“Where’s your long green?”
“Money talks!”
“Put up, colonel!”
“Or shut up, colonel.”
“Oh, I’m here to back my talk,” declared the Topeka man, fishing into an inside pocket. “Here’s the—— Well, I’m blowed!”
“What’s the matter?”
“I’ve been touched! Gents, I’ve been robbed of five thousand dollars I took to back the Maverick!”
“Ha! ha! ha!” roared the crowd. “Colonel, it won’t go! You are a squealer!”
To this the Topeka man roared a vigorous protest, but his words were drowned.
Frank’s breath was almost taken away.