“Wal, but what are ye doin’ now? You brought that stuff to hand over, didn’t ye?”
“Certainly; when you deliver the goods.”
It was Snell who responded, and his voice was calm now.
He seemed to feel that his victory was won.
Leonard, on the other hand, looked worried.
“Guess that’s right enough, then,” remarked the leader. “We’ve got the goods, an’ we’ll show thet we can meet ye. Harry——”
He interrupted himself suddenly, with a glance at Patsy.
“’Twon’t do,” he added, in a decided tone; “not jest yet. We don’t want no witnesses to this perceedin’. I don’t perfess to say thet this geezer’s a detective, but dead men tell no tales. I wisht we’d bored holes in him out thar in the hills.”
“Better not do any shootin’ here,” suggested one of the men.