Sacketts 15 - Treasure Mountain by Louis L'amour

Author:Louis L'amour [L'amour, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-07-19T16:44:34+00:00

I have been writing in secret, but it is far from easy. I think Pettigrew

suspects what I am doing, but he is a secretive man and merely smiles that sly

smile and says nothing.

Somebody has found gold! This morning Pierre found a small hole, dug near a tree

and hastily filled in. The marks near the tree were of Pettigrew's boots.

Later, alone with Pierre, I told him the tracks were faked to implicate

Pettigrew. He scoffed at me and didn't believe it. I told him they wanted to

eliminate anyone who might be on his side and they would probably try to raise

suspicion about me next, and if that didn't work, there would be another Indian

attack. He was angry and demanded to know what I meant by that. I told him there

had been no Indians, I had found no tracks. Had there been Indians, they would

have returned to destroy us.

He was listening by then, and he asked who would fake such an attack and why. I

told him I thought it was Andre and Swan. He was annoyed because I accused his

brother-in-law. I said it seemed clear that Andre didn't mind killing and

neither did he seem to mind Swan's brutality to Angus.

Pierre did not like it, but he listened. "You think gold has been found and held

out?" he said. I told him that was exactly what I believed.

I took to sleeping away from the others, on a pretense of watching for Indians,

and I made my bed among leaves and branches that could not be walked over

without noise.

Moreover I watched my back.

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