“Then you don’t believe his party was attacked by Indians?”
“No, I don’t; but if I catch him he’ll think he has been attacked by Indians.”
“It will be a serious loss to us, Tom,” said the blacksmith, with a troubled face.
“We’ll get him back if we can, father. I wonder if the fellow has stolen anything else.”
Grant thrust his hand into his pocket and made a discovery.
“I’ve lost about two dollars in silver,” he said.
“It may have slipped out of your pocket during the night.”
Grant examined the ground on which he had been lying, and shook the blankets; but not one of the missing silver coins was found.
“No,” he said. “The silver must have been taken from my pocket. No; I had some bills in my right-hand pocket. I was lying on my right side, so he could not get at it without the risk of waking me up. Have you lost anything, Tom?”
Tom had been examining his pockets.