I'm doin' whut the court says.

Hell! thar's trouble 'nough in this job without my buttin' in on other people's business.

But this is how it stacks up ter me.

Kirby's got the law on his side--no doubt 'bout that--but I reckon as how he knows it wus a damn mean trick, and so he's sorter skeered as ter how them fellers livin' down ter the Landin' might act.
Thar's a lawyer thar named Haines, as sharp as a steel trap, who tended ter all the ol' Jedge's business, an' Joe he don't wanter run foul o' him.

Thet's why we tied up ter the shore below town, in the mouth o' thet crick, an' then hed ter hoof it up yere in the dark.