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第56章 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE(1)

At noon the next day Casey was still waiting--but not hopefully.

"Patience on a monument" couldn't have resembled Casey Ryan in any particular whatever.-He was mad.-By midnight he had begun to wonder if he was not going to be made a goat again.-By daylight, he was positive that he was already a goat.-By the time the trusty brought his breakfast, Casey was applying to Mack Nolan the identical words and phrases which he had applied to young Kenner when he was the maddest.-Don't ask me to tell you what they were.

Jim Cassidy still clung desperately to his faith in Smiling Lou; but Casey's faith hadn't so much as a finger-hold on anything.

What kind of a government was it, he asked himself bitterly, that would leave a trusted agent twenty-four hours shut up in a cell with a whining crook like Jim Cassidy?-If, he added pessimistically, he were an agent of the government.-Casey doubted it.-So far as he could see, Casey Ryan wasn't anything but the goat.

His chief desire now was to get out of there as soon as possible so that he could hunt up Mack Nolan and lick the livin' tar wit of him--or worse.-He wanted bail and he wanted it immediately.

Not a soul bad come near him, save the trusty, in spite of certain mysterious messages which Casey had sent to the office, asking for an interview with the judge or somebody; Casey didn't care who. Locked in a cell, how was he going to do any of the things Nolan had told him to do if he happened to find himself arrested by an honest officer?

When they hauled him before the police judge, Casey hadn't been given the chance to explain anything to anybody.-Unless, of course, he wanted to beller out his business before everybody; and that, he told himself fiercely, was not Casey Ryan's idea of the way to keep a secret.-Moreover, that damned speed cop was standing right there, just waiting for a chance to wind his fingers in Casey's collar and choke him off if he tried to say a word.-And how the hell, Casey would like to know, was a man going to explain himself when he couldn't get a word in edgeways?

So Casey wanted bail.-There were just two ways of getting it, and it went against the grain of his pride to take either one.

That is why Casey waited until noon before his Irish stubbornness yielded a bit and he decided to wire me to come.-He had to slip the wire out by the underground method--meaning the good will of the trusty.-It cost Casey ten dollars, but he didn't grudge that.

He spent that afternoon and most of the night mentally calling the trusty a liar and a thief because there was no reply to the message. As a matter of fact, the trusty sent the wire through as quickly as possible and the fault was mine if any one's.-I was too busy hurrying to the rescue to think about sending Casey word that I was coming. Casey said afterwards that my thoughtlessness would be cured for life if I were ever locked in jail and waiting for news.

As it happened, I wired the Little Woman that Casey was in jail again, and caught the first train to San "Berdoo"--coming down by way of Barstow.-I could save two or three hours that way, I found, so I told the Little Woman to meet me there and bring all the money she could get her hands on.-Not knowing just what Casey was in for this time, it seemed well to be prepared for a good, stiff bail.-She beat me by several hours, and between us we had ten thousand dollars.

At that it was a fool's errand.-Casey was out of jail and gone before either of us arrived.-So there we were, holding the bag, as you might say, and our ten thousand dollars' bail money.

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