Part 37 (1/2)

'Co in the face; there's no tays about it I shall go to Arizona Bill's claim and see what he says Anyhow I'll leave ith hione I'd advise you not to try to see Jeanie; but if you will you must, I suppose Good-bye, old man I shall make my way over to Jonathan's, borrow a horse from him, and make tracks for the Hollow as soon as I can You'd better leave Jeanie here and do the sa my hands till the bones seemed to crack, and walked aithout a word We kneas a chance whether we should ain

I walked on pretty quick till I came to the flat where Arizona Bill and his ether, tall wiry men all of them; they'd mostly been hunters and trappers in the Rocky Mountains before the gold was struck at Suttor's Mill, in the Sacra in '49 in California, but had cos at Turon, richer than anything they had ever tried in America

This caround between, so that I thought I was safe in having a ith theh I took care not to go near our own caht for the sh voice hailedto h--l with your boots on

What did yer want agin that thar cabin?'

I saw then that in enerally put their gold when the party had been washi+ng up and had more than was safe to start frorizzled old hunter, about whom the yarn was that he never went to sleep, and could shoot anything a old he watched would ever go crooked Most people considered him a deal safer caretaker than the escort

'Oh! it's you, is it?' drawled Sacramento Joe 'Why, what's doin' at yer old camp?'

'What about?' said I

'Wal, Bill and I seen three or four half-baked vigilantes that call the round the hut and looked as if they aiting for somebody'

'Tell Bill I want hiuard nohow,' says the true grit old hunter, pointing to his revolver, and dodging up and doith his la, a crooked arm, and a seam in his face like a terrible wound there souard You'll find hi on it'

I lifted the canvas flap of the door and went in Bill raised himself in the bed and looked at me quite coolly

'I was to your location a while since,' he said 'Met some friends of yours there too I didn't cotton to 'e has eventuated Is that so?'

'Yes I want your help' I told him shortly all I could tell him in the time

He listened quietly, and ent You and Ji mails and cattle ranches It is a real scoop up forin Australia, but I never reckoned on their bein' men like you and Jim So the muchacha went back on yer--snakes alive! I kinder expected it I reckon you're bound to git'

'Yes, Bill, sharp's the word I want you to draw my money and Jim's out of the bank; it's all in my name There's the deposit receipt I'll back it over to you You give Jeanie what she wants, and send the rest when I tell you Will you do that for me, Bill? I've always been on the square with you and your mates'

'You hev', boy, that I'll not deny, and I'll corral the dollars for you

It's an all-fired in your record A spry hunter Jim would have made I'd laid out to have had hiht away, you say?'

'I'; let Mr

Haughton, across the creek, have this before daylight'

'What, the Honourable!!! Lawful heart! Wal, I hope ye , you and Jim, poor old Jim Hold on Hev' ye nary shootin' iron?'

'No time,' I said 'I haven't been to the camp'

'Go slow, then Wait here; you'll want suthin, ood shootin' with this, ye mind Take it and welcome; it'll mind ye of old Arizona Bill'

He handedrifle, hardly heavier than a navy revolver, and a ses