"The great Pandu Singe will not keep your carriage waiting!" said he, with a dryness to which Venner then was blind.
"Well, Chick, what say you to that?" demanded Nick, as they were returning to the house of the snake charmer.
Chick laughed grimly.
"I say that we are now up against it."
"Right! There's a mighty wicked crisis near at hand."
"No doubt of it, Nick. Venner knew us all right."
"But he does not suspect that we are aware that he knew us, and in that at least we have the best of him."
"We'll turn it to a good account, too."
"Do you see the game this Kilgore gang is playing?"
"Plainly, Nick."