27/46 Slade must be mad clean through." "Slade! Slade! Who's Slade ?" "Slade is a spy partly, and an outlaw mostly, 'cause he often works on his own hook. He's the weazened little fellow with so much hat-brim, and he's about twenty different kinds of a demon. You've plenty of reason to fear him, and it's lucky we've met." "It's more than luck for me, Sergeant. I believe it wouldn't have been half as hard on me if somebody had been with me, and you're the first whom I would have chosen. |