There were tools and a bench and everything else needful close at hand, so that the work could be done in half the time that David had expected to devote to it.

As fast as the traps were completed they were to be set in General Gordon's fields.

They would be safe there and Dan Evans or Lester Brigham or anybody else who came near them, would be likely to get himself into trouble.

The negroes were always at work in the fields in the daytime, and if they were told to keep their eyes open and report any outsiders who might be seen prowling about the fences, they would be sure to do it.

The best course David could pursue would be to say nothing more about trapping the quails.