"Who's the kindergarten kid? Trying to break into the show?"
"I may," answered Andy calmly.
"Oho!" chuckled the other, with a wicked grin—"we'll have some fun with you, then."
"Maybe not," broke in the musician. "Dot poy has a pull."
"Oh, has he?" snorted the other.
"Yaw. Maybe you don't know, hey, Jim Tapp? You hear about dot cut trapeze? Aha! It vas dis poy who discovered dot in time."
"Eh!" ejaculated young Tapp, with a prodigious start. "Yes," he continued very slowly, viewing Andy with a searching, hateful look. "I heard of it. Says Murdock put up the job to break Thacher's neck."
"Dot vas so."
"How does he know it?"
"He overheardt dose schoundrels tell dot."