“By gum! it’s some kind of a put-up job!”
“I have a fancy there is something more than appears on the surface. It is an attempt to make trouble for me.”
“That’s right.”
“I hope to see the woman’s face at the police station.”
“Yeou won’t!”
“Why not?”
“She won’t show it.”
“Perhaps the judge will request her to lift her veil.”
“Not by a gol-darned sight! Men are too big fools over women. They’ll take any old thing she’ll say abaout yeou, an’ lock yeou up fer it. She’ll give some kind of name and address, an’ they’ll let her go at that.”
“Well, unless I can get bail right away I shall be in a bad fix. If Kent Carson were in town he would pull me out of it, as he did before.”