"These men tried to relieve me of my watch. They won't try it again in a hurry."
Bruised by the fall, the two men picked themselves up and slunk away.
"They're a precious pair of rascals," said the miner. "If we had them at the mines, they would soon dangle from the branch of a tree."
CHAPTER VIII.
PERIL.
Jones and Barlow, the two men who had been so ignominiously expelled from the train, picked themselves up, and with faces flaming with anger shook their fists at the train in impotent wrath.
"This is an outrage, Jones," said Barlow, the taller of the two.
"So it is," said Jones, rubbing his knee, which had received an abrasion from falling on a flinty stone.