What for?
says you.
Because they're hiding a Secret.

I knew it as soon as I seen the man Lean's face.

I once seen the same kind o' scoondrel at the Picters.
When he opened his mouth to swear, I kenned he was a foreigner, like the lads down at the Broomielaw.

That looked black, but I hadn't got at the worst of it.

Then he loosed off at me wi' his gun." "Were you not feared ?" said Dickson.
"Ay, I was feared.