For now that he had determined to stay at the Double A no matter what happened, discovery did not alarm him.

He grinned at the little man, deliberately, with a taunting smile that the other could not fail to understand.
"You're a wise guy, eh ?" he said.

"Well, spring it.

I'm anxious to know how you got next to me." "You ain't sore, then ?" "Not, none." "I was hoping you wouldn't be," eagerly said the little man, "for I don't want you to hit the breeze just now.

I know you are not Will Bransford because I know Bransford intimately.