There are three of them, and I thought I had surely run them to earth when I traced them to the island just above Dubuque.

You must have seen them there, didn't you ?" "No, sir," replied Winn, to whom this question was addressed.

"I only saw one man on the island.

He said he was a river-trader, and would help me float the raft.

We went to look for his partners, and when I came back, it and he were both gone.