We agreed to take out these trees and leave him for you to dispose of whatever way you please, provided you shut him up eternally on this deal.

But I'll not see a tied man tormented by a fellow that he can lick up the ground with, loose, and that's flat.

It raises my gorge to think what he'll get when we're gone, but you needn't think you're free to begin before.

Don't you lay a hand on him while I'm here! What do you say, boys ?" "I say yes," growled one of McLean's latest deserters.

"What's more, we're a pack of fools to risk the dirty work of silencing him.