[CHAPTER XI.]
"ADVANCING THE SPARK."
"I'm not going to stand around and let you be rough with him," asserted Newt, finishing his dressing and taking another drink from the bottle.
"Nobody asked you to stand around," said Murgatroyd. "When I'm ready to get rough, you can go down to the river and stay there till I'm through."
"Why did you jump on him like that?"
Considering what he himself had done toward Matt's capture, Newt's stand was hardly consistent.
"I'll tell you," and, with that, Murgatroyd went on to relate the number of times his trail had crossed Matt's, and the circumstances.
Newt's eyes widened as the recital proceeded, and when the end was reached it found him moody and preoccupied.