Hugh Edwards flushed as he returned coldly:
“Please don’t forget that Donald Payne is dead.”
“That depends,” retorted Natachee dryly.
The white man did not overlook the Indian’s meaning. For a time he did not speak, then he asked:
“But what has brought this outlaw here to the Cañada del Oro?”
Natachee’s face was grave as he answered:
“The Mine with the Iron Door.”
Hugh Edwards uttered an exclamation.
“You mean that he has come to look for the lost mine?”
For several minutes the Indian did not reply, but sat as if lost in thought, then he said, as one reaching a grave decision: