When Carson does wake up, she's hell." He left them tobacco and pipes, and went away evidently convinced that he had performed his full duty.

The two prisoners, puffing smoke-rings into the air, heard the heavy clang of the iron bar falling into place across the door, and sat looking into one another's faces through the deepening twilight.

In the mind of both blaik and white reposed the same thought.

The negro was first to break the silence.
"'Pears ter me, Massa Jack, like dis yere Bart pusson am mighty anxious ter hab no suspicions raised." "Anybody but Hicks would see that," acknowledged the other, the rings of smoke circling his head, "but he hasn't any brains.

It was pure nerve that got him the job.