"I remember that rush.
Alton did himself well.

Wasn't there a man called Nailer mixed up in the affair ?" "There was," said Damer, who seemed to shiver a little.

"He was my partner.

We'd have had the claim, and Alton wouldn't have worried anybody again, if Nailer had kept his nerve that night.

Something went wrong with the spring of his Winchester .-- and Alton didn't give him another chance." The silence that followed was, somewhat impressive.