"We'll exchange a pot of coffee for sartin papers you has with yer."
"You're very kind!" laughed Merry derisively.
"It's a right good offer. We're goin' to have them papers anyhow, an' you may not even git coffee fer them."
"You're due for the greatest disappointment of your lives, gentlemen," declared Frank. "If you're looking this way for papers, you're barking up the wrong tree."
"Oh, you can't fool us!" was the answer. "We know you've got 'em, and we'll have 'em."
"Ever gamble?" asked Frank.
"Oh, we sometimes take a chance."
"I'll go you my horse and outfit against that of any one in your party that you don't get the papers."
"Done! It's a sure thing as far as we're consarned. We has yer foul, an' we'll stay right yere till we starves ye out."