With a grave face he joined her, and they slowly walked along the beach.
CHAPTER XI A MIDNIGHT FIGHT
“I’ve met one square man, and that’s Mr. Hale,” Ben said with emphasis, after he had told her about his trouble.
“Then, you don’t think Mundon’s square?”
Ben stopped and faced her. “What have you heard?” he asked.
“They say that he was in with the smugglers and led you to discover their opium so that you’d get the reward,—and then he’d cheat you out of it.”
“What nonsense! How could he?”
“O, I don’t know,—somehow.”