“Do or die,” he said, “she’ll have to wear ’em! What’s next? Stockings?”

“Here they are.”

“These green ones will do the work. And now—”

“Corsets?”

He indicated a model bust clad in a formidable corset.

Carrigan sighed.

“Friend,” he said, “did you ever hear about the days when men wore armor?”

“Yes.”

“When I’m dancin’ with a girl that wears one of them things, I feel as if I had my arms around a man in armor. Anything else?”

A malicious light gleamed in the eyes of the proprietor.