We must silence suspicion,
for, though we are pretty much beyond the operation of law in this
region, yet now and then a sheriff's officer takes off some of the club;
and, as I think it is always more pleasant to be out of the halter than
in it, I am clear for making the thing certain in the only practicable
way."
"But, are you sure that he is the man? I should know his horse, and
shall look to him, for he's a fine creature, and I should like to secure
him; which I think will be the case, if you are not dreaming as usual."
"I am sure--I do not mistake."
"Well, I'm not; and I should like to hear what it is you know him by?"
A deeper and more malignant expression overspread the face of Rivers,
as, with a voice in which his thought vainly struggled for mastery with
a vexed spirit, he replied:--
"What have I to know him by? you ask. I know him by many things--and
when I told you I had my reason for talking with him as I did, I might
have added that he was known to me, and fixed in my lasting memory, by
wrongs and injuries before.
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