"I want to know a little more about them before I go any farther.

They say you 've been high-jacking." Taylor Bill nodded in the affirmative.
"And that you robbed the Old Times dance and framed the evidence against this big Cornishman ?" Taylor Bill scraped a foot on the floor.
"It's true.

Squint Rodaine wanted me to do it.

He 'd been trying for thirty years to get that Blue Poppy mine.

There was some kind of a mix-up away back there that I did n't know much about--fact is, I did n't know anything.