"How can I help myself?"
"Then tell me why you tried to blow up my cabin?"
"I wanted to git squar' fer havin' me locked up."
"But you deserved to be locked up, after that attack on Dan and Henry Parker."
At this the half-breed shrugged his shoulders.
"And you must remember perfectly well what you did before that," continued Amos Radbury.
"I didn't get Bison Head to attack you,—he did that on his own account."
"But you came in afterward and robbed the place. It is useless for you to deny any longer that you took those papers relating to this grant of land."
For several minutes Stiger was silent. At last he lifted his eyes.
"Are you goin' to give me dat drink?" he asked, falling back into his Indian accent.