“’Tain’t safe to wait any longer,’ said the one who got there first.
“‘And it ain’t half so safe to try to see him here,’ the other answered. ‘Don’t be a fool! You see, his windows are still lighted, and he’s busy. When he gets through, he’ll come, as he said he would. Let him alone now and come back.’
“They jawed a little more back and forth, and finally the second man got the first one to go away.[{29}]
“I didn’t know then what they were talking about, and I don’t know now, but I dropped Claymore for a time and followed those two men.”
“Why?” asked Nick.
“Because I knew them. One was Jack Hamilton, the leader of the gang we had a tussle with in Helena, and the other was his right-hand man, Jack Thompson.”
CHAPTER VII.
DADDY DREW’S DIVE.
Nick looked suddenly at the picture.
“By Jove!” he muttered, “I believe I know them now.”
“I haven’t a doubt of it,” said Patsy, “but you couldn’t swear to it to the satisfaction of a jury.”