Take some more whisky, and listen to me, though I didn't think it would be necessary to go into the thing again.

I was with the men who found Gordon at the bottom of his shaft on the Quatchigan." Damer appeared irresolute, but he sat down.

"Nobody knows how he got there." "No?
Well, I have a notion, and I guess Tom Winstanley and one other man could tell." "Winstanley's dead." Hallam laughed.

"Still, the other man is on my pay-roll, but where you can't get at him unless I want you to.

Now, are you going to gain anything by kicking against me ?" Damer was evidently astonished, and sat for almost a minute as though lost in reflection.