You gave me three splendid opportunities to stick a gun in your back--and I could have made others.

And," he added with a smile, "if I had thought that you were a bootlegger or a crook of any other kind, I'd have had you in Las Vegas jail by this time.

You're no more a crook than I am.

You've got neither the looks nor the actions of a slicker.

I may say I know you pretty well--" Casey thrust out a pugnacious chin.