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Andy, don’t say things like that! You may not have much longer to live! An’ if you break your oath an’ tell ’em, you’ll lose all chance o’ gittin’ to heaven!

Heaven be damned! I ain’t like you, Rufe! We’re both a-goin’ to hell, but I’m a-goin’ thar by choice!

[ enters through the kitchen with the lantern and puts his gun in the rack., and , seeing him, return from the porch.]

Couldn’t you go no further?

No, they’s been a cloudbust up the river. A wall o’ water swep’ down past me ten foot high. I jist managed to git out o’ the way, when it struck the foot o’ the cliffs an’ shook ’em like a earthquake. [He starts toward the kitchen door.]

Whar ’re you a-goin’ now?

Out to the barn to pen up the cattle afore they git washed away. [He goes out.]