“I want to get Perry, too,” snapped Lige; “don’t forget that while your brain’s at work.”
“It’ll be easy to get Perry—but Dunbar first, Dunbar first.”
“And what about Buffalo Bill?”
“He’ll come harder, and it’ll take more scheming, Lige. We’ll save Buffalo Bill for the last. Oh, this is fine—finer than I expected. So Dunbar has gone to Hackamore to buy a diamond ring for Mrs. Dunbar, hey?”
Jerry went off into one of his mirthless cackles again.
“It couldn’t have happened better, Lige,” he declared, “honest it couldn’t.”
“Stop your confounded sputtering and tell me what you’re going to make happen? What are you keeping me in the dark for?”
“I’m keeping you in the dark, Lige, until I can make sure of Isaacs.”
“Isaacs is going to help?”
“Yes, Lige, if I can get him to. Have you got any influence with Abraham Isaacs?”