Kid Glenn came in as usual for an aperitif while she was gathering up her wooden gloves.
"Did a mule stray today from your corral?" she asked, filling his glass for him.[pg 338]
"No," he said.
"Are you sure?"
"Dead certain. Why?"
"Do you know one of the new muleteers named Braun?"
"I know him by sight."
"Keed!" she said, going up to him and placing both hands on his broad shoulders; "I play the carillon after the angelus. Bring Steek to the bell-tower half an hour after you hear the carillon end. You will hear it end; you will hear the quarter hour strike presently. Half an hour later, after the third quarter hour strikes, you shall arrive. Bring pistols. Do you promise?"
"Sure! What's the row, Maryette?"
"I don't know yet. I think we shall find a spy in the tower."