What's the name of the other ?" "Barry.

Whistling Dan Barry." Calder hesitated.
"Right or wrong, I'd like to have this Barry with me.

So long." He was gone as he had come, with a nod and a flash of the keen, black eyes.

Lee Hardy stared at the door for some moments, and then went outside.

The warm light of the sun had never been more welcome to him.
Under that cheering influence he began to feel that with Tex Calder behind him he could safely defy the world.
His confidence received a shock that afternoon when a heavy step crossed the outside room, and his door opening without a preliminary knock, he looked up into the solemn eyes of Jim Silent.