CHAPTER IX.
IN THE COUNTERFEITERS’ DEN.
The declaration by Frank Reade, Jr., that he was going to enter the Death Valley seemed to utterly terrify Beaver Bill.
The trapper said rigidly:
“Ye don’t mean that, pard?”
“Yes, I do.”
“That ye’ll enter the valley?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t ye know thar’s dead men down there for that same trick?”
“I do.”
“Then why tempt fate?”