30G

LIFE OX THE MISSISSIPPI.

or voice, or figure, or face, or nationality; but now I knew all these
things! I believed I might feel sure; the Frenchman's repeated
demonstrations being so good a warranty. Still, there was a way to
make sure. I had an impression of Kruger's left thumb. In the
morning I took him aside when he was off duty; and when we were
out of sight and hearing of witnesses, I said, impressively—

HE CHOPPED OX HIS KNEES.

* A part of your fortune is so grave, that I thought it would be
better for you if I did not tell it in public. You and another man,
whose fortune I was studying last night,—Private Adler, —have been
murdering a woman and a child 1 You are King dogged: within five
oays both of you will be assassinated,*