CHAPTER XVI.
THE GOPHER BITES.
Vera Bright found that Buffalo Bill was right in his conjecture that she would have no difficulty in securing her former position and that the manager would consider her recent notoriety an added attraction.
So she appeared in the show that evening in her former part.
When the performance was ended and she went back to the wine rooms, she was told that Gopher Gabe wished to see her.
One of the waiters brought the invitation.
“He’s in that little den he uses, back of the saloon,” she was informed. “You’d better see him.”
Vera Bright shivered, in spite of herself; she recalled the fact that some one, possibly White-eyed Moses, had eavesdropped at the door of Buffalo Bill’s room at the Eagle House.
“He isn’t in a temper?” she said anxiously.
“I don’t think so; he seemed in good enough humor. But the way he said it when he told me to tell you made me know that he meant it. So I’d advise you to go.”
For a moment Vera Bright thought of bolting out of the place and giving up the task she had assumed. Then her native courage came to reassure her.