CHAPTER XIX.
A CURIOUS COMPLICATION.
"So that is what I was arrested for, is it ?" thought Winn.

"I was supposed to be one of a gang of counterfeiters, and a pretty desperate sort of a character.

That will be a pretty good joke to tell father.
But I wonder who is offering a reward for me as plain every-day Winn Caspar, besides the one that would be paid for the young counterfeiter who ran off with the Sheriff's boat ?" This is what Winn thought.

What he said was, "My! but that is a lot of money! Wouldn't it be fine if we could earn those twelve hundred dollars ?" "Indeed it would," answered the old man.

"Even one of the smaller rewards would buy us a mule." "Who is offering them ?" asked Winn.
"The Government offers the first, Sheriff Riley the second, and the third is offered by some one named Brickell.