“I would have him help me. I need help.”
“Did you ever meet him?”
“No.”
“How did you hear of him?”
“I am partly an Indian. The scholars of the Indian school that were once here used to meet him on the road in front of his woodpile. They heard that he had concealed money. Indian need heap money. Indian must have help.”
The last sentence showed that the Indian spoke true in regard to his nationality.
A suspicion flashed across Peter’s mind; this stray Indian was out in the forest at this time with no honest purpose.
He simply said: “Follow me.”
He led the Indian to the alarm-post. The Indian thought that he was going to the wood-chopper’s cabin. Dennis received the night wanderer and detained him.