"One year ago we three were in Amsterdam, Holland, weren't we?"
"Sure."
"At work on a different kind of a game?"
"Yes."
"Only we three were then in the gang."
"That's right, Dave. Now there are seven of us, counting Venner and his partner."
"It was in Amsterdam that we first met her nibs," continued Kilgore, with a jerk of his thumb in the direction of Cervera, who was so engaged with Pylotte that neither heeded the talk at the table.
"Yes, Dave, we met her just a year ago," nodded Dalton.
"She was then doing her dances in a theater there, and we naturally got our peepers onto her diamonds," Kilgore went on to narrate. "You fellows already know the scheme by which we tried to relieve her of them, which we came so near doing."
"Well, rather," grinned Dalton, as if the reminiscence was amusing.