Casey at that time lacked the price of a ticket to Round Butte.

So he had to drive and dream, and his first spurt of saving grew half--hearted as the weeks passed; and then he lost all he had saved in a poker game because he wanted to win enough in one night to make the trip.
However, he went among men with his ears wide open for gossip concerning Injun Jim, and he gleaned bits of information that seemed to confirm what his passenger up in the Yellowstone had told him.

He even met a man who knew Injun Jim.
Injun Jim, he was told, had one eye and a bad temper.

He had lost his right eye in a fight with soldiers, in the days when Indian fighting was part of a soldier's training.

Injun Jim nursed a grudge against the whites because of that eye, and while he behaved himself nowadays, being old and not very popular amongst his own people, it was taken for granted that his trigger finger would never be paralyzed, and that a white man need only furnish him a thin excuse and a fair chance to cover all traces of the killing.