“Did you see the sheriff?”
“Yes. Everything is all right at the jail. Brower and Morris are locked up in separate cells, and no one is the wiser for their being there.”
“Have they done any talking or sent out for friends?”
“They talk most of the time, threatening all sorts of things, and Brower has been trying all the morning to send a messenger over town to call that ten thousand dollar bet off.”
“The sheriff didn’t allow him to send out any word, did he?”
“Of course he didn’t. He understands as well as we do that that is Wheeler’s money.[{55}]”
“You gave the sheriff my note, of course?”
“Yes, and he had a great laugh over it.”
“He couldn’t imagine yesterday what I wanted his men for. I suppose he knows now.”
“Then you didn’t tell him?”