Heppner professed to be a government agent sent here to straighten the matter out, and you were to give Borrodaile a hundred dollars for a quitclaim deed to the mine." "A hundred dollars ?" gasped Blunt.

"Great snakes! Why, that claim's worth thousands.

The professor stood for that yarn ?" "They had him scared stiff," said Merriwell.

"He was signing the deed when I jumped out of the cornfield and grabbed it away from him." "It was Heppner's doin's," insisted McGurvin.

"He was ter gi' me a hundred for helpin' him." "You were to sign the quitclaim over to him, eh ?" asked Blunt.
"That's the how o' it, Barzy.