Gentleman Joe's Leadville Lead — page 61: what you’re looking at

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“Vou needn’t try any bluff,’’ came back, at last, in the same gruff voice. ‘‘To which remark, gentlemen, I will say ditto. I am ready to oblige and all that, but I never open my parlor after hours, and I don’t reckon that anybody else is going to open it for me unless they do it with a crowbar.”’ “We don’t want any part of your faro, my girl. We'll put it plain what we do want, and that’s the chap that murdered Hime Henderson.’’ ‘‘Tam willing you should have him wherever you can find him, for certainly I have no use for him.”’ ‘‘Kid-Glove Kit is the man, and you know it, miss.’’ ‘‘He may be, and may not, but I don’t know it, and I don’t believe you do.”’ ‘‘And Kid-Glove Kit is hiding in your shanty—he was seen to go in there half an hour ago.’’ ‘That shows, gentlemen, that you are clear off your reckoning. I won’t deny that somebody came in with me half an hour ago—but it wasn’t Kid-Glove Kit and it doesn’t look much like him either. He’s an old friend of mine, and if it’s he you want to see I reckon you can in- terview him. You'll find that he can talk most as good as I can, and shoot better, if it comes to that.” Raising her voice, Foxy Fan called out: ‘‘These gentlemen want to see you, Mr. Gentry.’’ In another moment Gentleman Joe was at the door, and without hesitation he flung it open and confronted the four men who stocd outside in the darkness. He had seen none of them before except as he might have met them by chance in the streets or in some of the resorts of Leadville. ‘‘Well, gentlemen, it’s your say, so what’s the word?”’ was the salutation from Gentleman Joe, in a yoice which was as careless and cool as it might have been under any imaginable conditions. © ‘Why, it’s Joseph Gentry, of Denver!’’ exclaimed one. ‘‘RBut now of Leadville,’’ was Gentry’s retort. ‘‘But he isn’t the one we wanted to. see,’’ said the one who had spoken first. . ‘‘You are under no obligations to look at him. And if you feel much disappointment all you have got to do is to SP: > we » ‘ - ‘Ww ee ae ws, ay we 4 “ie a aie ee : ys : = £4 ht a, . —s 7s x ns 7 ‘Wa - - | : eos comicbooks.com a