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[Looks at questioningly]

That is, if he wants to stay bad ’nough to tend to his business?

They ain’t no use axin’ me if I want to stay. I got nowhere else to go. As fer ’tendin’ to my business, I’ll do what I’ve allus tried to do, render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s an’ unto God the things that are God’s!

Then that’s settled. I dunno whose department the ammynition belongs to. But go ahead an’ git them caterdges fer Andy an’ I’ll come out an’ beat you both shootin’ ’ith this popgun here. [He takes a German pistol out of the pack.]

[Looks at the pistol]

You don’t call that thing a gun, do you?

No, it’s a Dutch peace-pipe.

I don’t believe I ever seed any like that. How does it work?