For each of the other three it pays
five thousand. The notices aren't out yet, but they will be in a few
days. Hardy, if you help me bag these men, you'll get fifty per cent
of the profits. Are you on?"
The hesitancy of Hardy changed to downright enthusiasm.
"Easy money, Tex. I'm your man, hand and glove."
"Don't get optimistic. This game isn't played yet, and unless I make
the biggest mistake of my life we'll be guessing again before we land
Silent. I've trailed some fast gunmen in my day, and I have an idea
that Silent will be the hardest of the lot; but if you play your end
of the game we may land him. I have a tip that he's lying out in the
country near Elkhead. I'm riding out alone to get track of him. As I
go out I'll tell my men that you're O.K. for this business."
He hesitated a moment with his hand on the door knob.
"Just one thing more, Hardy. I heard a queer tale this morning about
a fight in a saloon run by a man named Morgan. Do you know anything
about it?"
"No."
"I was told of a fellow who chipped four dollars thrown into the air
at twenty yards."
"That's a lie."
"The man who talked to me had a nicked dollar to prove his yarn.
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