I was on the steamer _Warrior_ coming down when he robbed old Judge Beaucaire.

That was what got me mixed up in this affair.

Later I was in that skiff you fellows rammed and sunk on the Illinois.

I know the whole dirty story, Kennedy, from the very beginning.

And now it is up to you whether or not I tell it to Governor Clark." "I reckon yer must be right," he admitted helplessly.