“You’re right he did.”
“What was it?”
“He wanted Walter to put some stuff in the water Dan drank or in something he ate before the game to-morrow.”
“What did he want him to put in it?”
“Ipecac. Gus said, ‘That’ll make him sick enough to quit the box and it won’t hurt him a bit, either.’”
“What did Walter say then?”
“He said he didn’t want to do it. He said he didn’t like Dan any better than Gus did, but he didn’t want to go into any such low-down trick as that.”
“I should think he wouldn’t want to,” said Ned savagely. “But he agreed in the end that he’d do it?”
“Yes. I think Gus knew something that Walter was afraid he’d tell if he didn’t agree.”