"You got a
world of time before you, and with Satan to fall back on you don't have to
count your minutes. Pull up a chair beside me, Dan, and--"
The latter shook his head, decided. "Buck, I can't do it. Just to sit
here"--he looked about him--"makes me feel sort of choked. Them walls are
as close--as a coffin."
He was already turning; Kate straightened in the shadow, desperate.
"As a matter of fact, Dan," said Lee Haines, suddenly, "we need your help
badly."
"Help?"
The heart of Kate stood in her eyes as she looked at Lee Haines.
"Sit down a minute, Dan, and I'll tell you about it."
Barry slipped into a chair which he had pulled to one side--so that the
back of it was towards the wall, and every one in the room was before him.
Chapter XIV. Suspense
The help which Lee Haines wanted, it turned out, was guidance across a
difficult stretch of country which he and Buck Daniels wanted to prospect,
and while he talked Barry listened uneasily. It was constitutionally
impossible for him to say no when a favor was asked of him, and Haines
counted heavily on that characteristic; in the meantime Black Bart lay on
the hearth with his wistful eyes turned steadily up to the master; and Buck
Daniels went to Kate on the farther side of the room.
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