An' he got a biff in the jaw before my turn come.

Ask him ?" Attention thus directed to the Mexican showed a heavy discolored swelling upon the side of his olive-skinned face.

Lorenzo looked only serious.
"Hah! Speak up," shouted Jorth, impatiently.
"Senor Isbel heet me ver quick," replied Lorenzo, with expressive gesture.

"I see thousand stars--then moocho black--all like night." At that some of Daggs's men lolled back with dry crisp laughter.
Daggs's hard face rippled with a smile.

But there was no humor in anything for Colonel Jorth.
"Tell us what come off.