"Men, listen to me!" he cried.

"We promise you a fair trial--we promise--" "Shut up!" cried the leader, and cries of "No talking!" came from the crowd.

"Give him up, or we'll clean you all out!" cried another voice, angrily.

The rushers toward the house grew closer, so that assailants and besiegers were now mingled in a fighting, swearing mass.
"You're no cowman, Curly," cried one voice, bitterly, out of the black shifting sea in front of the house.
"You're a d----d liar!" cried Curly in reply, "whoever says that to me! I'm only a-keepin' of my word.

You kain't clean us out.