He's lookin' at you too steady.

If I was you--" Through the whisper of Buck, through the loud, steady talk of Lee Haines, cut the voice of Barry.
"Vic!" The latter looked up and found that Barry was standing just within the glow of the hearth-light and something about him made Gregg's heart shrink.
"Vic, how much did they pay you ?" He tried to answer; he would have given ten years of life to have his voice under control for an instant; but his tongue froze.

He knew that every one had turned toward him and he tried to smile, look unconcerned, but in spite of himself his eyes were wide, fixed, and he felt that they could stare into the bottom of his soul and see the guilt.
"How much ?" Then his voice came, but he could have groaned when he heard its crazily shaken, shrill sound.
"What d'you mean, Dan ?" The other smiled and Gregg added hastily: "If you want me to be movin' along, Dan, of course you're the doctor." "How much did they pay ?" repeated the quiet, inexorable voice.
He could have stood that, even without much fear, for no matter how terrible the man might be in action his hands were tied in his own house; but now Kate spoke: "Vic, what have you done ?" Then it came, in a flood.

Hot shame rolled through him and the words burst out: "I'm a yaller houn'-dog, a sneakin' no-good cur! Dan, you're right.

I've sold you.