"Three-Sisters."
"Why, thet's where Gill got his last wife," exclaimed another.
Levi was thankful that it was growing so dark that faces could not be clearly distinguished. He stated frankly, believing the quickest way out of the difficulty to be the truth:
"That wife was our sister, and we are looking for him."
"I hope yer will ketch him an' bring him back here, an' I'll help yer settle with him."
"Who are you?" asked Levi, struck by the fierce earnestness of the man who had come up just in time to learn the object of the McAnays' quest.
"One uv his fathers-'n-law," the man replied, with brutal sarcasm.
"The father of the wife he had here?"
"Who told yer 'bout thet?" asked the man, angrily. "Bet 'twas thet little gossipin' woman, Pete Dunn, thet I seen yer talkin' ter."
He made a rush at Pete Dunn, but Matthi interfered.