“Keep out the silver,” said Joe, “and give me the bills.”
Young obeyed and passed over a ten, a five, and two ones. “You’re witness that I paid this to him,” he challenged the third member of the group. The tall man nodded.
“I’m witness you’ve paid him seventeen dollars,” he agreed. “Go ahead.”
“Go ahead? What do you mean, go ahead?” asked Young with a scowl.
“Why, I mean go ahead and pay him the rest of it.”
“The rest of it! He agreed to take what I had here——”
“What you had with you, my friend,” interrupted the other. “Be good now and don’t let’s have any more trouble.” He reached across and pushed Young’s suit-case toward him. “Open her up, friend, and dig down!”
“I tell you I ain’t got——”
“I heard you, too,” was the wearied response. “But we’ll take the money that’s in the suit-case, I think. Come across with it, Young!”