"You are from Philadelphia?"
"Who said so?"
"You had a watch presented to you once."
"Yes, I did, and I lost it."
"Suppose I tell you that I know where it is?"
"I'll bet you don't."
"When did you have it last?"
"It was stolen from me in camp, some six years ago."
Will did not show the slightest sign of having seen that the man made a slip of the tongue, as he asked:
"In a mining-camp, you say?"