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62 your pride an’ live in peace with him if you can, fer if he gits started he won’t stop at nothin’! I know him!

But you don’t know me, Rufe! You think I’m skeered! Well, jist wait! This is a free country an’ everybody in it ought to be ekal! Three more Lowries ’n Hunts—that ain’t ekal!

[He breaks down and weeps with rage as the curtain falls.]