He said you'd help me." There was a brogue in the man's voice, very slight,--too slight, indeed, to be represented in print,--and yet it was perceptible, and it attracted Sam's attention.

Perhaps he would scarcely have noticed it but for the fact that all his senses were keenly on the alert.

He was not at all sure that he was acting prudently in visiting this man.
He had no knowledge whatever of the man, except that Thlucco had somehow found him and arranged a meeting.

Thlucco had brought Sam a scrap of dirty paper, on which were traced in a scarcely legible scrawl, these words:-- "Your man must say, 'It's a dark night!' I'll say, 'Is it dark.' We will know each other then." In delivering this note, with directions as to the method of finding the man, Thlucco had said:-- "Injun no fool.

Injun know m'latter man.