"I'll keep cool enough, Dick. Don't worry about me," retorted Jim. "But answer a few questions, will you? A few straight questions?"
The trapper nodded.
"Do you think Captain Wigmore had anything to do with the marks on the cards?" asked Harley. "Give me a straight yes or no to that."
"A straight yes or no! Right you are! Yes, I do!"
"You do! Why?"
"Because I do, that's all. Ask your other questions, an' be darned quick about it. My temper's short."
"Have you any proof that he marked the cards?"
"No. And you haven't any proof that he didn't, neither."
The others crowded close around Dick Goodine and Jim Harley.
"And do you think he had anything to do with Davie Marsh's troubles?"