“Drunk,” said the other, “and he has a roll as big as a stovepipe.”
Nick leaned back in his chair with his eyes shut, but he knew that the women were standing in the doorway looking him over.
“I wonder why Jim doesn’t come?” asked the woman who had admitted Nick to the room. “I sent a waiter after him.”
“I presume he is busy,” was the reply. “There is a big fight on out there.”
“What is it all about?”
“Why, the gang believes that Hughart squealed to Carter, and caused the arrest of the big chief. They want him.”
“But he didn’t.”
“That’s true enough, but you can’t make the gang believe it.”
Nick began to wait with impatience for the return of Chick.