We must therefore keep you a close prisoner,--open, however, to an offer.

It is this: we propose to give you five hundred dollars for this property as it stands, provided that you leave it, and accompany a pack-train which will start to-morrow morning for the lower valley as far as Thompson's Pass, binding yourself to quit the State for three months and keep this matter a secret.

Three of these gentlemen will go with you.

They will point out to you your duty; their shotguns will apprise you of any dereliction from it.

What do you say ?" "Who yer talking to ?" said Collinson in a dull voice.
"You remind us," said the orator suavely, "that we have not yet the pleasure of knowing." "My name's Seth Collinson." There was a dead silence in the room, and every eye was fixed upon the two men.