nothing and will be more comfortable for you."

"You don't know me, Joe," said the miner. "How do you know but I may
get up in the night and rob you?"

"You could, but I don't think you will," said Joe. "I am not at all
afraid of it. You look like an honest man."

The miner looked gratified.

"You shan't repent your confidence, Joe," he said.

"I'd rather starve than rob a good friend like you. But you mustn't
trust everybody."

"I don't," said Joe. "I refused a man to-night--a man named Hogan."

"Hogan?"

"Yes."

"What does he look like?"

Joe described him.

"It's the very man," said the miner.

"Do you know him, then?"

"Yes; he was out at our diggings. Nobody liked him, or trusted him.