"Ah!" murmured Billy Wingo.
"Come, come, Bill, you're no fool. You know what I'm after. You know what you owe the party. Johnson and Kenealy must be taken care of."
"Must," observed Billy, "is the hardest word in the dictionary."
"Sometimes it means the most," declared Tip O'Gorman. "This is one of those times."
"Ah!"
There it was again, that irritating monosyllable. For the first time Tip O'Gorman began to experience a doubt.
"We expect you to appoint Johnson and Kenealy," he said bluntly.
"And if I don't?"
"Oh, you will—after you've thought it over."
"I thought it over after Judge Driver came to me. And I decided not to. I prefer my own men."