“I’m going on a sure thing,” replied Frank. “You need not fear at all, my Christian friend. I am safe.”
“It’s my opinion ye’re crazy!”
Frank laughed merrily.
“I’ll show you!” he said.
He started to go down the trail, but the big trapper stepped in front of him.
“Hold on, pard!” he said, resolutely. “I’m a bigger man than you.”
“Well, what of that?”
“I reckon ye don’t know what’s fer yer own good. I’m not goin’ ter see yer go down thar.”
Beaver Bill was in earnest.
Frank saw this at once.