Well, mebbe the thing looks to her like that--mebbe you know I've got to shoulder that too.

Perhaps it's all in the same line." Colonel Starbottle for a moment regarded Corbin critically.

In spite of his chivalrous attitude towards the homicidal faculty, the Colonel was not optimistic in regard to the baser pecuniary interests of his fellow-man.

It was quite on the cards that his companion might have murdered his partner to get possession of the claim.

It was true that Corbin had voluntarily assumed an unrecorded and hitherto unknown responsibility that had never been even suspected, and was virtually self-imposed.