He done drap it 'longside de kitchen door.

You won't let on I found it, honey?
You won't tell nobody ?" He reassured her, and hastened to his room.

Lighting his lamp, he hurriedly changed his coat for a heavier, and was starting in hot haste for the door when his eyes fell upon the pistol, which he had laid on the table.
It was a fine, pearl-handled revolver, thirty-eight caliber.

He looked at it closer, then stared blankly at the floor.

He had seen it before that afternoon.
"Why, Carter must have given Ricks the pistol," he thought.