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 "Oh, merely a drowned logger. Nobody knows him and he's been unceremoniously put under ground. Nobody'd have thought anything of it at any other time, for there's never a spring that one or more of them don't turn up; but just now we are living on sensations, and it added to the interest that Trafford was on hand and almost the first on the spot."

"Wasn't it one of Trafford's men who found it?" the other asked.

"So it's said."

"Was he looking for it, or for something else?" Matthewson persisted.

"What do you mean?"

"Why should Trafford have sent men to search the lower river, if he didn't expect to find something? Had some one disappeared? You say a mere logger. What might Trafford say?"

"I believe you see a bogy every time you turn round," Hunter said impatiently.

"''Tis conscience doth make cowards of us all,'" Matthewson answered. "I don't like to be in this position. I don't dare move to find the papers, for