“What’re you going to do about it?” asked Jimmie belligerently.
“I’ve been ordered,” Norman went on with a smile, “to break you in two if I came across you in the mountains.”
“Do it, then!” shouted Jimmie. “You’ve gone and got Ned into a mess, and I’d just like to have you try something on me now!”
Instead of showing temper, Norman sat down on the ground and laughed until he felt obliged to hold his sides.
“How’d you ever get away out here in the mountains?” Jimmie asked. “Ain’t you afraid you’ll get lost?”
“I haven’t got lost yet!” was the scornful reply.
“Come now,” Jimmie said, in a more conciliating tone of voice, “put me wise to the game you’re playing with Nestor.”
“All I know about it is that I delivered the note.”
“Where is Nestor?”
“I left him talking with a very fine gentleman who seemed to be offering to do the square thing with him,” was the reply.