These suspicions he communicated to Lord, then recovering and found that Lord entertained the same ideas.

So one evening after a hard day's work they grabbed the sorter and held an inquest on his pockets after calmly seating themselves on his head and knees.

Their suspicions were verified by discovering stones on him that were valued the next day at one hundred and ten pounds.

The frightened sorter willingly surrendered all they found, and confessed under the pressure of a revolver that he had been systematically robbing them for some time.

Though pleased that they had discovered so much, Paul and his friend were both discouraged and disgusted with the diggings and they agreed that the first good strike they made they would leave it.