The villain knew who it was without being told.
"Young Wild West, I reckon?" he said, coolly. "Come on in; don't stand there. I don't know just what kind of a guarantee I can give that this man's gold will go safely through the pass, but it is my opinion that there are no robbers there. That's why I spoke that way."
"Oh!"
Our hero walked in followed by his partners and John Sedgwick.
As the reader may judge, Wild had suspected the man the moment he saw him looking at the sign at the mouth of the pass.
When he heard Sedgwick say he was the storekeeper over in Silver Bend he did not alter his opinion, either.
Determined to find out more about the man, he had walked over to the saloon.
Cap Roche was talking when our friends got there, and as his back happened to be toward the door he did not see them until after the young deadshot spoke.
Wild knew that the only way to get anything out of the man would be first to anger him.
He had tried to do this, but apparently he had not succeeded.