“Oh!”
“It startled you?”
“Well, as you were unkind enough to suggest that I was a fraud of the first water, when I was here before, I didn’t know but you was getting ready to jump at me, and put up a holler for help to hold me.”
Buffalo Bill laughed grimly.
“You are nervous.”
“Who wouldn’t be, knowing that Juniper Joe is walking the streets with two revolvers, ready to down me the minute he sees me? That’s enough to make any man nervous. Are your pards here?”
“They’re close about.”
“I have been hammering away at this case ever since I saw you last; and have a theory.”
“Out with it; if you want to share it with me.”