"Have you seen much of Jim Silent lately ?" Hardy hesitated.

The role of informer was new.
"Not directly." Calder nodded.
"Now put me right if I go off the track.

The way I understand it, Jim Silent has about twenty gun fighters and long riders working in gangs under him and combining for big jobs." "That's about it." "The inside circle consists of Silent; Lee Haines, a man who went wrong because the law did _him_ wrong; Hal Purvis, a cunning devil; and Bill Kilduff, a born fighter who loves blood for its own sake." "Right." "Here's something more.

For Jim Silent, dead or alive, the government will pay ten thousand dollars.

For each of the other three it pays five thousand.