They haven't a ghost of a show to get out of it.

Lauman here is responsible for their safe keeping and I guess, now that he knows them better, we needn't be afraid they'll escape again.

And it's as Lauman said; he'll hang them quite as dead as you can.

He's drawing a salary to do these things, make him earn it.

It's a nasty job, boys, and you wouldn't get anything out of it but a nasty memory." A hand that did not feel like the hand of a man rested for an instant on his arm.