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Then consider ’at you’ve got it!

[Comes still closer to him]

You value your life, don’t you, Andy?

I reckon I do. I’ve had plenty o’ chances to throw it away, an’ I hain’t took none of ’em yit.

Well, you got another now! [Significantly] If I ’us in your place I’d make myself as scarce as hen teeth around here!

What are you drivin’ at? Have they got a bullet salted fer me?

[Gives him an eloquent look]

If they have they hain’t told me!

I don’t want to know what they’ve told you! I want to know what you know!

As man to man?