"They wanted that money you peeled off the crowd Sunday, Bud.

They was willing you should get to Crater and cash them checks before they overhauled yuh and strung yuh up." "You don't suppose they'd hurt Marian if they found her with the horse?
She might have followed along to Crater--" "She never," Eddie contradicted.

And Jerry declared in the same breath, "She'd be too much afraid of Lew.

No, if they found her with the horse they'd take him away from her and send her back on another one to do the kitchen work," he conjectured with some contempt.

"If they found YOU without the horse--well--men have been hung on suspicion, Bud.