“I never saw anybody.”
“Did you ever see Deputy Jenney there?”
Lancelot’s face turned more ashen. “I never see him. I dunno nothin’ about him.”
“You’ve heard he was in it?”
“Jest whispers. But nothin’ I can say.”
“When was the last time you got whisky?”
He gave her the date, which coincided with her finding of the cache in the woods.
“When do you expect to go again?”
He hesitated. “I—— A feller come to-day. Said I could run out to-night. Said the’ was a special-sized shipment comin’....”
“To-night?”