Was this to-day or yesterday--at the hotel ?" "Liar!" roared Lisner.

"You never were at the Gadsden House." "Who said I was ?" The words cracked like a whiplash.

Simultaneously Pringle's tilted chair came down to its four legs and Pringle sat poised, his weight on the balls of his feet, ready for a spring.

The sheriff paused midway of a step; his mottled face grew ashen.

A gurgle very like a smothered chuckle came from Anastacio.