This is the day for payment of mill dividends, and as I have occasion to use the money, I did not deposit it." "Good," said Fairfax, to himself.

"That is what I wanted to find out." Aloud he said: "Oh, well, there are two of us, so it would be a bold highwayman that would venture to attack us.

Do you carry a pistol ?" "Not I," said Colonel Preston.

"I don't like the idea of carrying firearms about with me.

They might go off by mistake.