He stood in a moment under the eyes of five silent men.
The booming voice of Jim Boone pronounced: "This is Pierre.

He'll be one of us if he can get the gang to do two things.

I ask you, will you hear him for me, and then pass on whether or not you try his game ?" They nodded.

There were no greetings to acknowledge the introduction.
They waited, eyeing the youth with distrust.
Pierre eyed them in turn, and then he spoke directly to big Dick Wilbur.
"Here's the first: I want to bury a man in Morgantown and I need help to do it." Black Gandil snarled: "You heard me, boys; blood to start with.

Who's the man you want us to put out ?" "He's dead--my father." They came up straight in their chairs like trained actors rising to a stage crisis.