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Show lOG could, about two yant, but the boat slanted so that I onl<ln't 1nake v ry good tim ; so to k ep fro1n getting run over nn<l catch cl I crawl cl into a . tat roo1n on th upper ide. The 1nan come a-pawing alono· in th clad~, and when Packanl got to 1ny ~tat 'rooin he ay~: "1f re-conH' in hrrC'." An<l in he C{unc, an<l Bill aft r him. But before they o·o! in b ' T \Vas up in the upper hcrth, cornered, and t..IJTY I C ' lln{~. 'l'l:e11 i hey stood i hPre, with ihc'ir hands on the ll<lg of the b(•rth, and ialkc<l. I couldn't .'ee th c1n, but I coul<l t ,11 whPre they wa~, by the \Yhislzy they\l be{'ll having. I wn gla<ll didn't drink whi.-ky; but it wouldn't 1nacle 1nuch differ )nee, anyway, bccansc· 1nost of th tirne they couldn't a tree<l n1e l1 cnuse I <lidn'! l>rPaille. 1 wa .. ioo scar cl. And b sicl<-., a body coullln~l hrrathc, a1Hl hear sneh talk. They ta]k <l ]ow nnd carne i. Hill W<tnte<l to kill TnnH'r. 1 [e ays: "lfe'~, ai<l he'll t('ll, nnd he will. If \r wa: to giY botl1 our share' to hi1n now, it, wouldn't 1nake no differ nee aftc'r Ow row, ancl the way we've :erY d him. ~ 'hor<-' ... you're born, h 'll t nrn ~ tate's vid nee; now you hear ?J?t. I'rn for putting hin1 out of hi. troubleR." " ~ ' o ' n1 I , " . ays I) ac1 " an1 ~ very qu1· t. "Blam it, l'<l ~orter b gun to think you ·wa n't. 'YPll, t h n, that": all right. Le' go and do it." "Hold on a minute; I ain't had 1ny ay yit. l~ ou list n to Jlle. Shooting'::; good, hut there's quiet r ways if the thing's !JOl to b~ don · But what I ay, i' this; it ain't good .. en, e to go cou.rt n aroun{l after a halter, if you can git at what you 'rc np to Irt some way that' jL t as good and at the same time don't bring you into no re k . Ain't that so?" " ·you bet it i, · But how you goin' to manag it t hi ti1ne ? '' "" rel l '. m~ H· l ea ,1· s tlu · ; we'll rustle around and g ther up whatever p1ck1ns we \'e overlooked in the staterooms, and hove ''IT Al~T'T GOOJ) MORAL/·.,·:' 107 for shore and hicle the truck. Then we~n wait. O\Y I ::1y it ain't agoin' to be more 'n two h urs befo' this 'vrack brca k.· np an(l washes off down the river. ~ ~ e? lfe'll b drown<led, :utd won•t have nobocly to blame for it but his own scl f. I r<'ckml ) " 11' AJ N ''!' G 00 D l\lO RAL. ' .. ' that's a considerble sight better'n killin' of him. ftn. nn~avo.tn.·able to killin' a man a long as you can git around 1t; 1t aln t crood sen e it ain't good moral . A1· n 't I n.g l l t ?· " b " l~ e -' I reck'n you are. But s'pose he don't break up and wa h off? '' |