They were the men whose inlooking eyes would baffle the sheriff; they were the men capable of suspicions, and such men Bull needed--not dull-glancing people like himself.
He went first to the proprietor of the hotel.

"I got something to say to the sheriff," he declared.

"And I want to have a few important gents around town to be there to listen and hear what I got to say.

I wonder, could you be handy ?" He was surprised at the avidity with which his invitation was accepted.

It was a long time since the hotel owner had been referred to as an "important man." Then he went with the same talk to five others--the blacksmith, the carpenter and odd-jobber, the storekeeper, and two men whom he had marked when he first halted near the hotel veranda.