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120 dead! Every time anything goes wrong it’s me! I’m to blame!

I ain’t accusin’ you o’ puttin’ him up to it! What I want to know is how his mind got to runnin’ so strong on that old war ’twixt the Hunts an’ the Lowries!

You hyeard what I said about it here! That’s all I know!

Then what are you a-gittin’ so excited about?

It’s enough to excite anybody, to have a thing like that throwed up to him! An’ you needn’t ax me no more questions, fer I ain’t a-goin’ to answer ’em!

All right! I’ll ask Andy when I see him!

If you do he’ll only tell you a mess o’ lies! You cain’t believe him!

Oh, so you’re afraid he’ll tell lies on you?