[Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories CHAPTER I 22/33
As soon as he had left the building Colonel Starbottle opened the door and mysteriously beckoned the bar-keeper within. "Do you remember anything of the killing of a man named Frisbee over in Fresno three years ago ?" The bar-keeper whistled meditatively.
"Three years ago--Frisbee ?--Fresno ?--no? Yes--but that was only one of his names.
He was Jack Walker over here.
Yes--and by Jove! that feller that was here with you killed him.
Darn my skin, but I thought I recognized him." "Yes, yes, I know all that," said the Colonel, impatiently.
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