"And, if we find the thief, have you any suggestions to make? It may help us very much."
"Hang him," said one.
"Drive him from Klassan," replied another.
"Let the Committee decide," spoke up a third, which remark was received with applause.
"Thank you, gentlemen, that is all," and with this Keith joined the men who were waiting for him at the door.
As they passed out into the night, Caribou Sol dropped his head, and his long beard was pressed close against his breast.
"Fool, fool, that I am!" he said to himself. "Why did I refuse to act and thus leave 'im alone with that devil an' his tools? I might have knowed it. I might have knowed it. Somethin' will happen. Somethin's in the air. I don't know what it is, but when that sarpent gits to wark thare's bound to be trouble. God fergive me!"