“Well, not awful well.”
“Well enough to call her Marion.”
“She asked me to call her that. But that’s all right, isn’t it?”
“It’s all right with me. But it got under the hide of that lawyer.”
“It’s none of his business.”
“No-o-o, I suppose not, Jimmy. Have you any idea who shot yuh?”
Jimmy started to speak, changed his mind, and shook his head.
“I heard,” said Hashknife slowly, “that two prominent young men in this community had declared their intentions of marryin’ this young lady.”
“Oh, I know that,” said Jimmy quickly. “Tex Alden and Chet Le Moyne. But that doesn’t make any difference to me.”
“I see,” Hashknife grinned widely. “You’ll make it a three-cornered affair, eh?”