"An' if it'll be any help to yuh, Mr.Nolan, I'll say that I never seen the money passed from Kenner to Smilin' Lou, an' I never seen a bottle unloaded from the car.

I heard 'em yes.

An' I'll say there was a bunch of 'em all right.

But what I SEEN was the road ahead of me and that car of Smilin' Lou's standin' in the middle of it.

He had a gun pulled on me, mind yuh--and you can ask anybody if a feller feels like rubberin' much when there's only the click of a trigger between him an' a six-foot hole in the ground." "All the more reason," said Nolan, also sitting up with his hands clasped around his knees, "why it's important to catch them with the goods.