Excuse me, but I must insist upon THIS, and that you dropped down upon me and Sadie Collinson exactly as you have dropped down here upon her husband." "Enough of this!" said Riggs angrily.

"I admit the woman is part and parcel of the gang, and gets her share,--or you get it for her," he added sneeringly; "but that doesn't permit her to mix herself with my family affairs." "Pardon me again," interrupted Chivers softly.

"Your memory, my dear Riggs, is absurdly defective.

We knew that you had a young sister in the mountains, from whom you discreetly wished to conceal your real position.

We respected, and I trust shall always respect, your noble reticence.