Do you understand that ?" "Oh, quite," said Fletcher Hill, sardonically.

"But--let me tell you at the outset--you won't find me specially easy to bargain with on that count--Mr.Buckskin Bill." Bill Warden threw up his head with a gesture of open defiance.

"I'm not doing any--bargaining," he said.

"And as to arresting me--afterwards--you can do as you please.

But now--just now--you are in my power, and you're going to play my game.