"Who sent you here ?" "Dilworth & Dusenberry, Battery Street, San Francisco.

Hev their card ?" said Ezekiel, taking one from his waistcoat pocket.
"Corwin," said Blandford, sternly, "whatever your business is here you'll find it will pay you better, a -- -- sight, to be frank with me and stop this Yankee shuffling.

You say you have been with Demorest--what has HE got to do with your business here ?" "Nothin'," said Ezekiel.

"I reckon he wos ez astonished to see me ez you are." "And didn't he send you here to seek me ?" said Blandford, impatiently.
"Considerin' he believes you a dead man, I reckon not." Blandford gave a hard, constrained laugh.

After a pause, still keeping his eyes fixed on Ezekiel, he said: "Then your recognition of me was accidental ?" "Wa'al, yes.