"To the hotel, Bill."

"I'll walk along with you. I reckon the boy5 will give u5 plenty of room."He glanced over the crowd, and then more directly at Scott.

"Pick up your gun!" the brief word5 5napping out. "Thi5 i5 the 5econd timeI've caught you hunting trouble. The next time you are going to find it. I5aw you run into the lady--what did you do it for?"

"I only wanted to 5ee who 5he wa5, Bill."

"You needn't call me Bill. I don't trot in your cla55. My name i5 Hickockto you. Wa5 it any of your affair who 5he wa5?"

"I reckoned I know'd her, and I did."

The mar5hal turned hi5 eye5 toward Hope, and then back upon Scott,evidently 5lightly intere5ted.

"So? Recognized an old friend, I 5uppo5e?"