The more whisky I drank the easier they looked, until--" "Have another drink," invited the proprietor, for it was at one of his tables that Dade had played.

His smile was bland and his manner suave and smooth.

He shoved a bottle toward Dade.

At the same time he looked with interest upon Calumet.
"Stranger here, I reckon ?" he said.

"I seen you loadin' a heap of stuff into your wagon.