Besides, Miki and I are going to make it up to you.

We're going to take you along with us down to the Girl, and if you don't learn to love her you're the meanest, lowest-down little cuss in all creation and don't deserve a mother.

You and Miki are going to be brothers.

His mother is dead, too--plum starved to death, which is worse than dying with a bullet in your lung.

And I found Miki just as I found you, hugging up close to her an' crying as if there wasn't any world left for him.