He is too clever for that.

I've found out from Mr.Bowles just what the fellow has done since he landed, three days ago.

He has gone over all of the company's accounts, in the office and at the mines, to see that we, as agents for the executors, haven't put up any job to mulct the natives out of their share of the profits.

He has organised the whole population into a sort of constabulary to protect itself against any shrewd move we may contemplate.

Moreover, he's getting the evidence of everybody to prove that Skaggs and Wyckholme were men of sound mind up to the hour of their death.