“The only hitch,” replied Crull, “is this stunt of Blair Windsor’s of inviting so many people to the house. With so many guests, there’s always danger.”
“I don’t agree with you,” the old man answered. “I’m glad he does it. He invites any chance acquaintance. That was the way you got up here.
“It makes everything perfect for operations. Especially as he keeps booze out of the place. The more guests, and the better their reputation, the finer things are.”
“How about Jarnow?”
“Well, that was bad. But things have been pulled here for a long while, and that’s the first time anything went wrong. It was your fault, too, Crull. He followed you over here.”
“I know it. That’s why I was careful about coming over this time.”
“Why don’t you use the undercut?”
Birdie Crull shook his head.
“I don’t like it,” he said. “It’s all right for Vernon. He belongs in the house; but I’m a guest—”
“You had better use it some of the time. You ought to have plenty of opportunities to get away. But it’s bad to come over the hill.”