"Down from Dawson?" asked the bartender hurrying forward, a magnificent creature in a check waistcoat, shirt-sleeves, four-in-hand tie, and a diamond pin.

He jabbed the bottle across the bar at Donnegan and spun a glass noisily at him, and the "floater" observed the angry bartender with a frightened side glance, and then poured his drink gingerly.

"Now if I can only find Swing" But Swing Tunstall, it appeared on consulting the bartender, had gone off hunting him (Racey).

Pringle kicked his gun from the holster and set foot upon it; one of his own guns covered the bartender and the other kept watch on Espalin, silent on his still-tilted chair.

" He slid in their direction the bottle with which he had knocked down the bartender, and, accompanied and imitated by Swing Tunstall, departed from that place crabwise.

" "Long as his drinks are paid for," muttered the bartender, "here he stays.

" She chaffed the bartender, and leaned idly against the counter.

"Dog, I guess," qualified the bartender.

"Maybe you been readin' minds, stranger?" Buck Daniels regarded the bartender with a mild and steadfast interest.

" Then he went behind the bar, seized the senseless bartender by the ankles and skidded him out on the barroom floor.

But instead of placing it on the top of the bar as requested, he continued the motion, as it were, and smote the bartender across the head with it.

"Jumped off to get away from the Bobbies," sneered the bartender.

It stopped the bartenders in the act of mixing drinks; it put the musicians out of key, and in the midst of a waltz phrase they broke down and came to a discordant pause.