“I’ll try what I can do then;” and with that he went back to his companions, and the earnest conference was resumed.
“I don’t trust him,” said Karasch.
“Let us get away quietly with the horses, and we’ll trust to ourselves, Karasch,” said I.
“Can you pay such a sum as he named?”
“Yes, ten times the amount, Karasch; and ten times that again if necessary.”
“Great Lord of the Living!” he exclaimed. “And yet you come here to the hills in this way!”
The three men had now apparently ended their conference, and the leader came across to me.
“Two of us are agreed,” he said, as he reached me, “but one will not without proof. Let me see our comrade whom you shot. He must have a voice in it too.”
“He is in the tent here,” I answered. We entered it, and he went and knelt by the wounded man.
I did not trust him any more than did Karasch, and, although I noticed nothing to rouse my suspicions, I watched the two closely, and kept my hand on the revolver in my pocket, and told Karasch to watch the two outside.