“Is he prepared to back me?”
White-eyed Moses shrugged his shoulders.
“Vell,” he said, “you know how it is! Gopher Gabe will spendt his money like vater; but vhen it gomes to daking personal risks, he ain’t dare. You can’t exbect much from him. But he couldt furnish fighting men, if it was needet.”
“Nobody is allowed to see Juniper, I reckon?”
“I t’ink not.”
“You haven’t seen him?”
“No.”
“No chance, I suppose, to bribe the jailer?”
“It’s Matt Shepard; you know him.”
“No chance there, and Shepard will be a hard man to fool. He’ll shoot, too. He wouldn’t like anything better than to turn his gun loose on me.”