“Yes; but it is wise to be sure you can lick the man you laugh at.”
“Come down from your perch, Mike! You and I ain’t going to fall out.”
“Then don’t be so infernally funny, that’s all.”
“Who did you have the run-in with?”
“Have you seen Cook lately?”
“About an hour ago.”
“He could about tell you whom I ran up against,” said Quick.
“It wasn’t the detective?”
“That’s just exactly who it was, and it all come of me standing as a friend by Enoch,” replied Mike.
“He told me he would have been scooped but for you.”