“I haven’t any, but I’ve got a pipe.”
“Well, I do happen to have a few matches in my other pocket, but I’d rather you’d ask for ’em next time.”
“I will. The fact is, I ought to have brought some with me. It’s very strange, old traveller as I am.”
“It would have been a little better than borrowin’ them of a sleepin’ man without leave. Don’t do it again, Fletcher.”
CHAPTER IV
A VICTIM OF TREACHERY
“I MISTRUST that man Fletcher,” said Obed to Harry Vane the next day, taking the opportunity when, at one of their rests, the man referred to had sauntered into the woods.
“I don’t like him myself,” said Harry. “Have you any particular reason for mistrusting him?”
“He was searchin’ my pockets last night when he thought I was asleep,” answered Obed, and he related the incident of the night before.
“It looks suspicious,” said Harry. “I have not much money, but I don’t care to lose what I have.”