"How kin I tell whether I want it or not till ye explain what the work is?"
"I'll not go into details until you agree to take hold. I'd be in a nice fix, wouldn't I, if I told you what was up, and then had you back out on the proposition."
"Ye'll have ter tell me somethin' about it, that's shore."
"I'll tell you this much, Siwash, and that is that the two young fellows you mixed up with, when the bear treed the Chinaman, are the ones you'll have to go after. That ought to be enough, hadn't it?"
Charley's eyes kindled viciously.
"I'm arter them two," he growled.
"Of course you are," went on the broker, noting with satisfaction the effect his words had had on his caller. "You're pretty well acquainted up around Devil's Lake, aren't you?"
"I spent a good many years thar, Murg."
"Do you know Benner, the post trader?"