Morrell rapped me a full account of the incident.

I was unconscious in the jacket at the time.
"Warden," Oppenheimer had said, "you've bitten off more than you can chew.

It ain't a case of killing Standing.

It's a case of killing three men, for as sure as you kill him, sooner or later Morrell and I will get the word out and what you have done will be known from one end of California to the other.

You've got your choice.