The rules say so." "Maybe in some places.

Not here!" "What is it here ?" "It's a murder society, that's vat it is." McMurdo laughed incredulously.

"How can you prove that ?" he asked.
"Prove it! Are there not fifty murders to prove it?
Vat about Milman and Van Shorst, and the Nicholson family, and old Mr.Hyam, and little Billy James, and the others?
Prove it! Is there a man or a voman in this valley vat does not know it ?" "See here!" said McMurdo earnestly.

"I want you to take back what you've said, or else make it good.

One or the other you must do before I quit this room.