Early in the morning, Richard Dewey awakened Ki Sing.
"You had better not stay here, Ki Sing," he said. "There are those who would do you mischief. Go into the mountains, and you may find gold. There you will be safe."
"Melican man velly good-me go," said the Chinaman submissively.
"Good luck to you, Ki Sing!"
"Good luckee, Melican man!"
So the two parted, and when morning came to the camp, nothing was to be seen of the Chinaman.
Dewey returned O'Reilly's knife, the latter receiving it in sullen silence.
It was not long afterward that Richard Dewey himself left Murphy's in search of a richer claim.