If you're a Federal officer, I want t' know it here an' now.

If yuh ain't, I want yuh t' sample some uh the out-kickin'est 'White Mule' yuh ever swallered.

Now which are yuh, and what yuh goin' t' do?
I want my answer here an' now, an' no argument an' no foolin'!" Casey blinked but his mouth widened in a grin.

"Me, I never went lookin' fer nothin, I wouldn't put under my vest, Joe," he declared convincingly.

So that was it! He was thinking against time.
Moonshiners as well as would-be murderers they were--and Joe drunk and giving them away like a fool.