“Jim, Dutchy was my friend, and I want yuh to promise——” he began.
Allen interrupted.
“I get yuh, but it can’t be did. Dutchy was downed by a couple of skunks what was called ‘Left Steve’ and Bill Ranee——”
Sam Hogg now interrupted in his turn.
“Did yuh say was called?” he asked.
“Yeah,” Allen said indifferently. “Tom, I hears yuh fellows talkin’ last night where yuh lost the trail. I hears that Dutchy was downed, but don’t hear nothin’ about Snippets being run off. So I takes after the killers an’ downs ’em.”
They glanced from the little outlaw in the chair to one another, then back again. Windy Sam dug Tad Hicks in the ribs.
“Yuh know him?” he whispered.
“The Wolf,” Tad replied.
“I knows that, but take a look at them pants,” Windy muttered.