26/28 "You had your own affairs to think about. You were merely being--_paid_ to think of my affairs." "Yes, sir--that's the kind of a hound I've been." Johnny's abject tone--he who had been so high-chested in the past--may have had its effect upon the boss. When Sudden spoke again his voice was almost kind, which is unusual, surely, for a man who has been robbed. It looks to me as though they had used that flying machine for a bait to get you out of the way, and that looks to me too clever for greasers. It looks to me as though some one knew what bait you would jump at the quickest, young man. |