"I guess the heavy end of
this business is coming on to you. We could put him down an old
shaft when we've done with him; but however we work it we can't
get past the man living at Hobson's Patch and you being there
to-day."
McMurdo shrugged his shoulders. "If we handle it right, they can
never prove the killing," said he. "No one can see him come to
the house after dark, and I'll lay to it that no one will see him
go. Now see here, Councillor, I'll show you my plan and I'll ask
you to fit the others into it. You will all come in good time.
Very well. He comes at ten. He is to tap three times, and me to
open the door for him. Then I'll get behind him and shut it.
He's our man then."
"That's all easy and plain."
"Yes; but the next step wants considering. He's a hard
proposition. He's heavily armed. I've fooled him proper, and
yet he is likely to be on his guard. Suppose I show him right
into a room with seven men in it where he expected to find me
alone. There is going to be shooting, and somebody is going to
be hurt."
"That's so."
"And the noise is going to bring every damned copper in the
township on top of it.
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