“Let’s put our heads together, Sam,” he advised. “They say it’s like lumps o’ sugar in a cup o’ coffee—two’s better’n one. Come now! Out with it!”
Sam hesitated. “I—I—what’d be the use?”
“Dunno yet; that’s for the pair of us to find out.”
“But——”
“But, to begin with,” said Lon briskly, “what’s Ed Zorn got against you?”
“Ed Zorn? Who’s been telling you? I didn’t let it out, did I?”
“Dunno what you may have been talkin’ in your sleep, but I’ll acquit you on what you’ve said while awake.”
“How did you find out?”
“Mebbe I hain’t found much—I’d like to know jest how much. That’s why I’m comin’ to headquarters and askin’ you.”
Sam cherished independence, but at heart he welcomed this opening to talk things over.