“Joe Snell and Pat Brady had the drop on us.”

“Come!”

“Where?”

“We will pay Murphy a visit.”

“Don’t ask me to walk through the streets with these on, please.”

Enoch held out his manacled wrists. After a moment’s hesitation, Burt removed the handcuffs.

“Enoch,” he said, “if you do the square thing, I may befriend you; try to escape, and I will shoot you down.”

“I give you my word I shall not try to escape,” said Cook.

The rascal meant to keep his word. Upon arriving at Murphy’s, Burt rang the bell. A young man’s head appeared at one of the upper windows.

“What do you want?”