"I can tell it to you all in one sentence," said he.

"There's a detective on our trail." McMurdo stared at him in astonishment.

"Why, man, you're crazy," he said.

"Isn't the place full of police and detectives and what harm did they ever do us ?" "No, no, it's no man of the district.

As you say, we know them, and it is little that they can do.