"Do you like him as much as that?" Shrewdly.
"Not the way you mean." Dispassionately.
"Then who is he?"
"I ain't sayin', I tell you!"
"You snitched on Nebraska." Persuasively.
"This feller's different."
"How different?"
"None of yore business. Lookit, I'm doin' my best for you, but I won't
have the luck every time that I had to-night—nor you won't, neither.
Gawd! if I hadn't just happened to strike for a night off this evenin'
I dunno where you'd be!"
"Say, I thought you didn't dare let them see you have anythin' to do with me?"
"I didn't, and I don't. But I had to. I couldn't set by an' let you be plugged, could I? Hardly."