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? ? ? ? Mr. Wheeler gathered up the notes and gold and sweeping them to his hat went forward and tendered them to John O'Donnell.

? ? ? ? "Take this money, Mr. O'Donnell," he said. "It is the free will offering of your friends. I am sure I may say for them, as for myself, that it gives us all pleasure to help a comrade in trouble."

? ? ? ? Louis Wheeler could have done nothing that would have so lifted him in the estimation of the miners.

? ? ? ? "And now," he said, "as our friend is out of his trouble I will play you a few tunes on my violin, and will end the day happily."

? ? ? ? "I can't make out that fellow, Rodney," said Jefferson when they were alone. "I believe he is the thief, but he has an immense amount of nerve."

Chapter XXXI - Mr. Wheeler Explains

? ? ? ? Probably there was no one at the hotel who suspected Louis Wheeler of being a thief except Rodney and Mr. Pettigrew. His action in starting a contribution for John O'Donnell helped to make him popular. He was establishing a reputation quite new to him, and it was this fact probably that made him less prudent than he would otherwise have been.


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