But for that golden trail, Merriwell, you and I would never have got together out there in the desert, and this scheme against the professor might have worked to a fare you well.

I'd never have butted in, if you hadn't bested me with two straight falls." "Have you been keeping the professor here against his will ?" demanded Frank of McGurvin.
"Nary, I wasn't.

Turkeyfoot had him skeered.

He tells the perfessor there's a gov'ment agent arter him, named Heppner, an' that the claim he thought he located he really jumped.

That was Turkeyfoot's part a' it--purtendin' ter be the perfesser's friend an' goadin' him on ter fall in with Heppner's plan.