His bunch is all here, as you kin see fer yourself. Now we're
listenin' 's long's you talk polite--'n' you kin tell us what men them was
that was seen goin' in and comin' out--and all about the hul] dang business."
The sheriff had not ridden to Bear Canon expecting to be bullied into civil
speech and lengthy explanations; but he knew Applehead Furrman, and he had
sufficient intelligence to read correctly the character of the group of men
that stood behind Applehead. Honest men or thieves, they were to, be reckoned
with if any attempt were made to place Luck under arrest; any fool could see
that--and Hank Miller was not a fool.
He proceeded therefore to explain his errand and the robbery as the cashier
had described it to the clerks who returned after lunch to finish their
Saturday's work at the bank.
"Fifteen thousand they claim is what the fellers got. And one of your men that
runs the camera was keeping up a bluff of taking a pitcher of it all the time-
-that's why they got away with it. Nobody suspicioned it was anything more'n
moving-pitcher acting till they found the cashier and brought him toy along
about one o'clock. It was that Chavez feller that you had working for yuh, and
Luis Rojas that done it--them and a couple fellers stalling outside with the
camera.
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