“I expect to pay you for the trouble,” replied Mike.
“Nothing you could offer would induce me to go to that house.”
“You are as big a coward in this particular matter as myself.”
“Say no more about it.”
“Remember,” said Quick, “you have given me your word never to speak of the murder, if murder it is.”
“You have my promise.”
“Good. Let us go out and have a drink.”
They went out to the bar. After drinking with Mike, Bull rejoined Hare. At about the same moment Quick left the dive.
Frank’s first impulse was to follow the murderer. By doing so he would lose the grip he had obtained on Blair. He had been assigned to capture the latter, and Frank decided to live up to his instructions.
It was not his purpose to make an early arrest, however. He believed that if he played his cards sharp he stood a good chance of locating the great diamond of which Burt was in search. There was an old head on Frank Hare’s young shoulders.