JOE. Yes.
JIM. Well, we'll splinter this leg ourselves. [Going.
TRAVERS. Why don't you kill him, and put him out of misery?
JIM. [Pause in door.] Kill this little dog that took a fancy to me, and followed the stage when I got in it!
TRAVERS. Yes—why not?
JIM. [After appealing look to the others; then back to TRAVERS.]
Why, I never killed a man. [Exit into shop; JOE, MRS. VERNON,
LIZBETH, follow laughing.
BOLLINGER exits
TRAVERS. [Going to table.] What did he say?
KATE. That he never killed a man.
TRAVERS. Well, neither have I. Is that an unusual reputation in Pike
County?