The moment the jailer was gone Red said savagely, “All right, Frank! This runty foreman of yours is a tinhorn thief!” “You’re a liar!” Otey shouted. “You say that again an’ I’ll gunwhip hell out of you!” Red’s face was dark with fury, and Otey was so mad that he was dancing. Both were out of breath, both furious at each other and a hair’s breadth from fighting. Frank came to his feet and said quickly, “Quit it, you two!” Red sobered down and so did Otey, and gradually, by quizzing each of them, Frank learned what had happened. Barnes’s bail money was gone! Red claimed that Otey had stolen the money in the night and either hidden it or thrown it out the window to a confederate. Otey, when his turn came, claimed that Red had picked him up in the hotel lobby only so as to have someone to blame for stealing the money while he himself really took it. When Frank learned how close he had come to being bailed out he felt a sick feeling deep in the pit of his stomach.
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