"We must find out what it all means.

Leave it to me." It was getting dark in the room, and the shadows were heavy on the hills.

While the remaining members of the besieged party sat silent and depressed upon the casks and boxes, Crosby stood at the window calling to the enemy.
"Is he ready to surrender ?" thundered Anderson Crow from the shadows.
Then followed a brief and entirely unsatisfactory dialogue between the two spokesmen.

Anderson Crow was firm in his decision that the fugitive did not have to be told what he had done; and George Crosby was equally insistent that he had to be told before he could decide whether he was guilty or innocent.
"We'll starve him out!" said Anderson Crow.
"But there are ladies here, my good man; you won't subject them to such treatment!" "You're all of a kind--we're going to take the whole bunch!" "What do you think will happen to you if you are mistaken in your man ?" "We're not mistaken, dang ye!" "He could sue you for every dollar you possess.

I know, for I'm a lawyer!" "Now, I'm sure you're in the job with him.