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By God, you don’t want me to stop ’em. I believe you knowed all along where they wus, only you ’us afraid o’ what Andy could tell.

That’s right! Blame it on me! I don’t wish him no harm! I don’t wish nobody no harm!

Does that telephone wire along the river run from the dam to the settlement over thar?

Why? Are you a-thinkin’ o’ phonin’ from the dam to head off Matt an’ your gran’daddy?

That’s my business. As I mind it, the phone’s in that tool house on a ledge right down under the dam!

You’d never git to that house now! You’d have to walk out to it on boards across that sluice o’ water! It’s dangerous when the river ain’t up! You might jist as well commit suicide as try it now! I wouldn’t