“Just curious, Jimmy. Tell me about it.”
And Jimmy told him everything as he had seen it.
“You shot at a man, eh?” queried Hashknife.
“There was somebody behind that bush,” declared Jimmy. “I was kinda excited, you see. No, I didn’t see where the shot came from; I was too far around the corner. But I didn’t see anybody after I shot.”
Hashknife continued to question—
“Was there more than two shots fired?”
“That’s all, and I fired one of ’em.”
“You went out there to warn Conley that the Big 4 outfit were comin’ out, didn’t you?”
Jimmy nodded quickly.
“What else could I do?”