“Or informed her.”
“You’re getting wise fast.”
“Otherwise, Badger, you couldn’t have planned the job among you,” continued Nick.
“Perhaps not.”
“I can come pretty near guessing who it was, too, since Chief Weston is the only man I informed of my intention.”
“Most likely he sent a messenger out here and warned us,” sneered Badger, with a grin.
“Not he,” retorted Nick. “But there’s a red-headed sketch and outline of a man in his office, Badger, whom I’ll come pretty near rounding up along with the rest of you, when I get out of this hole.”
“There will be no immediate rounding up, Carter, since it depends upon you alone,” replied Badger, with a searching stare at Nick’s face.
“Ah, then you were also told that I’m alone on the case,” said Nick, willing enough to have him think so.