“You can have some great fun to-night, captain, if you want it.”

“I can?”

“Yes.”

“What’s your plan?”

“You go over there and join your friend. I won’t go, but I’ll provide a great treat for you.”

Murray as a rule was a very serious sort of man, but he had been a witness to a little of Ike’s marvelous powers, and he did think it might be very amusing. But he said:

“It may be risky, Ike.”

“How?”

“Those fellows always have their guns at hand. If anything unusual should show up, they might take a notion to shoot.”

“They will never shoot me. They will all think they are ‘called for.’ What’s your friend’s name?”