“I was afraid you did not know,” I said, hurriedly. “I knew you were here, and I came to warn you. Mr Raydon—”
“Sent you to warn me?” interrupted Gunson.
“No,” I said; “we had to break out of the Fort to-night and come. Mr Raydon is not good friends with me.”
“Humph!” ejaculated Gunson. “So you came to let me know?”
“To put you on your guard,” I said. “Yes.”
I saw him look at me fixedly for a few moments, and then in a half-morose way he nodded his head at me, saying—
“Thank you, my lad—thank you too, Dean.”
“Warn’t me,” said Esau, sourly. “It was him. I only come too.”
“Well, it is awkward,” continued Gunson, after a few moments’ thought, “for I have got to the spot now that I have been looking for all these years.”
“Then you’re finding lots of gold?” cried Esau, eagerly.