"So that boy blabbed about me, did he?" said Carden, with an evil glance at Charlie. "He'd best look out, or I'll serve him as I did—"
Here he stopped short; but Charlie finished his sentence for him.
"As you did Rob to-night," he added; "that's what you mean."
"I don't know what you mean," said the canvas man, finding he had said too much.
"You know well enough!" said Anak, sternly, for he liked Robert, and was incensed against the man who had tried to do him such grievous harm. "You know well enough what the boy means; you were seen in the tent this evening, and it was you who threw the rock at Robert Rudd's horse."
"You can't prove it, and it's a lie!" said Carden, defiantly.
"Make him give up the money," said the farmer, impatiently, for he cared nothing for Carden's attempt to injure our hero.
"I'll give it up if you'll let me go," said the canvas man.
"You're not in a position to make terms," said Anak. "We promise nothing."