Steve Yeager

"[...] Steve turned to Villain Number Two, who backed away rapidly in alarm. "What's eatin' you? We ain't hurtin' her any, you mutt." The girl, still crouched on the ground, turned with a nervous little laugh to the man who had been directing operations: - "What d'you know about that, Billie? The rube swallowed it all. You gotta raise my salary." The cowpuncher felt in the pit of his stomach the same sensation he had known when an elevator in Denver had dropped beneath his feet too suddenly. The young woman was rouged and painted to the ears. Never in its [...]."