They get out and come up the string-piece and we get a good flash at
them. The male members of the party is all dressed up in blue coats
and white pants and from their general get-up I thought they was all
gonna form a circle, pick up the ends of their coats and pipe. "What
ho, the merry villagers come and we are the daisy maids!"

All but one. He was a great big husky, kinda dark skinned and he
looked like a assassin with the women, know what I mean? Also, I had
seen this bird somewheres before, but I couldn't check him up right off
the bat. The girl that was with the troupe was a good looker all
right, and you could see she was a big-timer. But she was kinda thin
and worn out to the naked eye. And when I got a close-up of her, I
seen there was a funny look in her eyes, like she had been
double-crossed or somethin'. She looked at everything like she wished
it was hers, but there was no chance, d'ye get me?

Well, Potts comes a-runnin' to meet 'em and then he comes up and
introduces 'em all around. He claims they're from Frisco and friends
of his which has come over to see how movin' pictures is made and they
might even go so far as to take off a part in one of 'em, just for the
devilment of it. Miss Vincent looks hard and close at the dark-skinned
guy, like she was tryin' to think where she had seen him before, but
Genaro come along just then and I'll bet them newcomers didn't get no
encouragement from the way _he_ looked 'em over. De Vronde and Van
Aylstyne, though, fell for this bunch so hard they liked to broke their
necks. It seems them two hicks found out they all was members of this
Golden West Club, and they did everything but shine their shoes from
then on.

When the Kid blows in and sees 'em, he claims he remembers 'em all as
bein' among them present the night he went over to the Club, and he
says they had better keep lots of the Golden West between him and them
while they was in our midst.

The tall dark guy, whose name was somethin' like Brown-Smith, took one
flash at Miss Vincent and then everybody else could have been in France
for all the notice _he_ give 'em. He took up his stand about two feet
away from her, and there he stuck all day long like cement. Anybody
could see that this stuff was causin' two people to register worry.
They was the Kid and the dame that come over with the troupe. Scanlan
watches Brown-Smith makin' his play for Miss Vincent, and he seen that
if she wasn't enc