Curry nodded.
“Likely that’s all correct, Bland. But he makes a big mistake if he thinks this yere Merriwell is easy. Merriwell is a fighter from ’Way Back.”
“He is a whole lot young.”
“In experience he is a whole lot old. Mebbe he don’t grow whiskers much, but he gets there just the same. Whiskers don’t always make the man, Bland. With all his money, this yere Sukes don’t get ahead of Merriwell any. When Morgan he tackles the job he finds it just as hard or harder. It does him no good to fake a charge that Merriwell shoots up Sukes.”
“Where did this yere shooting happen, Pete?”
“Over yon in Snowflake.”
Bland shook his head.
“Then it’s ten to one he gits disturbed none fer it. If he proves conclusive this yere Sukes bothers him, why, supposing he did do the shooting, it convicts him of nothing but self-defense down in this yere country!”
“Sukes was a whole lot wealthy, you understand.”
“All the same, I reckons it is pretty hard to put murder on a gent yereabouts in case he is defending his rights.”