"Bill Masters could mebby help me out," he said finally.

"Only I don't like the friends Bill's been wishin' onto me lately.

This man Kenner, that held me up, knowed Bill Masters intimate.

I'm kinda losin' my taste fer Bill lately." Mack Nolan seized upon the clue avidly.

Before Casey quite realized what he had done, he found himself hustled away from camp in Mack Nolan's car, headed for Lund in the service of his government.