“I came by it honestly.”
“Glad to hear that.”
“It’s mine and I’m going to have it. You can turn over that other poke too. Walter MacClaren’s fault I didn’t take it all with me in the first place. He had no right to drive me away from Half Way House at the point of a gun. There isn’t a court in the land that wouldn’t exonerate me of the charges you’ll bring against me.”
Corporal Rand laughed sarcastically.
“You talk like a fool.”
“We’ll see,” growled Frazer. “I’ve a right to fight for my own. No man can keep from me by force what rightfully belongs to me.”
“Are you referring now to the gold?”
“Yes.”
“You really have the nerve to stand there and make an assertion like that?” snapped the corporal “It was stolen and you know it.”
“You can’t prove it.”