“Where are you, Casco?”

“Here, Barker, I’ve knocked him out.”

“Him? Who?”

“The fellow I had a row with at the hotel. I felt certain he must be somewhere around here.”

“Humph! You seem to have a grudge against him.”

“I have. It was he exposed me in New York. I might have had that snap yet if it hadn’t been for him.”

The man called Barker chuckled, as if what he had been told was a joke.

“What was his pockets worth?”

“Not much. A handful of change and these letters.”

“What will you do with him?”