He approached them again and again.

He told of his power in the prison by virtue of his being trusty in the Warden's office, and because of the fact that he had the run of the dispensary.
"Show me," said Long Bill Hodge, a mountaineer doing life for train robbery, and whose whole soul for years had been bent on escaping in order to kill the companion in robbery who had turned state's evidence on him.
Cecil Winwood accepted the test.

He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break.
"Talk is cheap," said Long Bill Hodge.

"What we want is the goods.

Dope one of the guards to-night.