They've played me dirt--more than once.

My name's Al Sharp.

You know that Tom Taggart was as deep in that idol business as your dad was.

He told me.

But he's got Telza soft-soaped into thinkin' that Betty Clayton's folks snaked it from Telza's people.
Taggart's got evidence that your dad planted the idol around here somewheres--seems to know that your dad drawed a diagram of the place an' left it with Betty.