"I am."
"And you—-you——-" The lumber dealer paused.
"In a roundabout way I met the fellow who had the papers. For a consideration he let me have them. If you want them you can have them—-provided you will pay the price."
CHAPTER XXX
WORDS AND A BLOW
The boy hunters had listened to the foregoing conversation with intense interest. There could be no doubt but what this Barrock was the man they were after. His tale that he had procured the missing papers from somebody else was pure fiction—-gotten up merely to deceive Andrew Felps.
"We ought to make him a prisoner on the spot," whispered Shep.
"Wait—-I want to learn what Andrew Felps will do," murmured Snap.
"You want me to buy the papers from you, eh?" said Andrew Felps, after a pause.
"Yes," answered Lush Barrock, boldly.