out, and catch us red-handed.

You made a fool play to-night." "That wasn't my fault," Lacy protested sullenly.

"The fellow misunderstood; however, there won't be no fuss made over a Mexican." "I'm not so sure of that; Westcott will know it was meant for him and be on his guard.

Anyhow it was a fool's trick." "Well, we do things different out here from what you do in New York.
It's my way to take no chances, and when a man's dead he can't talk." "I'm not so sure of that; there's been many a lad hung on the testimony of a dead man.