"Better put the clamps on your nerves, Hiram, or you'll be in jail the first thing you know."
"How's the shoulder?"
"Coming along in fine shape."
"I didn't know whether you'd be able to answer that there telegram of mine in person, and if you was able, I didn't know whether you would."
"Look here, Hiram," said Clancy, "didn't I tell you I'd help you find your father if you'd keep mum about what Lafe Wynn did?"
"Uh-huh."
"Well, I always try to pay my debts."
"Got any trace o' Gerald Wynn, Burton, and Katz yet?"
"No."
"Then that fifteen thou' is gone for good?"